SharePoint Articles and Resources
Create a Web Application in SharePoint 2013
Step by step instructions showing how to create a Web Application via Central Admin in SharePoint 2013. There's no "classic mode" this time around as it's Claims only from now on.
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Coles plans to rollout SharePoint online to 100,000 users
Coles has announced that it will roll out SharePoint Online to 100,000 team members within the next year. The idea is to provide a more secure and user-friendly platform than the various portals and technologies that the company is currently using for employees to share information.
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A Tour of SharePoint 2013 Search Part 1
This post begins a SharePoint 2013 Search series by Tyler Bithell. Part 1 explores System Status and the Search Applicaiton Topology...
One important note right off is that Fast Search is SharePoint 2013 Search. Another important note is that it is very resource intensive, so you are going to want to run minimum specs or better in a production environment.
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Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010
If you are a budding SharePoint developer and want to watch and read some great learning material that will help you become a ninja developer - this guidance is well worth a look.
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SharePoint 2013 Q&A with Dan Holme
Dan Holme, shares a superb Q&A highlighting the answers to the most common questions he gets from executives about SharePoint 2013. Is SharePoint an App or a platform - find out what Dan thinks.
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New search features in SharePoint 2013
Search functionality in SharePoint 2013 Preview includes several enhancements including custom content processing with the Content Enrichment web service, and a new framework for presenting search result types. Additionally, there have been significant enhancements made to the keyword query language (KQL). Search is a hot topic within SharePoint 2013, this article summarises some of the search enhancements.
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SharePoint 2010 Autocomplete Lookup Field
SharePoint 2010 Autocomplete Lookup field allows 'type ahead' functionality while looking up values from the lookup list. It uses REST for specifying filters. This is a free tool so why not head over to Codeplex!
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Databases that support SharePoint 2013 Preview
This poster provides a comprehensive overview of the databases deployed for all editions of SharePoint. It's a downloadable PDF and would look great on any admins wall ;)
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White Paper : The SharePoint Troubleshooting Guide
This White Paper will help you find out how you can use a SharePoint monitoring tool to react to problems as they occur and - by identifying key trends or events - you can also ward off any potential problems
before they occur.
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SharePoint 2013 - Search Logical Architecture
Search is one of the big bets in SharePoint 2013. Search is new, search is different from all previous versions of SharePoint. The platform has been consolidated. It is a combination of FAST Search and SharePoint Search components. And also the good news is, it is the same from Foundation to Server.
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Don't customize the SharePoint 2013 UI
Christ Wright,
Scribble Agency founder, interprets some of the advice around branding and customization in SharePoint 2013 UI. Reading between the lines, it looks like only do it if you have to!
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Drag and Drop doesn't work in Internet Explorer 8
Gunasekaran Kuppusamy, Senior SharePoint Architect, has discovered that you are unable to use the new drag and drop functionality in SharePoint 2013 when using Internet Explorer 8.
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How to add an audio, videor or image file in SharePoint 2013
This useful post shows you how to add an Audio file in to a SharePoint 2013 site and then add it to a page. SharePoint 2013 now includes a new "Digital Asset Content Type" which can include Audio, Video or Images.
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Windows Server 2012 does not support SharePoint Server 2010
Windows Server 2012 does not support Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Installing SharePoint Server 2010 on a computer that is running Windows Server 2012 can lead to unexpected behavior.
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Video : SharePoint 2013 Overview
This is an awesome video if you want to get a good overview of what's new in SharePoint 2013. It's presented by
Saurabh Dhall, SharePoint Practice Director, from Edynamic. Why not grab a coffee and watch this 17 minute presentation?
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TechNet - SharePoint 2013 forum
The SharePoint TechNet forum is an awesome resource to try and help people with their SharePoint problems and questions. The SharePoint 2013 forums also officially got launched. Go check it out!
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How to: Complete basic operations using JavaScript library code in SharePoint 2013
This article covers several areas shows you how to write code to perform basic operations using the JavaScript client object model in SharePoint 2013 Preview.
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SharePoint Web Templates for on-premise and the Cloud
Yves Peneveyre's attended Mirjam van Olst's session at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. The session covered the use of Web Templates / Site definitions both for an on-premise installation as well in Office 365.
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Searching and finding, an interview with Google’s Daniel Russell
Andre Salomon's - CEO for Smart SharePoint Solutions - recently interviewed Google's Daniel Russell about all things Google and an interesting statistic on Ctrl + F.
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SharePoint 2013 Social – Part 1 – Setting up a new My Site Host Site collection
Thuan Nguyen MVP instructs the reader through the process of setting up and configuring the My Sites host Web Application and Site Colleciton in SharePoint 2013. There are some subtle differences such as the retirement of "classic mode" authentication.
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SharePoint Conference 2012: Activity Planner #SPC12
For those of you heading off to Las Vagas for the Microsoft SharePoint Conference, Joel Olesons Activity planner is a must to ensure you don't miss all of the best bits!
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How to Upgrade from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013
This step by step guide provides an overview, by Ali Mazaheri, showing how to upgrade a SharePoint 2010 farm to a SharePoint 2013 (Customer Preview). Plenty of useful screenshots to aid the article as well.
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SharePoint 2013 for Search
Searching on map SharePoint 2013 has an array of new features across different workloads. Enterprise search is one of the workloads that encompass a lot of updates and enhancements. This blog article lists the main new features that have been enhanced/added to SharePoint 2013.
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DIWUG - SharePoint E-Magazine
The DIWUG SharePoint E-magazine is a free downloadable magazine with articles written by MCMs, MVPs and other authors from the SharePoint community. The target audiences are IT-pros, developers and end (power) users. All articles are written in English.
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How to embed a video into a SharePoint page and where to host it
A very common requirement by content editors in SharePoint is to embed and play a video directly into SharePoint pages. This article explores the various options available.
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