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Last year I finally had the opportunity to work on a real-life AI scenario. One of our customers was looking to auto-tag their data to improve findability. Based on the customer needs a colleague (Rutger) and I spend some time preparing a Proof of Concept. The goal of this PoC was to prove that AI can help in classifying the data. ...

Deploying in a Cloud First World; continuous integration and continuous deployment. Topics you see arising more and more when developing for Office 365. So with the development model maturing and Office 365 introducing new options for us as developers Octavie and I decided to do a session on how we do our deployments at Mavention. ...

Another year another Ignite, so from the 24th till the 28th of September 2018 I was in Orlando for the MSIgnite. So it only made sense to do a DIWUG Ignite recap almost three weeks later. As usual the Ignite was all about the community and all the new stuff that is coming. ...

Sanitizing input from users can be really important when creating or updating sites. In a recent scenario I had to create some sort of self-service site creation with a form of approval. I resorted to Flow to handle the approval and notify and send out reminders to make sure the business process was aligned. ...

A while ago Microsoft announced their efforts into AI & Automation with SharePoint content. You can find a great writeup on Enrich you SharePoint Content with Intelligence and Automation. Part of these efforts are around Image Analysis: a form of auto tagging images in your SharePoint environment. It does sound like a great option to make it easier to find back images, so it only makes sense to play around with it a bit more. ...

Over the past years I have been blogging on www.sharepointappie.nl. During the last few months I haven’t been as active as I wish to be but I am definitely planning on picking it up again. As part of changing focus in my daily routine to more and more Office 365 and Azure and the need to update WordPress I choose to register a new domain name as well. ...

The ‘modern’ library experience is becoming the new normal. Being set as the default view in many tenants it is a great way of working with your data. Within this new experience the Flow and PowerApps button are great tools to work with this data. However in some cases you have a list where you want users to put in some data. ...

A long long time ago Microsoft released some samples on how to build your own AppChrome and People cards. You can find them on MSDN Office 365 JavaScript controls. It provides a great start to use and there is a nice bunch of samples out there that leverage these components. While preparing for a demo for the SharePoint Saturday Belgium on Microsoft Graph and Groups I took an old project of mine and expected something like the following to appear. ...

In a recent scenario we encountered some strange behavior with a few OneDrive’s. In the middle of a migration some users reported strange behavior with the new Modern UI . While the migration all went smooth and the content was present in their account. It seemed impossible to access their OneDrive content through the UI. ...