Editors Choice
SharePoint Manager 2013
SharePoint Manager 2013 is the third version of this massively popular tool. SharePoint Manager is a visual object model explorer that easily lets you see the property settings of nearly all of the public classes. It also allows some property values to be set. If you are a developer, or IT Pro it's well worth a look.
Link : SharePoint Manager 2013 Codeplex site
Special Announcement
Survey Extended for one more week!
Wow - we are really blown away by the amount of replies we've had to the SharePoint survey so far! 330 and counting. So many of you have spent time filling in the Love and Hate questions, it has been great reading all of your responses, so thanks!
Due to last week being a big vacation week we didn't get near our normal viewing figures so we have decided to extend it for one more week to see if we can close in on 500 responses.
The survey will take less than a minute to complete and we are also giving a free book to a lucky winner. The responses so far are quite surprising - currently nearly 40% of you won't be implementing SharePoint 2013 for at least 2 years after its launch!
Link : Take the Survey
Featured Whitepaper
10 Steps to Optimize SharePoint Performance
SharePoint offers a tremendous array of options for improving performance and efficiency of collaborative portal applications. Understanding the inner workings of the framework and its dependencies upon key infrastructure components, including servers, network connections, services, operating system components and databases, is vital to the success of any optimization strategy. Implementing basic performance enhancements as outlined in this paper can provide tremendous improvements to the operation and performance of SharePoint within the enterprise.
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What is DocRead?
One of the other most striking statistics from the survey is that quite a few of you answered "No" to our "Have you heard of DocRead?" question...now could be the time to change that ;)
SharePoint Articles and Resources
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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Dell to offer Microsoft Office 365 to its SMB customers
Dell plan to sell "Microsoft Office 365 with Dell" service offering to it's small to medium customers. This will provide acess to full suite of Microsoft applications like Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Lync from any Dell device, including smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops.
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Win a free copy of 'Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints'
SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 Dispose Patterns by Example
This article was released back in 2008, but it's still valid for both 2007 and 2010. If you are a developer and haven't read it you need to. Not clearing up those SPSite's and SPWeb's can lead to serious performance issues!
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White Paper : Automate Records Management in SharePoint 2010
Automated Records Management
is possible in SharePoint 2010. Learn how with this compelling "How To" White Paper from AIIM's own Nick Inglis. It's time to reduce potential liability by automatic records classification and improve efficiency of your SharePoint 2010 implementation.
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Featured Blog
SPSTech.net
SPSTech.net is the blog of Marcel den Ouden, who has 10+ years of experience with Microsoft products. In these years he has developed himeself to an experienced, certified system administrator. In the year 2011 he decided to specialize in Microsoft SharePoint products, in particular maintaining and configuring SharePoint farms.
Link : SPSTech.net
SharePoint 2013 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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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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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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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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