Hello Modern Workplace – Introducing HANDS ON Teams

By Apr 7, 2019 News 0 Comments

Today I am introducing HANDS ON Teams to the world, a brand-new blog where I’ll write about Microsoft Teams and how it fits – and drives – all things related to the modern workplace.

I will be regularly sharing tips and tricks to make the most of this platform as well as ready-made solutions that will help you extend Teams and create new, engaging experiences for both end users and admins.

If you have been following me and HANDS ON SharePoint, don’t worry – it will not disappear, and I’ll actively maintain both blogs.

With the first post now publicly available, I invite you all to visit HANDS ON Teams.

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Manage SharePoint using bookmarklets

By Mar 31, 2019 Office 365, SharePoint 1 Comment

Modern SharePoint is great and includes a lot of new functionalities that I love but at the same time it changed the location of some links that were one click away on classic SharePoint.

In this article I’m sharing some of the bookmarklets that I use daily to get things done faster and to save a few clicks.

A bookmarklet is nothing more than a bookmark that contains JavaScript, it adds functionality to the browser, such as modifying a web page.

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Change modern SharePoint fav icon using Tenant Wide Deployment

By Feb 24, 2019 Branding, Office 365 0 Comments

I’m updating some of my old projects to take advantage of the latest functionalities of the SharePoint Framework and today I’m revisiting the solution that changes the favicon on modern SharePoint sites.

The previous solution was built using the framework 1.4.0 and allows you to change the favicon on individual site collections, the solution I’m providing today was updated to version 1.7.1 to take advantage of the tenant wide deployment functionalities.

This means that with a single deployment you will be changing the favicon globally on all your modern SharePoint sites.

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Deploy Application Insights globally on modern SharePoint

By Feb 23, 2019 Development, Office 365 16 Comments

On my last article I’ve provided a solution to deploy Application Insights to classic SharePoint without modifying the master page and on todays article I’m providing the same solution but for modern SharePoint using an Application Customizer and Tenant Wide Deployment.

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How to add Application Insights to SharePoint without modifying the master page

By Feb 19, 2019 Development, SharePoint 1 Comment

Google analytics articles are among the most popular articles in this blog and inclusive they got featured on SharePoint Dev Weekly episodes.

On episode #27 Vesa and Waldek discussed the advantages and disadvantages of having internal and potentially confidential data sent from SharePoint to Google servers.

Google Analytics is not the only monitoring tool you can add to SharePoint, Microsoft has Application Insights that provides a similar functionality with the advantage of keeping your data in the same ecosystem.

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Deploy Google Analytics globally on modern SharePoint

By Feb 10, 2019 Development, Office 365 36 Comments

Google Analytics articles are very popular in this blog and there are a few already available here, here and here but there is still room for one more, as the SharePoint Framework evolves so does this solution.

Today’s article introduces an easy way to deploy Google Analytics globally to all modern sites in your tenant taking advantage of the Tenant Wide Deployment.

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Convert Classic root sites to Modern SharePoint

By Feb 5, 2019 Branding, Development, Office 365 42 Comments

Recently I’ve got a few requests to transform classic root team sites with publishing enabled into modern SharePoint sites.

The technic described in this article allows you to keep all your existent content, and at the same time allows you to take advantage of the out of the box responsive layouts and modern web parts.

Info: If you want to convert the root site of your tenant to modern have a look at this new article that explains how to use the site swap feature recently released by Microsoft.

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I am a Microsoft MVP

By Feb 3, 2019 News 6 Comments

The dream came true and on February 1, 2019 I received the MVP Award on Office Development category.

I’ve started my professional career 7 years ago, and since the beginning I’ve been sharing my knowledge publicly with the community, by writing technical articles, sharing snippets of code and speaking on SharePoint events.

My journey with SharePoint started on version 2007, and things changed drastically since then. Each new version challenged me to learn more and to understand it better.

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2018 Resume – What an incredible year!

By Jan 6, 2019 Office 365, SharePoint 2 Comments

2018 was an amazing year for me and for this blog – I met fantastic people throughout the year that supported and motivated me to continue with this project and to do more every day.

Before starting to produce new content in 2019, I would like to share with all of you guys some of my achievements last year.

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Adapt SPFx components to SharePoint Mobile APP and Microsoft Teams environments

By Dec 2, 2018 Development, Office 365 3 Comments

Modern SharePoint sites rendered on SharePoint Mobile App or Microsoft Teams are different than when displayed in the browser.

Native components are removed from the page or replaced by native APP options. If you are building extensions or web parts for the modern SharePoint you may want to test them in both environments to make sure they are not overlapping with native apps features.

While the framework does not provide context variables to let developers know where the component is running, it needs to be validated through the user agent.

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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.