It may be hard to believe, but there are still organizations out there where “SharePoint” is a dirty word. Maybe they haven’t upgraded, maybe–and this is worse–they do have a SharePoint Site…
Category: SharePoint War Stories
The Importance of User Groups
Just wanted to say a few things about why I harp on getting people to attend the user groups. Microsoft leads in the enterprise primarily because there are many more trained and…
SharePoint Workflow Best Practices
Note that I will add some screenshots in the near future. Comment if there is something that I should expand on. Automation is key to streamlining business processes to really leverage SharePoint…
SharePoint Permission Pain
<rant> I just need to go off for a minute. I just got off the phone with a “SharePoint guy” for the leadership for some potential work that I am not going…
Lessons: Developing a SharePoint app for a high trust environment
I just went through the harrowing experience of developing a SharePoint app for a high trust environment. Some of it was due to office politics, while most was due to plain miscommunication…
SharePoint Testing
I just realized I’d left this unpublished from a few weeks ago. This should have been published before my trip to SharePoint Saturday Atlanta. —-BREAK—- So I’m working with a new client…
Add a Link to Manual Workflow
I’m building out a little thing for the company’s recruiters for when we add a friend to the list. An email goes to the boss of all of the recruiters saying one…
Metadata vs Folders
I just came across a group post on LinkedIn this morning about the use of folders in SharePoint document libraries. I made a decent response via my phone, but I wanted to…
PSA: InfoPath and Office 2016
Office 2016 was just released today. I was so excited to download and install it. I have my reasons. Just ask those of you who get annoying junk mail notifications in Outlook…
Hidden Titles
The primary purpose for me to start this blog was to highlight a few of those war stories I’ve got of saving the day. I will leave the names of the clients…