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SharePoint Dev Weekly – Episode 55

SharePoint Dev Weekly is a video and a podcast series where Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft) and Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore) will have a weekly discussion on the latest SharePoint Dev topics. They are often joined by a visitor to talk about...

SharePoint Dev Weekly – Episode 54

Microsoft 365

4 topnotch teamwork tips for Microsoft Teams plus SharePoint

Microsoft 365

When people work together and get things done – there is less confusion between team members and the content they create. This is the design goal behind Microsoft Teams – the hub for teamwork – and the reason why SharePoint is deeply integrated to...

Office 2013 support in Office 365 … The end is nigh…

Assurance, General Blogs, Microsoft 365

Being a Microsoft Office 365 Partner am keen to follow any news concerning feature changes and updates to Office365. Microsoft announced via this blog, that Office 2013 clients’ connections to commercial Office 365 services will not be supported after October 13,...

Announcing availability of an updated Page Diagnostics Tool for SharePoint

Microsoft 365

Today we’re pleased to announce availability of the next release of the Page Diagnostics Tool for SharePoint (Version 2.0.0) which now includes the ability to assess modern and classic SharePoint pages. The Page Diagnostics Tool for SharePoint is a...

New web parts coming to SharePoint – August 2019

General Blogs

Pages deliver great content and news to your organization. We’ve heard your feedback for more ways to create rich, beautiful experiences through SharePoint and Microsoft Teams. In addition to our out-of-the-box page templates, you can easily add...

Enhanced user experiences for content management

General Blogs

Document management is a core capability for SharePoint and Microsoft 365. Today, we’re pleased to announce the following new capabilities which will start rolling out to Targeted Release by late August 2019. New document management actions for SharePoint...

Multi-Geo Capabilities in Office now available in South Africa and the United Arab Emirates

General Blogs

A growing rise in regulatory requirements places more onus on organizations to control the geographic location of where data is stored so that it can be kept within speciﬁc regional boundaries. If you don’t have a solution for this, you may feel...

August 2019 – Updates to SharePoint page and news authoring

General Blogs

Building informative and attractive pages is an essential step in engaging employees with news, applications, and critical information in SharePoint and Microsoft Teams. Today we’re pleased to announce a series of enhancements to make authoring pages faster and...

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