Microsoft is heavy in its campaign since publically making available the Microsoft Office 2013 Preview for client and server operating systems in July. I spend a great deal of time discussing with our customers all things business productivity. One of the biggest questions that keeps coming up is whether they should upgrade to SharePoint 2013 sooner rather than later.
SharePoint 2013 offers new methods for collaboration. A simplified user interface helps you organize your projects (and teams), and helps you to discover people and information easily. Moreover, you can sync and share all your content. This way, you can keep track of what your colleagues are working on, and discover experts you never knew existed. In this article, I will show you how to use Task List in SharePoint 2013.
Alright, you might also call it “adding to rumors around sharepoint 2013 search and FAST features” because until RTM comes out, we might see few things cut or added .
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.
On my visit to London last week, I was able to spend some time with the Microsoft Information Worker field team. One of the things presented was my take on the forthcoming SharePoint 2013 release. In a previous post, I shared my thoughts on some of the themes that I saw within this release — and I talked about those themes with the Microsoft team at length, but I also shared a quick snapshot of the standout features that, for me, make this release compelling.
If you are creating an App for SharePoint 2013 and plan to access BCS external data by using the REST API to query an external list, keep in mind that you must package your External Content Type in the SPAPP as well. If you do not, you will see this error returned by your request to the REST service:
SharePoint 2013 has an array of new features across different workloads. Enterprise search is one of the workloads that encompass a lot of updates and enhancements. This blog article lists the main new features that have been enhanced/added to SharePoint 2013.
Adlib PDF Publisher is included in the SharePoint 2013 Marketplace Preview which is a new cloud-based, Windows Azure-hosted application that enables business users to accurately convert documents to PDF and automate the merging and formatting of multiple documents to a single PDF. Organizations can improve collaboration through the distribution of accurate and controlled compound documents to colleagues and customers.
The title talks about itself …
• Developing on the cloud. No need to install anything, you can write your code, build, deploy all on the cloud,
• No need for more RAMs as SharePoint 2013 and Visual Studio 2012 requires,
• You can start developing for Office and SharePoint without having to install Visual Studio 2012,
• You only need good Internet access
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
