Category Archives: SharePoint 2013

Workflow Lazy Approval

What is lazy approval? It is the ability to reply to an approval email with the word “Approved” or “Rejected”, without need for the approver to go to a site in SharePoint. With the mobile workforce, this is a feature that is in high demand, for people to quickly be able to read an email and approve or reject instantaneously.

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Simple Browser Settings for “Single Sign On”

This is a topic that I’m being asked about more and more frequently, so that’s a great reason to write a post!  There are issues that crop up, multiple annoying authentication prompts, and even issues and errors with MS Office (and InfoPath) integration with SharePoint.  The best part about this browser setting, is that it gets rid of your authentication

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Internal Company Newsletter Using SharePoint

This is a very simple trick, and it can be done with any version of SharePoint such as 2007, 2010, or Office 365. I see a lot of companies send out newsletters to their employees, and sometimes they actually pay for services such as MailChimp or Constant Contact, in order to send out those newsletters.  In this post, I’ll show

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Mimicking Column Security

One of the most common questions I’ve ever gotten in my ten years using SharePoint is: “How can I set a certain permission on a specific view or column (field)?” In this blog post, I will start with a couple of very simple ways to do this, which can easily ramp up to some more fancy / tricky ways.  This

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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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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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SharePoint and Office 365: Cross-site Content Concepts

I recently had a call with a customer who had a pretty common requirement. Their content editors work on files on a team site, and they want to have a way to have that content exist on the team site and on their main intranet site as well. Currently the content editors are making the changes in two different places,

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