Wes Hackett
Chief Technical Officer at AddIn365
Welcome to my technology blog.
You’ll find articles about Office 365, Azure and other Microsoft technologies. Day to day I work as the Chief Technical Officer at AddIn365, a Microsoft ISV Partner based in London. As CTO my main responsibilities include designing the AddIn365 product roadmaps and supporting clients and partners in understanding and using Office 365.
I’ve been a Microsoft MVP for a number of years specialising in Office 365, SharePoint and development.
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SP Connect 2014 Presentation
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.
Document conversations does not equal hover panel post
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 details of the feature can be seen on the Office Blog here: http://blogs.office.com/2014/06/03/yammer-brings-conversations-to-your-onedrive-and-sharepoint-online-files/
Delve YamJam summary
Summary of the Delve YamJam from the Office365 Technical network.
OneDrive for Business site folders page
Recently Microsoft updated OneDrive for Business on Office 365 with some new features. Full details can be read in their blog: https://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive-for-business-updates-web-user-experience/
Thoughts about migrating content into Yammer from forums
This article hopes to cover the considerations and possible approach for planning and migrating existing forum content into Yammer. Yammer doesn’t provide any form of ‘migration’ or ‘import’ for other system content. They take the stance that the working paradigms...
SharePoint Evolution Roadshow 2014 session If apps are the answer what was the solution
Full trust solutions have been a SharePointers bread and butter approach for as long as we can remember, but with the app world looming large in the rear view mirror what does this really mean when designing and implementing business solutions? Using a real world scenario we’ll walk through the changes to the approach when you start looking at the world of apps. How it influences the design approach, the technical implementation and the delivery of the solution to the business.
Example Yammer analytics reporting
So over a couple of Yammer rollouts now this is a collection of the reporting that has been requested. This is a possible collection of analytic reports for Yammer: Group user membership activity As a group owner I would like to view the breakdown of new joiners to...
Data model for the Yammer export files
With the Enterprise version of Yammer as an admin you can export your network from a selected date up to current. The files that are exported contain the information within your network. This post is a quick run through the data model from the files. Where I can see...
Office 365 new profile page
Microsoft recently announced improvements to the ‘Profile’ page in Office365 The image below shows what the new page looks like. And when viewing someone else Some observations from this update: The page url has changed to ‘PersonImmersive.aspx’ which is interesting...
An introduction to PowerBI
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
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