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 the API. For authenticating to these API’s there a couple of options: Authenticate as a…
When constructing a Logic Apps that gets information from a SharePoint list you will use the SharePoint “Get Items” action. This action allows you to get items from a SharePoint list you connect the action to. You can then process the items by using for example an Azure Function. Constructing a flow this will give…
With the component created in part 2 we can start using it to deploy applications to our SharePoint environment. We start by creating a new template. For this post I assume you already created the release paths and have added the SharePoint servers to Release Management. To create a new template open Release Management and…
To setup a build in combination with Release Management you need the Release Management build template. This template looks like the default build template but has an additional sequence action to start the release after the build is succeeded. The Release Management Build template can be found within the install location of release management. C:\Program…
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 told us that it wasn’t working. We looked at the User Group and found out…
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 page. In order to warm up a application form based SharePoint site you would have…
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 Module in order to easily load the function within our PowerShell instance. When you would…
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 scripts. Disabling or Enabling Access Request Within our project we had an application with about…
Part 1 of this series will instruct how to configure your build server for building SharePoint projects. In Part 2 we will discuss the automatic deploy options. Part 1 of this series is based on the following MSDN article How to Build Office Developer Tools Projects with TFS Team Build 2012. In this article there…
When working on a Website or Intranet environment and you are using a lot off JavaScript and CSS files you would like to have the possibility to minimize/bundle the files. On the web you can find a lot of solutions for this, on my last project when I was working on a website based on…
The SPDisposeCheck v14.0.4762.1000 was updated and released 12/13/2010. SPDisposeCheck is a tool that helps developers and administrators check custom SharePoint solutions that use the SharePoint Object Model helping measure against known Microsoft dispose best practices. This tool may not show all memory leaks in your code and may produce false positives which need further review…
For the last couple of day’s I have been developing word templates. In these templates I had to get the url of the site in which the document was initiated. By default when you click the new button in a document library of SharePoint and create the document in word and you save the document…