SharePoint, REST, and 3rd Party Themes
With SharePoint’s REST interface in your back pocket, and a choice of web development technologies at your disposal, you can leverage some great 3rd party themes that provide modern, rich, and responsive user experience (UX) functionality. The themes provide modern web capabilities and often include graceful backwards compatibility with older browsers using JavaScript libraries like Modernizr. They also can come packed and integrated with graphics, icons, and other JavaScript libraries and jQuery plugins that provide very rich UX capabilities.
SharePoint CSOM PowerShell Examples
The examples that follow in this post show how PowerShell can be used with the SharePoint 2013 .NET Framework Client Object Model (CSOM). They are for demonstration purposes only and lack error handling and other items you would want to include in production level scripts. The three examples are focused on adding different types of [...]
SharePoint 2013 Online, Powershell, and CSOM
I’ve recently started doing more work with SharePoint in Office 365 (SharePoint Online), and discovered that there are also a suite of Powershell commands for SharePoint Online: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp161388.aspx. However, they are currently limited to administrative functions like adding a new site, new users, etc. And, of course you cannot use the native SharePoint API to interact with SharePoint Online.
SharePoint Host Named Site Collections and Azure ACS
Overview I’m working on a project that will require the provisioning of a SharePoint site collection for each customer that subscribes to a my service. Each newly provisioned customer site must have a vanity URL. With SharePoint, the only way to scale to hundreds or thousands of customers with vanity URLs is to use Host [...]
BC Transborder Data Storage – Is Consent Feasible?
British Columbia FOIPPA Consent Option In my last post I mentioned that the British Columbia Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act prohibits the storage of public sector personal information outside of Canada, stated as follows: 30.1 A public body must ensure that personal information in its custody or under its control is stored [...]
Cloud Computing and the British Columbia Privacy Act
2004 Amendments to the BC Privacy Act In 2004 the British Columbia Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act was amended in response to the USA Patriot Act. One of the key amendments prohibits the storage of personal information outside of Canada (unless certain criteria are met). The legislation states: 30.1 A public body [...]
BizTalk Temenos T24 Proof-of-Concept
Myself and Avantage Partners recently completed a proof-of-concept (POC) to prove the capabilities of the BizTalk Server platform to integrate with the Temenos T24 core banking application. The POC was conducted for a large financial services institution and comprised two main aims: To address the technical uncertainty around using BizTalk to enable enterprise-level integration with [...]
SharePoint 2010 Document ID Non-Uniqueness
Straight Talk I’ll start by saying it straight up: SharePoint 2010 Document IDs are not guaranteed to be unique. If you route a document from one site collection to another, where the target site collection uses the same document ID prefix, then you could end up with duplicate document IDs. And worse is that if [...]
Knowledge Management is the Key to Business Optimization
I recently read a fascinating article in the April issue of Vanity Fair about Michael Burry’s bet against the massive subprime mortgage bubble in the United States. Why was he the only one to find the financial mechanisms to bet against the bubble? The information was out there. The knowledge was not. From the available [...]
Leadership Psychology Findings
Leadership ≠ Charisma + Intelligence Was sorting through my old magazines the other day and came across an Aug 2007 edition of Scientific American Mind which contains an interesting article on leadership called “The New Psychology of Leadership“. It dispels the conventional wisdom that effective leaders must always have charisma, intelligence and other “domination” personality [...]
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