Author - Michael Greth

SharePoint ToolBox 115 SharePoint Framework RC0

10. Januar 2017
Michael Greth
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SharePoint Framework Release Candidate 0

Microsoft ist releasing a set of Release Candidates of the SharePoint Framework, which will include some breaking changes developers will need to accommodate. Developers can read more about these changes at

https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-docs/wiki/Release-Notes-RC0.

SharePointPnP.PowerShell Commands

This solution contains a library of PowerShell commands that allows you to perform complex provisioning and artifact management actions towards SharePoint. The commands use CSOM and can work against both SharePoint Online as SharePoint On-Premises (Office 365 Multi Tenant, Office 365 Dedicated, SharePoint 2013 on-premises, SharePoint 2016 on-premises)

Office365APIEditor

You can test Office 365 API, Microsoft Graph and Office 365 Management Activity API. We support following endpoints.

  • outlook.office.com and outlook.office365.com (Office 365 API – Exchange Online)
  • graph.microsoft.com (Microsoft Graph)
  • manage.office.com (Office 365 Management Activity API)

You can use OAuth or Basic authentication as authentication mechanisms. (Only outlook.office365.com endpoint supports Basic authentication)

 

 

SharePoint ToolBox 114

3. Januar 2017
Michael Greth
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SharePoint Client Browser for SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server (on-prem)

Remote SharePoint development is getting more important. Especially with SharePoint Apps. To speed up development, find hidden lists/items/documents, discover the structure or specific artifact properties use the SharePoint Client Browser which supports SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online (Office 365).

Get up and running in seconds, because this WinForm tool does not need installation but simply unzip the download and start the EXE file. Next step, connect to your on-premise SharePoint Server or SharePoint Online (Office 365) site collection.

SPDocKit Pulse Detect SharePoint farms and keep an eye on performance counters

Collect better insights on your farm health.
Monitor server performance from a central interactive live dashboard.
Get extra information on online/offline server status, performance warnings, and server roles.

Libraries.io

Libraries.io helps developers find new open source libraries, modules and frameworks and keep track of ones they depend upon. Libraries.io monitors 2,084,829 open source libraries across 33 different package managers. You can discover new libraries to use in your software projects as well as be notified of new releases to keep your applications secure and up to date

 

SharePoint Toolbox 113

9. Oktober 2016
Michael Greth
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Microsoft Azure, Cloud and Enterprise Symbol / Icon Set – Visio stencil, PowerPoint, PNG, SVG

This package contains a set of symbols/icons to visually represent features of and systems that use Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise technologies, including Windows Server, Microsoft Azure and related technologies.

SharePoint ToolBox 112 SharePoint Framework Developer Preview

18. August 2016
Michael Greth
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SharePoint Framework Developer Preview

The SharePoint Framework is a Page and Part model that enables client-side development for building SharePoint experiences. It facilitates easy integration with the SharePoint data, and provides support for open source tooling development.

The SharePoint Framework is still in initial Developer Preview, and it’s still rough around the edges. As we work to improve the SharePoint Framework, we’d love your feedback! If you have feedback, please use UserVoice. If you have technical questions about the framework, we’ll be monitoring #spfx, #spfx-webparts, and #spfx-tooling on SharePoint StackExchange.

SharePoint ToolBox 111 Check your Sandboxed Solutions

9. August 2016
Michael Greth
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Rencore SharePoint Sandboxed Solutions Inspector

In less than 30 days (Sept 1, 2016) Microsoft is going to shut down support for Sandboxed Solutions with code. Sandboxed Solutions containing code will be deactivated and this might impact your SharePoint tenant big time! Check your Sandboxed Solutions before it is too late!

LEGERIS: Central Management for SharePoint Alerts + Marked Questions in Surveys

This project provides access to download Legeris for SharePoint for its free to use functionality. Legeris has been developed to support real world SharePoint document management projects by offering facilities that either improve SharePoint or are not provided by SharePoint out of the box.

