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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