Create a Fabric UI card layout on modern SharePoint pages

I’ve spent most of my professional life building custom intranets using classic publishing sites with custom page layouts and one of the features that was often requested was the card effect around the web parts.

While this was very simple to implement with custom page layouts on classic SharePoint, on modern SharePoint things are a bit different and require a different approach that I’ll explain in this article.

The instructions on this article will provide you a card layout like what is available on the modern Admin Portal.

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By João Ferreira Sep 3, 2019 Branding, Development, Office 365, SharePoint 6 Comments

How to enable image renditions on SharePoint 2019

When you install SharePoint onprimises the image renditions are not generated automatically, and the renditions pages displays the error message below.

The blob cache is not enabled in this web application. Image renditions will not be generated until the blob cache is enabled. For information on turning on the blob cache, please review the product documentation.

To fix this issue and get the image renditions automatically generated follow the instructions provided in this article.

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By João Ferreira Jun 16, 2019 SharePoint 0 Comments

How to host a static HTML site on SharePoint

If you have a static HTML site that needs to be shared internally inside your organization, you don’t need to get a dedicated hosting service to do it

SharePoint can be used to host the static HTML sites if you follow the 5 simple steps described in this article.

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By João Ferreira Jun 13, 2019 Office 365, SharePoint 20 Comments

How to create an App Catalog on SharePoint 2019

I wrote a series of posts that explain how to install SharePoint 2019 step by step on a Hyper-V virtual machine for testing and development.

The series ends up with the creation of the first site collection but if you will use the VM to develop you will also need an App Catalog.

On this article you will find the instructions to create it step by step.

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By João Ferreira Jun 12, 2019 SharePoint 0 Comments

SharePoint 2019 Setup – The tool was unable to install the Web Server (ISS) Role

Getting an error when installing SharePoint On-Prem prerequisites is a common issue but it doesn’t mean that you will need to start the installation again from scratch.

Typically it happens when the server is not connected to the internet and the tool is not able to download everything that is required to accomplish the installation, so the first thing to do is to ensure that the server is connected to the web.

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By João Ferreira Jun 10, 2019 SharePoint 0 Comments

What’s new for SharePoint from SPC 2019

For the second year in a row the SharePoint community was together in Las Vegas for the first major conference of the year.

Is typically during May that Microsoft announces the first batch of new features for SharePoint and this article has a resume of everything that will rollout during the next months.

Her you will find the major announcements that caught my eye, the road map for the next months, the keynote video and also the links to all the blog posts published by Microsoft.

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By João Ferreira Jun 9, 2019 SharePoint 0 Comments

How to Install SharePoint 2019 step by step on Hyper-V | Part 5 of 5

Installing SharePoint On-prem is not a straight forward task and there are a lot of requirements and dependencies involved in the process.

In this article you will find visual instructions to install it on a Hyper-V virtual machine; an installation like this should be used just for testing or development purposes.

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By João Ferreira Jun 9, 2019 SharePoint 0 Comments

How to Install SharePoint 2019 step by step on Hyper-V | Part 4 of 5

Installing SharePoint On-prem is not a straight forward task and there are a lot of requirements and dependencies involved in the process.

In this article you will find visual instructions to install it on a Hyper-V virtual machine; an installation like this should be used just for testing or development purposes.

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By João Ferreira Jun 9, 2019 SharePoint 0 Comments

How to Install SharePoint 2019 step by step on Hyper-V | Part 3 of 5

Installing SharePoint On-prem is not a straight forward task and there are a lot of requirements and dependencies involved in the process.

In this article you will find visual instructions to install it on a Hyper-V virtual machine; an installation like this should be used just for testing or development purposes.

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By João Ferreira Jun 9, 2019 SharePoint 2 Comments

How to Install SharePoint 2019 step by step on Hyper-V | Part 2 of 5

Installing SharePoint On-prem is not a straight forward task and there are a lot of requirements and dependencies involved in the process.

In this article you will find visual instructions to install it on a Hyper-V virtual machine; an installation like this should be used just for testing or development purposes.

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By João Ferreira Jun 9, 2019 SharePoint 2 Comments