Events Join me at Devintersection europe in haarlem

This year I will join other internationally renowned speakers to present at DEVIntersections Europe. I will present 3 sessions there: - Extend Office Add-ins with the Azure Container Service - Speed up your Office 365 Intranet to Mach 1 - The graph is the glue that keeps it together   All these sessions will be dev-oriented and I hope they will inspire people to work more with the Office graph, Office 365, docker or Azure. If you still haven’t bought a ticket, there are still some places left I think. You can you my personal discount code so you don’t have to pay the full amount. (which is even beter 😀 )

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Events Recap from SharePoint Saturday Barcelona 2016

Today I got the occasion to present a session at SharePoint Saturday Barcelona. This was the second year they organized a SharePoint Saturday. It’s organized by SUG.CAT and by Edin Kapić. I presented a session on Extending Office Add-Ins with the Azure Container Service. Also I have been building a twitter feed reader to run people’s profile pictures thru the Microsoft Cognitive Services. But more on how I did it in another post. Until then you can see the results of this below. These are people who tweeted about SPSBCN and what the cognitive service api thinks there picture looks like. It was a great SharePoint Saturday and I got to meet loads of great people. I noticed that in Barcelona the people are great audiences. They really interact with you and have lots of questions. They even had a speaker panel at the end with some interesting questions. I got to meet a bunch of cool new people and reconnect with others I haven’t seen in a while. Below you can find some pictures I took during the event. On Sunday Edin was so kind to takes us on a trip to Montserat. I would like to thank him for giving up this free day to spend some time with us. This way we got to see another side of Catalonia. I hope the attendees had a blast like I did and I hope I can visit again next year.  

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Events Speaking at SharePoint Saturday Cambridge

Last weekend I had the opportunity to speak at SharePoint Saturday Cambridge. This event was held in the beautiful city of Cambridge in the UK. It was my first SharePoint Saturday in the UK and I must say what a great event. This was all thanks to Mark Broadbent who organized it. But he didn’t to this alone. His lovely wife, Kevin Chant and his wife where also helping out. And I’m probably forgetting all the other volunteers who helped with this event. Big kudos to them all. This was a mixed Saturday meaning it was not only a SharePoint Saturday but also a SQL Saturday. This unseen format is actually quite good. You get to mingle with the SQL guys and girls who we normally only bother when we have a problem or need some extra admin rights !😀. This gave me the opportunity to also learn from there perspective. And there are actually some cool people in the SQL community. I did a session about the Azure Container Service. I’ve included my slides below. I would like to thanks everybody who came to my session and if you want to look at the code again check out my github/dockerhub repo’s. In the end I got to meet some great people and learned something in the meantime. What more can you ask from a Saturday.

Docker Docker for windows does not work anymore after anniversary update (1607)

When my windows 10 automatically updated to the anniversary edition (build 1607) I could not get Docker for Windows to start anymore. It was showing in my task manager as running but nothing was shown in the system tray and I could not connect to it. To fix this you can take the following steps.

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Events SharePoint Saturday NYC recap

Last week I had the privilege of giving a session in New York City during it’s SharePoint Saturday event. This great event was hosted by Peter Ward, Tim Ferro, Tom Daly and a whole team behind them. They did a great job hosting this event in this great city. It was my first time to New York so it was a little overwhelming in the beginning.

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SharePoint Setting userprofile properties backed by term sets that have the same names

When setting a userprofile property backed by a term set in CSOM we use this snippet (sample from Office Dev PNP)

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Events SharePoint Saturday Stockholm recap

I had the opportunity to present a session at the SharePoint Saturday event in Stockholm. This was really a great event. I had never been to Stockholm before and the city made a lasting impression on me. It really is a great city with lot’s of friendly people. This event was hosted by Erwin van Hunen, Tobias Zimmergren and last but not least Matthias Einig. These guy’s are well know in the SharePoint and Office 365 world and they did a great job hosting this event.

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Events Presenting at the collab 365 summit

I had the pleasure of giving a session on extending office add-ins with the Azure Container Service. ACS optimizes the configuration of popular open source tools and technologies specifically for Azure. This open solution offers portability for both your containers and your application configuration.

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General After A Brief Hiatus, Back To Blogging

And so I’ve been missing in action. I haven’t blogged for quite a long time. The interval between this post and my last one is outrageously wayyy too long. I had to get reminders from a few good friends to have my conscious hurt. When that has to happen, then I’ve ignored my duty as a blog writer far too long. Okay, no good excuses this time. But hey, it’s not that I choose NOT to blog, but more like, I did have a few posts which for one reason or another just started off and never reached completion due to every excuse you can think of. So before I get back to normal blogging mode and act as if nothing happened, here’s a quick news alert on the things that are most happening:

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Events The Gears that make the Search go round - SharePoint Saturday 2014

These are my slides from my SharePoint Saturday 2014 Belgium presentation. Session abstract Everybody heard about that huge bird - that screams ‘FAST search in SharePoint 2013!’. SharePoint internet fora and blogs are all about the new display templates, content pane, query rules, etc. We experienced the improvements ourselves, but what did FAST change on the other end of the spectrum? What components are there? What information gets stored in the index database? How does SharePoint find my results so quickly? And more importantly, how can we make all of this work to our benefit?

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