Wrestling the “K2 for SharePoint” Bear

Although my main responsibilities revolve around business development, I have a deep love for technology.  I feel way more confident discussing something with partners and prospective clients when I understand the inner workings (to a degree) of something. Making promises I might not be able to keep is not the way I like to roll...

Microsoft Word – Page Number Headaches

Just resolved a little frustration and wanted to share.  Have you ever created a document and painstakingly formatted every section to make it perfect, only to have it not perform exactly like you had hoped? Well, this was me, for a while now.  Luckily we have very smart people around that know MS Word a...

Getting Started–Social Media

Disclaimer:  Wow, I drafted this post in 2013 and with a few tweaks finished it tonight.  It is most def not an all encompassing guide to social media, that game is vast, but it's a good start for people that are dormant in this arena. Although I’m not a qualified social media consultant by any...

Hello World “Azure” functions via Nishant

Hi, In this post we’d have a quick look at the Azure Functions Azure Functions can be simply defined as – Code and Event. Basically, we’d have an event on which our code will execute. We can create a function pipeline wherein one function acts as a trigger to another function which then triggers the […]...

Office 365 Challenge – Week 18 – The SharePoint button that Admins love to hate

Microsoft always add features into products to make it easier to use and simpler to understand for users.  I've often been quite vocal around how Microsoft have also been "soft targets" due to them automating a lot of functions which would benefit the end user, but make their software more vulnerable. The button that I've come...

SharePoint 2010 is ALIVE!

No Amazon, it's not.  I've reading your book and your data insights and analytics are SO impressive, I find it massively interesting how these books have landed up as recommended for me? Surely you are aware of ebbs and flow in the technology world.  You aren't recommended VHS tapes to me anymore!  🙂 Well just...

Office 365 Challenge – Week 17 – Edit Documents Properties Inline

I have to gush about this feature as it is simply one of the best things that Microsoft has added to the old trusty document library in years - editing document properties inline. Put up your hand if you have created training material explaining to users how to click on properties, edit, save, blah die...

Office 365 Challenge – Week 16 – Calendar Insights in Excel

So for those that can't afford the E5 CAL (Delve Analytics is AMAZE!), but still want to get a bit more insight into what is going on in their professional lives, I have a solution for you - The Excel template called "Calendar Insights".  To access it, is very simple, just create "new" and select...

Office 365 Challenge – Week 15 – Columns

Just a quick post dedicated to one of the absolute fundamentals in SharePoint, but so often used incorrectly. The column. If you search the "SharePoint column" you will actually find a TON of results, but let me keep it basic and simple. As you start customizing SharePoint, you often get going with creating custom lists...

K2 Learning Assets – Community and Market Place

In my previous post, I introduced the K2 Learning Library, https://fhpienaar.wordpress.com/2016/07/13/empower-yourself-the-k2-learning-library/, which is filled with info for all levels of K2 experts, beginners to professionals. Over and above this, some other areas can also be of great value, namely: K2 YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/K2onK2 K2 Community - http://community.k2.com/ - a vibrant online meeting place where...