Ever tried to view office 365 from a WII console. In a world of bring your own device, it seems it does not work on a Gecko browser as while it degrades the view to I’m not sure what, the menu’s do not function so you cannot navigate about. I wonder what device it thinks it is trying to render against.

A fun, but pointless experiment only proving that as a kiosk device, WII consoles are not a good option for loading content stored in Office 365 SharePoint sites.

So I have been accepted to speak in Barcelona. I’m covering two really popular topics, Bring Your Own Disaster and Why SharePoint Projects Fail. Quite excited by this one as it’s my first time speaking in Barcelona and it will be great to see so many familiar and world class speakers in attendance. Do let me know if you happen to be going!

Running Office Web Apps with IOS7. Expect a few issues! When you access a SharePoint 2013 site and want to edit a MS Word document the documents opens but you cannot insert text through the ipad virtual keyboard.

It seems that the recent upgrade to IOS 7 causes problems for the Word Office Web Apps 2013 Editor and crashes the virtual keyboard. A Dec 2013 CU for SP2013/OWA2013 is in the pipeline but if you like many cannot wait then perhaps test using the iphone office mobile app on ipad as a workaround. The app is compatible with iPhone 4 and up, and with the 3rd generation iPad and up and the iPad mini too.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/office-mobile-for-office-365/id541164041

Its not as feature rich as office web apps is, and you will need to 2X the app as you do with most phone app...

If you attended SPSUK and were looking for a copy of the slides from my presentation on Bring Your Own Disaster then you can find them in my Skydrive public folder.

https://skydrive.live.com/#cid=60EC7F3C97773BD4&id=60EC7F3C97773BD4!163

Incidentally, if you are are getting a message saying “sorry word web app ran into a problem opening this pdf” it is an incompatibility with PDF’s created from Office tools that OWA doesn’t appear to like. MS could do with a KB on this actually given it is an incompatibility with their own Office products.

If you are seeing that, just right click on the PDF and download or grab the PDF from the link as it is a perfectly normal PDF – just OWA having some glitches since the last update.

Let’s say you have a task list with 5 column names say Task Name, Start Date, End Date, Status, % Complete.  When a task for a resource us assigned they should be able to modify only Status and % Complete, he should not be able to modify the name start date or End Date.  Given your in Office 365 you are ideally looking for a no-code solution.

Look to jquery. Copy the below script to a content editor web part and add that web part to the edit item form of your task list by editing the edit form page.

<script type=”text/javascript”>

$(document).ready(function() {

$(‘input[title=”Client Name”]’).attr(‘readonly’, true);
$(‘input[title=”Community Name”]’).attr(‘readonly’, true);

});
</script>

Here “Client Name” and “Community Name” are the fields display names on the form, which you do not wa...

When you use database attach to migrate from MOSS 2007 to SP 2010 and then to SP 2013, you will find that everything looks fine except when go to Site Contents page, the app icons will look like a mix of 2007 and 2013 versions. This is entirely normal and is expected behavior.

Remember that  the migrated content is based on the list templates that were used when the items were initially created. So anything upgraded will normally show the old icons to repesent the apps as they are still using the old list templates.

The icons that SharePoint uses are generated when a colour theme is applied to a site. Items such as an edit icon will be controlled by a particular colour reference in the spcolor file so best you should do is retheme them.

Although you can find the icons in \Program Files\Co...

Some one said to me that they could not seem to find anything regarding how to moderate a SharePoint 2013 Community Site.  Is it possible to moderate the List in the event someone posts nasty or offensive language for example?

Add an approval workflow to the list. Set it up so that the workflow is triggered when a new item is added. That way the items won’t show up until you approve them first.

Old school really, simple 3 stage approval workflows still have great value OOTB with 2013.

The SharePoint Online Service Description page is the place to go and look if you are wondering what features you get on the various SharePoint Online packages available.

It is becoming a bit of a valuable resource given how much changer seems to occur and how many questions about feature parity crop up between online and on-premise.  Well you can compare that all here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj819267.aspx#bkmk_FeaturesOnPremise

I recently had the opportunity to review an advance publication copy of the SharePoint Governance Manifesto, written by Ant Clay.

Ant is a friend of mine, we see each other occasionally on the speaker circuit and as I’m generally interested in the concepts of Disruptive Governance thinking I thought it might be an interesting read.

Where do I start?  Well it was certainly disruptive and I started out by hating the writing style.  It was too conversational in its writing style for me. It was a bit like being in Ants mind, or indeed taking part in a seminar and exchanging views, or discussing theory with other MVP’s...

A shiny new collection of absolutely FREE Microsoft eBooks published by Eric Ligman from Microsoft.  I specifically like the Test Lab Guide: eBook for SharePoint Server 2013 Intranet and Team Sites.  Yummee!!!

You can find the whole collection listed in MSDN, it would be rude of me to not point you at it:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2013/06/18/huge-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-for-you-including-office-office-365-sharepoint-sql-server-system-center-visual-studio-web-development-windows-windows-azure-and-windows-server.aspx