I recently worked on a PnP modern search solution and I was asked to make it so that the SharePoint search box would redirect to our new search page and that the search page also contain the PnP Search Box web part. Both search boxes also needed to connect to the PnP Search Results web part ..read more

Virtual tables solve this by allowing you to interact with the external data from within Dataverse without actually importing that data ..read more

If you’re an OG SharePoint developer, you probably wrote timer jobs and console apps that pulled data from some random line of business system and crammed it into a SharePoint list. I’m not here to judge. I did it too! Often, those solutions ran nightly and would update the list with changes made to the ..read more

I do a lot of SharePoint migrations. Possibly, more than I care for. In fact, while I don’t often talk about them, I’ve written about them in the distant past before the end times. Check out my 2015 blog post “3 Keys for Managing a Migration Project” if you’re like me and like any excuse to ..read more

I haven’t written a ‘technical’ blog post in some time and I had this one in my queue for a couple of months so now that I have some free time again, I figured I’d circle back to this one. Back in October 2022, during Microsoft Ignite, we saw the introduction of a new template ..read more

In May 2021, I received an unexpected message on LinkedIn from an acquisition editor at O’Reilly Media, inviting me to write a book on building custom solutions for Microsoft 365. Having always dreamt of authoring a book, I jumped at the opportunity. The book, titled “Building Solutions with the Microsoft Power Platform,” has now been released, and many people have asked me about the process of writing and publishing it. In this post, I’ll share my experience of this exhilarating journey, and the valuable lessons I learned along the way. How it Started When I spoke with the Acquisition Editor ..read more

It’s time for another M365 Philly event! Join us again as we host another virtual event jammed with information by industry experts on a variety of M365 topics. This year’s event will be a 1 day event on Thursday, December 15th. Event Information M365 Philly Virtual 2022 is on December 15th. Plans are underway so visit our page on the brand new Community Days site as we start announcing speakers and sponsors! While you’re there, be sure to register for the event so that you can get notified when the event is going to begin and get notified when future events are scheduled. Registered attendee ..read more

Power Platform 24 kicks off on March 15th with tons of sessions. 24 speakers in 24 hours. There’s a good variety of topics so there’s something for everyone. Join me as I present Intro to Robotic Process Automation. Check out the full roster of talks at https://www.xrmvirtual.com/power-platform-24/ In my session, I’ll walk the audience through why RPA is useful, an overview of Power Automate Desktop, and a series of demos with increasing complexity ..read more

Join me and many, many others at two virtual events this week. First up, we have the first annual Canadian Cloud Summit on February 17th. This event will be a full day of sessions with 42 speakers across 6 tracks. The tracks are organized by Microsoft cloud technologies of focus which include: Azure, Dynamics, Power Platform, SharePoint, Teams, and Viva. Registration is open now! I joined 9 other organizers to help put this event together (and I’m the only one who hasn’t lived in Canada, but I’ve visited once and enjoyed it very much) Canadian Cloud Summit 2022 On February 18th, we have the Gl ..read more

I’ve had several speaking engagements over the last few months where I walk the audience through how to get started with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) using Power Automate Desktop to automate manual tasks and often the first thought that people have is to use RPA for data entry. In fact, one of my examples is of that very thing where we accept data from a web form and watch the solution automatically fill out fields in a legacy .NET app. I’m currently working on a large eRooms migration and my team and I found several use cases where RPA saved us a ton of time. We needed to gather the permi ..read more