Author

Joel Plaut

Developer, Architect, and Program/Project Manager

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Expertise

Developer
Architect
Program/Project Manager
Business Process Automation
Project Management
IT Governance

Favorite Tools

Microsoft 365
SharePoint

Joel is a multifaceted professional, serving as a Developer, Architect, and Program/Project Manager. His extensive experience spans consulting, IT executive roles, and diverse industries.

He possesses in-depth knowledge in collaboration, data warehousing, and enterprise intranet systems, with a specific focus on Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and back-office systems.

Joel is renowned for bringing outstanding technology, business, and organizational skills to the table, making him a specialist in business process automation, system architecture, enterprise deployment, design, solutions development, workflows, document management, organizational structure, and systems customization.

As an expert in project management, IT governance, methodology, and Portfolio Project Management, Joel ensures the seamless execution of projects.

His deep experience extends to designing, developing, and managing high-performance systems, demonstrating proficiency in technology selection, strategy, architecture, BI, collaborative document management systems, and software lifecycle methodology.

Joel is a catalyst for helping organizations optimize business value on a global scale, offering strategic insights and innovative solutions.

Articles

Migration

Simplifying & Mastering Complex ECM System Migrations with…

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses must ensure their content management systems are modern, efficient, and future-proof. Migrating from…

Migration

Achieving Data Accuracy and Compliance in Migrations with…

Ensuring data accuracy and compliance during content migrations is paramount. As organizations move from legacy systems to modern platforms, maintaining…

SharePoint Migration

Data Migration Best Practices for 2024 with Tzunami

Data Migration Best Practices for 2024 As we move forward through 2024, the landscape of data migration has transformed dramatically,…

Power Apps

Building Powerful Applications: A Guide to Creating Custom…

Microsoft Power Apps has emerged as a significant change in the realm of app development, offering a versatile platform to…

Copilot

Copilot in Action Create Your Site Through AI…

How to use copilot in power pages Make use of Copilot’s features when creating websites with Power Pages. AI…

Power BI

Refresh Dataset for Power Bi Report Using Power…

Power Automate, a service by Microsoft, presents a valuable feature that facilitates the refreshing of datasets utilized in Power BI…

Power Apps

Part – 2 Make Power Apps Ootb Form…

Follow these steps to set up the form responsiveness: Open the power apps and click on the setting. Go into…

Power Apps

Part – 1 Make Power Apps Custom Controls…

What is the responsive Power App form? Responsive Power App forms are made to be viewed and interacted with on…

Power Automate

How to Create a Word Document From a…

In Microsoft’s Power Automate, crafting dynamic and personalized Word documents through templates has become a streamlined process. Let’s start the…

Intranet Modernization

KWIZ & ProvisionPoint forge a strategic partnership with…

KWIZ and ProvisionPoint, operating as a unified force and recognized as a distinguished provider of Microsoft SharePoint governance and technology solutions, have…

Financial Automation

How Financial Process Automation Can Help Your Business

Finance automation is leveraging technology to automate critical finance tasks with minimal human participation, including accounting, integration, general ledger,…

Infopath

Incrementing repeating table field values

How to increment a field for new rows added into a repeating table in InfoPath It is really helpful to…

Architecture

How To Migrate Documents Into SharePoint

Getting documents into SharePoint There are many ways to get documents into SharePoint. This article covers a range of approaches…

Powershell

Setting a Site Collection to not be read-only

How to set a site collection as not read-only Is your site collection read-only? It is critical to be able…

C#

Deploy multiple Office Solutions in a single setup

How to deploy multiple Office Solutions in a single setup After creation of all your MS-Office solutions, they can be…

Powershell

Changing the page for a SharePoint Library View

Views are easily created by end users, and can be created through automation. I recently had to change the underlying…

Powershell

Extracting to a CSV the list of files…

It’s easy to extract the set of files in all folders, here’s how using PowerShell: $Files = Get-ChildItem "C:ChooseAnyFolder" -Recurse…

Content types

Creating Fields and Content Types cleanly in SharePoint

when creating Content Types in SharePoint, it’s nice to script the process, for planning and repeatability. Here’s a nifty routine…

Powershell

Folder, File size and timestamp analysis using PowerShell

In just a few lines, one can generate a CSV of all files and their attributes including size and timestamp.…