SharePoint Client Browser for SharePoint Online and SharePoint on-premise

Remote SharePoint development is getting more important. Especially with SharePoint Apps. To speed up development, find hidden lists/items/documents, discover the structure or specific artifact properties use theSharePoint Client Browser which supports SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online (Office 365).

 

SharePoint ToolBox 110 GitHub Stuff

5. August 2016
Michael Greth
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[GitHub] SharePoint DisplayTemplates/Search Display Templates

This repository contains contains Display Templates created by the community. Templates have been divided into their areas of use, Search and JSLink.

[GitHub] Matter Center for Office 365

Microsoft’s Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA) group, in partnership with the Office extensibility team, developed Matter Center for Office 365 — a document management and collaboration solution built using the Office app development model, Azure and Sharepoint. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/productivity/mattercenter.aspx

[GitHub] SPMeta2

The most comprehensive, enterprise-ready framework for provisioning SharePoint artifacts on SharePoint 2010, 2013 and O365. SPMeta2 is a code-first provision library supporting the provision of more than 120 artifacts in robust, highly repeatable and testable way while leveraging either one of the CSOM or SSOM SharePoint runtimes. Here is a few facts about it:

  • Broad support of SharePoint 2010, 2013, O365, CSOM/SSOM
  • No vendor lock-in: open source at GitHub
  • Developer-friendly: fluent API, DSL and extensibility
  • Visual Studio integration: project and item templates
  • Documented: API samples, guidances and documentation
  • Enterprise ready: regression tests, localization, SLA

 

SharePoint ToolBox 109

17. Mai 2016
Michael Greth
Allgemein, ToolBox

[GitHub] Office365 PnP Partner Pack

PnP Partner Pack can be considered as Starter Kit for customers and partners and combines numerous patterns and practices demonstrated in the PnP samples to one reusable solution, which can be deployed and used in any Office 365 tenant. PnP Partner Pack is using PnP SharePoint Core Component, which increases developer productivity with CSOM and REST based operations.

[GitHub] Simple Style Guide for SharePoint and Office 365 Development

This project aims to create a consisten Style Guide for SharePoint and Office 365 Development. It should sever as a documentation and development platform for every new SharePoint branding project. In future this aims to provide a Style Guide for the new SharePoint Framework too.

[CodePlex] Data Importer For SharePoint and Office365

(Free / File Import / Document / List Item Import / Folder Import / Bulk Import For SharePoint / Office 365 / SharePoint Online / 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / Server / Foundation ) – Quickly import large volumes of documents, folders, items into SharePoint document libraries and lists.

 

 

SharePoint ToolBox 108 BLOBCache for SharePoint Server 2016

18. April 2016
Michael Greth
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[GitHub] BLOBCache for SharePoint Server 2016

This solution allows SharePoint Administrators to manage the BLOB Cache from Central Administration, rather than needing to edit web.config files manually. There is one branch per version of SharePoint. For code, select the branch you’re interested in (2010, 2013, or 2016). Packaged releases are on the Releases page.

[GitHub] SP2016-Prereq-Downloader

SharePoint Server 2016 Prerequisite Downloader by Dan Holme – This script will download all prerequisites that are required for the installation of SharePoint Server 2016 on Windows Server 2012 R2.

For details, see https://www.itunity.com/article/automatically-download-sharepoint-server-2016-prerequisites-powershell-script-3164

[CodePlex]  Sharepoint Designer Text Actions

SharePoint Designer text actions is set of custom actions for SharePoint Designer 2013 (with some little changes for SharePoint Designer 2010 and 2007). Available actions are Lower, LTrim, Regular Expression Replace, RTrim, Split, String Contains, String Ends With, String Length, String Starts With, Substring, Trim, Upper

[GitHub] SharePoint WarmUp Script

Tired of waiting for SharePoint pages to load? Want something easy to support? That works on all versions? This warmup script is for you!

