HANDS ON SharePoint

Apply SPFx extensions to SharePoint Hub Sites using PnP PowerShell

By João Ferreira May 13, 2018 Branding, Office 365 0 Comments

Hub sites brig a set of common functions to all sites that belong the hub, but extensions are not propagated to all sites automatically.

With PnP PowerShell is possible to automate the installation of Application Customizers through the sites, the script below search for all sites associated with hub and apply the custom action to all of them.

Before running the script, you will need to have PnP PowerShell installed, the latest version can be installed from here.

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Hub Sites – SharePoint dynamic intranet has arrived

By João Ferreira May 12, 2018 Branding, Office 365 0 Comments

Hub sites were demonstrated for the first time during Microsoft Ignite in Atlanta last year and this week they were released worldwide to all SharePoint Online tenants.

Hub sites are the modern SharePoint approach to dynamic organizations, as business evolve content that lives with in evolves too and your intranet can be reorganized to reflect the organization structure.

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SharePoint Breadcrumb V3 – navigate between folders

By João Ferreira Apr 29, 2018 Branding, Development, Office 365, SharePoint 6 Comments

Breadcrumb is one of the most requested features by SharePoint users but unfortunately Microsoft removed it with SharePoint 2013 and to this day it was never reintroduced.

Last year I did a solution to bring back the breadcrumb to SharePoint without modifying the master page and today I’m releasing its third version with new features implemented based on the feedback provided by the users.

The new version is configurable according to your needs, includes support for folders inside libraries and supports custom master pages.

breadcrum with folder support

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Share global navigation between site collections

By João Ferreira Apr 19, 2018 Office 365, SharePoint 0 Comments

Managing a global navigation between multiple site collections don’t need to be a painful and tedious task.

With the use of Manage Metadata you can easily build your navigation structure and update it globally to all site collections at once, the steps described below work for SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premises.

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Send SharePoint user profile details to Google Analytics

By João Ferreira Apr 18, 2018 Development, Office 365, SharePoint 1 Comment

Integrations are one of my favorite things on technology and today I’ll write about it again!

How to add Google Analytics to SharePoint without modifying the master page is on of the most read articles in this blog; Recently I was asked about sending user profile information from SharePoint to Google Analytics to build better reports and to understand who is using the portals.

In this article I’m explaining step by step how to modify the previous solution and how-to setup Google Analytics to receive the logged in user email or id.

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How to enable Collaboration features on Publishing sites

By João Ferreira Apr 4, 2018 Office 365, SharePoint 0 Comments

Publishing sites are great to build modern and responsive intranets due to the possibility of using custom page layouts and custom master pages.

This article provides you instructions to enable collaboration features that are not available by default within publishing sites but are still useful for intranet projects.

This article provides the answer to two common question that I often receive:

How to create calendars on Publishing Sites?
How to create blogs on Publishing Sites?

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Brand modern SharePoint Online sites

By João Ferreira Mar 11, 2018 Branding, Office 365 3 Comments

With SharePoint Online modern sites the branding options that used to available with Classic sites were removed, however Microsoft introduced new alternatives to apply you company brand to SharePoint.

The new theming experience allow site owners to apply themes to all modern pages in the site collection, to deliver new engaging and familiar looks.

By default, there are 8 themes available but you as an Administrator can create and deploy your owns, in this article you will find instructions on how to achieve it.

SharePoint Branding

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Manage SPFx extensions from macOS with Office 365 CLI

By João Ferreira Feb 11, 2018 Office 365 0 Comments

SPFx extensions are used to customize the modern SharePoint user experience, built using script frameworks they can be built using any operating system.

Currently there is no graphical interface to manage the extensions and all the operations need to be done from the command line using PowerShell.

Well it use to be like that but not anymore, with the Office 365 CLI you no longer need to use PowerShell and Windows to manage the extensions if you are a macOS or Linux user you can do it directly from your native operating system.

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Create a modern SharePoint site template with multiple pages using PnP provisioning engine

By João Ferreira Feb 4, 2018 Development, Office 365 11 Comments

The PnP provisioning engine is a framework that allows you to create templates based on pre-built SharePoint sites. The framework was not built to be a migration tool and when a template is generated it only saves the home page, although the schema supports multiple pages.

In this article you can find a PowerShell script that saves a modern SharePoint site as a template with all the included pages.