Installing Azure Multi-Factor Authentication - Part 1

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by Bill Hughes Jan 26, 2016

My Microsoft Collaboration Predictions for 2016

Well 2015 is nearly completed and it was what I would call a GREAT year for Microsoft and their collaboration platforms. Jeff Teper is back in charge and things really picked up speed. Before we talk 2016, let’s talk about 2015.

by Drew Madelung Dec 22, 2015

AD FS new features in Windows Server 2016 TP4

With Windows Server 2016 Microsoft is making some significant enhancements to AD FS and the WAP.

by Bill Hughes Dec 1, 2015

Exporting SharePoint Group Members to Excel Without PowerShell

I was at a client recently and was not allowed to run any powershell commands but needed a list of accounts that existed in a SharePoint Group in a table format.  I also was not allowed site collection administration permission.  I tried a few different options in which trying to manipulate the list view of the group and using Excel data connections to get back to SharePoint but no option worked very cleanly.  

What I ended up using was a REST call to get the users and then downloading the XML response and opening it with Excel.  Use this link to learn about the available REST api’s for users & groups

Here are the steps….

by Drew Madelung Nov 2, 2015

Power BI Desktop “Preview Features” Option and You

Just when you thought things couldn’t get more interesting, the Power BI team throws in something no one saw coming.

by Seth Bauer Oct 20, 2015

InfoPath 2013 for Office 365 ProPlus

InfoPath 2013 is sticking true to the continuing support statements that were made about the software by releasing a standalone version.  For anyone who was running the Office 365 ProPlus edition of Microsoft Office, it was not possible to also run InfoPath.  Thankfully this has now changed and the standalone version can run side-by-side with Office and is now available to download from Microsoft.

by Drew Madelung Sep 8, 2015

SharePoint Summit 2015 Materials

I had the chance to participate in Concurrency's first ever SharePoint Summit that crossed multiple cities in the Midwest.  There was awesome audience participation with some great questions. It was ...

by Drew Madelung Jul 30, 2015

Azure AD Connect General Availability Announced

Last week Microsoft announced the General Availability of Azure AD Connect. With this release all existing Azure AD and Office 365 customers should start planning their upgrade of their existing directory synchronization tools to Azure AD Connect.

by Bill Hughes Jun 30, 2015

SharePoint Designer Workflows - Nuts, Bolts & Examples - SPBiz

It was an great experience to be a speaker at this years SPBiz conference.  SPBiz brought together 2 full days of SharePoint sessions that were streamed online and was put together completely free. M...

by Drew Madelung Jun 18, 2015