Sunday, December 23, 2012

What's new for mobile devices in SharePoint 2013 ?

Here we will discuss about the new mobile features available in SharePoint 2013.
SharePoint Server 2013 offers several new features to help improve both worker productivity and usability on the device. This functionality includes the following:


1-Optimized mobile browser experience:
Like  For smartphone mobile devices SharePoint Server 2013 provides a lightweight view browsing experience for users to navigate and access document libraries, lists, wikis, and Web Parts.Depending on the mobile browser, users have one of the following browsing options like Contemporary view,Classic view,Full screen UI.

2-Push notifications:
This service on a SharePoint site can be enabled to send device updates such as a tile  notification to a Windows Phone.

Notifications can include events that occur in the site, such as when a user adds an item to a list or updates an item. For mobile devices to receive these notifications, device applications must register with a SharePoint site. Once the device is registered, you can write event handler code to interact with Microsoft Push Notification Service or notification services of other mobile device platforms.

3-Business intelligence content:
 Many devices are now able to view business intelligence content such as PerformancePoint Web Parts and SQL Reporting Services reports.

4-Office Web Apps:
Now  You can view Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents in mobile browsers with additional functionality in SharePoint Server 2013.
When integrated with SharePoint Server 2013, a user can enjoy enhanced viewing experiences when interacting with documents on the phone.


Friday, December 21, 2012

SharePoint 2013 powershell commands

Powershell commands are very much useful in SharePoint 2013 also. Check out some useful links related to SharePoint 2013.

- Windows PowerShell for SharePoint 2013 reference
This provides links to categorized Windows PowerShell cmdlets that you can use in SharePoint 2013.

- Windows PowerShell to administer SharePoint 2013
This provides some basic Windows PowerShell cmdlets and concepts and how to use Windows PowerShell with SharePoint 2013.

- Windows PowerShell cmdlets for SharePoint 2013(Included in SharePoint 2013 only)

- Stsadm to Windows PowerShell mapping in SharePoint 2013
 Lists Stsadm operations and their equivalent Windows PowerShell cmdlets.


Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Benefits of community sites in SharePoint 2013

In this blog we will discuss about some benefits of community site in SharePoint 2013.

Community Sites offer several benefits over email, instant messaging, or other communication methods, including:

1- The availability of all Community Site content to all members of the community.

2- Full retention of discussion history in compliance with corporate governance guidelines.

3- Built-in search, which enables members to search all content in the community.

4- Ratings, which enable members to vote on individual posts and replies. Ratings contribute to the reputation of community members.

5- An achievement system that rewards members for participation in the community.

6- Categorization of content to improve discoverability and simplify maintenance.

7- Site maintenance via SharePoint lists, which provide a familiar interface and enable you to take advantage of the rich governance, records management, and workflow integration features of SharePoint.


Tuesday, December 18, 2012

More ways to share documents or sites in SharePoint 2013

In this article we will discuss about more ways to share documents in SharePoint 2013. You can also check my previous articles on change master page in SharePoint 2013, Oauth in SharePoint 2013.

- You can now store personal documents in a single, personal library, accessible from anywhere - your "SkyDrive." This takes the place of sorting documents into either "Shared Documents" or "Private Documents." All documents in the library are initially private until you decide to share them.

- Use the new Share command to quickly share documents or sites. You can invite people to share specific documents and control what they can do with them (read, write, and so on). You can also use the Share control to:

-Share a document or site with a select group of people through a "selective people" link. Quickly find out who’s sharing a document or site.

- Send a personalized email invitation when you share a document or site.

- Receive alerts in your newsfeed whenever a document gets updated.


Reindex feature in list and document library in SharePoint 2013

SharePoint 2013 introduced a new feature know as Re-Index to list and document library. This feature will be very much helpful if you have configured a new Managed Property and added it as a Site Column to your List or document Library.

This feature will help to mark the list and document library to be picked up by a Continuous crawl, regardless of whether the items have actually changed.

ReIndex a SharePoint 2013 List and Document Library:

First Open the list or document library, then from the Ribbon click on Settings.

Then click on Advanced settings.

From the advanced settings page, check the button name as:

Reindex List (for SharePoint list)
Reindex Document Library (For SharePoint document library)

Once you will click on the above buttons, it will ask you a confiramtion dialog, click on Reindex List or Reindex Document Library.


Friday, December 14, 2012

CAML designer for SharePoint 2013

CAML designer 2013 is available to download.

Requirement:
-.Net framework 4.5.
- Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012.

Download CAML designer for SharePoint 2013 from the below URL.

http://sharepoint.biwug.be/SitePages/Caml_Designer.aspx

Also you can check some screen shot in Karine Bosch's blog.

http://karinebosch.wordpress.com/my-articles/caml-designer-for-SharePoint-2013/


Monday, December 10, 2012

SharePoint 2013 Search UI Introduction

This is a introduction video tutorial for SharePoint 2013 Search UI Introduction. This is provided by Ontolica.

This is basically an introduction to how the UI looks in SharePoint 2013, Like what are presented in the left side of the search result page.

Also you can check out some SharePoint 2013 video tutorials.


Saturday, December 8, 2012

New Feature in SharePoint 2013:Spelling Correction

In this article we will discuss about one of the new feature of SharePoint 2013 related to search. In my previous articles we have discussed about various new features of SharePoint 2013 as well as Shredded Storage new feature in SharePoint 2013, Working with Client object model in SharePoint 2013 etc.

- In SharePoint 2013 if a user enters a word in a search query that seems to a misspelled, then the search results page displays query spelling corrections, like in google search. This is also known as "Did you mean?".

- This is hosted in Termstore.

- You can add terms to the Query Spelling Exclusions and the Query Spelling Inclusions list to influence how query spelling corrections are applied or not. It takes up to 10 minutes for any changes to the Query Spelling Exclusions or the Query Spelling Inclusions list to take effect.

- You can only include or exclude single words.

To view the term store management tool:
Open SharePoint Central Administration, then from the Application Management section, click Manage service applications. Then On the Manage Service Applications page, click the Search service application. On the Search Administration Page, in the Queries and Results section, click Search Dictionaries. The Term Store Management Tool opens.


Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Embed word document into SharePoint 2013 site

In this article we will discuss about how we can embed a word document to a SharePoint page.

Also you can see my previous articles on how to change master page in SharePoint 2013, What is new in developer dashboard in SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2013 boundaries and limits.

As we know office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 are tightly integrated, we can now embed word document to a SharePoint page. Follow below steps:

Step-1:
Open the word document and click on File ->Share

Step-2:
Click on Embed option present there. Copy the embeded code presented in the box. Also you can adjust the height and width of the page.

Step-3:
Navigate to the SharePoint page where you want to embed the word document.

Step-4:
Then Edit the page and From the ribbon select Format Text, from there click on Edit source presented in the Ribbon.

Step-5:
Now paste the embeded code that we copied in Step-2.

Now Save and Publish the page, the word document will appear.


Sunday, December 2, 2012

HTML Field Security option in SharePoint 2013

In this blog we will discuss about another new feature of SharePoint 2013.

Also check my previous articles on Friendly URL in SharePoint 2013, improvements in word in SharePoint 2013, Browsers supported in SharePoint 2013.

SharePoint 2013 now comes with a feature known as "HTML Field Security". Through this feature a site collection administrator can control what content is allowed to embed within the iframe. It can restrict what contributors can embed in site pages.

Here an administrator can define the domain names from which a contributor can add contents.

Below is an example through which we can add a new domain to the HTML field security.

First go to Site Actions -> Site Settings, From there navigate to the Site Collection Administration.

From the Site Collection Administration click on HTML Field Security link, which is absolutely new in

SharePoint 2013. This will open the HTML Field Security page.

Then select the radio button Permit contributors to insert iframes from the following list of external domains into page on this site. And add the domain name in the box "allow iframes from this domain", google.com and then click on Add.

You can check some new features in SharePoint 2013.


Change master page in SharePoint 2013

In this article we will discuss about how to change the master page in SharePoint 2013.

Also you can see my previous blogs on SharePoint 2013 workflow video, New web parts in SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2013 interview questions and answers.

Changing the master page in SharePoint 2013 is not same as SharePoint 2010. To change the master
 page follow the below steps:

Step-1:
Open SharePoint 2013 site, then go to Site Actions -> Site settings. This will open the site settings page.

Step-2:
From the site settings page, under the Look and Feel section click on Design Manager which is the new link introduced in SharePoint 2013.

Step-3:
In the Design manager page, Click on Publish and apply design, from there click on pick a pre-installed look.

Step-4:
This will open a pop up to change the mastet page.


Friday, November 30, 2012

Save site as template in SharePoint 2013

In this article we will discuss how to save site as a template in SharePoint 2013. You can also check out my previous articles on SharePoint 2013 boundaries and limits, New web parts in SharePoint 2013.

Step-1:
Open the site and go to Site settings. Then go to Site Actions.

From the Site Actions sections select Save site as template.

Step-2:
This will open the Save site as template page.

There give the file name, Template name, Template description. If you want to include the content of the list then check the check box "Include Content".

Then click on OK, then it will show the Operation Completed Successfully message.

Now check the solution gallery the template will be available there.

Some Points to remember here:
- In SharePoint 2013, no more .stp file, the template will be saved in extension as .wsp.

- Not possible to save site as template for publishing site or publishing feature enabled sites.


Wednesday, November 28, 2012

What's new in Developer dashboard in SharePoint 2013?

In this blog we will discuss about what is new in developer dashboard in SharePoint 2013. You can read an article on Developer dashboard in SharePoint 2010. Also you can read my last articles on What are the new web parts in SharePoint 2013, What's new in workflow in SharePoint 2013? and Browsers supported by SharePoint 2013.

Here are few things new in Developer dashboard in SharePoint 2013:
- As we know ULS logs are very much important while debugging, Developer dashboard comes with a dedicated tab to see ULS logs for a particular request.

- Ondemand option is deprecated in SharePoint 2013, But you can use PowerShell to enable or disable Developer dashboard.

- Developer dashboard now opens in a separate window.

- Provides detailed information using chat view.

- Like in SharePoint 2010 developer dashboard is off or disable by default.


Wednesday, November 7, 2012

OAuth in SharePoint 2013

In this blog we will discuss about What is OAuth in SharePoint 2013. You can also check some new features of SharePoint 2013 as well as hardware and software requirements in SharePoint 2013.

When a user signs in to SharePoint 2013, the user's token is validated and then used to sign in to SharePoint. The user's token is a security token that is issued by an identity provider.In the case of app authentication, the authentication process verifies a claim that is made by a subject that it should be allowed to act on behalf of a given principal. Apps can be authenticated in several different ways. When a call is made to an app web, if the call is an OAuth call, SharePoint 2013 uses the Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS) as the app identity provider.

OAuth is an open protocol for authorization. OAuth enables secure authorization from desktop and web applications in a simple and standard way. OAuth enables users to approve an application to act on their behalf without sharing their user name and password. It allows users to use resources like contact list, documents, photos, videos etc that are stored on one site with another site, without users having to provide their credentials.

OAuth enables users to authorize the service provider to provide tokens instead of credentials  to their data that is hosted by a given service provider. Each token grants access to a specific site for specific resources and for a defined duration.

OAuth is required in following cases:
- To authorize requests by an app for SharePoint to access SharePoint resources on behalf of a  user.
- To authenticate apps in the Office Store, an app catalog, or a developer tenant.

Follow for more reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp142384(v=office.15).aspx


Different ways to access SharePoint 2013 list data

In this blog we will discuss about different ways to access SharePoint list data using client APIs. In my previous posts we have discussed about API references in SharePoint 2013, Create list using SharePoint 2013 client object model and New web parts in SharePoint 2013.

Inside an SharePoint App, you can use different client APIs for business logic. Below are some APIs:

- .NET Framework client object model: This is available in a redistributable package from SharePoint Client Components. If you prefer LINQ syntax, you can use it with this library.

