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Miscellaneous / March 8, 2015 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
It’s always nice to get back home after an information packed week. Especially when the temperature is somewhere around 16 – 17 degrees and there’s sun for a change. Spring seems to be peeking around the corner, which is nice after a dull winter (almost no snow, no ice skating, why do we even call
Miscellaneous / March 3, 2015 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
If I were to count Sunday, which I probably could since I left around noon and most other guys left way more early, we’re already half way through this week of Gold for Experts. So time is flying once again, which is partially due to the ever so great weissbier they serve here in Germany. But
Miscellaneous / March 1, 2015 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
I’m coming from you live from Paderborn Germany, where we will have our second week of Gold for Experts. For those of you who missed my previous blog about the first week, you can find it here. It was always my plan to blog kind of live, but since my previous provider messed up my
Technical / November 20, 2014 / Jasper / 0
It’s never a bad thing to look at what’s coming. This future peeking seems to be hot in the SharePoint world, with guys like Dan Holme, Benjamin Niaulin and Daniel McPherson giving their take on what’s in store for us. Interesting views which of course always include things like cloud, mobile devices and new ways of working for your
Technical / October 30, 2014 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
It seems this issue arises in almost every migration project: “Hey, we have a bunch of HTML based files which we’ve uploaded to SharePoint, but now they don’t work any more!”. With “don’t work”, usually it means the user is prompted to download the file instead of being able to just view it in the browser. So
Technical / September 12, 2014 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
After importing / restoring a site collection from a different environment, you might have the need to terminate all of the running workflows. For instance, to stop them from e-mailing people or firing off other events which should not be fired from within your local dev environment. Whatever reason you might have, here is a
Technical / September 2, 2014 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
I rarely discuss the things we do at Atos here. This time I’m going to make an exception, to tell you about a pretty neat hosting service we offer to our customers. So yes, you might regard this post as an advertorial and yes; you may contact me for more information. If that’s not your
Technical / July 22, 2014 / Jasper Siegmund / 3
In my previous blog post I wrote about host named site collections in SharePoint 2013. As this is the recommended way to go according to Microsoft, you should definitely consider it for new SharePoint deployments. But with these URL’s bound to your site collections, you can get into trouble quickly. It’s important to get a
Technical / July 15, 2014 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
With SharePoint 2013, Microsoft claims we need to rethink our architecture. Host named site collections are the way to go, and preferably all within the same web application. But what are host named site collections and what do we need to take into account when setting this up? Update. Check out part 2, detailing how to
Technical / July 14, 2014 / Jasper Siegmund / 13
Those of you who know SharePoint, probably also know those annoying problems you just cannot get your head around. Well today I had one of those problems.