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Technical / September 24, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
As described in my previous post, a SharePoint app gets its own Web instance in which it lives. For the SharePoint engine, that means getting rid of your app is easy: just delete the web and everything is gone. The web gives you the option to deploy regular SharePoint stuff like lists and columns. But
Technical / September 20, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Okay. It’s 2012. You’re hearing all this talking about the cloud and you’ve studied it a bit. Seems quite cool: no need for expensive hardware any more, no need for people carrying around servers, routers and firewalls. Signing up should be enough, right? Sure, if you know what you want and need. And that sometimes
Technical / September 18, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Today I came across this thead on the forums, started by Marc Anderson; a well known MVP for SharePoint. He mentions the fact that SharePoint Designer 2013 is missing the “design view” known from SPD 2010. As expected, this is getting a lot of people nervous because they’re using the design view on a regular basis,
Technical / September 13, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
In this previous post I talked a bit about the new SharePoint app model. I started playing around with the examples on MSDN and succeeeded in producing an actual working app. Great. All of this is done within a special developer portal (which is well documented in the MSDN getting started articles). You open a
Technical / September 12, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Ok, a bit sooner as I had expected; but here’s my first tech post on SharePoint 2013. I was trying out some of the examples found on MSDN for creating SharePoint 2013 apps, such as this one: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SharePoint-2013-Hello-0fd15fbf. I kept on running into several problems; beginning with the infamous “object reference not set to an
Technical / September 12, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Hi SharePoint friends! It’s been a while. The last few months I was changing jobs (more about that in a seperate blog post) and taking vacation. Just before that, Microsoft released the first bits of SharePoint 2013. As is the case with 2010; this new version comes in two flavours: an on-premise installed version for
Technical / July 26, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
I came across what I find to be a pretty big security risk when you’re working with multi tenant SharePoint environments. Basically, it’s pretty simple. When you set up your environment and create a tenant, you have to specify the OU in which the accounts for this tenant live. This makes sure that your users cannot
Technical / July 13, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
The blog you’re reading right now is powered by WordPress. WordPress is a well known blog engine used for a lot of blogs. But for me, being a Microsoft dude, it’s not that easy extending it and making it my own. That always kept me from creating my entire website in WordPress somehow, never had
Technical / July 11, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 2
Ok. This is quite a common scenario. You’ve got your SharePoint site setup which consist of multiple webs, maybe (probably) even multiple site collections. Your user is member of a handfull of sites and get’s tasks assigned. You need your user to stay informed about the tasks he needs to perform. You’ve got a couple
Technical / June 8, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Having one of the following two problems? 1) Grouped views not working properly when you’ve selected a BCS / External data field as the group field 2) Column filtering not working properly for BCS / external data fields But these problems seem to be inconsistent, some records work and others don’t? Chances might be that