SharePoint to Sitecore dictionary
Ever heard of sublayouts or renderings in Sitecore and wondered what those are? Wonder no more!Whether you are a SharePoint person looking into Sitecore, you have colleagues in your organization who...
View ArticleAdding required Windows features when installing Sitecore 8
Recently I started working with Sitecore 8. One of the things I found out when installing Sitecore on Windows Server 2012 R2 is that it needs a few Windows roles and features as a prerequisite. Finding...
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Optimizing page URLs for SEO in Sitecore
URLs are an important element of search engine optimization. By optimizing them you will expand the reach of your website.SEO-friendly URLs and Sitecore: it's an opportunitySitecore is an extensible...
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Office 365 and Google Chrome Profiles
Last SharePoint Saturday NL Waldek and I gave a session on Building solutions with Office Graph. As with all sessions we gave we used a new demo tenant and prepare that for our demo’s. I usually...
View ArticleQuery variables and search alerts
As pointed out in my last blog that contains the Session recap DIWUG Finding or Search Query Variables are pretty awesome. Using these query variables you can create personalized and dynamic queries...
View ArticleSitecore XP 8.0 Certified Professional Developer
Recently i followed the Sitecore XP 8 Website Development for .NET Developers (WND) training. I am happy to announce that I passed the exam and that I am now a Sitecore XP 8.0 Certified Professional...
View ArticleUsing a POST request for querying the Office Graph
In our session on Building Solutions with the Office Graph Waldek and I took some time to explain some of the queries we used for the Mavention apps that leverage the Office Graph. When working with...
View ArticleInconvenient Bootstrap and Sitecore Experience Management
Bootstrap is a great help when building modern websites but using it with Sitecore 8.0 XP requires additional thought. Bootstrap – a web development acceleratorBootstrap is a framework for building...
View ArticleMicrosoft Recoder 2015 presentation deck available
At the recent Microsoft Recoder 2015 event I presented a session about building solutions with the Office Graph.The presentationDelve, formerly known as Project Oslo, is a new and innovative way to...
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Disappearing Add-in Parts in Office 365
Whenever you are working with add-ins for SharePoint changes are high that you are using the add-in Parts in one way or another. As add-ins provide great value when working in the context of SharePoint...
View ArticleSlides for the TechdaysNL 2015 available
Almost a month ago I had the opportunity to speak at the Microsoft TechDays 2015 Netherlands. Together with Jaap Mollema I had the change to talk about the changes in building solutions for SharePoint....
View ArticleInconvenient ADAL JS Angular with simultaneous CORS requests
The ADAL JS Angular library offers great capabilities for building rich web applications unless you're trying to issue multiple CORS calls at the same time.Angular – it's for SPAsAngular is a popular...
View ArticleBuilding Solutions with the Office Graph deck available
During the last months I had the opportunity to do several sessions on building solutions with the Office Graph. One of those sessions was during the SharePoint Saturday Netherlands with Waldek...
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Mavention implementation partner for development platform Sitecore
Ties Arts, Managing Director of Sitecore Benelux, and Bert Verzijl, Commercial Director of Mavention, have signed a partnership agreement at Sitecore's Amsterdam office. With this partnership,...
View ArticleSpeaking at SharePoint Saturday Munich 2015
Curious how you can benefit from the Office Graph beyond Delve? Come see my session at the upcoming SharePoint Saturday Munich 2015.Building contextual experiences with the Office GraphDelve helps you...
View ArticleInconvenient ADAL JS Angular with simultaneous CORS requests continued
Recently I wrote about the issue with issuing multiple CORS requests using the ADAL JS library. It turns out that there is even more to it.Inconvenient issuing multiple CORS requests simultaneously...
View ArticleInconvenient Internet Explorer security zones and Azure AD web applications
When building Azure AD web applications you have to ensure that they are in the same security zone as other Office 365 resources.Is it broken?Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you...
View ArticleUpdates for Mavention Birthdays and Mavention Anniversaries
Almost eighteen months ago we released the first version of the Mavention Birthdays and the Mavention Anniversaries. As predicted then building add-ins turned out to be quite addicting and we...
View ArticleYammer Embed Single Sign On
Working with Yammer is quite easy. You can either create a Yammer App, or use the Yammer Embed. In either case you are most likely to start off using the Yammer Developer Center. It contains most...
View ArticleOptimizing Sitecore 8 XP for Internet search engines with canonical URLs
Canonical URLs help you optimize the ranking of your pages in Internet search engines. Here is how to render canonical URLs in Sitecore 8 XP.One page, one URL?When building websites each page has its...
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