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,…
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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…
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…
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…
External sharing with Office 365 – Part 2: How to share SharePoint content with external users?
Part 1: Introduction Part 2: How to share SharePoint content with external users? <- you are here 🙂 In my last post about external sharing with Office 365 we covered options, possibilities and limitations of Office 365 in terms of the sharing content with external users. Now when we know what we can and can’t…
Say goodbye to the bi-monthly SharePoint Cumulative Updates…
… and welcome the monthly updates! Yes, that’s right. Instead of releasing SharePoint CUs every two months, the product group decided to release them every month instead. Yay! The first in the row is the July 2014 CU. Here are the download links: SharePoint 2013 KB 2882999 – SharePoint Foundation 2013 July 2014 CU KB…
Serious issues within Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2013 [Updated]
UPDATE [2014-04-24]: Service Pack 1 is released again. Download links and the deployment guidance are available under http://blogs.technet.com/b/wbaer/archive/2014/04/08/service-pack-for-sharepoint-server-2013-1-recalled.aspx Did you already install SP1 for SharePoint 2013? If not, good for you! Microsoft found out some serious bugs within SP1 for SharePoint 2013 and is currently fixing them.​ As a prevention, Microsoft disabled download links for…
The day Master died
Today is a sad day indeed. The first thing I was reading this morning was a Facebook message from my good friend, Oscar: “Hey buddy, did you see the news?”. I didn’t know what it was all about so I checked news channels first, slowly waking up and taking first sips of the coffee. As…
Announcing two sessions at SharePoint Conference Austria
It’s a long time since I wrote something here. Like most of us in the business, I was pretty busy a last couple of weeks / months. While waiting on my flight, I thought it would be a good idea to start paying attention to my blog again and here we are. This post won’t…
Beware of KB2756920 and KB2756921
Microsoft released KB2756920 (Windows Server 2008 R2) and KB2756921 (Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1) security patches on January 08. 2013. After the installation lot of Service Applications just stopped working. I had a problem reported with Excel Services Service Application so I started digging through ULS logs. The exception I found wasn’t really informative: 01/22/2013…
SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure adventures 