Category: SharePoint

Last week, I was at Baltimore speaking at SharePoint Saturday Baltimore. I was talking about using Azure Functions for SharePoint and Office 365 Developers.

When I talk with Developers in the community they are not aware how powerful Azure Functions are and they are very useful in various scenarios. My talk was to cover just that i.e. various scenarios where we can use Azure functions when using Office 365 Services.

I covered using Azure functions with:

1. SharePoint Webhooks
2. SharePoint Framework
3. PowerApps
4. Microsoft Flow

In my session I also covered how to get started with Azure Functions and how to debug them. So if you are new to Azure functions then you should definitely take a look at Azure Functions Documentation.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/

It was great speaking at SharePoint Saturday Baltimore and meeting with lots of passionate users.

Kudos to all the organisors, sponsors and volunteers for successful event!!!

I look forward to speaking in next year’s event.

I will be speaking at SharePoint Fest Seattle 2017 on August 10 and 11. This will be my first time presenting at SPFest and I am pretty excited to be presenting at this awesome event.

I will be talking about SharePoint On-premises Search Display templates.

While I looks like Display templates do not have future with the way Microsoft is moving ahead with Modern view I still think that there are many clients who are currently using SharePoint on-premises as well as Office 365 classic view.

One word of caution if you are currently using Office 365 classic view or planning to go to Office 365 from on-premises then I personally would not want to invest too much on display templates. There is no clear direction given from Microsoft on display templates so far and hence I cannot say anything with confidence but I will be keeping an eye on all the developments.

But if you are planning on investing on Display template then definitely you should plan to attend SharePoint Fest Seattle this year as I will be talking about display template customization. I will also be covering some advanced scenario.

I look forward seeing you all there.

Edit: The URL of the event is changed since its old event but you can still access the site using the URL below.

https://www.sharepointfest.com/Seattle2017/index.php

I get this request once in a while where users wants to checkout PDF document hosted in SharePoint from within Adobe Acrobat Reader or once check-out from SharePoint they want to check that document back in (or save the document) to SharePoint from Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Now if you are using SharePoint 2013 out of the box you may not get this feature. Fortunately there is simple configuration change that you would need to make to have this feature.

On all your SharePoint web front-end servers you would need to edit your DOCICON.xml file and update the PDF mapping to the following.

<Mapping Key=”pdf” Value=”icpdf.png” EditText=”Acrobat Reader” OpenControl=”AdobeAcrobat.OpenDocuments” OpenApp=”AcroRd32″/>

When changing this entry I was reading that it was recommended to perform IISRESET but that is only needed if you need this change to kick in right away. If you can wait then this change does not even require app pool recycle. In my case I had to wait roughly couple of hours (not 100% sure).

Nick Patel also have blogged about this in details if you are looking for additional information.

https://nikpatel.net/2012/09/09/improved-pdf-support-in-sharepoint-2013-delivers-better-user-experience/