Working for a consulting firm, I’m often asked my opinion on the direction of SharePoint. Sometimes it’s about a specific functionality (i.e. Forms and Workflow), and other times, it’s about SharePoint as a whole, and even what my opinion is on Portals in the enterprise. You seem a bit shorter than I remember… With the advent…
Month: July 2016
The Microsoft On-Premise Enterprise Data Gateway is (finally) here!
Last month, Microsoft finally released the Enterprise version of it’s On-Premise Data Gateway. The name of the product really says it all: The Data gateway is a server that sits in your On-Premise Datacenter (or closet), and allows communication with certain Office 365 Products, and certain data sources on-prem. If your organization has started to…
Is it time to extend your SharePoint Workflows?
One thing a lot of clients ask me: “When should I start looking at a 3rd party product for my SharePoint Workflows?” This can be a tricky question sometimes, as the answer always comes back to: “It depends on what you want to do and what your requirements are.” But I figured I would at…
Flow – Simple Workflow done simply
If ‘X’ equals ‘Y’, do ‘Z’ When I speak with many Business users about what they want from a workflow in SharePoint, often times, it is a simple request: “Can I get notified when someone adds a new item?” “Can you change the status of the document when I approve it?” “Can you notify a…