- Silverlight client object model: This is also available in the same redistributable package and you can also use LINQ syntax with it.

- JavaScript client object model: This is a library in a .js file that includes all the same functionality as the managed code object models.

- REST endpoints: SharePoint 2013 provides REST/OData endpoints that can be accessed from any web client, including non-Microsoft clients and servers. If you prefer to use LINQ syntax, you can do so with this same web service from any .NET Framework platform.

- Mobile client object model: This is available for use on Windows Phone. devices. The assemblies are available in %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions \15\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\ClientBin and must be included in the .xap file of the mobile app.


Sunday, November 4, 2012

SharePoint 2013 workflow video

This video shows SharePoint 2013 designer workflow. It also explain how to create a workflow in SharePoint 2013 as well as explain about Task process designer. This video is presented by Laura Rogers a Microsoft MVP. Also check what is new in workflow in SharePoint 2013.

The task process designer is really very good in SharePoint 2013 workflow.


Friday, November 2, 2012

SharePoint 2013 user interfaces video

This is a video that clearly explains about SharePoint 2013 user interface. This video is presented by a Microsoft certified SharePoint trainner Asif Rehemani who himselft a SharePoint videos web site SharePoint-videos.com

This video explains topics like how to create team site in SharePoint 2013, explains about the top navigation, also give some inforamtion about site mailbox, Quick Links, Site Settings, Document library etc.


Saturday, October 27, 2012

SharePoint 2013 Boundaries and Limits

In this blog post we will discuss about some boundaries and limits of SharePoint 2013.

In my previous post, we have discussed about New webparts in SharePoint 2013, how to create a list using SharePoint 2013 client object model and New master pages introduced in SharePoint 2013.

Below are some Boundaries  and Limits of SharePoint 2013:

- SharePoint 2013 allows 2,50,000 site collection per web application.

- Now SharePoint 2013 supports 300 Content Databases per web application.

- Content database size can be 200GB for normal usuage and  4TB in all usage scenarios.

- One content database can support upto 60 million items including including list, library, app etc.

- A site collection can have 2,50,000 sites or sub sites.

- A SharePoint 2013 list and library can contain 30 million of items or documents.

- A user can belongs to maximum of 5000 groups.

- A SharePoint 2013 site collection can contain 2 million users.

- A SharePoint site collection can contain 10000 SharePoint groups.

- A web application can contain 5 zones.


Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Cross-site publishing in SharePoint 2013

In this blog we will discuss about the improvements in cross-site publishing in SharePoint 2013.

In my previous article we discussed about some new features of SharePoint 2013 as well as What's new in workflow in SharePoint 2013 and image renditions in SharePoint 2013.

There are plenty of additions to the cross-site publishing in the SharePoint 2013. Maintain the content in one or more authoring site collections and use the content in one or more publishing site collections.

In SharePoint 2013 we have a new site template named "Product Catalog" which enables the cross-site publishing feature by default. The new concept of Catalog-enabled lists and libraries will help to reuse the same list, library over multiple site collections. So, create catalog-enabled list in one site collection and use the same list/library in other site collections.

If you are new to SharePoint 2013, check out SharePoint 2013 installation video tutorial and a video tutorial on introduction to SharePoint 2013.


PDF file support in SharePoint 2013

This is a new feature introduced in SharePoint 2013, PDF files are now supported in SharePoint 2013.

In SharePoint 2010 or MOSS 2007, we have to install PDF ifilter or Foxit PDF iFilter  to work with PDF files.

But in SharePoint 2013 you can open the PDF files without saving it in the local machine, provided you should have Adobe Reader should be installed.

In SharePoint 2013 when user clicks on a pdf file, it prompts for checkout or open the pdf file directly.

You can also check my previous articles on What's new in workflow in SharePoint 2013, API References for SharePoint 2013 and Script Editor web part in SharePoint 2013.


Monday, October 22, 2012

New webparts in SharePoint 2013

In this article we will discuss about new web parts in SharePoint 2013. In my previous articles i have explained about Browsers supported by SharePoint 2013, Hardware and Software requirements in SharePoint 2013 and What is new for IT professionals in SharePoint 2013.

SharePoint 2013 introduces some new web parts in different categories:

Blog:
- Blog Archives
- Blog Notofications
- Blog Tools

Community:
- About this comminity
- Join
- My membership
- Tools
- What's happening

Document Sets:
- Document Set Contents
- Document Set Properties

Search Driven Content:
- Articles
- Catalog-Item Reuse
- Items from a Catalog
- Items Matching a Tag
- Pictures
- Popular Items
- Recently Changed Items
- Recommended Items

Like this there are some other web parts also.


Friday, October 19, 2012

Shredded Storage new feature in SharePoint 2013

Here we will discuss about another new exciting feature of SharePoint 2013. Before reading this you can check out some new features, as well as you can check about Client object model in SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2013 search video tutorial also.

In this article we will discuss about Shredded Storage. Shredded Storage applies to how data and documents are stored in the SQL Server database.  In all previous versions of SharePoint, for every version of a file that was saved, there was a complete copy of that document - the entire thing.  For example, if you had a 1 MB file with 10 versions, it consumed at least 10 MB of space in the SQL Server database.  With Shredded Storage, SharePoint only stores the changes in subsequent versions.  Therefore, in SharePoint 2013, this 1 MB file may have 10 versions that only consume 2.2 MB of space (vs. 10 MB).

Not only does this save space, but since the overall package is smaller, there will be increases in speed for retrieving documents.

So over all this is a very good useful feature.


Wednesday, October 17, 2012

What's new in workflow in SharePoint Server 2013?

In this blog we will discuss about What's new in workflow in SharePoint Server 2013? Also you can see some new features in SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2013 Apps and Audio and Video content type in SharePoint 2013.

- In SharePoint 2013 designer, when you will try to create workflow you will get options to chose the platform type like whether you want to create SharePoint 2010 workflow or SharePoint 2013 workflow.

