End User Articles and Resources
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 Conference 2012 : Veroniques thoughts after the event
Veronique Palmer, MVP and SharePoint 'God-ette', shares her very frank views on what she thought of the conference in Las Vegas. If you didn't go this a great wrap up of what it was like to attend.
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SharePoint 2013 - Discontinued Features and Modified Functionalities
Jasper Oosterveld gives his input on some of the discontinued features in SharePoint 2013. He covers items such as the 'document workspace', 'meeting workspace', 'group worksite template' and the 'business intelligence web part'.
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Introducing the new Visual Designer in SharePoint 2013
Sam Chung, Program Manager for SharePoint Designer introduces everyone to one of the biggest investments for SharePoint Designer 2013, which is the Visual Designer.
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How to use a Community Site on SharePoint 2013
The social computing and collaboration features in SharePoint 2013 offer an improved administration and user experience, in addition to new functionality for enterprise users to share and collaborate with others in their organization.
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Top Business Benefits and Reasons For SharePoint 2013 Upgrades
SharePoint 2013 preview has been out for some time now and we are starting to see it come up in planning, envisioning, road mapping and other strategic discussions with clients on a more regular basis. I have been discussing this with people on an almost daily basis. Everyone upgrades eventually (or they move away from the platform) so I think it’s always good to talk about why businesses are accelerating their upgrades or where (in terms of workload) they are considering an ‘early’ upgrade to SharePoint 2013.
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The Death of SharePoint Designer?
SharePoint folks were thinking SharePoint Designer 2010 would be a very dangerous knife when used inside their organizations. There are a lot of questions that cover the need of giving SharePoint Designer 2010 permission to power-users. How about SharePoint 2013? “
The Death of SharePoint Designer” article written by Jennifer Mason will make you more curious about *SharePoint Designer 2013*
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SharePoint 2013 and improved user experience
There are so many improvements that I love in SharePoint 2013. I’ve been playing around with the preview of SharePoint 2013 for a while now and am creating a series of blog articles on individual features and enhancements. To start with, here are some top features that caught my attention at the first site of SharePoint 2013 from a user experience, user interface and administration perspective.
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Add\Embed Video to SharePoint 2013 site page
This article explains how to add (or embed) videos on to SharePoint 2013 pages using either the default video view page that you get when you add the video to SharePoint or by adding the embed code.
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Social Networking capabilities in SharePoint 2013 - tutorial
Learning SharePoint are back with a great tutorial outlining how to take advantage of the new social networking features packed into SharePoint 2013. The tutorial covers Community Sites, My Sites, Newsfeed, "Follow people" and "Follow Sites".
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SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 Smackdown
Learning SharePoint, provide a nice comparison of the features across the two versions. The article is broken down into social + collaboration, developer changes, search and Enterprise Content Management (ECM).
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SharePoint 2013 : Quick launch, now you see, now you don't!
Benjamin Niaulin, shows a couple of screenshots showing how end-users can easily show or hide the quick-launch menu from the screen. The secret is by using the 'Focus on Content' button at the top right.
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Mike Ferrara's 5 reasons why SharePoint apps make you happy
Mike Ferrara gives 5 reasons why the new app model in 2013 will make everyone happy. We particularly agree with the 'cloud app model' as business users are going to love the speed with which they can "add-on" to SharePoint.
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SharePoint 2013 - are they 'Apps' or 'Crapps'
The Elumenotion blog provides an argument explaining why the new apps model maybe not be worth all the hype it has been receiving. Sandboxed solutions are also used as a recent example of why Apps may fail to be adopted.
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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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What's new for document libraries in SharePoint 2013
Did you know you can now drag 'n drop documents from the browser, print + download, preview and also share + follow a document ? If not - head over to 'Learning SharePoint' to read more.
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Content Search Web Part and Updates to the Content Query Web Part
This release sees major improvements to search and one of the new web parts developed is the Content Search Web Part that allows content to be show on search queries.
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Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Preview discontinued and modified functionality
Instead of all this talk about what's new, Noorez Khamis blogs about what's gone from this version of SharePoint. Pretty essential reading if you are considering upgrade or long term use of some of these features.
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SharePoint 2013 Social : Community Sites
A community site is a new site template that is available in SharePoint 2013, and it is also available as a feature that you can enable, called the Community Site Feature.
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SharePoint 2013 Team Site Enhancements
Christian Gless digs into the new Team Site to give us an account of what's new. One of the most striking changes is the look and feel, head on over to see the screenshots.
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