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Farm Solutions, Sandboxed Solution and Apps in various SharePoint Technologies

2013-04-08T23:50:00.001-07:00

Various versions of SharePoint provides different capabilities to create solutions on SharePoint and these technologies are continuously evolving. I am trying to put the journey here and then will compare between these technologies so that we can take a correct decision on which model should be selected and when. The below diagram depicts the journey of SharePoint and how the solutions

Document Preview in SharePoint 2013

2013-04-01T09:27:00.000-07:00

I really liked one cool feature in SharePoint 2013. Now we can see the document previews in Document Library and the search results. Though the Search Results one was earlier available in FAST Search but now this has been integrated nicely within SharePoint itself. With SP2013 in the document library you don't need to open the entire document. You can preview the document like the below through

SharePoint 2013 Trial Subscription

2013-03-31T08:58:00.001-07:00

Do you want to try the New SharePoint 2013. Microsoft has made it really easy. In fact with this you can try all the new features in Office 365. Here are the simple steps: 1. Navigate to the URL http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/business/office-365-for-enterprise-document-sharing-FX103030346.aspx 2. Click on Try now: 3. It will give you a registration page where you need to provide few

Custom Help with SharePoint OOB Features for Business Applications

2013-03-29T11:14:00.000-07:00

While working for a SharePoint application, there was a requirement to create a custom help for the application. After some digging, I realised that SharePoint has excellent in built capabilities where we can create specific help for any application and host it in SharePoint. This does not need any coding and just require to enable a feature and then few other steps to configure the same. Here

Deploying Service Applications with Configuration Wizards V/S PowerShell

2013-03-28T09:10:00.000-07:00

Service Application can either be deployed using the Configuration Wizard or through using Power Shell. The configuration wizard gives an easy option and creates all the service apps without any user intervention. This is done with default setting so these are generally with not proper standards. The service apps can also be created using PowerShell which takes some efforts but give lot of

Presentations on SharePoint 2013

2013-03-23T13:13:00.000-07:00

Here is a good collection of Power Point presentations (Slide Decks) on various features of SharePoint 2013: 1. Introduction to SharePoint 2013: This presentation describes the SharePoint 2013 from high level and describes the various new features in new SharePoint. Download it from: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_M01V1_

Free ebook on SharePoint 2013

2013-03-21T14:42:00.000-07:00

Found few good learning resources on SharePoint 2013 on Microsoft site. The ebook is really good and concise to understand what is the new in SharePoint 2013. Here are few links: 1. Free ebook on SharePoint 2013 2. Guide for IT Professionals on SharePoint 2013 3. SharePoint 2013 Technical Help in compiled format 4. Presentation on SharePoint 2013 for IT Pro 5. Topologies on SharePoint 2013

Learning Roadmap for SharePoint 2013

2013-03-18T04:41:00.000-07:00

Microsoft has published few roadmap to learn SharePoint 2013. I found these quite helpful so sharing the same: 1. Authentication in SharePoint 2013: Use this learning roadmap to build expertise about authentication in SharePoint 2013. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/jj937859.aspx 2. Upgrade to SharePoint 2013: Use this learning roadmap to build expertise about how to upgrade to

Creating Lists using Import Spreadsheet Template

2013-03-17T05:16:00.000-07:00

Creating a SharePoint list is a very easy task for IT users but sometime this is not the case with business users. Business Users need to understand the creation of list and creation of multiple columns with correct types. This can be sometime onerous to them. There is another easy way of creation of list with the data already available in excel. This eases the creation of list and columns

Mapping of SharePoint 2010 functionalities with various SharePoint versions

2013-03-09T12:08:00.000-08:00

We know that there are three different versions of SharePoint 2010. They are: 1. SharePoint Foundation 2. SharePoint 2010 Standard 3. SharePoint 2010 Enterprise There are lot of articles which helps to identify the features at high level which are available in these different versions. Below comparison can help to identify the specific functionality which are available in these various

Videos for upgrading SharePoint 2010 Sites to SharePoint 2013

2013-02-24T08:46:00.000-08:00

To upgrade a Site collection from SP2010 to SP2013 we can only utilize the Database Attach approach. The In-Place upgrade method is not available with this version. Below is the link for 6 part videos explaining the process in detail: 1. SharePoint 2013 Upgrade: Overview Video: SharePoint 2013 Upgrade: Overview 2. Creating a SharePoint 2013 Farm for the upgrade: Video:

Introduction to SharePoint 2013 with Videos

2012-07-22T12:44:00.000-07:00

Now the SharePoint 2013 is out some good learning material has started to appear. A good set of videos on SharePoint 2013: 1. Introduction to Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 Development 2. SharePoint 2013 app model for developers 3. SharePoint 2013 developer tools 4. Create hosted apps in SharePoint 2013 5. Create cloud-hosted apps for SharePoint 2013 6. SharePoint 2013 client object model

