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10 things you should do with your Office365 demo or dev tenant

Tue, 30 Jul 2019 21:57:12 +0000

In the last couple of months, I needed to create a few demo or development tenants in Office365. As I don’t want to reinvent the wheel all the time, I created a list that steers me through the process and makes sure I don’t forget an important step. As you probably know, ticking things off a todo list can be a very satisfying activity. So the next time you need to create a development or demo tenant think of this list, copy it to your todo app and enjoy the good vibes while ticking off the boxes of your own 10 things.

Microsoft MVP - Most Valueable Professional for the very first time

Sat, 01 Jul 2017 17:43:51 +0000

Today I received an email informing me that Microsoft awarded me the MVP award for the Office Servers and Services category. I’m very humbled and proud of beeing in this group of special people and will do my best to stay there in the future. Those awards are at some level a personal thing but not possible without an environment where sharing information and helping others is part of the culture. I’m very happy that at Solvion we live and breathe this common set of values and beliefs because culture eats strategy for breakfast. A big thank you to everyone at Solvion making this possible. There are way too many names to list, and chances are I would miss someone out, so I will just stick with this big general shout out to every single Solvionesen! At last but not least I would like to thank one person in particular. Andrew Woodward. Andrew, you were one of the very first MVPs I ever met. It was back in 2009 in Slovenia where I attended my very first SharePoint conference. I got addicted to the SharePoint community there. Your passion for SharePoint and development in general truly was a game changer for me. I read every single post on your blog and followed every single hint and advice you gave on all the different channels. The governance and information architecture master class you organised together with Paul Culmsee, introducing us to a mindset that goes way beyond just the technology for sure had a career defining influence on me. Without your influence, I wouldn’t write this post today. Thank you very much and all the best!

Event News: SharePoint Konferenz München, SPS Zürich, SPS Vienna

Sat, 08 Apr 2017 09:54:50 +0000

Today I’m very proud to announce some event news for the upcoming weeks and also for later this year. In around two weeks I will be part of the SharePoint Konferenz 2017 in Munich. My two sessions are about the current state of the intranet with Office365 and the second about Staffhub. I’m looking forward to spent some time with all the local SharePoint peeps and also plan to connect at the Global Azure Bootcamp that is held on the weekend right before the event. Second, in terms of news, I’m proud to be part of SharePoint Saturday Zürich 2017. The conference takes place on May 13 and I will talk about how to connect SharePoint to public forms with Angular and AzureFunctions. Last but not least I’m super excited about our first SharePoint Saturday Vienna 2017 that got announced earlier this week. On November 11 we will open the doors at the Microsoft office in Vienna and welcome the local crowd of SharePoint and Office365 people. In terms of the team behind the event, I’m more than happy to join the creative and vibrant group that Melanie Culver, Stefan Bauer and Florian Lutz are. We have thought of this for some time now and decided that 2017 is the right year to put Vienna on the map of the SharePoint Saturday event series. This is also part of a greater plan to re-engage the local Austrian SharePoint and Office365 user group scene. There will be additional Meetups through the year in Vienna and Graz organised by the same team. So stay tuned, more to come!

SharePoint PnP Partner Story - How we use the PnP in the Solvion WorkBox

Sun, 19 Feb 2017 16:25:11 +0000

A couple of weeks ago we had the opportunity to sit down with Vesa Juvonen and record a webcast about the Solvion WorkBox. Vesa is one of the masterminds behind The SharePoint / Office 365 Dev Patterns & Practices (PnP) initiative at Microsoft. If you are not familiar with their great work, it’s never too late to learn something new. -> https://dev.office.com/patterns-and-practices The webcast puts a focus on the architecture and the user interface of our WorkBox. You will hear and see what we did in terms of going hybrid and how we ended up creating a seamless Office365 look and feel in the solution. You find the full article at the Office Dev Center here. Here the youtube video: And also the slides:

Project “move blog” status changed to: done.

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:16:56 +0000

Paul Culmsee - Jul 3, 2012

Thanks for the positive comment regarding the “heretics…” book. Really looking forward to your feedback in the fullness of time… Paul

Project “move blog” status changed to: done.

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:16:56 +0000

Quite strange but after two weeks it’s already time to say “Welcome!” again. Welcome to my new blog engine. I moved over from the BlogSpot space to my own server and Wordpress as my new blog engine. All posts and comments from the past can be found here with exception of the “we are moving” post that stays there to inform all readers about the new page.

I mentioned to start posting on a regular basis two weeks ago. Today I will show you what drives me at the moment an what for sure will be a topic in the next days and weeks.

