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Discover how to build a kiosk-based event access management solution in Power Apps with hidden text inputs and external barcode readers for contact-free entry control.

I had a request from a customer who is running a 10-day event where attendees are permitted in certain areas.

Gist is a big part of my workflow. I've always been on the lookout for a desktop tool. Well, it turns out I was looking in the wrong place.

I have been working with a large government department where Microsoft Services helped them transform their intranet to SharePoint Online leveraging all the modern capabilities available as well as.

So I'll start by saying how bowled over I am by the engagement I've had after posting a tweet sharing that I had programmatically updated the new footer.

A PnP PowerShell script to switch a modern SharePoint site homepage between variations, preserving the canonical home.aspx page name. Useful for A/B testing audience-specific home pages.

Some five years ago now, I blogged about how to login to multiple Office 365 identities or accounts at the same time using Chrome Profiles.

I finally decided to create my dream home office setup however it wasn't without complications due to a strange limitation with the new Windows 10 display settings.

Update (31/01/15): Session spreadsheet updated and now includes 275 sessions.

I recently responded to a question posted to Twitter using the #SPHelp hashtag. Tim Ferro was trying to understand all the different types of email that SharePoint sends automatically.

I'm sure removing the Recent heading from the Quick Launch in SharePoint 2013 has been talked about a million times over since SharePoint 2013 was launched.

A challenge for most administrators managing more than one or more Azure subscriptions or Office 365 tenants having to continuously log in and out with different credentials to do so.

Update (15th June 2014): We may see a return of the SharePoint ULS Viewer very soon. Jeremy Thake and Office Dev indicated it is coming back to life very soon.

Often a difficult task for some, once up and running with Microsoft Azure, is how to get files in and out of Storage Accounts or Containers. For these particular scenarios there is a really simple tool called Azure Explorer.

I have just discovered that you can give feedback about your experiences using Office 365 directly to Microsoft using their online feedback form (http://msft.it/o365feedback) thanks to a Tweet from Jennifer Mason.

Let me introduce you to the Deployment guide for Microsoft SharePoint 2013. Anyone deploying, installing or configuring SharePoint 2013 absolutely must read this!

This post is part of SP14 Keynote highlights series where I provide some highlights of the next version of SharePoint. These highlights are from the SP24 Conference Keynote that Bill Baer delivered.

This post is part of SP14 Keynote highlights series where I provide some highlights of the next version of SharePoint. These highlights are from the SP24 Conference Keynote that Bill Baer delivered.

This post is part of SP14 Keynote highlights series where I provide some highlights of the next version of SharePoint. These highlights are from the SP24 Conference Keynote that Bill Baer delivered.

This post is the first of my SP14 Keynote highlights series where I provide some highlights of the next version of SharePoint. These highlights are from the SP24 Conference Keynote that Bill Baer delivered.

In this post, I share information about On-Premises SharePoint, highlights of SharePoint 2016 and see how Outlook attachments (bye-bye) are changing as we know them.

I thought I'd share a PowerShell script that I've created to perform a few tasks against a Site Collection Second Stage Recycle Bin (SSRB) in SharePoint.

So I have an early draft of my expo hall treasure map mapped out! Do you have yours?

Update: 23/02/2014 I've updated the #SPC14 sessions spreadsheet one last time to include some missed sessions and a request to have sortable start and end dates.

A customer recently reported that they were not able to create any new Site Collections within any Web Application in their SharePoint 2013 UAT environment.

Something I have found frustrating with the SharePoint Conference 2014 website over the holidays is that you have to browse through the sessions as search results pages.

It is a very special day for me today - ClearPeople has just approved my trip to attend the SharePoint Conference 2014 (#SPC14). Thank you thank you thank you!

It's official you can now customise the Office 365 login page with your own branding \- ok not quite yet but Microsoft has just released a preview feature that will soon allow us to.

A customer asked me if I could help troubleshoot their SharePoint environment - they had extended a web application and configured it to use Forms Based Authentication (FBA) with SSL however they.

If you're working with Windows Azure and want to use PowerShell to perform management tasks you will first need to install and configure Windows Azure PowerShell as per this article "How to install and configure Windows Azure PowerShell".

This post describes how I configured one of my Windows Azure hosted Virtual Machines with my domain name registrars DNS - this meant that I could make SharePoint 2013 available using my domain name.

A quick walkthrough of using SharePoint's Reusable Content feature plus a touch of jQuery to give content authors easy, code-free tabs on their pages.

The default interval for Windows Azure Active Directory Sync (DirSync) synchronisations is 3 hours. If for instance, your Active Directory has lots of changes you probably want to consider shortening the sync interval.

When configuring Windows Azure Active Directory Sync (or DirSync as it was previously known) it's useful to be able to run various synchronisation tests.

I've configured Forms Based Authentication (FBA) in SharePoint on several occasions - from 2007 right through to 2013, but until now I have never discovered a life-saving tool that Steve Peschka has.

Since our Office 365 tenant was upgraded we've been experiencing difficulties with our users signing into Lync 2013.

Ok, so this has bothered me for some time - until now, there has been standalone OneDrive for Business SkyDrive Pro client. Users have had to install Office 2013 to experience the new way of synchronising files with SharePoint.

If you need to check what version of SharePoint server your Office 365 tenant is running especially during the Office 365 and SharePoint Online service upgrade (aside from checking through the Admin.

At the time of writing this post, I was working for a "Microsoft Cloud Accelerate" partner.

A quick post here to share a new feature in SharePoint 2013 that enables you to easily embed code such as javascript and CSS into the content area of a web part page for example.

I've been exploring SharePoint 2013 in recent days and noticed that the 'Sign in as Different User' option or action from the welcome control (user menu) seems to have been removed or forgotten from the user interface in this build.

This one's quick. There are a couple of ways to find out your SQL server version. Firstly the version is listed within the Object Explorer in the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.

I was asked to review a client environment yesterday to find out why the links in their top navigation bar were displaying for users that did not have permission to the particular sites.

On many occasion, I have been to conferences and on training where the presenter has done a demonstration and used a screen magnifying utility to enlarge part of the display.

This morning I was trying to create a new style in the itemstyle.xsl stylesheet to use within the content query web part (CQWP).

Quite a common requirement for implementations of SharePoint that I am involved in is to create new managed paths for a given web application.

When I write PowerShell scripts, I often want to step through sections. This allows me to decided whether to proceed with parts of my script or not. I achieve this by using the ChoiceDescription class as demonstrated below.

Today I had a requirement to remove all the headings and links from the quick launch navigation of hundreds of SharePoint sites.

The need to backup or download SharePoint solutions or WSPs from SharePoint come's up from time to time.

When I started my new job a few weeks ago I decided I was going to introduce some new tools and utilities to help myself and my colleagues be more productive.

Many people have said to me "your using WordPress for your blog but you're a SharePoint Consultant" and my response is typical "but why must use SharePoint - I guess you also have a problem with me using a Mac?".