SharePoint Form-Based Authentication with SQL using PowerShell

I have a lot of requests from clients lately who want to use custom authentication for their users against a custom SQL database. In SharePoint, form-based authentication allows you to redirect users to a login page, asking them for their username and password before authenticating them against your SharePoint farm. Users are prompted to provide […]

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Create New Site from Custom Web Template in Office 365 (SharePoint Online)

This week I am working for a customer who wants to develop a new solution that will allow users to create new SharePoint Online sites, based on a custom web Template, with a single click. After struggling for a few hours trying to find the proper way of achieving this using the SharePoint add-in model, […]

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Creating Custom Search Refiners in Office 365 using Term Sets

In this article we will cover how you can, in Office 365, create a custom column on a Document Library and use its values to define additional refiners in your search results. The idea for this blog post came after a client engagement of mine, where the organization I was working with wanted to tag […]

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