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Ages ago I created a PowerShell script that I used a couple of times by now: efficiently empty a large SharePoint list - but apparently that code does not work against a SharePoint Online list. So here is an updated version of the script: .TERMS No terms - use on your own risk! .SYNOPSIS This script efficiently empties are large list and is approximately 30 times faster than deleting item by item.

300 attendees on a Saturday - all “SharePoint-crazy” - that’s what I said last year and it’s very true for this year, too! SPSBE Fun from the start at 9:00am until the official end of SPSBE (SharePoint Saturday Belgium) at around 19:30! I apparently had to optimize my session on this Saturday (50 minutes slots instead of 60!), tests my demos and pimp my slides - so I could only attend one full session (Deep Dive building solutions on the SharePoint Framework by Waldek Mastykarz @waldekm), but there was enough time for me to talk to friends, community members, BIWUG board members and other speakers - good times, good fun.

Ignite 2016 is over and we all were updated with tons of new features, announcements and insights in Atlanta - in this post I will try to give you a summary what I learned at Ignite 2016 SharePoint Conference it Atlanta. Office 365 and SharePoint Online I took that one from the official source because it pretty sums up whats coming: The next wave of innovations to achieve the SharePoint vision (simple and powerful file sharing, mobile and intelligent intranet, open and connected platform, commitment to security, privacy and compliance) contains the following highlights:

Session with Zohar Raz (SharePoint Group Manager) and Lincoln DeMaris (Principal Program Manager) how to manage change in SharePoint Online. Learn how SharePoint is introducing change faster than ever before, while still being extra sensitive to customer readiness and customer feedback. We are heavily investing in our technology to enable organizations to control and prepare for the changes in the experience. Come learn your role in this cloud evolution and what resources we provide to make you successful.

Whats the story post Infopath and how to build business apps with PowerApps? – in this session Chris McNulty (@cmcnulty2000) and Kerem Yuceturk will tell us! No-code and low-code applications have been essential tools in Microsoft SharePoint for a long time, but we’ve added many other new tools to your palette. We review the roadmap and best practices for InfoPath, SharePoint Designer, Access Web Apps, Flow, PowerApps and more. Start with a demo!

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 provides a new suite of IT capabilities to drive improvements in both scale and resiliency. Learn the best practices to deploying and provisioning SharePoint Server 2016 with these capabilities in mind. A session with Todd Klindt (@toddklindt) and Jason Himmelstein (@sharepointlhorn) – this will be super good! Here are my notes: MinRole MinRole rocks and its actually self-healing, can be installed on 1 server (plus sql).

In this session, learn how to manage your Microsoft SharePoint Online (SPO) and Microsoft OneDrive for Business environments in the browser (the SharePoint Online Admin Center) and by using the SharePoint Online Management Shell (a.k.a., Microsoft PowerShell for SPO). We cover numerous scenarios and demos for both seasoned SharePoint admins and new SPO admins. By Chris Bortlik (@cbortlik) Here are my session notes: SharePoint Online Admin 101 Site Collection Provisioning, Service Level Settings, hybrid, PowerShell will be discussed in this session.

Ignite 2016 session about apps, mobile experiences and intelligent portals by Andy Haon (@andyhaon) and Nate Clinton (@nate_clinton). Here are my notes: SharePoint Home I was a little late to the session, so only a screenshot from the slides: Mobile Apps Approach: look at the key workloads in regards to SharePoint and bring them to the mobile apps on all platforms. Things they learned: Sign-in issues (a lot), analysis of top requests and implementing them

I’m reading Search, Search and Search in the description of the session by Neil Hodgkinson (@Nellymo) – so what could go wrong? 🙂 Why hybrid? Everything in one search index is a great solution for global spanning enterprises. No more spinning up VPNs to connect and search for company data is of great value. Line of Business (LOB) data can be indexed, too - and you dont have to migrate the entire application to make the data available.

Performance is key, who does not hate slow pages? In this session by Russ More and John Fan we will learn how to speed up SharePoint Online pages to build faster portals. Here are my notes: Measure, Measure, Measure! You get what you measure! Microsoft measures a lot of metrics internally and even compare them to competitors – they monitor their own dogfood service (fast ring) to see if there are regressions.