Toni on Tech

Hey there! I’m Toni, the Co-Founder and CEO of Syskit, creators of Syskit Point and SPDocKit. Welcome to Toni on Tech, where we explore the ever-evolving world of software, technology, and business.

  • Use case: Automatically importing user profile pictures to SharePoint 2013 (and 2010)

    In last three years I helped numerous customers to install and configure SharePoint 2010 (2013). New User Profile Service application introduced the ability to easily sync User Profile properties from & to Active Directory. In this article I will explain how you can leverage PowerShell to sync user profile photos from file share to SharePoint…

  • Use Case: Export User Profiles to a SharePoint list – phonebook style

    SharePoint User Profiles Service Application has a lot of nice and very useful features but it misses one small but important thing. Customers often want to display all their contacts (from User Profile Store) in a single list, phonebook style. Here is a simple solution how to achieve this with a PowerShell script. The script…

  • Use cases for Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint

    At Acceleratio, we often receive various use case requests from customers using our product Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint, here are few of those use cases: Use case – Upgrading farms or resuming maintenance after rogue admin left Customer writes: I have taken over administration of a SharePoint farm at [enter company name here] and will…

  • Auto populate Search suggestions for SharePoint People Search

    One of mine customers wanted to replace their existing phone directory with the SharePoint OOTB user profiles. They already had all the data in the Active Directory and also had pictures for most employees, so SharePoint sounded like an obvious choice. One of the requests was to have search as you type suggestions for people…

  • Sync your files to SharePoint 2013 or Office 365

    As you probably heard SharePoint 2013 Preview has been released. There is number of cool features available but there is one that’s super simple yet so very useful. I am huge fan of DropBox, this simple application allows you to sync your folders to the cloud. Now you can do the same with SharePoint 2013,…