- A visual workflow development experience that uses a Visio 2013 add-in

- A new action that enables no-code web service calls from within a workflow

- New actions for creating a task and starting a task process

- New coordination actions that let you start a workflow built on the SharePoint 2010 Workflow platform from a workflow built on the SharePoint 2013 Workflow platform

- A new Dictionary type

- New workflow building blocks such as Stage, Loop, and App Step


Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Image Renditions in SharePoint 2013

In this blog we will discuss about image renditions which is introduced in SharePoint 2013. You can also check some new features of SharePoint 2013.

SharePoint 2013 provides image renditions to optimize user experience by optimizing images. Through image renditions you can have one large images stored in your web site and you can define a number of scaled variants  to be used throughout the website.

SharePoint 2013 by default maintains some renditions but you can also customize.

You can edit the image from the image library as well as SharePoint 2013 also provides option to crop the image which is very popular now a days.

So Now image resizing and croping is possible in SharePoint 2013.

You can check another article on Hardware and Software requirements for SharePoint 2013.


Sunday, October 14, 2012

Create list using SharePoint 2013 client object model

In this post we will discuss about how we can create SharePoint list using SharePoint 2013 client object model. In my previous we have discussed how we can delete a SharePoint list using client object model.

First give reference of two DLLs which are needed to work with SharePoint client object model namely: Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll and Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll from the location C:\ProgramFiles\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\15\ISAPI

Below is the full code and in this example we will create a custom Task list.

string siteURL = "http://Your Site URL/";

ClientContext context = new ClientContext(siteURL);

Web web = context.Web;

ListCreationInformation listCreationInfo = new ListCreationInformation();

listCreationInfo.Title = "My Task List";

listCreationInfo.Description = "This is a custom task list !";

listCreationInfo.TemplateType = (int)ListTemplateType.Tasks;

List list = web.Lists.Add(listCreationInfo);

context.ExecuteQuery();

You can also check what are hardware and software requirement for SharePoint 2013.


Delete SharePoint List using SharePoint 2013 client object model

In this blog we will discuss how to delete a SharePoint list using SharePoint 2013 client object model. In my previous article I have discussed about working with client object model in SharePoint 2013.

As discussed in the last article also, to work with SharePoint 2013 client object model we need Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll and Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll which are located in C:

\ProgramFiles\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\15\ISAPI

Below is the full code:

string siteURL = "http://Your Site URL/";

ClientContext context = new ClientContext(siteURL);

Web web = context.Web;

List list = web.Lists.GetByTitle("List Name");

list.DeleteObject();

context.ExecuteQuery();

ExecuteQuery() method is very much important, this will execute the query to the server.

Also check some SharePoint 2013 articles on New master pages in SharePoint 2013, Mobile Apps in SharePoint 2013, Audio and Video content type in SharePoint 2013 and Some New features in SharePoint 2013.


Friday, October 12, 2012

New Embed Code in SharePoint 2013

As we know SharePoint 2013 provides few new features. We will discuss one more new feature in this article. In my previous article we have discuss about SharePoint 2013 Apps and Mobile Apps in SharePoint 2013.


In SharePoint 2013 it is now easy to add video, javascript or HTML code. We can do it with Script editor web part. But there is also another option know as Embed Code in SharePoint 2013.

This option will be available when you will edit the page, in the Ribbon you will able to see Embed Code button in the Insert tab in the Ribbon. If you click on Embed Code button it will show a textbox type where you can put the javascript code or Html code or even youtube embed code. This is a very useful content management feature. Check out the figure below:


Thursday, October 11, 2012

Working with Client object model in SharePoint 2013

Here we will discuss how to work with SharePoint 2013 client object model using Visual Studio 2012. Before reading this you can check some new features in SharePoint 2013.

In this post we will discuss how we can retrieve title of a SharePoint site by using client object model.

To work with client object model we need 2 DLLs.

- Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll
- Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll

The above 2 dlls are located inside 15 hive directory in the below location:
%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\15\ISAPI

But If you are creating an app for SharePoint 2013 using Visual Studio 2012 then the above 2 dlls will be automatically added.

Below is the code to retrive the web title:

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;

void GetWebTitle()
{

ClientContext context = new ClientContext("http://[SharePoint Site URL]");

Web web = context.Web;

context.Load(web);

context.ExecuteQuery();

string title = web.Title;

}


Tuesday, October 9, 2012

API references for SharePoint 2013

Different APIs are provided by microsoft to work with SharePoint 2013. This apis are very much helpful whenever you are working with SharePoint client object model. This API libraries helpful in developing SharePoint Apps in SharePoint 2013.

You can also check out new features in SharePoint 2013 and Mobile Apps in SharePoint 2013.

There are 2 types:

1. .NET client API reference for SharePoint 2013 :
This APIs contains APIs that you can use to build SharePoint apps using the .NET client, Silverlight, and Windows Phone programming models.

Download List of all APIs
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj193041(v=office.15).aspx

2. JavaScript API reference for SharePoint 2013:
This APIs contains APIs that you can use to build JavaScript apps for SharePoint.

Download List of All APIs
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj193034(v=office.15).aspx


Monday, October 8, 2012

Script editor web part in SharePoint 2013

In this blog we will discuss about Script editor web part in SharePoint 2013. You can also check Mobile apps for SharePoint 2013 here.

Also you can some blog on new features in SharePoint 2013, and some features which are removed in SharePoint 2013 here.

SharePoint 2013 introduces one new web part name as Script editor web part. This web part is helpful in adding HTML, JavaScript or JQuery to SharePoint 2013 site. This works same like content editor web part.

To add this web part, edit the page then in the web part zone click on Add a web part, then navigate to the Media and Content section. Then from there add the Script editor web part. To add content like javascript or html click on Edit Snippet.


Sunday, October 7, 2012

Signin as different user is missing in SharePoint 2013

Here is another interesting feature in SharePoint 2013 we are going to discuss. Before reading this you can check out some new features as well as some features removed from SharePoint 2013.

Surprisingly SharePoint 2013 has removed the "Signin as different user"option from the welcome menu. But you can bring back the option by customizing the Welcome.ascx which is presented in the \15\TEMPLATE\CONTROLTEMPLATES\Welcome.ascx directory.