Powershell

Encoding and Decoding URLs in PowerShell

URLs in SharePoint are often filled with “%20” in place of blanks, and other substitutions. However, there are times when…

SharePoint Migration

Fixing taxonomy terms after a Metalogix Migration

When migrating from SharePoint 2010 to 2013 using the Metalogix Content Matrix 7.0.0.1 migration tool, a taxonomy issue was encountered.…

Powershell

PowerGUI vs. PowerShell ISE

Boy, have I become dependent on PowerGUI for PowerShell scripting? I’ve recently been compelled to use the ISE that comes…

Architecture

Challenges in SharePoint projects

SharePoint is a great platform for application development. However there exist some challenges that need to be kept in mind…

SharePoint Development Solutions

Converting SQL for embedded use within VBA

Converting SQL for embedded use within VBA After creating and testing SQL to embed within a VB or VBA application,…

Powershell

How to delete all SharePoint webs in a…

Pretty useful and simple to delete all webs in a site collection except the root web. This worked for me,…

Powershell

Assigning an Application Pool to a SharePoint Web…

the easy/obvious way is the wrong way. The trick is to reassign the app pool to the web app so…

Excel Services

Getting PowerPivot working in SharePoint

PowerPivot with SharePoint Diagnostics There are a lot of moving parts to PowerPivot. Here are some common causes of PowerPivot…

Architecture

SharePoint Database Naming

The primary naming convention to put in place is the Database Naming standard. By default, SharePoint puts a GUID at…

Navigation

Adjusting Quicklinks Programmatically in SharePoint

Use PowerShell to set Quicklinks Programmatically in SharePoint Wouldn’t it be great to hide all lists of a certain type…

Powershell

SharePoint Group Management

Managing SharePoint Groups in PowerShell SharePoint Groups are a great mechanism for managing user permissions, however they exist within a…

Event receivers

Reporting on SharePoint Event Receivers

SharePoint Event Receiver Reporting Event Receivers are a very powerful SharePoint construct. Because of timing issues, they can be tricky…

Powershell

SharePoint Full Farm Site Collection Admin report

Reporting on SharePoint Full Farm Site Collection Admins Site Collection Administrators retain a great deal of power and capability within…

Book Review

Book Review: SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio…

Cookbook is a good term for this book. It is an excellent overview of SharePoint programming, with a task focus…

Business connectivity services

Smart Filtering in BCS

Smart Filtering in Business Connectivity Services Business Connectivity Services allows the rapid creation of reference connections to live legacy data…

Security

Item Level Permissions

Item Level Permissions SharePoint has a robust object model supporting security at each level of the farm. Let’s take a…

Powershell

Gradual Site Collection Deletion

Gradual Site Collection Deletion I had a mission to achieve overnight; move 28 site collections into a new managed path,…

Performance

Sync DB Grows Indefinitely

Sync DB is a database that is a part of the User Profile Service related to Active Directory synchronization. Unfortunately…

Powershell

Solving asynchronous Event Handler update conflicts

Titus makes truly great and unique software for securing SharePoint documents based on metadata. However I ran into a huge…

MySite

Trusted MySite Host Location

How often can one make a change in Development that blows up Production? Within the User Profile Service Application one…

Rbs

RBS external provider invalid reference

Inside every Content Database is a key table called AllDocs; when configured for RBS there is a field called DocFlags…

Security

Secure Store Master Key Error

Don’t you hate mysterious, scary errors? How about this one? A critical incident has occurred where the Secure Store service…

Project Server and Web Access

Migrating a full copy of MS-Project Server content

There’s a frequent need to refresh MS-Project Server test environments from Production. The conventional wisdom holds that you need to delete…

Rbs

RBS (Remote Blob Storage) part 3

A configured and running Remote Blob Storage (RBS) is a ticking time bomb until you’ve configured the Maintainer to run.…

Rbs

RBS (Remote Blob Storage) part 2

To get RBS going we are going to configure SQL Server, install the RBS libraries on the SharePoint servers, and…

Rbs

RBS (Remote Blob Storage) part 1

Remote Blob Storage (RBS) is a Microsoft technology for managing large BLOBs (Binary Large Objects) in SQL Server and is…