Bulk exporting of External contacts to Office 365 Exchange online

The non-profit organization that I support uses a Google group account to host its members email address. The organization has hundreds of email addresses in this group account. As soon as the organization started using Office 365 it soon become apparent that it needed to import those email addresses into Exchange Online in bulk so

Options for setting up dev environment to create SharePoint 2013 provider-hosted app

The two options that, I think, we have for creating provider-hosted apps are the following. Having said that you may have a 3rd option which is a hybrid scenario: Using a locally installed SharePoint 2013 environment (Azure or a local SP box) and configuring for a high-trust apps for SharePoint. You can have a local Sharepoint farm either by

Error occurred in deployment step ‘Install app for SharePoint’: SideLoading of apps is not enabled on this site

In order to publish a SharePoint hosted app to a site collection the site must be based on the developer site template or have the “Developer” Feature enabled on it.  The “Developer” Feature is marked as hidden in its definition so you must use PowerShell to enable the Feature. This error is caused when you try to

Hello world SharePoint-hosted app

As indicated in my last blog post, I am running the Apps for Office sample packs so that I can learn some their techniques. The following is what I had to do to run the “Hello world  SharePoint-hosted” app and the result I got. I run the above app by using Visual Studio 2013 update 3 Below is

My approach for mastering SharePoint 2013 apps development

SharePoint development in the 2013 version has drastically changed leaving us to scratch our head as there is a lot to learn to catch up with the best process/technique of developing SharePoint apps. To make matter worst, Microsoft is push enterprise SharePoint development from on-premise to Office 365. Meaning we need not to forget the old

Important Online resources/links

These are links that I put together as a reference for myself. It includes links that have multitude of resources or individual blog post links that I would like to use in my future projects. http://dev.office.com/training http://juliepagano.com/blog/2014/05/18/javascript-debugging-for-beginners/ https://www.udemy.com/angularjs-jumpstart http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/product-training/sharepoint http://sharepointfieldnotes.blogspot.ca/2014/07/uploading-large-documents-into.html http://eloquentjavascript.net/ Office 365 tip – Provide a contact both internal and external mail address AngularJS

Re-blogging SharePoint 2013 and OpenSearch – Search twitter, Facebook, wikipedia etc all in one page

Anirudh Gupta has a nice blog post/screencast on how you can display Twitter, Facebook and other social media feeds on a SharePoint 2013 page using SharePoint 2013’s OpenSearch. I am re-blogging it here so that I know where to find it.    

Exported SharePoint list templates not retaining lookup column data

This post is based on Gitolekha’s blog post with added explanations and tool-set especially for finding list GUIDs and how you can alternatively convert cab files to stp files. I have a parent list called Tracking and a child list called Org i.e. in the source site. My parent list, Tracking has a lookup column called

How to upgrade a Visual Studio SharePoint 2010 Branding project

The assumption is that you deployed your branding solution as .wsp file and you now wanted to make further changes such as the master page, page layout, CSS, images etc.. How do you go about the upgrade and deployment process: Open your existing branding solution using Visual Studio 2010 or latest version  Make the appropriate

How to shrink SQL server 2008 R2 database in a dev environment

I am writing this tips as a note to myself. As a SharePoint developer I run my SharePoint 2010 development inside a VM. As times goes by I found myself short of hard disk spaces. Following these steps helped to alleviate the problem: Open up your SQL database where SharePoint is installed Find the database where