Posts by Joaoferreira

How to add Microsoft Clarity to modern SharePoint

Creating engagement and measuring the success of any intranet is always a challenge, tools like Azure Application Insights and Google Analytics give you the usage metrics and now you can complement this information with Microsoft Clarity the new user behavior analytics tool.

Microsoft Clarity will gives you the recording of the sessions and heat maps of the user interaction with the site, this will help to find and fix the areas of your pages that are not working as you expect.

In this article I’m proving a readymade solution to add Microsoft Clarity to modern team sites and modern communication sites in just a few clicks, if you are not yet familiar with this tool yet I suggest you to have a look to the awesome series of articles that Megan V Walker as put together.

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By João Ferreira Dec 6, 2020 Office 365, SharePoint 4 Comments

How to create an RSS reader using SharePoint news

RSS feeds are a great way to keep updated with everything being posted in the sites you are following. SharePoint has a native integration for this feature but the layout is not that good, and it lacks the support for all the modern features the platform has been receiving.

In this article I’ll explain step by step how you can reuse the out of the box SharePoint news web part to create your own RSS reader web part.

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By João Ferreira Nov 1, 2020 News 17 Comments

How to post a SharePoint news link programmatically

One of the main features of SharePoint these days is the possibility to create News that are easily available to everyone in the tenant.

News can be created directly on SharePoint manually or can be created as news links. News links create a new post on SharePoint pointing to an external resource like a newspaper or your third-party news service.

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By João Ferreira Nov 1, 2020 News, SharePoint 0 Comments

How to disable automatic news digest from SharePoint

SharePoint news digest are around for some time now, the process to trigger an internal newsletter with the SharePoint news until now was purely manual but that is about to change with the introduction of the automatic news digest.

The update to this feature was announced on Microsoft Ignite and starts now to arrive to the tenants worldwide, if you were not expecting it and your users are not yet prepared in this article you will find how to disable it globally in your tenant.

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By João Ferreira Oct 19, 2020 News, SharePoint 0 Comments

How to update SPFx Yeoman generator to the latest version

The evolution of SPFx is stunning and each version adds new features that make the life of all of us easier when we think about extending SharePoint or even Microsoft Teams.

If you have SPFx already installed and are thinking about to start a new project using the latest version of the framework first, you must check if the latest version of the generator is installed on your system.

The process to update SPFx is straightforward and only requires 3 simple steps as explained in this article.

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By João Ferreira Oct 19, 2020 Development 0 Comments

How to use SharePoint Spaces in school to create interactive classes

SharePoint Spaces is a mixed reality vision that brings 2D and 3D e experiences to your intranet creating new ways to interact with data or as explained in this article interactives classes for schools.

Based on the questions that I received about SharePoint Spaces I can tell that people is a bit skeptical about investing time in this new feature, either because of the 3D experience or because it’s still in preview.

There is nothing to worry about SharePoint Spaces, even though it is 3D it doesn’t mean that is mandatory to use VR glasses to interact with it and about the final version it will happen before the end of 2020 as announced in the last Microsoft Ignite.

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By João Ferreira Oct 8, 2020 Spaces 0 Comments

How to display a full-width Power BI report in SharePoint

The integration of Power BI and SharePoint is straight forward, Microsoft provides an out of the box web part for SharePoint and all you have to do is grab the report URL from Power BI.

Even though the process is straight forward you may find the report to small due to the max page width on SharePoint. In this article you will find two different methods to embed a full-width Power BI report in your SharePoint pages.

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By João Ferreira Oct 1, 2020 SharePoint 1 Comment

What’s new for SharePoint from Microsoft Ignite 2020

This year was like no other and due to the Pandemic Microsoft Ignite 2020 had to become an online event. Even though people were not together in New Orleans, new product announcements were made and a lot of them were about SharePoint.

This article has a short resume of the goodies announced for SharePoint that will soon start to arrive to your tenant, have a look and plan ahead to receive the next batch of awesome features.

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By João Ferreira Sep 27, 2020 Office 365, SharePoint 0 Comments

Collabdays Lisbon 2020 – Learn the latest and greatest about SharePoint

SharePoint Saturday Lisbon has been rebranded and it is now Collabdays Lisbon. Don’t worry, it is still organized by the same people and maintains the same spirit as in previous years.

Collabdays Lisbon is a non-profit, community-driven event dedicated all that is great about SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure. It will be a one-day free virtual event on October 10th, 2020.

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By João Ferreira Sep 20, 2020 Development, Office 365, SharePoint 0 Comments

How to effectively manage SharePoint news – Part 2

In the first Part of this article I’ve explained how to manage SharePoint news effectively using custom views, on Part 2 I’m bringing you a second approach to manage SharePoint news using what SharePoint provides out of the box.

With the method described in this article you will be able to create a managing news page using the Highlighted content web part and CAML query, a perfect solution to who don’t have access to the PnP PowerShell to create custom views.

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By João Ferreira Aug 30, 2020 Office 365, SharePoint 2 Comments