Office 365 • Page 9 of 10 • Tomasz Poszytek, Business Applications MVP

SharePoint Online and Office 365 – new features being rolled out

As we all have heard, during the Ignite, Microsoft was planning a lot of cool new features to be rolled out for Office 365 as a whole but even more, and even more interesting, for the connected environment of SharePoint Online, Flow and PowerApps. Post describes the features that I was able to already see and use.

Small disclaimer! Most of these features are still available only for the tenants in First Release mode or even in private preview 🙂

November 21, 2017

Office 365 Power Automate

Embed images in e-mail’s body using Microsoft Flow

I was working on my newsletter’s solution, aimed to automatically send prepared messages hosted in my SharePoint. Naturally, newsletters often contain images. Lots of them frankly speaking. The most straightforward approach was to insert them as a URL to the physical file stored in SharePoint (described here). However, in that approach, if a recipient has no access to the site, where the file is hosted or is not yet logged in, the images won’t show up.

November 2, 2017

Office 365 SharePoint Online

Site Collection Administrator access denied when adding solutions

I have recently found myself in a situation, when after creation of a new, Modern Site (it was a modern Team Site) my account, even though that was set to be a SharePoint Administrator (even a tenant one :)) and a Site Collection Administrator wasn’t able to see links to any galleries in the Site Collection settings. Moreover, when accessing them using a direct links and then trying to ex. add a new solution, I was being told, that I have no permissions for that operation.

October 30, 2017

Office 365 SharePoint 2013 SharePoint Online

How To: Simple newsletter solution using SharePoint Designer 2013

Some longer time ago I was asked to think about a solution, allowing my client to notify his employes, about changes and news that were being published in the application built on SharePoint 2013. However, client did not want to use alerts, or to develop a dedicated application. No – the client wanted something like a newsletter, which would allow him to sent HTML formatted messages to all users (or SP Groups of users) who were working with the application, or to anyone having account in SharePoint (or to anyone beyond the organization).

October 18, 2017

Microsoft Microsoft Teams SharePoint Online

Microsoft Ignite 2017 – what’s ahead of us?

The Microsoft Ignite 2017 conference has just ended last week. It was full of very interesting keynotes, presentations, workshops and demos. I haven’t had the opportunity to be there myself, however I was trying to follow up Twitter and all content being published during the event. This is my summary of the most interesting announcements, specifically for the SharePoint and Office 365.

October 2, 2017

Microsoft Nintex Workflow for Office 365 SharePoint 2013 SharePoint 2016 SharePoint Online

The workflow instance was too large to persist

Have you ever faced that issue? When your workflow is running smoothly and out of nowhere it gets suspended? Then when you hover the “i” icon to get more details you are informed, that “The workflow instance was too large to persist”? Well I had. Here is what I found and how I recommend to solve it.

September 13, 2017

Office 365 Office 365 Groups

Kinds and features of groups in Office 365

The post continues the previous one, where I was trying to compare Groups with Teams. Despite the comparison was possible, Office 365 Group is not, what I underlined then, a standalone application, but a security object. Remember also, that Office 365 Groups were first introduced somewhere in 2014. Over the years it was being extended to work with other Office 365 based applications as well to be used in hybrid scenarios with on-premise Exchange.

Since it’s very beginning the narration that Microsoft was building around the concept was, that it is a tool dedicated for groups of employees, that delivers tools assisting and helping in their ongoing work, collaboration and communication.

August 11, 2017

Microsoft Teams Office 365 Office 365 Groups OneDrive SharePoint Online

Office 365 Groups vs Microsoft Teams, comparision and misconceptions

Office 365 Groups are a quite old concept. They were first introduced somewhere in 2014, but since then the concept developed, from a simple Shared Mailbox, into a tool dedicated for collaboration between employees. Then, in November 2016 Microsoft Teams went public what… brought a lot of confusion on users’ faces. I guess this confusion is still present.

I this post I am not trying to explain when to use what, but to compare those two products to show you their capabilities and… to help you answer on your own, which tool to use when.

July 14, 2017

Office 365 SharePoint Online

Communication Sites – where are they?

Yesterday I was crawling Twitter being a bit upset, that I cannot find any mark of the new Communication Sites. It was said, that my tenant must be set to be in “First release” to get that new feature before anyone else in the world. So I did it. But still, no sign.

Then I read somewhere, that it cannot be the “First release for everyone”, but “First release for selected users”! Go to https://portal.office.com/adminportal/home#/companyprofile and change “Release preferences” indicating your account as one from the selected users.

June 30, 2017

Site Collection Administrator access denied when adding solutions

The workflow instance was too large to persist

Kinds and features of groups in Office 365

Office 365 Groups vs Microsoft Teams, comparision and misconceptions

Communication Sites – where are they?

ChildFlowNeverPublished

Migrating Nintex repeating section to Power Apps

Managing Power Apps Offline Access with M365 Security Groups

Replace special characters using Power Automate

Unlock and lock Excel spreadsheet using Office Script