by Wes Hackett | Nov 22, 2014 | Apps, Development, Event, Featured, Office365
Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th saw this years SP Connect 2014 take place at the Meervaart Theatre, Amsterdam. It was a great event organised with so many quality speakers and companies in attendance. It was a privilege to be invited to speak I presented a session on...
by Wes Hackett | Oct 6, 2014 | Development, Featured, Office365, SharePoint, SharePoint, Sharepoint 2013, Social Features, Yammer
Back in June 2014 Microsoft/Yammer announced the arrival of a new feature call ‘Document Conversations’. Available at the time of writing in some tenants (full roll out is in progress) this feature adds a fly out panel to Document Libraries in Office365. The full...
by Wes Hackett | Sep 10, 2014 | Apps, Delve, Development, Featured, Office365, SharePoint, SharePoint, Sharepoint 2013, Social Features, Yammer
This week people who had their Office365 tenants setup with ‘First Release’ started to see the long anticipated Delve (formally Codename Oslo) arriving on the tenants. Microsoft organised a YamJam for Delve in the Office365 Technical Yammer network here:...
by Wes Hackett | Apr 25, 2014 | Development, Featured, Office365, Power Query, Power View, PowerBI, PowerPivot
PowerBI is the cloud version of Microsoft BI stack. After seeing some awesome things at SPC14 I decided to take a dive into the course material on MVA. Notes from watching the MVA course on PowerBI (MVA training course) Power Query (MVA session) Power Query represents...
by Wes Hackett | Feb 10, 2014 | Apps, Development, Featured, Office365, SharePoint, SharePoint, Sharepoint 2013
Recently I was building a prototype SharePoint hosted app to add items into the Host web. The basic operation of the app is that it queries the Host web for specific list types, then allows a user to add a collection of new items to the selected list. So read and...
by Wes Hackett | Oct 2, 2013 | Development, Featured, MVP, SharePoint, Sharepoint 2013
Literally minutes before leaving work on 1st October I received the following email: This left me utterly speechless, which is not something that normal happens to me. After re-reading it about ten times the news finally sank in. I’m ecstatic that Microsoft have...