ESPC20 is coming, only 2 weeks to go!

Join me for my ESPC20 Online session: Microsoft Information Protection Getting Started, Keep in Control of your Content on October 14th 11:30 - 12:15. There is a clear industry trend in the security landscape that 88% of the organizations are no longer confident they detect and prevent loss of sensitive data. This is a biggest...

Be aware, Office 2013 and Office 365 end of support after October 13, 2020

Microsoft has been talking about this upcoming change already for a while. But it is good to be aware of this, because a lot of companies are still on Office 2013 and potentially use or are about to use Office 365. Microsoft is not actively blocking Office 2013 client, but you will run into blockers...

November 2019 release SharePoint Client Browser

Keeping the SharePoint Client Browser community tool keeps up to date with the releases of SharePoint Client Side Objects Model (CSOM) has been on my To Do list for way too long. No more waiting to support the latest CSOM for SharePoint Online: This month is supporting the October 2019 SharePoint CSOM release. Updated CSOM release: SharePoint Online CSOM...

The Sensitivity labels are being supported by most of the Office clients nowadays, want to know which capabilities are supported on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and Web. Check out this Microsoft Docs article https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/sensitivity-labels-office-apps.

SharePoint Saturday Netherlands 2019

The SharePoint Community is still alive and kicking! Last Saturday more than 250 people attended SharePoint Saturday Netherlands (SPSNL) organized by the DIWUG (Dutch Information Worker User Group). It's amazing people spending their day off during the weekend to attend a community driven conference. Even when the temperature was above 30° Celsius (86° Fahrenheit). Our...

June 2019 release SharePoint Client Browser

Making sure the SharePoint Client Browser community tool keeps up to date with the releases of SharePoint Client Side Objects Model (CSOM) means I need to keep releasing too! This month is supporting the May 2019 SharePoint CSOM release. Updated CSOM release: SharePoint Online CSOM May 2019 – v16.1.9824.1200 (Microsoft release notes) You can download...

Enable ULS logging during App deployment

Troubleshooting is always afterwards, meaning you need logging information to backtrack the origin of the errors. But normally the logging level is set to default and the actual interesting data is missing from the ULS logs. This post provides an approach to enable logging before deploying your apps and reverting to the default afterwards. Before...

Microsoft TechDays 2013

Last week I presented at the Microsoft TechDays 2013 in The Hague, Netherlands. I want to thank the attendees for joining my session on Developing SharePoint 2013 Apps with Visual Studio 2012. The last session before the weekend after 2 days filled with sessions, big shout out to them! You can find my slides and...

Word text generator for Lorem Ipsum

Regularly I need Word documents with example text. Word has a example text generator feature which creates text like “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer …” or “On the Insert tab, the galleries include items that are designed …” or “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox …”. Simply...

How to recover a crashed VM

Last week it happened again, one of my virtual machines crashed. And I needed a way to repair the virtual machine or at least retrieve the files located on the virtual hard disk. Important note: This is (probably) not supported and I can’t guarantee your virtual machine is recovered. Please only use this how-to as...