Monthly Archives: January 2015

Dynamic Excel Web Part

In all versions of SharePoint and Office 365, the Excel Web Access web part has been around for years.  It is part of the enterprise version of these products.  Web part connections can be created on pages in SharePoint, to send information between web parts. The requirement in this scenario is that a department has a bunch of spreadsheets in

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Speaking at SPTechCon in Austin 2015

This February is going to be exciting, as this is the first time that the SharePoint Technology conference (SPTechCon) is happening in Austin, Texas!  I’ll be presenting four sessions there, and here’s the info about them.  You can also get $200 off by using ROGERS as your registration code! 1:30pm – 2:45pm Making the Most of the Out-Of-Box Web Parts

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SPChat on 1/15–Automating Business Processes

This Thursday, 1/15 on the SharePoint-Community site, I will be doing a SP Chat!  The topic will be automating business processes in SharePoint and Office 365.  The way it works is that the chat room is opened up for anyone to ask questions, and I answer them by typing my responses in the chat window in the order that they

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Working with Video Content in SharePoint 2013

I wrote this article back in 2012, for SD Times, and thought I’d go ahead and post it here also.  This also applies to Office 365, and Office 365 has a video portal feature as well. In the SharePoint 2013 Preview and in the Office 365 Preview, there are some great hidden gems when it comes to working with video

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