But exactly no reason why it got removed !!!


Saturday, October 6, 2012

New improvements in list in SharePoint 2013

In this blog we will discuss whats new in list in SharePoint 2013? Before reading this article you can check some new features I posted previously.

SharePoint lists are very much useful to save or display data. There is a good improvements in Sharepoint 2013 towards like. Now we can give rating as stars or like each list item.

Through list setting you can turn on or off the settings. For this go to List setting and in the General settings there is an option called Rating Settings, Through this link you can do on or off rating settings. It will ask you which Rating method you want? Like Stars or Likes.

Then one column will show in the list and there it will show the ratings for the particular item.

You can also check this article for hardware and software requirements for SharePoint 2013. As well as you can check SharePoint 2013 installation video tutorial.



Friday, October 5, 2012

New master pages in SharePoint 2013

As we know master pages are very much important in SharePoint, SharePoint 2013 also introduced some new master pages as compared to SharePoint 2010. Master pages gives us same look and feel in all the pages. You can also see some new features in SharePoint 2013.

Here are some new SharePoint 2013 master pages:

- App.master

- Belltown.master

- Belltown.preview

- mwsdefaultv15.master

- Overlay.master

- Overlay.preview

- v15.master

- v15.preview

There are presented by inside GLOBAL directory. You can also see what are the hardware and software requirements in SharePoint 2013 here.


Thursday, October 4, 2012

Visual Studio 2012 for SharePoint

Here in this blog we will discuss about what are new in Visual Studio 2012 for SharePoint. Before reading this you can see some new features in SharePoint 2013.

Visual Studio 2012 contains new templates for SharePoint development and also new option for SharePoint deployment.

Now using Visual studio 2012 you can do remote deployment to remote sites which is a very cool feature.

Here are some templates presented in Visual Studio 2012 for SharePoint:
- Silverlight Web Part
- Visual Web Part
- Web Part
- Application Page (Farm Solution Only)
- Business Data Connectivity Model (Farm Solution Only)
- Content Type
- Empty Element
- Event Receiver
- List
- Module
- Sequential Workflow (Farm Solution Only)
- Site Column
- Site Definition (Farm Solution Only)
- State Machine Workflow (Farm Solution Only)
- User Control (Farm Solution Only)

You can download Visual Studio 2012 here.


Wednesday, October 3, 2012

New features in SharePoint 2013 Part-3

In this article we will see another new feature in SharePoint 2013. The new feature is know as Community site.

A Community site is like forum where people in a organization go and do discussion in some topics. This helps in exchanging information between members inside organization.

Also you can organize discussions into various categories. Visitors can view the discussions and become members if they want to contribute to those discussions. Moderators manage the community by setting rules, reviewing and addressing inappropriate posts, marking interesting content as featured discussions, and so on. Moderators can also assign gifted badges to specific members to visually indicate that the member is recognized as a specific kind of contributor in the Community Site, such as an expert or a moderator. Each Community Site contains information about member and content reputation, which members earn when they actively post in discussions, and when their content is liked, replied to, or marked as a best answer.

Deployment:

A community site can be deployed in different ways like below:

1- By deploying a stand-alone community:
With a stand-alone community, you can create the Community Site at either a site collection or a site level.

2- By activating community features:
You can activate community features on any site, which provides the core Community Site pages, moderation, membership, and reputation functionality within the existing site without creating a separate Community Site.

The 2nd option is very much helpful, if you want to add community feature to your existing sites.


Mobile apps for SharePoint 2013

Now SharePoint 2013 introduces another new and exciting feature for mobile users. Before reading this you can check out some new features in SharePoint 2013 also.

Now Windows phone apps and also apps built in non-microsoft mobile applications can access SharePoint web site.

You can build the application using Visual studio 2010 for windows phones. But for non microsoft devices you can use SharePoint REST/OData endpoints.

SharePoint 2013 Preview provides a framework and tools for developers, including Visual Studio 2010 project templates, to create mobile solutions that interact with SharePoint data both in on-premises SharePoint installations and in the cloud, using SharePoint Online.

One point here to remember is Multiple user logon in a single app in not supported.

SharePoint 2013 Preview offers a Visual Studio template to enable you to quickly and easily create SharePoint list applications for the Windows Phone.

The template will not be available automatically in visual studio 2010, To make this available we need to install the Windows Phone SharePoint SDK.

For example suppose you want to access and manipulate a list you can use Windows Phone SharePoint List Application template to make the Mobile app. Different SharePoint object model classes are available to work with it. Follow msdn site.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj163228(v=office.15).aspx


New features in SharePoint 2013 Part-2

In this post we will check another new feature of SharePoint 2013 towards search. Before reading this you should check some new featues of SharePoint 2013 as explained before.

Also If you are very new to SharePoint 2013, you can check the installation requirement and browser supports for SharePoint 2013.

SharePoint 2013 provides a new improved in search, by which now the contents can be crawled continuously. Now in SharePoint 2013  crawls run every 15 minutes by default. So end users will get fresh result most of times. Here the incremental crawl can be avoided by using continuous crawl that gave us fresh result. But the concept of full crawl is also there in SharePoint 2013 and can be configured when necessary.

Here the administrator does not need to monitor anything as in SharePoint 2010 to get the updated contents.


Tuesday, October 2, 2012

New features in SharePoint 2013 Part-1


Before checking this article you can check out some New features in SharePoint 2013. Through this article we will discuss about the work of follow and unfollow concept in SharePoint 2013.

SharePoint 2013 provides a twitter like features like follow and unfollow button. It works like twitter, If you will follow any one then you will able to see updates from the user.

A user can follow people, content etc. If you follow a people, then  the posts and activities of the followed people show up in the user's newsfeed.

User also can follow contents. When users following documents, sites, or tags, they get status updates about the followed items in their newsfeed. The features related to following content can be seen on the Newsfeed and the Following content pages on My Site.

