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A remote SharePoint Navigation tree control designed to scale to large...
The SharePoint Navigation tree (for remotely browsing/navigating SharePoint) is a central component in the OnePlaceMail product. It is used in all major operations such as Save to SharePoint, Open...
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How to bulk upload/copy a folder structure and files to SharePoint
So you’ve got a bunch of files nicely arranged in a folder structure sitting on your computer or a network drive that you want to copy up to a SharePoint library and preserve the directory structure....
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Is the SharePoint brand going away?
The big push from Microsoft over the last few years has been towards the cloud, and in the SharePoint area this means Microsoft wants you on Office 365 instead of on-premises SharePoint servers. None...
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Running Fiddler with OnePlaceMail – Fixing “The requested site does not...
Here’s a workaround to get Fiddler working with OnePlaceMail and SharePoint 2013 where you normally get the following error message in OnePlaceMail as soon as Fiddler is enabled and capturing traffic:...
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Beware SharePoint 2013 Search Results and the ListUrl Property
I was recently looking into the results returned by SharePoint 2013 under the scenario of alternate access mappings. Essentially this boils down to the same SharePoint content being available on...
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More out-of-the-box ways to get Email into SharePoint (2013 and Office 365)
This is a continuation of an article I wrote back at the beginning of 2012 Five out-of-the-box ways to get Email into SharePoint. Since then we have seen the launch of SharePoint 2013 and also more...
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How to install/enable the WebClient (WebDAV) Service on Windows Server 2012...
Are you having trouble opening/editing files stored in SharePoint, especially non Office files on Windows Server 2012? By default the WebClient service is not installed on Windows Server 2012. Without...
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Fix SharePoint Performance Issue with ‘Open in Explorer’& opening non-Office...
I was recently working with documents stored in SharePoint (Office 365 to be exact) and was seeing poor performance when trying to open file types with applications other than Office. At first I just...
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How to fix frequent WebDav “path not valid” errors
After experiencing some intermittent “path not valid” and very frustrating errors trying to open different types of files from my SharePoint server I’d had enough. I had to know what was going on....
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SharePoint CAML query examples of working with People and Groups
Some of the more elegant and powerful solution built with SharePoint have some level of personalization for the user. Here are some example CAML queries that allow you to query a SharePoint list and...
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Preparing for Microsoft Ignite 2015
The excitement is starting to build as the Microsoft technology conference of the year is almost upon us. I feel this year is going to be a first time experience for all attendees. We’ve got many...
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Photos from Microsoft Ignite 2015 in Chicago
As the dust settles on the first Microsoft Ignite conference and the tech crowd disperses from Chicago I look over these photos and think I’ll remember this conference as much for the character of the...
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New OnePlaceLive Scenarios Blog Series
With the recent launch of the OnePlaceLive product, I’ve commenced writing a series of articles on the OnePlace Solutions website. This series of articles is designed to introduce the OnePlaceLive...
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Does Microsoft have an InfoPath Forms Replacement in the Works
It’s been one of the most asked questions since the death of InfoPath; What is InfoPath’s replacement? There are some great 3rd party forms products that have been around for a long time now (namely...
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Working with Non-Office File Types in SharePoint & Office 365
Office 365 and SharePoint work quite nicely when you are working with Microsoft Office file types. Things like Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. Once you really start using SharePoint however, you want...
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The modern digital workplace must focus on the user
I was recently interviewed by the team at LiveTiles to get my thoughts on the modern digital workplace. What does the digital workplace mean to me? What do I see as the benefits and challenges of the...
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2 Simple Techniques for Creating SharePoint Views Grouped by Date Columns
Here are 2 techniques for creating views in SharePoint when you want to group on dates. Throughout this article I’ll be using the example of email that have been saved to SharePoint where the email...
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Outlook Add-in Ribbon Commands: Resolution to Manifest XML Schema Errors
While taking a look at the new Outlook Addin Ribbon Commands I came across these schema validation errors trying to deploy the addin once I added the VersionOverrides element. In particular I was...
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Light up your Outlook Mailboxes with advanced Email Tracking features
I’m preparing to head down to Melbourne for the The Digital Workplace Conference (the new Australian SharePoint Conference). This will be the first conference since the 7.3 release of OnePlaceMail and...
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