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Sharepoint Solution Series – Inform by email after 3 years that a request has been is validated

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Business objective

Once a Vendor Qualification Request is validated, the business team shall receive an email after 3 years informing that the request is about to expire. This solution can be achieved by a super user as it doesnt require programming skills.

Deploy SPFX Extensions Globally using Powershell

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Edited : 09 12 2017

You have developed your SPFX Extension, you need to deploy it to multiple sites or sites collections. The programming approach is preferred instead of feature deployment.

The following code sample deploys a placeholder custom action (for this example it was a mega menu) to multiple sites. It is inspired from YPCode Blog article

Edit : 11 05 2018 – Microsoft will add an option to deploy an SPFX Extension globally, so such script might be obsolete.

Speedup Javascript Development (when using Content or Script Editor)

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Creating webpart and script editor is a quick (dirty J) way to deploy a component in any SharePoint or Office 365 version.

To optimize this development process, version the code in git/tfs and fasten the deployment, you can use gulp watch method inspired from Wictor Wilen.

I got this working thanks to my colleague Max (twitter)

Though the recommended approach for non-SharePoint 2016 (feature pack 2, which includes spfx webpart) environment is to create a typescript webpart, to allow easier migration to SPFX in future.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GTVclnt7wg&w=560&h=315]

—> Click for the demonstration

Convert javascript development to SPFX webpart for modern UI

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Edit: 03/11/2017, added steps 6.

The modern UI in office 365 requires sharepoint framework to customize some area.

In this tutorial I will explain how I have proceed to migrate a javascript mega menu to Spfx extension (the way for modern ui to add header, footer, or javascript as if it was your master page)

Training plan from SharePoint WSP Developer to Office 365 Developer

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Which topics shall a developer know to learn SharePoint Office 365 technologies ?

How to follow the new trends ?

Using full trust solution since years I want to share with you my journey learning office 365.

Are full trust solution dead ?

SharePoint 2016 Features Standard vs Enterprise Comparaison (filterable, colors)

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How to recommend a SharePoint license based on what the user want ?

This excel file could help to choose the license for SharePoint 2013 / 2016.

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/SharePoint-2016-Feature-ce033b50

Hope it helps,

Jeff’s Productivity Tools – La Boite à outil !

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Satya nadella mentionned that its by giving users the great tool that they are empowered.

What are the set of tools that anybody could have to achieve this ?

I share below my toolbox as a Office 365 / SharePoint Consultant / developer ! Some tools are only for developer but most of it could be used by any employee.

I shared some screenshots of One Note, which is for me my principle key tool.

Feel free to share your tools list.

My list:

  1. One Note (Take note, research for notes, access knowledge and procedure)
  2. Gif Recorder : licecap (i’ve tried some before, this is the most efficient)
  3. PicPick (Screenshot a zone of the screen to clipboard)
  4. Keepass (Save Password and user name and quickly access it)
  5. Document collaboration : One Drive for business plugged on SharePoint 2013 (share the same version of the document and collaborate on it with colleagues)
  6. Franz / Slack (Franz : to access whatsapp, facebook messenger)
  7. Evernote (Take personal note)
  8. Wunderlist (Todo list for professional matter) – SWITCHED TO PLANNER
  9. Todoist (Todo list for personal matter)
  10. Spotify (Productivity software to play music :D)
  11. Visual Studio Code and notepad++ (IDE and text editor)
  12. Chrome Plugins :
    1. Todoist
    2. Buffer
    3. PostMan
    4. ColorPick Eyedropper (pick the color code from a page, for css)
  13. Keep up with technology , La “Veille” + Learn new things :
    1. Twitter (Search for a technology, example TypeScript)
    2. Feedly (gather multiple sources)
    3. Pocket (save article for later)

See some screenshots by reading more

SharePoint Framework – Update Existing Webpart and Troubleshooting errors

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I did not find documented way to updated existing app, this is the ways I have found, please let me know if there are other faster ways

To further update the webpart code in SPFX

  1. gulp –ship
  2. gulp package-solution –ship
  3. gulp deploy-azure-storage
  4. Drag and drop the helloworld-webpart.sppkg file to the app catalog

Troubleshoot SharePoint on Premise High CPU Usage 100% – Part 2

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Previously I explained how to collect information while the CPU is running high due to potential custom apps installed on a SharePoint Farm.

This post is about analysing the result and finding the root cause of the problem

Part 1 : Link

We will in this article :

  1. Analyze the result using DebugDiag 2 Analysis
  2. Analyze even more using WinDbg
  3. Find the root cause and corrective actions

Troubleshoot SharePoint on Premise High CPU Usage 100% – Part 1

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Introduction

For one of my customer, I had to troubleshoot a high CPU Usage because of w3wp.exe process taking most of the cpu (100%), causing slowness.

How to find out the root cause ? Which component is causing the problem ?