Filling cells, say with colour, beyond the range where it is absolutely needed can lead to problems when importing Excel spreadsheets into Power BI. Performance gains can be made by removing formatting.
Designing for Accessibility from the outset is not hard
Including Accessibility in design and the creation of solutions, applications and services is not hard, time consuming nor need be expensive.
Can you hear me now?
A colleague set me a seemingly simple challenge – Could I find a headset that works well with Microsoft Teams and Skype? However, it turned out much harder as they wear hearing aids…
Mining Yammer data for Gold
Whilst tracking through my OneDrive I rediscovered the theme I developed for an analytics session at Ignite 2017. I still think the theme is relevant today so I’ve decided to turn it into a blog post. If you were in the session you’ll notice that I’ve tweaked it a little bit 😉
For the citizen developer: embed a Power BI dashboard in a classic SharePoint page
Using PowerApps to work around the limitation of only being able to embed Power BI dashboards in modern SharePoint pages
Sub-sites are dead, long live the Site Collection
For me Ignite 2017, is the conference where sub-sites died. The sub-site is dead, long live the site.
Search reborn
For me the Search announcements made at Ignite 2017 are probably the biggest ones that they made at Ignite as they are the ones that really effect an end users experience. An effective and efficient search is fundamental to their productivity.
My take on the Yammer Roadmap
Yammer’s Roadmap session at Ignite 2017 demonstrated that the product team had listened to their MVP’s and customers. This my take on how they should deliver the roadmap.
What Transitioning to the Cloud Means for IT Organisational Structures
I’ve produced this post as response to one in the Microsoft Tech Community titled “What Transitioning to the Cloud Means for IT Organizational Structures (And why you should pay attention)”. It's worth looking at the Tech Community post and adding your contributions. I agree with the themes of decentralisation, customer centricity and the need for a strategic steering arm described in the post. My response is more around the overall experience and observations.
I’m not “Doughboy”, I’m a real person (and it’s not Yammer’s fault)
There have been several threads emerging regarding missing profile images in the Office 365 Suite Bar (example thread). The problem seems to centre around the fact that, whilst users add their picture to Office 365, it fails to appear when using services like Yammer or Planner. To illustrate: Based on the code, my picture is being … Continue reading I’m not “Doughboy”, I’m a real person (and it’s not Yammer’s fault)