SharePoint Conference Austria 2012

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:56:00 +0000

Last week the SharePoint Conference Austria took place in Vienna. As a main sponsor Solvion was part of the keynote and some other sessions. For the first time we were there with eleven people. Talking to guys interested in our services or other SharePoint people from across the country. Check out some pictures on our Facebook page.

Also you can download the slides of all our sessions here. For all none German readers some quick links: Keynote, CIO Session, and Boost your SharePoint session.

Back again ;)

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:09:00 +0000

Klaus Schwaberger - Jul 0, 2012

Thomy, we’re really very very happy having you in our team. Thanks for your commitment. Looking forward reading your reactivated blog, klaus

Back again ;)

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:09:00 +0000

Long time no post. A sentence more than true for this blog. It’s been a while since the last post and yes you are guessing right, some things have changed.

Don’t’ be afraid I’m still in the whole SharePoint space, actually I think I’m more connected to the product than any time before. At our company we did some great progress in the field and are now a team of about 25 with four Microsoft Gold Competences. Three of them relate to SharePoint and the other one to Lync. At this point I want to shout out a big Thank You to all my colleagues and friends at Solvion. I think we’ve created an creative and engaging environment that suits us perfect and our team spirit is protecting us from misunderstandings and huge conflicts. Also I still consider my work to be fun first and job afterwards. Ad multos annos.

TopSharepoint.com

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:29:00 +0000

Last weekend I stumbled across a page called TopSharepoint. The page is a gallery of the best internet facing sites done with SharePoint. As we recently announced our new homepage at Solvion I gave it a try and hit the submit button. Neither me nor my colleagues were expecting something to happen, as there are only 707 homepages listed at the moment.

Today my manager came to my desk and said something about several users hitting our page referred by a site called topofsharepoint.com … yeah we actually made it! We see it as a real honor to be listed there as the page says “… Be advised that TopSharepoint website gallery is reserved for only the highest quality Sharepoint websites from around the world …”

SharePoint Conference Slovenia 2009

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:14:00 +0000

Renato - Nov 0, 2009

It was great meeting you and all the other SharePoint folks I’ve encountered there. It’s fun to exchange ideas over a pint or two and realize that after all, we all face similar problems. I hope we meet again next year!

Renato

#### [danielmc](http://openid.daniel.mcpherson.name/danielmc "noreply@blogger.com") - Dec 2, 2009

Hey Mate, great write up of a great event, really glad you made it, and glad you enjoyed the sessions.

SharePoint Conference Slovenia 2009

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:14:00 +0000

Last week I headed down south to Slovenia to attend the second SharePoint Conference Slovenia in Murska Sobota. As Murska Sobota is just a hour away by car, it wasn’t that far to travel :)

I went there with two goals in my mind. I was looking to get some fresh pics of the new 2010 Version of SharePoint and by far the important point, I aimed to get in touch with other SharePoint guys.

What an awesome autumn!

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:34:00 +0000

Puh .. quite a long time since the last, which was even my first posting … I’ll try to update now on a regular basis what is actually quite hard with all the new things flying around :) So where to start? First of all I want to show you the end version of the idea from the first posting. A colleague of mine built a new version of our company’s homepage. I’ll show you how he integrated controls from Telerik and used JQuery in combination with the Content Query Web Part. As written in my last posting, we were working on a news content slider solution for SharePoint. Basically all we used were the CQWP and custom XSL. Now let’s have a look what our solution looks like. As you can see all 8 seconds the image in the center fades out and another shows up. The actual image, the hyperlink and the little text are all meta data from the underlying content page. We put all the meta data in our content pages, like the normal stuff title, text bla bla … additionally we add the image, hyperlink and text we use in the slider on the front page. So the author of the news page provides all the information to the content page and SharePoint renders that information to more than one place on the site. As you can see on the video I had my cursor pointing on the actual image for the first 20 seconds. The solution is hooked to the onmouseover event and stops rotating the content as long as you put the cursor there. After leaving the area the rotating starts again. The next thing I want to show you is how we used the Telerik Rad Controls in our solution. What we were looking for was a feature that allows us to add a fly out/fly in behavior to the left Navigation. There are JavaScript solutions out in the web doing this, but some of them require to put a content editor web part with a special java script on every page of the site. As our authors aren’t devs or admins we needed to built a solution that provides the feature without editing every single page. So what we did was integrating the PanelBar from telerik into our master page. And here is what it looks like. So enough for today. Come back soon, as I already prepare postings from the Slovenian SharePoint Conference which was held last week. Awesome information about the new 2010 release of SharePoint and Office. Also some really great talks about Test Driven Development by Andrew Woodward and assembly free solutions by Daniel McPherson. Needles to say there also was a SharePint :)