Gene Vangampelaere

How to bulk add users to a MS Team

Sometimes you want to bulk add users to a team. There is an interface to add users but you have to add them one by one: In some cases you want to add a lot of users. For example you are a teacher and wants to add your students before the start of your classes. […]

Populate a Word document with Microsoft Flow

A few weeks ago a client asked to create a workflow that pre-populates a Word document with some data from a SharePoint list. This was my chance to use the new Microsoft Flow action called: Populate a Microsoft Word template. This action can read a Word document and populate the fields you defined. You can […]

Flow for event registration and automated meeting request

Today I had this question from a client: Can I use Office 365 for event registrations linked to my calendar? Event registration? Sure. Create an input form with Microsoft Forms! That’s easy. But the client wanted to send the registered users a meeting request. Not just a single meeting request but all users must be […]

How to make a personal view public in SharePoint

On any SharePoint list you can create 2 types of views: A public view: anyone with read permissions can select this view. A personal view: only the person who created the view can select this view. Once you set the “Audience” of the view you can no longer change this. In some cases you want […]

#ESPC17 podcast: Day 4 overview

This is an overview of the final day of the European SharePoint Conference. Today I had an interview with Mikael Svenson about Office Groups and with Rick Van Rousselt about the new Cognitive Services Microsoft now offers.

#ESPC17 podcast: Day 2 overview

On the second day of the conference there are sessions about different topics like TypeScript and even Blockchain. I had a chat with Maarten Boender about his session: Blockchain, what is all the fuss about? and with Lieven Illiano about using TypeScript.

#ESPC17 podcast: Day 1 overview

This is the day where the conference really starts. Next to the keynotes from Jeff Teper and Benjamin Niaulin we have a lot of sessions about different topics. In this episode I talk with Bram De Jaeger about PowerApps and Flow.

ESPC17 podcast: pre-conference tutorials

This is the first episode of the European SharePoint Conference podcast. Day 1 is all about the pre-conference tutorials. I had a chat with Gokan Ozcifci about designing, deploying and configuring a stable and performant SharePoint 2016 Farm.

Why attending a tech conference is important

Some people might not be aware of this open secret which has everything to do about technology. We currently live in a ubiquitous era, the era where technology has become part of our daily life. Our smart phones, robots and lots more are examples of tech devices that are gradually taken over powerful world economies. […]

An overview of the collaboration options in Office 365

With the shift to the cloud we have seen the last years, office 365 has consistently displayed its strength in this area by providing end users and teams with mind blowing collaborations tools to ease their daily activities. In fact, office 365 is believed to have one of the best team collaboration tools in the […]