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…
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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…
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…
Microsoft PowerApps – Hands On (Part 2)
Click here to review Part 1 of this series Additional Business Requirements So, we gave our new PowerApp to the Marketing team, and after using it a few times, they have now come back to us and asked for some additional things. After I post a tweet, how do I know it has been sent…
Microsoft PowerApps – Hands On (Part 1)
I gave an overview of the new PowerApps offering from Microsoft here, and now in order to dive deeper into the product, I think the best way to start is to build a PowerApp! Business Case So, you organization comes to you and asks you to build a mobile app for the Marketing department. Recently…
Previewing Microsoft PowerApps
I was just approved for the Preview version of Microsoft’s upcoming offering: PowerApps. So, I wanted to share some initial thoughts as I try it out. What is PowerApps? PowerApps is a GUI based tool that allows business and IT users create mobile based organization applications without the need to write extensive code. For example, let’s…
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