Tag: Office 365


  • Use One flow or logic app to trigger multiple SharePoint lists from multiple SharePoint sites

    If you ever have to create a flow or a logic app where you need to listen for updates from several SharePoint lists, you actually need 2 flows. One flow to handle the subscriptions and retraction of the subscriptions and one to act, whenever anything happens on one of the lists, that you subscribe to.…

  • Delete SharePoint List Items Permanently Using Power Automate in 3 easy steps

    Say you have a list in SharePoint with some data that you need to have deleted. The standard Flow action “Delete item” or “Delete file”, will actually delete the item, but only to the recycle bin. You need to use the Rest API to permanently delete the items If you have a lot of items,…

  • I’ve blogged about the discontinuing of public websites a while back and I promised that I would write an update, when there was something to update on. And guess what! Somethings updating. When the changes was announced, there was a small outcry from a few partners, but really nothing major. Then again, it’s not like Microsoft…

  • Using Office 365 for a public website have always been a simple but not so sweet ride. Microsoft never got that one right and most likely, that is why they are discontinuing that part of Office 365. According to this support document existing websites will have two years to migrate and new tenants won’t have…

  • I am sitting here in Cinemaxx. For a brief moment, I managed to get some of the room to myself. Otherwise it’s pretty packed with around 600 IT-people. All which are interested in Office 365, Lync, Project, SharePoint, Sales etc. And so far it’s going great. The sessions are very professional conducted. The Microsoft team…

  • [Update] I got an e-mail from Robert, who has refined the solution. Thank you for sharing Robert. Hi Ulrich,first I want to thank Ulrich for his great work and sharing it with us! I also don’t have the problem with more than 40 pictures in a picture gallery after using galleria-1.4.2.min.js and also galleria.classic.min.js from an…

  • In this Video I will show how you can create a simple project folder and the copy a template file into that folder. The idea came from a comment on this blogpost, that shows more in-depth how to create folders and subfolders. If you like the video or have questions, leave me a note in…

  • Microsoft has announced on their Office blog, what the rumour mill have been buzzing about for quite a while now. InfoPath Forms and Services will be discontinued. That means that there is no new InfoPath Forms services in the next edition of SharePoint. Something new is starting to grow. According to Microsoft, they are evolving…

  • Microsoft supports migrating between Office 365 plans This is something I have been looking forward to, for a very long time. All in all I have always felt that Microsoft really pushes the limit on their various Office 365 – plans.  It is a mystery to me how it is possible to create so many plans…

  • I have a hunch that Microsoft is sitting in  Redmond just thinking something along the lines of, “Let’s just give our customers more storage”. And so they did. The Office 365 is really starting to blow out the competition one-by-one. It will be interesting to see if Google will follow Microsoft’s lead and double their…

  • SharePoint has always had a bit of a “Design Issue”. Let’s be honest. SharePoint has never been accused of being the hippest kid in the classroom. But the built-in design for displaying content on mobile devices is downright miserable. As a consequence I always recommend my clients to disable that and go for a responsive…

  • [[UPDATE: Links updated, thank you Saiful for pointing that out]] For months, it’s been a severe problem for the bulk of SharePoint Online (Office 365) customers. If you are running on Windows 7, while using the latest and greatest Internet Explorer (IE 10), you would experience problems whenever you try to map a network drive…

  • So I’m back from my vacation. And it’s all great. I see that Microsoft didn’t give it’s employees the summer off. Instead they’ve been wacking out updates like crazy in Redmond. Last time I checked up on updates for the Office 365 platform was in April. But even if I slowed my blogging down a…

  • I work with SharePoint On-Premise and SharePoint Online (Office 365) every day, due to the nature of my job as an SharePoint Consultant. I love what I do and I love working with SharePoint as a platform. I use a mix of Apple and Microsoft technologies, whatever gets the job done best, is good enough…

  • Starting by the first week of December, Microsoft will raise the Exchange Online 24 hour Send Limit to 10.000 recipients. This affects all existing customers. Microsoft are performing this change in service in order to prevent SPAM. and the fact that some companies needs to send a massive amount of emails. Read more about Message…

  • UPDATE: New Microsoft Online Services Modules. You now need to download the Logonassistant before you can install the Module. More than once, I’ve encountered the situation, where a client of mine, had to send out somewhere between 10.000 and 12.000 e-mails at once. It’s not like a newsletter, but just something that they needed once…

  • This month has introduced a bunch of new features to Office 365. Web Apps features The latest and greatest update to SharePoint Online gives you more editing and more formatting controls. With the latest SharePoint Online update, you’ll get new Office Web Apps features: more editing and formatting controls, co-authoring support across the web apps…

  • When it comes to creating custom solutions (A.K.A. Sandboxed Solutions) for SharePoint Online, there are a few things you need to be aware of. One of those is the underlying architecture, that is driving the whole SharePoint Online environment. When you peel all the sales talk away, you still have to have a Big-Ass ServerFarm (BASF) and some…

  • If you want to delete a SiteCollection in Office 365 in order to make a new SiteCollection with the exact same name, you should can experience a halt on all creations of SiteCollections. Even if the dialog box, asks if you want to delete the previous SiteCollection, the creation of a new one never happens.…

  • Users of SharePoint Online, have been heard! For a long time the users of SharePoint Online have been hammering away as Microsoft, in order to get proper pdf-handling. Anyone ever worked with SharePoint and PDF-files know that it’s not something that “Just works”. Sure, it’s semi-easy to get it to work. Just google it and…

  • [ProjectCasemanagement solution] As a follow-up on my previous post, I’ve decided to make a short video demonstrating how to create a better solution. I still use the same method, but I’ve added some functions that makes it semi-dynamic. I say semi-dynamic because you’re still hardcoding the number of subfolders you want. It’s only the names of…

  • Microsoft announced 2 new updates to the Office 365 platform today. 1. Password Expiration Notifications in Outlook Like most people, I don’t keep track of when my password is about to expire. using BPOS, this was not a problem. I got told 14 days before it was due. In comes Office 365 and the notification…

  • [[UPDATE: This is now part of a series of posts, where I show how to build a simple project/case management solution, with a no-code approach, using SharePoint 2010 Designer Workflows. Check out my other posts to learn more.]] [ProjectCasemanagement solution] Case I have a list with names of projects. Whenever I create a new item…

  • When i come up with architectural ideas around projektmanagement i SharePoint, I very often use the CQWP to aggregate results from Content Types in lists, placed in a lot of sites. So when I had to come up with a sensible structure for a projectmanagementsystem in SharePoint Online, I turned to my trusted Content Query Webpart.…

  • Microsoft announced 3 exiting updates for the Office 365 platform. User Soft Delete It happens more than you would expect. A user gets deleted by accident or a employee gets rehired. If your using Office 365, then that used to mean that you were in serious trouble. With this update from Microsoft, you now have…