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It's official, Variations are a deprecated feature

It's official, Variations are a deprecated feature

By Martin Laplante

SharePoint 2019 public preview is out!


It brings most of the SharePoint Online experience to the on-premise environment.  But as a follow-up to the announcement 4 weeks ago about the retirement of the machine translation service and possible end of Variations, in SharePoint 2019 the li...
24.07.18 06:07 PM - Comment(s)
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Do Hub sites support MUI?

By Martin Laplante

Spoiler: they do in part, but very very slowly.


SharePoint Online Targeted Release tenants are starting to get the new Hub Sites that were promised last September.

Hub sites are a way to organize different sites together, without a site hierarchy.  Hub sites are just ordinary sites, typ...
28.03.18 01:03 AM - Comment(s)
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PointFire 365 v2.0 is released

By Martin Laplante

Nearly 3 years ago, we put together a roadmap for what we wanted to see in a SharePoint Online version of PointFire.  Today, we deliver the last of the features on that original roadmap.


At the time of the original roadmap, several of the features were technically impossible.  Today, some o...
08.11.17 11:11 AM - Comment(s)
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Why are PointFire Add-ins SharePoint-hosted?

By Martin Laplante

SharePoint Add-ins can be developed in one of two ways: Provider-hosted and SharePoint-hosted.  In general, Provider-hosted is easier to develop, easier to test, and easier to distribute, and has a more powerful API.  Provider-hosted can use any programming language and has easier access t...

24.05.17 07:05 AM - Comment(s)
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PointFire Translator is out!

By Martin Laplante

One of the components of PointFire 365 v2.0 is being released as a standalone product, available from the Office Store.


Add PointFire Translator, and in your document menu and in your ribbon you can choose a document and have it machine translated in all of your site's languages.  But it doesn't...
19.05.17 04:05 AM - Comment(s)
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