Month: September 2012

Survey: SharePoint Puzzle
Survey: SharePoint Puzzle
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While we appreciate the support of these sponsors, we also greatly value our objectivity and independence as a non-profit industry association. The results of the survey and the market commentary made in this report are independent of any bias from the vendor community.

The survey was taken using a web-based tool by 551 individual members of the AIIM community between May 30th, and June 25th, 2012. Invitations to take the survey were sent via e-mail to a selection of the 65,000 AIIM community members.

Survey demographics can be found in Appendix 1. Graphs throughout the report exclude responses from organizations with less than 10 employees, and suppliers of ECM products or services, taking the number of respondents to 488.

Video: Roll Up Content from Across Multiple Sites in SharePoint 2013
Video: Roll Up Content from Across Multiple Sites in SharePoint 2013
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If you’re currently working with SharePoint 2010 you know that it’s not a power user task to build content roll ups spanning across multiple sites. With SharePoint 2010 you can do that with one web part and without requiring a knowledge of a query language, at least in basic scenarios.

Check out the below video to see what else is available with Content Search web part; highlights from the video:

1. Building Content Search query
2. Managing result types
3. Your results depend on the recency of the search crawl
4. Adding refiners to your query
5. Presenting your results as a list, slideshow etc

New search features in SharePoint 2013
New search features in SharePoint 2013
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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, below is a summary of some of the search enhancements:

SharePoint 2013 App Model Advantages
SharePoint 2013 App Model Advantages
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SharePoint 2013 applicaiton model is very strong approach for developer to leverage there skil and developer wornderful apps except using any sever side code. as we know Sandbox solution is deprecating in sharePoint 2013 because of so many ressones. but SharePoint 2013 open new door for developer to develop,market,earm Apps.

Uploading Large Files to SharePoint
Uploading Large Files to SharePoint
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Sometimes we face a need when we upload large files like 100MB, and what happens is error or timeout.. so we can configure 2 different values to over come the timeout and the error. Step 1: In Central Administration: This is due a settings in Central Administration. You can change this by opening to Central Administration > Application Management > select your web application and from ribbon click General Settings and choose “General Settings”

How to Clean Up SharePoint to Prepare for SharePoint 2013 Migration
How to Clean Up SharePoint to Prepare for SharePoint 2013 Migration
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Many organizations will soon be upgrading or migrating to SharePoint 2013 when it releases and soon thereafter. Today, with SharePoint 2013 Preview being publicly available, best practices call for preparing for and testing your upgrades. A published Microsoft article fully describes the steps you’ll need to follow in order to better prepare your environment for an upgrade and increase the chances of it being a successful one.

The best cloud app, ever, by a country mile
The best cloud app, ever, by a country mile
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I’m always being asked about tools. Tools to help me cheat, tools to help me be quicker, tools to avoid the need for thinking. Tools that make a SharePoint person’s life better. That sorta thing. Often times tools I will mention have nothing to do with SharePoint, but are simply what I consider to be core elements of operating a Windows based infrastructure.

SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflows
SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflows
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Automating your business processes is obviously an essential part of SharePoint. SharePoint 2010 provides us with multiple ways in which we can implement this automation – using workflows. This beginner-level article is to help you get started with this functionality. Check out the resources cited at the end of the article to continue your journey.