Month: November 2012

European SharePoint Community Awards 2013
European SharePoint Community Awards 2013
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Following the hugely successful campaign in 2012, the prestigious European SharePoint Community Awards are back! Your enthusiasm was so inspiring that we have increased the number of awards this year and are delighted to announce the line-up of categories below. This is your community and we are offering you a chance to showcase your group’s best competitive SharePoint project, solution, strategy or innovation. Take the opportunity to showcase your group’s strengths and receive the highest accolade from the SharePoint Community within one or all of the following categories;

Creating SharePoint 2013 Themes, First Look, Gotchas, Provisioning with Visual Studio 2012
Creating SharePoint 2013 Themes, First Look, Gotchas, Provisioning with Visual Studio 2012
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So, I checked the Internet and yes, it’s the first ever video/post on how to create custom theme in SharePoint 2013 with Visual Studio 2012.

In here we cover:

1. Basics of how to change the theme
2. Components of the theme
3. Adding new theme with UI
4. Adding new theme with Visual Studio
5. Gotchas and things that took me a day to figure out
6. Putting it all together in Visual Studio 2012 solution

Baby-Stepping Your Way into Project Management
Baby-Stepping Your Way into Project Management
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After spending the first 15 or so years of my career largely in Project Management roles, I’m sort of a PM junkie when it comes to books and tools and methodologies of how to move something from ideation (PM wonk term for idea creation, or initiation phase) to delivery and, ultimately, support. When Arpan Shah moved from the SharePoint product team at Microsoft over to Project Server (he’s now working on Office365), I shared some advice with him (which I’m sure he doesn’t remember): don’t try to solve too many problems at once, but simplify the tool. As I got to know Christophe Fiessinger on Arpan’s team over the past couple years, I told him the same thing. So when I met with members of the revamped Project team a couple weeks back to talk about SharePoint 2013 and roadmap for SharePoint Online and Office365, I expected to have much the same conversation.

Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 Reached RTM
Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 Reached RTM
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Microsoft has just announced (okay, it was three days ago…) that the new Office 2013 family of applications reached the RTM (Release to Manufacturing) milestone. If you’re not familiar with the term, this means the development and testing phases of the product are finished

Don't SharePoint While Walking
Don’t SharePoint While Walking
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Harmon.ie has made it even easier to access SharePoint by making a mobile app that is available for tablets and smartphones. It has led to making this video to spread the word, and I was hoping that you wouldn’t mind mentioning it on your site.