If you’re building modern SharePoint components (Framework or not), there’s a high chance you’re using TypeScript.

In that case you’re probably using @types/SharePoint to provide auto-completion as well as some level of understanding for the compiler of what’s going on.

There’s one object in particular that SharePoint hydrates for us to give some understanding of where the user is and what he/she is doing: _spPageContextInfo.

A lot of properties were missing in those type definitions, old stuff like the web Id but also new things coming from SharePoint Online like canUserCreateMicrosoftForm.

Microsoft recently made changes around look and feel customizations for SharePoint Online.

If you create a new site collection and try to edit page layouts, master pages or even image renditions, there’s a high chance you’ll get an access denied error message. That even if you’re site collection administrator.

Investigating further and checking your permissions on the master page gallery library, you will notice that every and each user has a “deny” permission for “Add and Customize Pages”. That permission level is not one of the originals we’re used to in SharePoint.

Techorama is a 2-day event that takes place in Antwerp, Belgium from May 22nd to May 24th.

They lined up great speakers from Microsoft and other big industry players, checkout the agenda here https://techorama.be/agenda/

I have the pleasure to announce I’ve been selected and I’ll be giving two sessions:

• Set up your DevOps process for SharePoint/Office365

• Migrate your custom components to the SharePoint framework

Tickets are still available so if you are in the area or can travel there I would strongly suggest you check-it out! https://techorama.be/tickets/

A couple of days ago, I had to work again with Image Renditions in SharePoint. We’re developing a intranet for one of our customer and that solution partially relies on publishing features.

Just as a reminder, image renditions were introduced back in 2013 to help you serve the most optimized version of an image without having the information workers caring about sizes and whatnot or without you having to resize images with code.

This year again I have the opportunity to speak at the SPS Vancouver.

I’ll give a speech about the SharePoint Framework and devops methodologies “Is it possible to do devops with the SharePoint framework?”.

You had it all right with solutions and add-ins. Your release pipeline was set up. Do new technologies and methodologies mean starting over?

Don’t panic I’m here to help! Together we’ll see how to set up a devops pipeline for SPFX developments with:

This year again I have the opportunity to speak at the SPS Calgary.

I’ll give a speech about the Azure functions and Microsoft flow “Introduction to Azure Functions and Flow”.

Flow and Azure Functions are two new tools you now have for rapid applications development. It’s a revolution that changes the way of building and delivering modern applications. Instead of shipping a monolithic bloc, which can take up to a few months, we’ll now deliver each feature as a part of the solution.

I’ll have the privilege to speak at next AOS (Azure, Office 365, SharePoint) in Ottawa (8th) and Toronto (10th).

I’ll present in English: Introduction to Azure Functions and Flow

Flow and Azure Functions are two new tools you now have for rapid applications development. It’s a revolution that changes the way of building and delivering modern applications. Instead of shipping a monolithic bloc, which can take up to a few months, we’ll now deliver each feature as a part of the solution.

Big step for me during this 2016 celebrations season as I decided to leave Negotium for 2ToLead

Good Bye Negotium

Since I joined AlphaMosaik more than four years ago (I originally joined only for 18 months huh…), by the acquisition by Negotium and up to this day my working environment and the company I was part of changed a lot.

This company allowed me to maturate and to learn a lot on cultural, personal and professional aspects. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everybody I had the occasion to work with during this period of time.

A few weeks ago, I’ve had to get hands on a customer’s SharePoint farm showing performance problems. They also had inconsistencies with display data between multiple calls.

I quickly suspected a configuration issue for the load balancer dispatching calls between the front-end servers. However, I only had access to the SharePoint farm and I had to provide data so the network team so they could start investigating.

Hence the question: how can we determine which server served the request between multiple calls?

This year again I have the opportunity to speak at the SPS Ottawa.

I’ll give a speech about the graph “Making Graph data useful to your company”. We’ll talk about the Graph, delve, yammer, machine learning and a lot of other interesting concepts and the conversation will be aimed towards developers.

If you’re in the area Saturday December the 3rd 2016 don’t hesitate to register to the event.

Just as a reminder SPS are free events organized by the community with lot of great sessions.