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Technical / December 28, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
I’ve been using Windows 8.1 for quite a while now (since the beta), and I like still it very much. I’ve expanded my Windows landscape with a Surface tablet, and already had a Windows Phone (two, actually). The fact that the same OS runs on all is a cool thing which makes adopting it easier.
Technical / December 9, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
A question asked oftenly by customers is: “I still have documents on network shares, how can I show those in SharePoint?”. The reasons why they do not want to move files to SharePoint can vary. Note that I used documents in the question and files in my previous sentence, since a file doesn’t have to
Technical / November 13, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
Today I was working on a page which is displayed in a dialog view. Trimming SharePoint bits and pieces is easily done by adding IsDlg=1 to the querystring of the page. But… this does not hide the ribbon. Ok, so how to hide the ribbon too then, when required? There’s a simple piece of CSS
Technical / November 8, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
The Enterprise Content Hub (ECH) is a SharePoint mechanism which allows us to reuse / distribute content types across multiple site collections. Normally, a site content type (what’s in a name), is bound to the site collection in which it was defined. Actually, when defining a content type on a lower level (subsite), it can only
Technical / October 2, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 2
When using Nintex as a workflow engine, you can create multiple content databases and associate them with your web applications and / or site collections. One reason you might want to do this is back-up and restore. When you want to team up your workflow status with the items you’re restoring, you only have the
Technical / July 10, 2013 / Jasper / 0
I ran into a weird problem today, when editing a document set. I created my own content type inheriting from the default Document Set. I added a new content type to the set and wanted to delete the default “Document” reference. I got an error telling me: “Content Type is in use”. Strange, since I
Technical / June 17, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
In SharePoint 2013, rolling up content has changed a lot. The Content Query Web Part is gone, which in my opinion is a GREAT thing. There are some new webparts to replace it, which are based on search. One of those webparts is the Pages webpart. You can use that to show an overview of pages.
Technical / June 6, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
At my current job, I’m more of an administrator than I am a dev. It’s quite enlightening to be honest. As a developer, you don’t tend to think that much about site structure, governance and all those things. Not that I had no experience in that, but I surely have learned some things extra since
Technical / April 25, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
I am a big fan of keeping things clean. The more you clutter, the more chance of faults you might not have expected. Today, I learned that sometimes cleaner is not better. I like using the blank site template to create new sites. Most people tend to use the team site, but that already has
Technical / April 15, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 7
In the second part of this article (read part 1 here), we’re going to extend our relayed service with AD (Active Directory) authentication. In most cases you’ll need authentication to provide some security for your business data. In this example, we’re keeping it simple; just using a valid domain account to access the data. All