Cincinnati PowerShell User Group meeting announcement

 

From Rob Dreyer, the organizer:

Our first meeting in 2014 will be extra special. Throughout 2014, Dr. Ferdinand Rios, the CEO of SAPIEN Technologies, Inc. is touring around the world. Last week, I received word that on Thursday April 17th he will be coming to MAX! I nearly fell out of my seat when I heard.

Please register here: http://www.meetup.com/TechLife-Cincinnati/events/154731982/

See you there!

• Thursday, April 17, 2014

  6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
   

• MAX Technical Training

  4900 Parkway Dr
  Suite 160
  Mason, OH (map)

  39.304155 -84.313302

   

How to keep track of the PowerShell user group:

• http://www.meetup.com/TechLife-Cincinnati/events/154731982/
• http://powershellgroup.org/cincinnati.oh
• Twitter: #CincyPowerShell

Reduce Spacing in a SharePoint 2013 Top Link Bar

 

The top link bar in SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 adds a lot of space between each menu item, 30 pixels to be exact. You can tighten this up quite a bit by changing the default spacing with a block of CSS added to your master page.

Default spacing:

After the CSS change below:

Add the following to your master page somewhere after the CssLink control (<SharePoint:CssLink runat="server" Version="15"/>). Just before the </head> tag works.

<style>
.ms-core-listMenu-horizontalBox li.static > .ms-core-listMenu-item 
 { 
   padding-right:4px;
   margin-right:2px; 
   border-right:1px solid;
 }
</style> 

If you just want to adjust the space and not add the lines, then only change the margin:

<style>
.ms-core-listMenu-horizontalBox li.static > .ms-core-listMenu-item 
 { 
   margin-right:5px; 
 }
</style> 

 

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Free eBook on Migrating to Office 365

 

I love free stuff, and I love books! Apress is making this new 680 page book available as an eBook for free, or as paper book for $39.95.

Office 365: Migrating and Managing Your Business in the Cloud

By Matt Katzer , Don Crawford

Go to Apress to get the EPUB, MOBI or PDF formats.

http://www.apress.com/9781430265269

You can also buy the paperback version at Amazon.com or get the Kindle version for free!

 

And while you are at it, take a look at this one too…

Rethinking the Internet of Things

A Scalable Approach to Connecting Everything

By Francis daCosta

Go to Apress to get the EPUB, MOBI or PDF formats.

Amazon.com

You can also buy the paperback version at Amazon.com or get the Kindle version for free!

 

 

Even more here: http://www.apress.com/apressopentitles

 

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Office 365 / SharePoint–a Moving Target

 

If you support SharePoint on-premises and Office 365 in the cloud then you are well aware that there are differences that impact you, your users, your help desk and your governance plan (of course!). You can manage changes and updates when working with your on-premises servers by choosing when and if you apply service packs, features and updates. When it comes to Office 365 you have no control… changes just happen!

To keep up to date…

• Frequently visit the Office 365 Admin Center and click the Message Center link
     
• Follow the RSS feed of the SharePoint Team's blog
• http://blogs.office.com/
• http://blogs.office.com/sharepoint/
• Go to SharePoint user group meetings, SharePoint Saturday events and SharePoint conferences (like the SharePoint Cincy event!)
• Explore the Office 365 Preview Features http://community.office365.com/en-us/blogs/office_365_community_blog/archive/2013/08/01/what-in-preview-means-for-some-new-sharepoint-online-features.aspx

 

February updates

Last month saw several changes, a few available for your on-premises servers as part of Service Pack 1.

• SkyDrive renamed to OneDrive
• Office Web Apps renamed to Office Online
• Changes to Office Online and OneNote Online
• More info on the February updates: http://blogs.office.com/2014/02/28/whats-new-february-2014/

 

April 9th Updates

SharePoint Online / Office 365 will receive updates to SharePoint document libraries with the addition of a new command bar. The command bar will include frequently used tasks such as: new, upload, sync, edit, manage, and share. I have not found anything about similar updates to on-premises SharePoint.

You can see a partial screen capture of the new command bar at the link below. Notice that the "new document or drag files here" has been replaced with "new   upload   sync   edit …". Go to the page below and scroll down to each of the step 3's.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/sync-onedrive-for-business-or-sharepoint-site-libraries-to-your-computer-HA102832401.aspx?CTT=1

 

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