If you want to work with follow and unfollow using object model then you can follow the below articles

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj163133(v=office.15).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj163217(v=office.15).aspx

Also through SharePoint 2013 we can use @ and # tag for content as well as people. If user enters a tag, SharePoint helpfully provides some recommendations for the user to select from. If a user is identified using the @ tag, they will receive a Mention in their Newsfeed, as well as an email the way it works in Twitter.


Monday, October 1, 2012

New feature in SharePoint 2013 event receivers

This article we will discuss about whats new in SharePoint 2013 event receivers. There are lots of new features in SharePoint 2013. But in this article we will discuss about new features of SharePoint 2013 in case of event receivers.

In SharePoint 2010 an event receiver can attach to a  list, list item, list email, list workflow, or web.

But SharePoint 2013 introduces a new event receiver class name as SPSecurityEventReceiver. This class will help us adding event handlers to SharePoint Groups, Users, Roles and Permission Inheritance which is absolutly new in SharePoint 2013.
Group Events:

GroupAdded
GroupAdding
GroupDeleted
GroupDeleting
GroupUpdated
GroupUpdating

Inheritance Events:

InheritanceBreaking
InheritanceBroken
InheritanceReset
InheritanceResetting

User Events:

GroupUserAdded
GroupUserAdding
GroupUserDeleted
GroupUserDeleting
RoleAssignmentAdded
RoleAssignmentAdding
RoleAssignmentDeleted
RoleAssignmentDeleting
RoleDefinitionAdded
RoleDefinitionAdding
RoleDefinitionDeleted
RoleDefinitionDeleting
RoleDefinitionUpdated
RoleDefinitionUpdating


SharePoint 2013 Apps

This article will tell us what are apps in SharePoint 2013. You can also check friendly URL in SharePoint 2013 and meeting workspace in SharePoint 2013.

Apps for SharePoint are self-contained pieces of functionality that extend the capabilities of a SharePoint website. An app may include SharePoint components such as lists, workflows, and site pages, but it can also surface a remote web application and remote data in SharePoint. An app has few or no dependencies on any other software on the device or platform where it is installed, other than what is built into the platform.

Apps have no custom code that runs on the SharePoint servers. Instead, all custom logic moves "up" to the cloud or "down" to client computers.

In SharePoint 2013 Apps can store in  SharePoint Store and the App Catalog.

We can use Visual Studio 2012 to create Apps easily because Visual Studio 2012 includes a new app project template in the Apps folder named Apps for SharePoint 2013.

You can also see below link to know more about What we can do in an app in SharePoint 2013.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp179899(v=office.15).aspx


Sunday, September 30, 2012

Features removed in SharePoint 2013

SharePoint 2013 released recently and Microsoft made changes in SharePoint 2013 compared to SharePoint 2010. There are some features introduced in SharePoint 2013 like Audio and Video content type. But below are some features that are removed from SharePoint 2013:

1. SharePoint 2013 has removed meeting workspace site template.

2. SharePoint 2013 also removed Personalization site template.

3. SharePoint 2013 also removed one feature in SharePoint 2010 designer. Previously SharePoint 2010 designer has Design, Split and Code view for editing Aspx/Html pages. But SharePoint 2013 removed Design and Split view, now only Code view is presented in SharePoint 2013. This changed feature is because Design view is not upto date with updated version of Internet explorer.

4. SharePoint 2013 removes UI for changing search topology, Now Search topology can be changed only by using PowerShell.

Also you can check browsers supported by SharePoint 2013.


Friday, September 28, 2012

Prerequisite to install SharePoint 2013

There are some Prerequisite need to install before installing SharePoint 2013 preview. Before installing SharePoint 2013 you should have a clear idea on Hardware and Software requirements of SharePoint 2013.
There are few prerequisite required for SharePoint 2013 preview. All are available in the prerequisiteinstaller.exe. If the prerequisites are not installed then prerequisiteinstaller.exe will install all the prerequisites.  Also you can individually download all the prerequisites.

The lists are:

Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.5 Release Candidate (RC) [Download]

Windows Management Framework 3.0 Release Candidate (RC) [Download]

Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role [Download]

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Native Client [Download]

Windows Identity Foundation (KB974405) [Download]

Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 SP1 (x64) [Download]

Windows Identity Extensions [Download]

Microsoft Information Protection and Control Client [Download]

Microsoft WCF Data Services 5.0 [Download]

Windows Server AppFabric [Download]

Cumulative Update Package 1 for Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server (KB 2671763) [Download]


Thursday, September 27, 2012

Audio and Video content type in SharePoint 2013

With this article we will discuss about a new feature introduced in SharePoint 2013 as Video and Audio content type. You can also check out the hardware and software requirements here and also check out the SharePoint 2013 installation video tutorial.

Video and Audio content type will be helpful to us to manage video and audio web content.

Video and Audio content type will be available in Digital Asset Content Types section, which is found Site Settings -> Site Content Types -> Digital Asset Content Types

You can add this content type to any document library or site asset library. Once you will add that You will get the option to upload video or audion in the New Document menu in the ribbon. As shown in the figure below

It has the advanced option like apart from the classic style of upload button you can also drag and drop a video or audio file.

Also check new feature introduced in SharePoint 2013 as: Improvement in word and Friendly URL in SharePoint 2013.


Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Friendly URL in SharePoint 2013

As we know there are many new features introduced in SharePoint 2013, In this article we will discuss about a new concept introduced in SharePoint 2013 called as Friendly URL. You can also check Improvement in word in SharePoint 2013 here.

As the name suggests Friendly URL means the URL should be properly understood by users, For example in SharePoint it usually appears like pages/default.aspx or ViewAllItems.aspx or sometimes Item.aspx?ID=5

Now in SharePoint 2013 we can give a very user friendly URL so that it will be good for users as well as for search engine optimization.

There are different steps to configure this in SharePoint 2013, you can follow a very good article here.


Monday, September 24, 2012

Improvement in word in SharePoint 2013

In this blog we will dicuss about a major improvement in SharePoint 2013 in Microsoft word. This is feature will be very much helpful towards SharePoint 2013 content management.

