How to migrate content with PnP Provisioning Engine

By Jun 16, 2019 Office 365 5 Comments

The philosophy behind the PnP Provisioning Engine is changing, and it will start saving the content of the SharePoint sites if you explicitly request it.

Until now the provisioning engine was just getting the site structure, and the home page. To include content on it, you had to find workarounds to do it.

A year ago, I wrote an article with a workaround to include all the pages from a site in a template, it basically extracted the template multiple times (one for each page) and then combined everything in a single file.

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How to enable image renditions on SharePoint 2019

By Jun 16, 2019 SharePoint 0 Comments

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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How to host a static HTML site on SharePoint

By Jun 13, 2019 Office 365, SharePoint 20 Comments

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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Join me at the Microsoft Insider Dev Tour in Lisbon on June 29, 2019

By Jun 12, 2019 Development 0 Comments

The insider Dev Tour is a Microsoft event that bring to multiple cities around the world the latest technologies to build experiences to Microsoft 365.

Whether you’re interested in Microsoft Windows, SharePoint, Teams, Graph, Identity or IoT, the Insider Dev Tour has you covered. Discover the latest client and web-developer technologies including Progressive Web Apps, C# and .NET Core, JavaScript, and a lot more.

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How to create an App Catalog on SharePoint 2019

By Jun 12, 2019 SharePoint 0 Comments

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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Get video thumbnails from SharePoint using Microsoft Graph

By Jun 11, 2019 Development, Office 365 3 Comments

SharePoint Online has a service to generate and return links to media thumbnails stored in the libraries, It works great for a lot of formats but mp4 videos are no longer supported.

This article describes an alternative process to retrieve the thumbnails for the videos you have stored in the libraries using Microsoft Graph.

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

By Jun 10, 2019 SharePoint 0 Comments

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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What’s new for SharePoint from SPC 2019

By Jun 9, 2019 SharePoint 0 Comments

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

By Jun 9, 2019 SharePoint 0 Comments

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

By Jun 9, 2019 SharePoint 0 Comments

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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Joao Ferreira

I've been working with Microsoft Technologies over the last ten years, mainly focused on creating collaboration and productivity solutions that drive the adoption of Microsoft Modern Workplace.