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Today I had my very first (recorded) interview. Thomas Maier from Office365akademie.de asked me some very interesting questions how to migrate from SharePoint 2007-2016 to SharePoint Online/Office 365. We talked almost 30 minutes about all challenges (there are more, of course!) you might encounter. Good fun!

Roughly 2 weeks after the last bootcamp its time to sum up - and share the slides!

A must-go-to event is early next year! Scott Guthrie is coming to Germany - Berlin and Munich - and shows us a “code-first” event! He personally codes on stage - live!

As you can see in the gif above, I created a very simple customization for a specific usecase: My users created deep folder hierarchies (of course I told them not to!) with very descriptive names (metadata!) - and if they navigate deep deep inside, they have to use the tiny scrollbar on the left. And once they navigate, the scroll position is gone. Bummer! Even the enabled tree view did not help. Let’s improve that!

After over 6 years and 185 blog posts its time to leave Wordpress as a blogging platform and move on to Hugo. This move is not because I had to, but in the past I replaced many of the services I used to managed services (I am looking at you, Office 365!) - and this tiny blog is the only reason I have to maintain a, most of the time, outdated linux VM with a fully fledged nginx, a slow and certainly unsecured MySql database and what not - for a blog… that does not feel right.

There is something cool coming up! But who could explain it better than Jeff Teper? You heard him right - a full day training, deep dive, one topic - for free! Global Office 365 Developer Bootcamps around the world: Please join Microsoft MVPs Stefano Tempesta and Max Melcher for an all-day workshop in Microsoft Teams and Azure Bot Framework development! To be successful in this workshop, you should have a general understanding of Office 365 and an ability to code in JavaScript/.

Wow, it’s been a while since I last blogged - and here comes a tiny helper to upload one or more CSV file to a SharePoint Online list. I think its the best documented script I ever created…!!! The script The following script checks a folder for files - and opens them. Then each line will be uploaded to the specified SharePoint list defined by the provided mapping. The mapping is kinda straight forward.

It was winter, dark and cold outside, maybe rainy - something must have been really odd - because I started to build something physically, my very first hardware project - a magic mirror. And having two left hands I am trying to avoid as much as I can to build things outside of Visual Studio if you know what I mean… and it was July. Magic Mirror - the idea “It’s called a ‘Magic Mirror’, but a more accurate name would be a ‘Smart Mirror’,” Bradley tells us.

Recently I created lots of SharePoint provider hosted apps for several customers - most of them very simple apps to register a remote event receiver or send emails. But a few of them were complex business apps that used the integration options for SharePoint but stood almost separately as websites running on Azure. The first apps we created had the name .azurewebsites.net - and for some customers that looked so odd that they opened tickets and asked for confirmation if the apps are legit.

So this was my inaugural SharePoint Saturday in my hometown Munich - the last time I couldn’t attend - and now I am fully thrilled to be part of the greatest and latest SharePoint community event in Munich - and maybe even in Germany. Hosted directly in the Microsoft headquarter in Munich (awesome office!) - with more than 400 attendees this will be fun! My agenda and some brief notes are below - the full agenda and the list of awesome speakers is here.