Month: September 2015

Creating the SharePoint 2016 User Profile Service Application using PowerShell does not Display the App Launcher

While writing my second book “Beginning PowerShell for SharePoint 2016” I stumbled upon a weird situation, where when creating the User Profile Service Application for SharePoint 2016 using PowerShell, the App Launcher wasn’t showing up. As you know, in order to have the App Launcher displayed in your SharePoint 2016 environment, you need to have […]

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Installing Office Online Server for SharePoint 2016

Office Online Server is the next version of the Office Web Apps, which allows your users to view and edit Microsoft Office documents directly in their browsers. It is also a prerequisite to have the Durable Links feature of SharePoint 2016 on-premises work properly. Just like its 2013 predecessor, Office Online Server 2016 needs to […]

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SharePoint 2016 – Share Documents with QR Codes

A new feature has been introduced in SharePoint 2016 IT Preview that allows users to share documents using QR codes. By default, each documents library has this feature enabled. Simply upload a document to a document library, and using the document properties overlay, you can generate a QR code for the document. Clicking this icon […]

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My Microsoft Virtual Academy Session on Office 365 Development

I just realized that I never truly advertised on my blog the session I delivered back in March 2015 for the Microsoft Virtual Academy in Redmond, on Office 365 Development. This full day session was recorded live on March 24th, with my co-host Christopher Harrison. We had a blast! The audience asked several great questions […]

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SharePoint 2016 – Fast Site Creation

SharePoint 2016 IT Preview introduces a new feature called Fast Site Creation, which allows SharePoint administrators to quickly create site collections based on an existing template. This feature works at the SQL Server level, meaning that it simply copies artefacts in the SQL server directly without going through the SharePoint Object Model, thus generating multiple […]

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