What the FAQ: Part 3 – Adding the QnA Bot to Microsoft Teams

A month and a half passed since the last article in this series and during that time lot of things happened which didn’t allow to finish it. European Collaboration Summit was a blast, from a job perspective it was a very busy month but hey, at last here we are, at the last article in…

This was European Collaboration Summit 2018!

I won’t lie to you – I am very much emotionally tied to the European Collaboration Summit (formerly known as SharePoint and Project Conference Adriatics) from a number of different reasons. Not only because it was brought to life six years ago by my very good friends but also because from its very first iteration,…

What’s new in SharePoint 2019?

SharePoint Server 2019 is just around the corner and it already promises to bring a lot of improvements to the businesses around the world. It is a modern and flexible collaboration platform and it will re-invent and simplify the way we work in a team and in the projects. On-premises SharePoint is not dead! And…

What the FAQ: Part 2 – Creating a Question and Answer Bot

In the previous article, we went through the process of creating and training the QnA Maker Service or, better said, a QnA Maker Knowledge Base. We also explored the ways to query the service REST APIs by using a simple PowerShell script, which can be very easily translated in a language of your choice. We…

Increase your OneDrive for Business storage to 5 TB per user

Wait, what? Let’s see what you can do with it. Roughly speaking, you would have enough space to store 85.000 hours of music. Or 1.500 hours of video. Our 1.500.000 pictures of your cat. Or millions of documents. You can increase the storage quota for OneDrive for Business to 5 TB for quite some time…

What the FAQ: Migrating a QnA service from the Preview portal

General Availability of the QnA Maker was announced on May 7, 2018 at \\build\ conference. In all honesty, I was a bit surprised to see changes in the process of creation of new QnA services. But, as the new architecture is built on Azure, there are some differences between old and new portal. That also…

What the FAQ: Part 1 – QnA Maker

Recently I’ve been writing documentation for a new service that we built for our internal needs. Needless to say, as an integral part of the whole bunch of documentation produced, two of the documents are of a special interest to the users of the service. I am talking about user’s guide and troubleshooting guide. Now,…

End of mainstream support for SharePoint 2013

Today is an important milestone in a lifecycle of SharePoint 2013. Mainstream support just ended and the product is going into the extended support phase. SharePoint Server 2013 is supporting business processes in large number of companies. As the exact time of ending mainstream support was well known for a long time now, while speaking…

Spring 2018 events

The conference season is open again! Next two months will be somewhat busy and I am looking forward to travel a bit, see some dear friends and talk about some new things we do at Microsoft. So, what’s coming up? Let’s see… Microsoft Network 8 18. – 20. April 2018, Neum, Bosnia and Herzegowina |…

What is Office 365 First Release program?

In my last blog post I mentioned something called First Release and in this one, I want to shed a bit of light on it. Microsoft enhances Office 365 by developing and deploying new features on a very fast pace. So, after a new feature or significant update is developed and tested internally, Microsoft will…