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PowerApps are a great way to accomplish simple tasks by end users. A new PowerApp is usually done in minutes (if the underlying data source is existing and working). Nevertheless, it often takes much more time to polish the app and to find and modify details. So I decided to post from time to time some tips when stumbling upon any topics in PowerApps. A driver’s log I wanted to use a very simple custom SharePoint Online list to allow colleagues to log their travels with a company car. At every destination, the user shall simply protocol his location and the mileage, and optional some information about the customer or the appointment. Very little fields, just to keep it handy. ...

Last week Martina and I have been speaking at Unity Connect in Haarlem in the Netherlands. Unity Connect is an IT conference about Office 365, SharePoint, Exchange, Skype, Yammer, and Azure and took place from 16th to 18th November 2016 in the beautiful city of Haarlem. We arrived on Tuesday evening and entered the stunning inner city of Haarlem with so many cool restaurants and bars. The banner picture of Unity Connect just gives a brief impression of the beautiful buildings in that small town. The conference location was in Philharmonie Haarlem which is actually a concert hall but a very cool event location. With the inner city and the hotels around the corner, this event is - besides the conference offerings - one of my absolute favorite places to go in this region. ...

The European SharePoint Conference took place in Vienna from 14th to 18th November 2016. We took this occasion to meet our friends from the Office 365 community in our home town Vienna for an informal come together aka #SharePintVienna. Right after the MVP Summit week in Redmond, we invited about 60 persons and more than 40 came to our come together at “TheRoom” near the city center for some drinks and dinner on the 14th November. See some snapshots of the evening in this Sway. ...

End of October, Martina and I have been at SharePoint days Conference (SPD) Slovenia. This was our first SharePoint conference in Slovenia in the beautiful small town of Bled which is just across the southern border of Austria. The location was very close from our home town Vienna (about 4 hours drive) and very close to our second home in Villach. SPD Slovenia took place from 24th to 25th October 2016 at Hotel Kompas in Bled. IMHO, Bled is in maybe one of the most beautiful regions in Europe with a small lake and surrounding mountains. There were 5 tracks and about 50 sessions, presented in English, see more about this great event at SPD Slovenia. ...

Need the new OneDrive (and SharePoint) Next Generation Sync Client on your computer? Download the bits directly from here: Update 02. Nov. 2016: Download-Link replaced. Follow this following link to get the latest version of the NGSC client, since Microsoft is currently updating the client almost daily… https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=823059 If you have an older version installed, this will be automatically overwritten by the new client. The NGSC client supports OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online. ...

Office 365 Groups are THE connection between the different Office 365 services. Office 365 groups are very useful for team collaboration, collaboration on ideas and projects, sharing documents within teams, have a team calendar and a lot more. They span like an umbrella around all Office 365 services and are the key connection point in Office 365. What I like most about them from an architectural perspective – they are where they belong to: in Azure AD. In some practical examples with my customers I learned how they love groups because they are easy to create, offer self service and provide a lot of additional value within Office 365. But there are probably also some things which especially IT administrators don’t like and topics which are challenging especially in large tenants: everybody can create groups and naming policies are hard to implement. As a first workaround Microsoft provided a possibility to disable group creation out of Exchange Online, which is definitely one of the most common usecases. But this did not avoid Office 365 Groups creation through Planner or other services. ...

After the announcement on May 4th at the Future of SharePoint event, now the first public developer preview of the SharePoint Framework is available. The SharePoint Framework enables developers to build client-side web parts using “modern script development tools” – this means Javascript and related web components and tools. The new SharePoint Workbench allows developers to test and deploy client-side web even offline! Read the details in the Office Dev Center in SharePoint Framework Developer Preview Release! ...

Passend zu meinem letzten Blogpost mit dem Hinweis zum Office 365 Developer Podcast möchte ich Software-Entwicklern das neue SharePoint Framework vorstellen. Doch schön der Reihe nach… Mit der Vorstellung von SharePoint 2016 Anfang Mai (siehe Future of SharePoint) hat Microsoft ein neues Entwicklungsmodell für SharePoint vorgestellt: Das SharePoint Framework. Anstelle von Server-seitigem Development (so, wie es von der ersten SharePoint Version mit ASP und ab 2003 ASP.NET – mit Ausnahme des neuen App Modells - bis heute der Fall war…) tritt nun Client-seitiges Development. Für Entwickler bedeutet das in einem Wort gesagt: Javascript! ...

Die Art und Weise, wie wir heute Software und Services verwenden hat sich geändert. Heutzutage sind wir gewohnt, Apps rasch und einfach zu finden, zu installieren, anzusehen und zu verwenden. Um dieses Konzept auch im Business-Bereich umsetzen zu können, sind moderne Apps und eine entsprechende Infrastruktur erforderlich. Der neue AppSource Store macht dies möglich. Der AppSource Store läuft ganz unter dem Motto “Find the right app for your business needs - Get solutions tailored to your industry that work with the products you already use”. Hier werden Lösungen für die Bereiche Microsoft Dynamics, Power BI, Office 365 und Azure gelistet. ...

Office 365 ist eine Developer Plattform. Als Einstieg in die Entwicklung stellt Microsoft die https://dev.office.com/ Website bereit. Neben den umfangreichen Informationen für den optimalen Start und vielen Demos gibt es auch eine weitere aktuelle Bezugsquelle, die wenig Developern bekannt ist: den Office 365 Developer Podcast. Davon gibt es nun die 100.te Ausgabe! Software-Entwickler finden im Office Dev Center den Einstieg in das Office Development. Das Office 365 Dev Team bei Microsoft feiert nun den 100.ten Podcast – und zwar mit prominenten Gästen! ...