Did you know you can hint Office 365 login to use a predefined user account? This is interesting in some scenario's where you use multiple Office 365 environments and you want to make life a bit easier! https://www.office.com/login?login_hint=bram@contoso.onmicrosoft.com After entering the above URL in your browser, the login screen below is shown. This eliminates you...

European Collaboration Summit 2019

Last week they did it again! Adis Jugo, Matthias Einig and Spence Harbar organized one of the big community events called European Collaboration Summit or #CollabSummit for short. This community driven conference has grown to a crowd of 2.000 people! My second year in a row I'm joining and I can say I'm a fan....

Power Platform Summit 2019

Wrapping up the Power Platform Summit 2019, first time I joined this interesting conference. It's more 3 conferences in 1 big conference. At the same time the organizers have the Power Platform Summit Europe, User Group Summit Europe and eXtreme365 Amsterdam. This brings a wide variety of people to the conference ranging from business, developers...

European Collaboration Summit 2018

Today is the first day of the European Collaboration Summit (#CollabSummit) in Mainz, Germany. The event is sold out and is hosting 1.500 delegates. I was honored to present two sessions. Find the slide decks below, if you have any questions please reach out via comments or @bramdejager.

OneDrive for Business roadmap

[Update May 2 – updated roadmap based on feedback] OneDrive for Business workload supports the personal storage capability for users. It enables users to store work related personal files and easily share them with colleagues or external users. Offline synchronization is one of the many benefits OneDrive for Business is providing. With the introduction of...

Deep Dive Office 365 API for SharePoint Sites service

Yesterday another DIWUG event! This is a monthly community event in The Netherlands. Albert-Jan Schot (Appie) did a presentation on the Office 365 Groups and I presented a session about the Office 365 API for SharePoint Sites service. You can find my slide deck on SlideShare, http://www.slideshare.net/bramdejager/deep-dive-into-office-365-apis-for-sharepoint-site-services. All demos together resulted in a single code...

How do the Office 365 app launcher and subscription relate?

By assigning licenses/subsciptions (previous post) in Office 365 services are enabled per user. Most of the services are accessible via the App Laucher. The challenge is enabling a single service for example Office 365 Video. This is challenging due to the relationship between services bound by a subscription/license. NOTE: please note this article is written...

Office 365 licenses under the hood

Sometime you see Office 365 services for one user, but their colleague sitting next to them is not seeing this service?! Where can you find your assigned licenses to know which services you are able use? And where does your administrator assign these licenses? NOTE: please note this article is written on February 16, 2016....

How to download video offline from Office 365 Video

Office 365 Video is a media sharing solution which is part of Office 365. It allows users to upload, play, share, embed, group in channels and manage their videos. The feature which is currently missing is downloading a video. Under the hood To get to the part of downloading the video we need to understand...

Office 365, where can I find my assigned license?

In Office 365 users require licenses for making use of the products. This is similar as on-premises. The corporate administrator assigns licenses in the Office 365 Admin Center or uses PowerShell for automation purpose. The challenge I faced was around getting insights into the licenses which were assigned to me as an user. Most of...