As an administrator of your Office 365 tenant you have the ability to set a theme for everyone in your organization. But when an user signs in for the first time the have the option to change their theme to something else like kittens 
As a company this is something that you want to prevent and give all users the same user experience. Because I saw this as a missing option I created a UserVoice request.
This week I was asked about the possibilities of delegation in Office 365, so what kind of options do we have to give certain people the rights to manage parts of Office 365. This client has multiple ICT offices with their own people to manage their own services. They now going to one Office 365 tenant and want to have the same possibilities to manage the services within Office 365.
Just saw on the settings page of the SharePoint admin portal within Office 365 that the video portal is coming to my tenant J
It is enabled by default. I could not find a site or a template to create the video portal yet.
To get more information what the video portal is:
Update 18-11-2014: There is an official announcement that it is rolling out: http://blogs.office.com/2014/11/18/introducing-office-365-video/
The last few of weeks I got a requests to create list views that where a bit nicer than the default views. Some requests were to display a certain text as a hyperlink or hyperlinks to display as a certain image, but I also got the request to make a view that did not look like a list view anymore. My colleague jumped on this to create a custom webpart to display this. After showing what the Client rendering could do he was convinced to do it with the client rendering.
I was triggered to write this blog because of a question on Facebook about changing the title of a content type in the content type hub.
I was able to answer this question because I found the same issue a while ago when I was working with the same thing.
The question was: When I create a content type in the content type hub and publish it, the content type is pushed down to all site collections and there you can use it in your lists and libraries. Now if we change the content type’s title or description and republish it, the changes are pushed down to the level of site collection but not to the content types associated to a list. When we create a new list the changes are visible for that new list.
Within SharePoint it is by default possible to open a list form in a dialog by just changing 1 setting on that particular list. This can be done by going to the settings of the list and choose for ‘Advanced settings’. Here you find the option ‘Dialogs’ where you can change this. 
This is nice but sometimes you want that new form or some other page also in a dialog. That can be done with a little bit of JavaScript on the page where you want it.
For all the people that used SharePoint online knows that when you start using you get 4 site collections or is it 5? I have been using my environment for some time now. Let’s find out.
First start with the browser:
The sites in the red are the default sites. The one with the full domain name is the public and is by default http://-public.sharepoint.com
Let’s see if we can get some more sites with PowerShell.
Today I did a presentation at Portiva’s SharePoint & Sushi about PowerShell for IT Pro. In this presentation I told the public about PowerShell en how the IT Pro can use this in his daily work. The presentation is in Dutch.
This week I listened to a session from the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas about ‘Site provisioning techniques with SharePoint apps’. This session was all about how to use the app model to provision sites, libraries and everything else you need in SharePoint. The had a lot of examples how to do this and what is changed in both SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2013 SP1.
The overall point the made is that with the use of an SharePoint app you can make a template that will work both on premise and online without the use of web templates and sand boxed solutions A other benefit of this is that you can use one of the default templates that Microsoft supplies and you only have to change what you want to be different instead of creating complete new templates.
All the sessions of the SharePoint Conference 2014 are now available on Channel9.
Like many other people I like to watch some of the sessions I missed during the conference. I also do not like to watch this from my laptop so I wanted to download the sessions I would like to see.
After a few hours of trying myself I found on Yammer that there were many others trying the same thing and 1 had created and shared a really nice PowerShell script to download everything. This script can be downloaded and used from here. For me the script did not work so I have updated this to use ‘Start-BitsTransfer -Source $url -Destination $dest -TransferType Download’ instead of the WebClient.DownloadFile()