Showing posts with label SPO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SPO. Show all posts

Wednesday 27 February 2019

SPO & O365 groups coming March 201

Multi-geo Phase 2 (SPO) : SPO & O365 groups coming March 2019 into GA by 30 March 2019 confirmed.  DLP per satellite geo.  Hub sites can span multi geos.  Search works across geo I.e. all user access across geos is returned.


Today notes:
  • SC can’t be moved between geo locations.  
  • Satellite only in 14 core data regions I.e can’t use China but could use Hong Komg or Singapore.
  • Aimed at 2500 user tenants or bigger, with min 5% users moved.

Sunday 16 December 2018

SharePoint Online Property Bag SPWeb Properties are not indexed by default

Problem:  Moving an on-prem SharePoint solution to SPO, I realised that SPO does not automatically index property bag values.

Initial Hypothesis:  The Search schema looks correct and automatically created the correct Managed Properties.  Asked our Microsoft representative and they sent us a link to enable property bag values in the search index.

Resolution: Be aware that you need to do some Powershell commands on your tenant and site collections when using SharePoint Online to make property bag settings appear in the search results.

More Info:
https://blog.kloud.com.au/2018/04/26/how-to-make-property-bag-values-indexed-and-searchable-in-sharepoint-online/

Wednesday 6 June 2018

SharePoint Online Replacement Patterns in Diagrams

Overview: This Post highlights my default position for achieving Common SharePoint solutions using SharePoint Online, flow and Azure Functions.


Matt Wade has a great resource on the components making up O365.
https://app.jumpto365.com/

Sunday 27 May 2018

SharePoint Framework Notes

As the SPFx is progressing and changing rapidly, I shall try to update this page as time goes by.  I have been dabbling with the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) for a few months and went to a day workshop with Andrew Connell (AC) on SPFX as the SharePoint Conference 2018 North America on 20 May 2018.  I would definitely recommend attending Andrew Connell training (I have gone to a lot of workshops and presentations over the years and he is excellent) I am not an expert but these notes are my summary of items to be aware of.

Last Updated:15 June 2018
  • To use the SPFx on-prem. with SP2016, you need to have feature pack 2.  SP2016 only for SPFx web parts does not do    SP2019 will be behind SP365 but it shall have all the updates circ May 2018 when it is released circa Sept-Oct 2018. 
  • Safer to user SPFx on modern pages rather than classic SP pages.
  • Development can be done on any laptop with any editor.
  • Either build Web Parts in the local or O365 (/_layouts/15/workbench.aspx) Workbench.

  • What you need is 1. Node.js, 2. npm, 3. Yeoman, 4. GULP, 5. Webpack (used to check and load dependency JS modules).  AC suggests for simplicity install and forget about: Node.js, Yeoman, Gulp and webpack.  You'll use them but you don't really need to understand them.
  • Language-wise, use JavaScript or you can use TypeScript which obviously converts down into normal JS but makes it easier to program (e.g. type ahead/intelisense).
  • Use NVM (allows for multiple versions of Node.js; you may have clients of different versions and NVM allows you to have multiple Node.js versions on a machine) and use the LTS (Long-term support) versions: v8.11.2 or v8.9.4
  • Install the following pre-reqs using npm:  yomen, gulp and the MSfx template for yeomen scaffolding namely @microsoft/sharepoint…
  • VS code makes a good editor, I think Mark Rackly has built a VS template that will do all the scaffolding instead of using yeoman.
SPFx Eqivalancy Comparison:

SPFx Tool C# WSP Tool Desc
Node.js .NET Used to run npm and compile the SP package (*.sppkg) using gulp and webpack.  Runs a local server to use the tooling
npm Nuget Download 3rd party packages/frameworks e.g. jQuery or Angular
yeoman Visual Studio Generates basic SPFx web part files, same as a template built using VSIX in VS.  Ensure you have all the basic parts to build a SPFx web part
gulp MSBuild or F5 Builds the package
webpack NA checks dependant files are included in the package.  AC explained it as shaking the tree (removes unnecessary js libraries and ensure libraries are included)

SP2016 on-prem. Dev vs No FTC Sp2016 on-prem. vs SPO SPFx
  • WSP
  • Timer
  • Custom Service Apps
  • Event Handlers
References:
https://www.voitanos.io/

Background:
Node.js - Allows you to create a web server and compile JS on the server-side.  It's 2 main functions to use in SP are: 1) Need it for local development workbench and 2) Node.js has npm (package manager) built in, you need node.js that uses npm and webpack to uses gulp to build packages (like we did with MSBuild for WSP's).
webpack - build tool that manages code.  Manages styles and JS files.

Sunday 4 March 2012

SPO 2nd update Statement

SPO made it's 1st update statement in October 2011 which allows BCS (web services) on SharePoint Online.  This is the 2nd change to the SP2010 online version (Feb 2012),
Ability to scale up to 500K users was 20k.
Site Collection Recycle Bin - ability to self restore includes a full site collection restore.
Ability to invite non-domain users  - Simplifies Collaboration with partners, customers, etc as they can use their own email adrs.
Changes to how your browser handles to PDF files - use to have to download and then open the pdf document.  Now will open pdf reader once clicked.