SharePoint contains a lot of Rest API’s that can be used for many scenario’s. You could use them for example in desktop and windows phone applications. When using these API’s you need to make sure authentication is handled before calling… Continue Reading
Device channels are a way of using different master pages for different devices. MSDN describes the functionality as followed: “Browsing the web on a mobile device is now so common that a SharePoint site must be optimized for readability… Continue Reading
There are situations were you would like to start a workflow by using code. In one of my last projects there was that kind of situation, in that project we needed to start a workflow on every item in the… Continue Reading
In the first part of the series we have adjusted a build template in order to copy content from source control to the drop location after the build. This content can then be used to supply release management with information… Continue Reading
A while ago I wrote an article about the management of host named site collections in SharePoint 2013. The magazine it was written for was released today. If you want to read the article you can download it here, you… Continue Reading
In many situation you would like to do a offline installation of SharePoint 2013 or you are required to do a offline installation because you do not have a network connection on the server. The prerequisites installer of SharePoint 2013… Continue Reading
During my current project we received an access request from a user. We did what we normally do, we checked the request and added the user in the appropriate SharePoint Group and notified the user. After 15 minutes the user… Continue Reading
Normal warm up scripts for SharePoint open a site object or web object and make a request to that specific site. When you use form based authentication and do not allow anonymous access, you would only warm up the login… Continue Reading
A few days ago I wrote a post about loading modules in PowerShell by default: “Load modules by default when opening PowerShell”. Today we had to setup a new SharePoint Farm and to perform some default operations we created the… Continue Reading
At the moment we are working a lot with PowerShell in combination with SharePoint. Over time we created a lot of usable functions that were not availible within the default SharePoint Module. With these functions we created our own PowerShell… Continue Reading
Working for one my projects we were looking for a solution to only retrieve search results for a specific Content Source. In our scenario we had a External Content Type that was linked to a “FilteredEMail” view of a CRM… Continue Reading
During my current project we are using a lot of PowerShell scripts to administrate the environment and make development easier for us. In this post that I will try to update frequently, I will share some of our useful PowerShell… Continue Reading