Welcome to the third post about options for branding modern SharePoint Online pages and sites. Before reading this new blog post, please read the first two posts in this series before you read this one: Part 1: https://chrisstahl.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/branding-the-modern-ui-in-sharepoint-online-part-1/ Part 2: https://chrisstahl.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/branding-the-modern-ui-in-sharepoint-online-part-2/ Great, now in this post I’ll show you how to work with and apply your custom branding in a Modern site, with a little help of an SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Web Part. Let’s say you need ..read more

Welcome to the second post about options for branding modern SharePoint Online pages and sites. Before reading this new blog post, please read the first post in this series first: Part 1: https://chrisstahl.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/branding-the-modern-ui-in-sharepoint-online-part-1/ Great, now in this post I’ll show you how to work with and apply your custom branding in a Modern site, with a little help of an SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Extension / Application Customizer. Cool, but as I wrote in the previous post, for modern pages, when it comes to custom branding, we are limited to themes a ..read more

The Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp happen worldwide from October 1 through December 15, 2019. This bootcamps are a free, one-day, hands-on training event led by Microsoft MVP’s and other community leaders with support from Microsoft. Developers worldwide are invited to attend a Bootcamp to learn the latest on Microsoft 365 platform including Microsoft Graph, SharePoint Framework, Microsoft Teams, Office Add-ins, Connectors and Actionable Messages and apply what you learn to your future projects. This year I had the privilege of being a speaker at this cool event in Microsoft’s brand ..read more

This day, October 21, 2019 is a special day for me. I just realized that I had been blogging about SharePoint for ten years just this day. Ten years have gone since I started, it’s crazy how time flies. Ok, I don’t write blog posts all day longs, it’s more about one post per month, but anyway 10 years is 10 years! Right now, that I’m think and write about this, many thoughts come to my mind, so much has happened in these ten years, but let me step back to my first post to get some perspectives. The first post had the title “Hello World”, you can find it here: The first hello world post Back i ..read more

This years SharePoint Saturday is over and now it’s time for some reflections and a summation of this conference. Just like the previous #SPSSthlm conferences,  the location was the same, Word Trade Center in central Stockholm this year. This year we were three people who organized the conference, it was me and my friends Jens Weil & David Opdendries. We started planning for all this already in May. It was a lot of work for us all, many details big and small and a number of things to prepare mainly with the location itself, marketing, the sponsors, the speakers, the crew and not least the ..read more

I recently returned from a long vacation, and of course I was curious about what happened last month in SharePoint Online and in my first release tenant. Although I know that SharePoint Online and other services in office 365 is constantly being updated, all from small and minor changes to complete new long waited functionality, I was pleasantly surprised that the modern interface is now starting to get really good! I was particularly curious that we now can use filter in the Highlighted Content Web Part using KQL for content related to sites, one thing I really have looking forward too, this ..read more

The possibility of using and creating themes has been around in SharePoint through many versions back and they have worked in different ways for all versions. For a while ago, a new way to create a custom theme was launched for modern pages (modern themes) in SharePoint Online. In this post I show you how to create your own theme using PowerShell on a tenant level to make a theme available to all modern sites in the tenant. Please note that modern themes is not supported in SharePoint server 2019, this instructions will only work for SharePoint Online and for modern sites. What you can accompl ..read more

This year I’ll be running the SPS Sthlm as part of organization team, together with my friends & SharePoint nerd friends Jens Weil & David Opdendries, as announced before in my blog. Now it summer and I’ll go on vacation in July so I thought I should write a short status update here since I got a lot of questions from all over about this conference, so I hope you will find all the information you need in this post. Location & Event venue No changes here, there will be the same place and date according to previous plans in Word Trade Center, central Stockholm 14th September 2019, s ..read more

In this post I’ll show you how you can create a page and make it available for others to use as a starting point for their pages. You can create templates from a modern page or a modern news page in a communication site. I believe this function is great for the communication/marketing department, that often have defined standards for things like headers, images etc. for different kind of articles and news. Modern pages become more and more useful with new features coming out like this one, and well it’s not yet so powerful as page layouts was in the classic publishing site, but it’s a step in ..read more