


Daily journal using Microsoft OneNote

SharePoint Conference 2019
Here are the notes I used for the Sydney SharePoint User Group meeting on 18 June 2019. There’s not a lot of detail for each point, so feel free to ask questions in the comments if you want more detail, or use the links at

Microsoft Flow – formula to calculate the due date excluding weekends
We’ve been doing a lot of work recently with Flow, Microsoft’s latest workflow product for Office 365. Here’s a formula you might find useful if you need to calculate a due date for a task, but factor in weekends. For example, if your start date

SharePoint Mobile App
Is that SharePoint in your pocket or is that the New SharePoint App!? Yes we are very excited about a new SharePoint mobile App. It is coming first to iOS and will also be available for Android and Universal Windows App. The biggest surprise for

SharePoint’s New Document Library
Microsoft started to roll out the “New Document Library Experience” on SharePoint Online from April 2016. Somewhat unusual of other First Release updates, this went out to many users and caused quite a bit of discussion in the community. We can expect the new experience

Term Store value renames
Ever wondered what happens to term store values used in documents when the term store entries are renamed? Answer: SharePoint will update the values in the document using a timer job. If you want the changes to be made immediately, you can run the “Taxonomy

Branding SharePoint Online

Comparing SharePoint Online Plan 1 and 2
There are two different SharePoint Online plans, with creative names of “SharePoint Online Plan 1” and “SharePoint Online Plan 2”. These are useful if you don’t need the other Office 365 services such as Exchange and Skype for Business (previously Lync). Microsoft have a page –

Are document sets the Holy Grail?
In real life, we hardly ever work on one document and one document only. There are always references, e-mails, reviews and many other document types that support our main deliverable. One of the limitations in SharePoint that I keep on running into is the