Author Archives: Nik Patel

Do your SharePoint Online User Profile Pictures Sync from Active Directory? How SharePoint Online User Profiles Sync in Office 365 and Azure Active Directory work?

Posted on December 19, 2017

Building personalized and contextual user interfaces are very popular in the SharePoint Online. Many intranets have a personalized news or events widgets based on the employee user profile office or department properties. Have you ever surprised to see some of your … Continue reading →

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Trends of Modern SharePoint Online Intranets and Information Architecture in Office 365 as of Fall 2017

Posted on December 18, 2017

SharePoint is widely considered as the best intranet platforms in the market. If you have been tracking Nielsen Norman Group’s Top 10 intranets over the years, 70-80% intranets are built on SharePoint On-premises and SharePoint Online. SharePoint has a long history as popular … Continue reading →

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Recapping Microsoft Ignite 2017 Conference, Orlando, FL

Posted on October 4, 2017

I had a privilege to attend Microsoft Ignite and Envision conference, the third year in a row from Sep 25-29th, 2017 in Orlando, FL. This is Microsoft’s signature conference focuses on innovations in all three Microsoft cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure, … Continue reading →

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Current state of Microsoft Azure App Services Platform

Posted on August 23, 2017

It’s been close to a year, I have started playing with Azure Functions and Azure Logic Apps. With the growing demand for Azure Serverless architecture, Azure App Services platform is becoming more mature than ever. In this article, I am … Continue reading →

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Future of Agile and Social Collaboration – Yammer redefines Enterprise Social as Digital Workspace by integration with Office 365 Groups

Posted on October 8, 2016

Ever since Microsoft had acquired Yammer just before SharePoint 2013 release in July 2012, there has been love and hate relationship with Yammer as Enterprise Social solution in organizations adopting Microsoft technologies. Let’s face it, there are many reasons for … Continue reading →

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