
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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Latest articles
Speaking at the SharePoint Best Practices 2011
I’m lucky enough to be speaking at this years SharePoint Best Practices 2011 conference in London between 11th and 13th of April. Catch my session on Monday 11th April between 10 and 11 in the ‘Wesley’ room.
SP2010 MySites – Part Four: My Content
This is the fourth article in a series which explores the SharePoint 2010 MySite features. This article will examine the ways that you can customise the default page for the MySite. It will describe the common requirement and how to approach them in a supportable and scalable fashion. The walkthrough will provide an example implementation which you can tailor to your exact needs.
Announcing SPRetreat Two
This is the second instalment of SPRetreat and it’s focused around Test Driven Development with SharePoint. Join Andrew Woodward as he takes us on a journey into TypeMock and how we can improve the quality of our SharePoint code by employing TDD.
SP2010 MySites – Part Three: Branding
This is the third article in a series which explores the SharePoint 2010 MySite features. This article will examine the ways that you can change the look and feel of the MySite. We’ll look at the ways you can modify the visual elements and also the techniques you can employ to apply custom branding such as masterpage and a custom theme.
SP2010 MySites – Part Two: Anatomy
This is the second article in a series which explores the SharePoint 2010 MySite features. This article will examine the various elements that get brought together to form a MySite in SharePoint 2010. Gaining a detailed understanding of these elements will help us to target areas during customisations. As with most areas of SharePoint I believe it’s important to understand what you have before cracking open Visual Studio to make customisation.
SP2010 MySites – Part One: Overview
This is the first article in a series which explores the SharePoint 2010 MySite features. SharePoint 2010 has brought with it vast arrays of improvements and several of these are focused around ‘Social’ features. Many of us are familiar with Facebook, LinkedIn and other sites which bring people together to share personal information. Within SharePoint this is provided by the MySite concept.
Dialogue mapping one month on
Back at the beginning of December I was lucky enough to attend the SharePoint governance and information architecture master class. One of the key techniques I’ve been investing my time learning since is the IBIS dialogue mapping. Dialogue mapping is a technique which helps you facilitate a meeting and document the discussion. In an easy to follow notation you can record the questions, ideas and supporting/undermining arguments for an idea.
Creating Default Site Groups After Creating Site Collections with PowerShell
So it's pretty straight forward to create new site collections with the PowerShell command. We noticed strange behaviour though between sites created with script and those in the UI. Basically the default security groups had not been provisioned when the site...
Removing Adult results from Bing Federation
With SharePoint 2010 Bing is pre-configured as a federation source within the Search Service Application. While this is a great time saver for getting internet searches being returned via your search centre is comes with one very obvious omission. Adult themed results will not be excluded by default.
CKSDev Adding keyboard shortcuts
One of the community submitted feature requests was for keyboard shortcuts for the CKSDev menu items. Tobias Zimmergren raised a good suggestion that rather than use the established WSPBuilder versions it would be preferable to use a new set. This makes perfect sense as we always aim for CKSDev to play nice with other extensions.