Apart from this you can see this article on changes of metting workspace site template in SharePoint 2013.

In SharePoint 2013 you can now design what ever you want in word and copy and paste that in any SharePoint 2013 site text editor. the output will come as it was there in word. There will be no harm in design and style.This is helpful because there are lot use of text editors in SharePoint 2013 like Announcement, Task or blog etc.

You can check some SharePoint 2013 video tutorials.


SharePoint 2013 search video tutorial

In this video tutorial you will able to know about SharePoint 2013 search. The tutorial is presented by Josh Noble one of the co author of Pro SharePoint 2010 Search book. You can also check about some SharePoint 2013 video tutorials here. You can also check out some SharePoint 2013 site templates articles.

This tutorial explained about What are the new search capabilities and limitations in SharePoint 2013 out of
box search.  This also explains about what are the improvements in crawler side, Query Side and User side.


Sunday, September 23, 2012

Introduction to SharePoint 2013 Team site

This video tutorial explain about team site overview in SharePoint 2013 by Asif Rehemani founder www.SharePoint-Videos.com. This explains clearly about the tabs available and navigations also. Also explains about document library etc. Mainly explains about the new modified UI of a Team Site in SharePoint 2013. Also this video tutorial explains about Site Actions menu as well as showing how to change the Site Title, Description etc.

Also you can check very interesting article on Meeting Workspace site template in SharePoint 2013. You can also see what are the different browsers supported by SharePoint 2013?.


Saturday, September 22, 2012

SharePoint 2013 interview questions and answers

Here are some SharePoint 2013 interview questions and answers mentions.

1- What's new in SharePoint 2013?

2- What's new for developers in SharePoint 2013? [Click here for Answer]

3- What's new for IT Pros in SharePoint 2013?  [Click here for Answer]

4- What is an App model in SharePoint 2013?

5- Which DotNet framework SharePoint 2013 supports?
6- What is the hardware requirements for SharePoint 2013?  [Click here for Answer]

7- What are software requirements for SharePoint 2013?  [Click here for Answer]

8- What is the database requirements for SharePoint 2013?  [Click here for Answer]

9- What are the different browsers supported by SharePoint 2013?  [Click here for Answer]

10- What is new in Workflow in SharePoint 2013?

11- What are the new Site Templates in SharePoint 2013?

12- What are the site templates obsolute in SharePoint 2013?

13- Is there any new webparts introduced in SharePoint 2013? And If yes What are the names?

14- Is Sandboxed solutions exists in SharePoint 2013?

15- What's new in social computing in SharePoint Server 2013 ?

16- Can you explain Physical architecture and logical architecture of SharePoint 2013?

17- What are the new improved social feature in SharePoint 2013?

18- How SharePoint 2013 search works?

19- What cloud app model in SharePoint 2013?

20- What is the work of Community Sites in SharePoint 2013?

21- What are the new master pages introduced in SharePoint 2013 compared to SharePoint 2010?

22- What are the new improvements in SharePoint designer 2013?

23- What are the new improvements in Visual Studio 2012 for SharePoint 2013?


Friday, September 21, 2012

What's new in SharePoint 2013 for IT Professionals?

This is a very good video tutorial that clearly explains what's new for IT Professionals in SharePoint 2013. This is a 1 hour video presented by Critical path training company.

You can also check my other article on hardware and software requirments for SharePoint 2013 and also you can check what are browsers supported in SharePoint 2013, Click Here.


SharePoint 2013 supported browsers

This article describes about SharePoint 2013 supported browsers. Also you can check here for Hardware and software requirement for SharePoint 2013 and also check here SharePoint 2013 video tutorials for IT pros.

Internet explorer:
Supports:
Internet explorer 9 32-bit, Internet explorer 8 32-bit. Also it supports Internet explorer 9 64-bit, Internet explorer 8 64-bit with some limitations.

Not Supported:
SharePoint 2013 does not support Internet explorer 6 or Internet explorer 7.

Mozilla Firefox:
SharePoint 2013 supports Mozilla Firefox 64-bit with limitations.
Not Supported:
Mozilla Firefox 32-bit

Google Chrome:
SharePoint 2013 supports Google chrome 64-bit with limitations.
Not Supported:
Google chrome 32-bit

Apple Safari:
SharePoint 2013 supports Apple Safari  32-bit with limitations.
Not Supported:
Apple Safari  64-bit


Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Download SharePoint 2013 books free

As we know SharePoint 2013 is just lunched, So there is no books available for SharePoint 2013. But Microsoft provides one deployment guide ebook which can be downloaded from this link. Thre are pdf and word document is available for this SharePoint 2013 deployment guide. Some of the topics covered in this guide are:

- SharePoint 2013 installation and configuration

- Installing prerequisites of SharePoint 2013

- Install or UnInstall of language packs for SharePoint 2013

- Uninstall SharePoint 2013 preview.

- Configure services in SharePoint 2013 preview.

- Create and configure a Search service application in SharePoint Server 2013 Preview

- Configure incoming and outgoing email for a SharePoint 2013 Preview farm

- Create claims-based web applications in SharePoint 2013 Preview

- Configure forms-based authentication for a claims-based web application in SharePoint 2013 Preview

- Configure My Sites in SharePoint 2013 Preview

- Overview of apps for SharePoint etc

Apart from this deployment guide you can also check some Video tutorials for IT Pros and some video tutorials for SharePoint 2013 developers.


Hardware and software requirement for SharePoint 2013

Below mentioned is the hardware and software requirement of SharePoint 2013. Also you can visit this article for SharePoint 2013 installation. Also you can check another interesting article on meeting workspace in SharePoint 2013.

