Through my career I had the chance to be involved in several startups or small businesses trying to create a product or digital service. However a question arises very quickly: How to have effective working tools while minimizing the financial impact? And by impact financial I also mean the time spent to implement, because it is time that it not spent on its core business, or more generally to create added value.

Context In my company (www.negotium.com ) we are trying to achieve a significant migration for us people of development: TFS 2010 to visual studio online (ex tfs online). This will bring many new opportunities and tools to our way of developing and it will allow our IT Department to decommission a (several in fact) machine. I’m preparing a more complete article on the benefits of the solution online from the online edition.

For those who have not seen it yet Microsoft teams who work on Office 365 have created a hub on GitHub. https://github.com/officedev What are you going to find there? Examples of code made by Microsoft and the community Demonstrations presented during the sessions from Microsoft and the community Part of the ‘documents’ sources for the MSDN documentation SDK for ’third’ platforms (IOS, android…) … The message behind that is Microsoft is investing in the community and wants to create a single place where developers (from any platform) can meet to participate in the projects together and share content.

For those who are interested in knowing what’s upcoming on office 365, Microsoft recently shared publicly the roadma. You can see what Microsoft’s teams are developing directly from this page, which will be updated on regular basis https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/office-365-roadmap-FX104343353.aspx

Hi Everybody! I’m pleased to announce you that I’ll be speaking at SharePoint Saturday New York City. The event is free and will occur at Microsoft New York City’s office, on time square. Check it out, is a very good opportunity to learn plenty of things if you can be there. https://www.spsevents.org/city/NYC/NYC2014/sessions See you soon!

Reminders Auto-hosted apps are only available for SharePoint online (office 365), it bundles and provisions at each installation an azure web site(and eventually a sql azure database). That made hosting, tenancy management (isolating customers’ data) and authenticationway easier because most of the configuration part was automated. Announce We’ve been wondering how these apps were going to evolve for a while. Indeed SharePoint 2013 came out more than a year ago in production on office 365 and we still were not able to:

SharePoint MVP You may already have heard about it on social network, I’m a SharePoint Server MVP since April the 1st. I’m really proud to be a part of this awesome community counting Microsoft technologies best professionals and great communities’ contributors. This incoming year will be full of events, community activities and projects. I would like to thank: Jean-Sébastien DUCHENE: Enterprise Client Management French MVP for his advises and for encouraging me to become an MVP (I thought I was not good enough to make it).

Microsoft announced at the SharePoint Conference 2014 infopath’s discontinuity. They have not yet announced a successor to this technology since it is still under development on their side. (or maybe not even started to develop). In order to better match SharePoint users’ expectations, Microsoft is conducting a major survey to find out what you want to see in SharePoint around forms. If you have ideas / opinions, feel free to submit these.

Microsoft has given much information during the SharePoint Conference 2014. It is sometimes difficult to not miss something, so I made a summary of information that marked me. Storage evolution 1 TB and beyond! During the SharePoint Conference 2014 Microsoft announced a significant change in the limitations of SharePoint Online Storage: 1 TB Max per site collection (including the “mysite” or onedrive for business) and unlimited storage (understanding billed per GB) by tenant.

These days I’ve been working on an auto hosted app for SharePoint (office 365 actually). I had to grant an anonymous access to one of the pages without requiring clients to give anonymous access to their SharePoint site. But I still needed to read a few properties from the App Web web site (the SPWeb provisioned by SharePoint when installing an app) I had to play around a lot but I finally found the solution: