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ROBERT SCHOUTEN

Office 365 | SharePoint | Teams | Azure | Microsoft MVP

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Microsoft Graph Connectors – my findings

In the move to the Microsoft 365 cloud, there always have been a gap in order to get external data into your search index. In on-premises you were able to use Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in order to get external... Continue Reading →

SharePoint Online Home sites: what to expect?

In May 2019, Microsoft announced SharePoint home sites, the new landing site for your intelligent intranet. Home sites are designed to bring together personalized and organizational news, events, conversations, content, and video on a single SharePoint communications site. Home sites are... Continue Reading →

Top 5 things to know about private channels in Microsoft Teams

At Ignite (November 4th till 8th 2019) Microsoft announced the general availability of private channels within Microsoft Teams. This is the top requested feature in the Teams User Voice for a long time. What is a private channel? Private Channels... Continue Reading →

Microsoft Teams usage and insights

In one of my previous blog posts I questioned if you have enabled self service Teams creation for everyone or not. I also talked about what can happen if you do this (create a chaos in your tenant), but also... Continue Reading →

Create Microsoft Teams: for everyone, or not?

Microsoft Teams is the 'hub' for team collaboration within your organisation. There is some good documentation and guidance on how to get started with Microsoft Teams. It's a good thing to start small and especially within enterprise organisations to start... Continue Reading →

SharePoint Online tenant-level classic mode is passing away – be aware

This week Microsoft posted a blog called 'Delivering SharePoint modern experiences'. The title itself may not ring a bell directly and big chance you missed the interesting announcement made in this blog: We’re making it easier for users to get... Continue Reading →

New page header layouts in SharePoint Modern pages

Office 365 tenants set to Targeted release should now have the newly announced page header layouts available. This means there are new possibilities to show off your pages and create different layouts to inform your users. In this blog post... Continue Reading →

PnP Starter kit: People directory search issue

Lately I was working on a client intranet project. The client wanted a People directory and a possibility to search for people. During some refinement sessions, the demand to show some custom user profile properties in the people directory came... Continue Reading →

PnP starter kit: optimisation considerations

As posted in my previous blog post, I have been playing around with the PnP starter kit. For a client I wanted to use some of the web parts and extensions as a basis. I particularly mention basis, because the... Continue Reading →

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