SharePoint Online: New Documents View – First Impressions

Microsoft has rolled out it's new version of the SharePoint Online document library to those users who have opted in to the first release program. More details on this are provided in your Office 365 message centre or from this page https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-is-a-document-library-3b5976dd-65cf-4c9e-bf5a-713c10ca2872?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US. On a personal not I have been working with SharePoint document libraries for... Continue Reading →

April 11, 2016 0

Office 365: Updated Delve and About Me Experience

Microsoft announced on their Office blogs yesterday that they have updated the Delve and About Me/Profile experience in Office 365. On first look this looks promising, but will have to see how this works in practice. For more information you can read the announcement here http://blogs.office.com/2015/04/14/new-office-delve-people-experiences-in-office-365/

April 15, 2015 0

Office 365: Updated About Me Page

For those of us who where wondering what the updated About Me experience that has been mentioned in the Office 365 Roadmap may be like in Office 365. You can get a preview of the experience by using the following link from your portal https://portal.office.com/profile/. In my opinion it looks a lot cleaner and also... Continue Reading →

April 9, 2015 0

Office 365 Delve: Which picture does Delve use for the thumbnail?

I have been using Delve for a while now, and one thing has struck me as odd, and that is the image used as the thumbnail and how it was being chosen. As an example I was writing a document in Word and saved it to my OneDrive. Initially it displayed one image, however when... Continue Reading →

April 1, 2015 0

Should we customise SharePoint?

I have been having lots of discussions with my clients recently regarding whether to customise SharePoint 2013, especially SharePoint online and I thought I would document some of my thoughts in regards to this scenario. My thoughts on this subject have evolved over the last year or so. Having spent some time working directly for... Continue Reading →