Background Hi and welcome to the third article that describes how to make a PowerApps-based activity feed based on SharePoint search results. If Google’s search algorithm has landed you here for the first time, then I suggest going back to …
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Background Hi and welcome to the second article that describes how to make a PowerApps-based activity feed based on SharePoint search results. Although I did this as part of a large real-world client project, because of confidentiality considerations I am …
How to make a PowerApps activity feed via SharePoint search–Part 2 Read more »
Background In a recent project, I developed a portal for the Project Management function of a global multinational. One of the key design principles we took into the engagement was not to simply make an electronic version of a Project …
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Hi all While I’d like to claim credit for the wisdom in this post, alas I cannot. One of Seven Sigma’s consultants (Daniel Wale) worked this one out and I thought that it was blog-worthy. Before I get into the …
A lesser known way to fine-tune SharePoint search precision… Read more »
I’ve been nerding it up lately SharePointwise, doing the geeky things that geeks like to do like ADFS and Claims Authentication. So in between trying to get my book fully edited ready for publishing, I might squeeze out the odd …
In the words of Doctor Smith from lost in space, while everyone else was in Vegas having a grand old time, I was at a client site, having to come to grips with the beast known as Windows Small Business …
SBS 2008, Hewlett Packard, WSS3, Search Server 2008 Express and a UPS – Oh the pain! Read more »
Every so often I get back into geek mode and roll up the sleeves and get my SharePoint hands dirty. Not so long ago I was assisting a small WSS3 based organisation with a major disk subsystem upgrade (iSCSI SAN) …
Troubleshooting SPSearch and good practices for moving large files Read more »
It is the typical scenario isn’t it. Site works fine for a week and then is officially launched on a Monday morning and the site breaks after an hour complaining that it cannot connect to the configuration database. Whoa? The …
Office Server Search memory leak and stuck on "crawling" Read more »
Hi all I am a big fan of the PowerShell cmdlets for administering PowerApps and Flow. While the documentation is comprehensive, the install process is a little unclear and I see many people having trouble with it. The main reasons …
The hassle-free way to install the Power Platform PowerShell cmdlets Read more »
Introduction Hi again This is the second half to a post that will use the OpenWeatherMap API in PowerApps. The business scenario is around performing inspections. In the first post I gave the example of a park ranger or plant …
How’s the weather? Using a public API with PowerApps (part 2) Read more »