 

 

SharePoint ToolBox 107 The SharePoint 2016 VM Setup Guide

10. März 2016
Michael Greth
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The SharePoint 2016 VM Setup Guide

The SharePoint Virtual Machine Setup Guides created by Critical Path Training for SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 have become the de facto standards in our industry for developers that have been required to build out SharePoint environments for testing and development.

The newly-released version of the SharePoint 2016 VM Setup Guide on GITHUB shows you how to create a SharePoint 2016 farm using the Release Candidate version of SharePoint Server 2016 and SQL Server 2016. It supplies you with a set of essential Power Shell scripts and step-by-step instructions to build a SharePoint 2016 development environment with support for the Managed Metadata Service, the User Profile Service and the SharePoint Search service.

SharePoint ToolBox 106 Office/SharePoint 2016 Tools

29. Februar 2016
Michael Greth
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SharePointPnP SharePoint 2013/2016 Responsive UI

This solution provides you the capability to enable Responsive UI for a Site Collection in Microsoft SharePoint 2013/2016 on-premises. The solution leverages some JavaScript embedding and CSS overriding, in order to make responsive the out of the box UI of a classic Team Site (STS#0). If you simply want to have an overview of this solution, you can read the following section.

This is an Open Source project, and any contribution from the community is more than welcome. Thus, feel free to review the code and submit any Issues or Pull Requests, using GitHub.

Office-IT-Pro-Deployment-Scripts

A collection of useful PowerShell scripts to make deploying Office 2016 and Office 365 ProPlus easier for IT Pros and administrators. If you have any feature requests or ideas for future scripts please add the idea to the issues list in this repository http://officedev.github.io/Office-IT-Pro-Deployment-Scripts

AutoSPInstaller

Automated SharePoint 2010/2013/2016 PowerShell-based installation script. AutoSPInstaller works with SharePoint 2016 (public/IT preview), SharePoint 2013 (including SP1) and SharePoint 2010 with Service Pack 1 & 2. It takes advantage of some of the cmdlet updates in the newer SharePoint releases, while remaining largely backward-compatible older versions.

 

SharePointToolBox 104

16. November 2015
Michael Greth
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SharePoint – Easy User Manager

This app allows you to manage your SharePoint User/Group easily from within a single web form. OOTB SharePoint interface requires many clicking and redirecting in order for you do your task. With this apps, you can easily access to not all but most of the important functions for you to manage your users.

SharePoint Feature Administration and Clean Up Tool

FeatureAdmin is a tool for SharePoint administrators and developers to manage SP features. It finds and cleans faulty FeatureDefinitions and orphaned reminders.  The Feature Admin Tool finds faulty FeatureDefinitions and cleanly uninstalls them. It finds feature remainders in sites, SiteCollections, WebApps and in the Farm, caused e.g. by forcefully uninstalled Features from a farm without deactivating them before. These faulty features, never visible, cause errors. The Feature Admin Tool is able to identify them and remove them.
Very useful for major version upgrades e.g. to 2010 or 2013, or for downgrades from Enterprise to Standard.

SharePoint Taxonomy Tools Online

Your one stop shop for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online term set management and migrations. Runs on any computer (client or server) with .NET 4.0 or later. Connects remotely to SharePoint using Client Object Model.
Features exporting termsets into Text and Excel file formats optimized for future importing or Database/Excel usage. Also Importing termsets supporting labels/synonyms, descriptions, preserving term IDs, term reuse, nested terms (hierarchy). You can import from flat file (TEXT and EXCEL) and also from Microsoft SQL Server. Also supports Updating terms in termsets, updating term names, description, and syncing labels (both Add and Delete), and deleting individual terms. And also a utility for clearing termsets (deleting all terms in a termset). Navigate your Taxonomy to find the termset or enter the term store, term group, and term set names/IDs yourself to save time. Remembers current settings and connection information, saving it in registry.