Crawled Properties And Managed Properties

2012-06-12T12:45:00.000-07:00

Crawled Properties and Managed Properties are very basic SharePoint concepts but they are core to SharePoint Search. Many times I have seen people are not clear with this so I will try to explain them in a simple manner. As we all know that SharePoint can crawl data from different sources. The data in these various source system have metadata which can have different name but it refers to the

Integrating LinkedIn with SharePoint Sites

2012-05-22T13:42:00.000-07:00

These days LinkedIn is one of the most important social networking site for professionals. It has got some very useful information and now it is easy to display this information in the SharePoint site. LinkedIn site provide plugin which we can utilize to display information from the site. The LinkedIn plugin are available @ https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins The few plugin which are

Shallow Copy with RBS in SharePoint 2010 SP1

2012-04-19T09:21:00.001-07:00

As we all know SharePoint 2010 allows the use of RBS (Remote Blob Storage). RBS allows to store unstructured data (Documents, PPT etc) in File System while the structured data (metadata, list data) is stored in SQL Content DB thus allowing to effectively manage the large system. Generally the unstructured data is a major portion of total data in any SharePoint deployments (up to 80%) so RBS

Good Collection on How To Videos on SharePoint 2010

2012-04-09T11:50:00.003-07:00

Good Collection on How To Videos on SharePoint. Each video shows a small practical tasks which we need to perform in day to day life of SharePoint: SharePoint 2010 Central Administration: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/video/sharepoint-2010-central-administration Backup and Restore a SharePoint 2010 Site Collection: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff679932.aspx

Identifying the Site Template for a SharePoint Site

2012-03-03T11:20:00.000-08:00

I was doing a migration project where we need to analyse a quite a few sites and we did not have much information. We need to find the type of template which was used to create the SharePoint site. One of the easiest way which I could find which does not involve any code is looking the source code of the site. Once we open the source code then we need to search the parameter g_wsaSiteTemplateId

India on Top in Google for searching SharePoint

2012-03-03T10:36:00.000-08:00

Found an interesting thing, India is in the top position among all the countries for all the searches on SharePoint originating from Google. Also from the data taken for last 12 months top four slots are taken by Indian Cities which are Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Pune: See some interesting trends @ http://www.google.com/trends

Good Collection of SharePoint Sites

2012-02-19T02:46:00.003-08:00

Found a good link showing the collection of SharePoint sites on Internet: http://www.wssdemo.com/livepivot/

Learning Resources for InfoPath 2010

2012-02-18T12:55:00.000-08:00

I am consolidating few good resources for learning InfoPath 2010. Getting Started: What's new in InfoPath 2010 Basic tasks in InfoPath 2010 Introduction to designing a form in InfoPath 2010 InfoPath 2010: Menu to ribbon reference workbook Videos: Customize a SharePoint List Form using InfoPath 2010 Create tabbed navigation using picture button controls Introduction to Sandboxed

Few Tips to improve Business Productivity with SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010

2012-01-29T10:20:00.000-08:00

As we all know that SharePoint and Office Product very well together and you can improve the efficiency with the following tips. If you co-relate these tips where SharePoint is used as Project Management Tool, we can better visualize the scenario and these tips. For these tips I am using SharePoint 2010 with Office 2010. Tip#1 Business Users create lot of document in Office Products and then

Refreshing the WebParts Automatically on a Regular Interval

2012-01-20T08:31:00.000-08:00

I was working on requirements to create a Dashboard kind of functionality for the Application Admins where data from several Lists and Document Libraries needs to come. Since this application involves high transactions so all these lists keep updated frequently. On this dashboard we are showing the data from these various lists using the list view web parts. The requirement was that we need to

Step by Step Learning for Workflow using SharePoint Designer 2010

2012-01-10T07:50:00.000-08:00

Helpful links to create workflow using SharePoint Designer 2010: 1. Understanding Workflow Conditions in SharePoint Designer 2010 2. Understanding Workflow actions in SharePoint Designer 2010 3. Introduction to designing and customizing workflows using SharePoint Designer 2010 4. How to create an approval workflow in SharePoint Designer 2010 5. Understand approval workflows in

Few Learning with Views & Alerts in SharePoint

2011-12-21T07:23:00.000-08:00

Conditional Alerts: I was working on a project where we want to use SharePoint Alerts to notify the users when any new items are added in the list but we wanted that these alerts should be sent based on few conditions. By default when we set alerts SharePoint allows to subscribe to all the changes and we can not mention any conditions on which alerts can be sent. But this can be achieved using

Understanding Extending A Web Application in SharePoint

2011-12-18T09:45:00.000-08:00

SharePoint allows to expose the same content to two different set of users with different URL's and with different authentication. This is called Extending a Web Application. I will try to explain this concept in this post. Lets say a company has a Web Site on SharePoint for Internal users. The users access the site using a URL http://demo-intranet. The internal users are using Windows