Pascal Bonheur

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One error I’m often asked about when activating the multi tenant on SharePoint 2010 : if you want to enable tenant admin to create site collection, you may see this error:   This is most of the time due to the fact that the self service creation is not activate at the Web App level: [...]

Office 365 allows you to convert an “Intranet” sharepoint site to an “Extranet” sharepoint site meaning that you can invite external users to your site. Notice that you have a Share Site option in the Site actions: If you select that you will see that you cannot share will external users: So we need to [...]

If you have read one of my previous post about deploying Web Part to Office 365 you may wonder if Web Part are the only custom development that can be deployed in Office 365… The answer is no…. Let’s have  a look at deploying an event receiver. Just create an empty project : choose SandBox [...]

If you create a public Web Site with Office 365, you may have noticed that there is no Site Settings in the Site Action menu even if you have administrative rights: In order to go in the settings, you can either type the URL _layouts/settings.aspx and it will work: or open the site with SharePoint [...]

Interesting shortcut in Office 365 to quickly add users to a site: and specify the users…

Interestingly, when you provision a SharePoint Site, a content type Hub is automatically created and configured for you:   If you want to have automatic update, you just have to check the checkbox. Now let’s have a look on what happen if you create a new site collection: Then enter the parameters: Interesting point to [...]

Un document tres pertinent pour monter un plan d’adoption pour SharePoint:   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=94ee6518-75f7-47be-b4c1-0d6ec1248486

Let’s create a web site that is publically available on Office 365… From the administration, go in the SharePoint admin and create a public web site collection: Enter the Web Site information. As you can see, you can only choose 1 address which mean one Public Web Site: Then wait for the site to be [...]

If you try to install SharePoint 2010 and do some BI on a SQL instance that host a cube and a reporting services, here are some interesting point you may want to note: For the SPN of the cube, use the port of the instance and NOT THE NAME as specified in Microsoft documentation… Create [...]

Microsoft has secured 30% of the search market, largely at Google’s expense, according to data from Experian Hitwise. The new March numbers claim that Microsoft achieved 30.01% of the U.S. search market share in March — 14.32% from Bing.com and 15.69% from Yahoo Search, which Bing now powers. The growth was pretty evenly distributed as [...]