Hardware Requirements:

Below mention is the hardware requirement for SharePoint Foundation 2013:
RAM: 8 GB
Processor: 64-Bit, 4 cores processor
Harddisk: 80 GB

Below mention is the hardware requirement for SharePoint Server 2013:

RAM: 24 GB
Processor: 64-Bit, 4 cores processor
Harddisk: 80 GB

Hardware requirement for database:

RAM: 8 GB (small deployments) and 16 GB (medium deployments).
Processor: 64-bit, 4 cores  (small deployments) and 64-bit, 8 cores (medium deployments).
Harddisk: 80-GB

Software Requirements:

Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter (64 bit edition)
Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter (64 bit edition)

Software Requirements for database:
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 64-bit
SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 64-bit
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 - Express Edition


Tuesday, September 18, 2012

SharePoint 2013 installation video

This video represents a video tutorial of SharePoint 2013 installation as well as the initial configuration. This video is presents by SharePoint-Videos.com. This also shows a demo how to create a SharePoint 2013 site collection. Also you can check another video on Introduction to SharePoint 2013.

SharePoint 2013 installation is more or less same as SharePoint 2010 installation. Below is the video.


SharePoint 2013 introduction tutorial

In this video tutorial we will able to know what are the new features in SharePoint 2013. As we know cloud computing is very much popular now, You will be know about Cloud based app model in SharePoint 2013.
You will be able to know about minimal download statergy, which tells SharePoint 2013 download only the changed content from the server.

Also you will be able to learn about enhanced social and collaboration feeature like mysite etc.

You will learn the enhancement in SharePoint search and Workflow, enterprise content management, web content management like video content type provided by SharePoint 2013 and also new improved features of BCS etc.


Meeting workspace removed in SharePoint 2013

As we know SharePoint 2013 preview has been released, there are certain changes made to SharePoint 2013 compared to SharePoint 2010.

One changes here is Meeting workspace will not be available in SharePoint 2013. Just to remind there are Basic Meeting Workspace, Blank Meeting Workspace, Decision Meeting Workspace, Social Meeting
Workspace, and Multipage Meeting Workspace under meeting workspace site template. So in SharePoint 2010 none of the meeting workspaces will be available.

According to microsoft for meeting related stuffs you can take the help of Office 2013 Preview and SharePoint 2013 Preview to accomplish the task. Like you can use Lync to conduct live meetings, OneNote to take notes during meetings, and a SharePoint team site or My Site to store shared meeting notes.

But as always Microsoft has a good migration plan. Existing sites that were created by using the Meeting Workspace site templates will continue to operate in SharePoint 2013 Preview. The Meeting Workspace site templates will be removed completely from the next major release of SharePoint and sites that were created by using the Meeting Workspace site templates will not be supported.

Also you can check SharePoint 2013 video tutorials for developers and SharePoint 2013 video tutorials for
IT pros.


Saturday, September 15, 2012

SharePoint 2013 video tutorials for IT pros

Here are some video tutorials provided by Microsoft for SharePoint 2013. Also you can check some SharePoint 2013 video tutorials for Developers click here.

Below are the topics covered in SharePoint 2013 video tutorials provided by Microsoft:

- SharePoint 2013 IT pro introduction and overview

- SharePoint 2013 system requirements

- SharePoint 2013 architectural changes
- SharePoint 2013 server farms and site architecture planning

- Office Web Apps 2013 architecture and deployment

- SharePoint 2013 service application architecture and individual service

- SharePoint 2013 enterprise search overview

- SharePoint 2013 social features

- SharePoint 2013 enterprise content management and web content management considerations

- SharePoint 2013 customization options and management

- SharePoint 2013 authentication and authorization overview

- Overview of SharePoint 2013 business continuity management

- Upgrading to SharePoint 2013

- What's new in Project 2013 for IT Professionals

You can follow this link for the above videos.


Friday, September 14, 2012

SharePoint 2013 video tutorials for Developers

As we know SharePoint 2013 released recently, so there are few video tutorials available. But still there are few SharePoint 2013 training video tutorials published by Microsoft. Also there are few video tutorials released from SharePoint-Videos.com web sites.

The speaker is a very well know trainer Asif Rehmani, who is also a Microsoft MVP.

Asif Rehmani videos are approximately small duration videos but very useful videos. Here are topics covered in Asif Rehmani Videos.
- Installing SharePoint Server 2013
- Walkthrough of SharePoint 2013 Team Site
- Uploading documents to Documents library in SharePoint 2013
- Changing the look and feel of a SharePoint 2013 Team Site
- Exploring Apps in SharePoint 2013
- Managing Quick Launch navigation in SharePoint 2013 team site
- Changing the site logo, title and description of SharePoint 2013 Team Site
- Exploring Site Actions for a SharePoint 2013 Team Site

You can follow this link for the above SharePoint 2013 videos.

Below are the topics covered in SharePoint 2013 video tutorials provided by Microsoft:

- Introduction to Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 Development
- SharePoint 2013 app model for developers
- SharePoint 2013 developer tools
- Hosted apps in SharePoint 2013
- Create cloud-hosted apps for SharePoint 2013
- SharePoint 2013 client object model (CSOM) and REST APIs
- OAuth and application identity in SharePoint 2013
- Develop SharePoint 2013 remote event receivers
- Workflow changes and features in SharePoint 2013
- Business connectivity services changes in SharePoint 2013
-  Search features and changes in SharePoint 2013
- Enterprise content management changes in SharePoint 2013
- Web content management changes and features in SharePoint 2013
- Social features in SharePoint 2013
- Office services in SharePoint 2013
- reate mobile apps for SharePoint 2013
- Develop apps for Office 2013
- Project Server 2013 training for developers

You can follow this link for the above videos.


Thursday, September 13, 2012

SharePoint 2013 - Finally

Finally SharePoint 2013 is out and the next version of SharePoint 2010 beta already released. Lots of improvement towards developers and IT pros.

There was also lots of talk on what will be the next version, wether it will be SharePoint 2015 or SharePoint 2013. Finally it named as SharePoint 2013.

Here is the SharePoint 2013 logo.

Download SharePoint 2013 useful software from Microsoft:

Below are some links to download SharePoint 2013 useful software.

SharePoint Server 2013 preview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973397

SharePoint Foundation 2013 Preview
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30345

SharePoint Designer 2013
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30346

As such there was no books released, but you can download an ebook for deployment guide for SharePoint 2013 from here
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30384


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