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Martin Laplante

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Is there Persian (Farsi) language support for SharePoint?

By Martin Laplante

SharePoint sometimes has separate language packs for several variants of closely related languages, like Brazilian and European Portuguese, or several varieties in the Serbo-Croatian family of languages.  In other cases, you have to live with a different variant of your language, so for instanc...
30.04.18 02:05 PM - Comment(s)
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Join us in Las Vegas

Join us in Las Vegas

By Martin Laplante

On May 21- 23, 2018, come celebrate the return of the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas!  Co-produced by Microsoft, this event features top names from Microsoft and top experts from the world of SharePoint, OneDrive, and Office 365.

Come visit us, we're at the rightmost entrance to the Marquee ...
17.04.18 04:04 AM - 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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Code Redundancy in SharePoint Online Software

Code Redundancy in SharePoint Online Software

By Martin Laplante

One of the ways in which writing reliable software for SharePoint Online differs from previous versions of SharePoint is all the extra redundancy that has to be built in.  It's a little like writing software for a space mission, deployed in an environment where it can be subjected to many types...

15.03.18 02:03 PM - Comment(s)
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How to Achieve Language-specific Styling in Modern Pages

By Martin Laplante

For on-premise SharePoint and to a lesser degree for Classic sites in SharePoint Online, there were several possibilities for language-specific styling.  The page is being displayed in Finnish?  You're going to need more space or smaller print.  Arabic? Things are different in right-t...
14.02.18 05:02 AM - Comment(s)
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