Tag: SharePoint 2013

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

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.

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.

SharePoint 2013: A look at the New Options for Managing Users and Their Licensing
SharePoint 2013: A look at the New Options for Managing Users and Their Licensing
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In todays episode of discovering awesome features in SharePoint 2013 we’re going to take a look at something really interesting, a feature that has been requested for years, a better management of end-user licensing in SharePoint.

Even though this article contains a lot about SharePoint 2013 licensing I must make it very clear that nothing has yet been communicated from Microsoft regarding licensing on SharePoint 2013, and I am no expert on licensing and this is a Preview and this article must be considered as-is, things will and might change over the course of time. Remind me to go back to this article once SharePoint 2013 has gone gold. Microsoft has not made any statements about this and it might be so that you can forget about this article after RTM.

SharePoint 2013: Business Connectivity Services – Consuming OData in BCS using an App External Content Type
SharePoint 2013: Business Connectivity Services – Consuming OData in BCS using an App External Content Type
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As most if not all of you already know, SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013 has been released to preview/beta and is available for download from Microsoft’s download centers. In this article I will briefly introduce some exciting changes that has been made to the SharePoint 2013 Business Connectivity Services framework. I’ve written a bunch of articles on BCS for SharePoint 2010, and now it’s time to continue that track and introduce the new features available in SharePoint 2013.

Multi Tenancy with SharePoint 2013 Preview: What’s new and changed
Multi Tenancy with SharePoint 2013 Preview: What’s new and changed
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SharePoint 2013 Preview introduces a number of new elements and additional considerations for multi tenancy deployments. This article is intended as a companion to my Rational Guide to Multi Tenancy with SharePoint 2010 article series and will cover what’s new and changed in this release with respect to configuration and functionality. It is assumed you are familiar with the material in the article series.

How to: Build a SharePoint-hosted Client Web Part in SharePoint 2013
How to: Build a SharePoint-hosted Client Web Part in SharePoint 2013
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I am extremely interested in the new SharePoint 2013 App model so I have been doing a lot with them lately. The latest thing I was trying was building a SharePoint-hosted Client Web Part. I have found that there is not a lot of information out there yet on how to use these so I wanted to share some of the things I ran into. This post on MSDN is good to help you get started with the setup of your app. Hopefully this info will help you get started. This post assumes you have installed Visual Studio 2012 RC as well as the SharePoint development tools.

Evaluating SharePoint 2013
Evaluating SharePoint 2013
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It is an exciting time for all of us in the SharePoint community. SharePoint 2013 is definitely one of the most anticipated Microsoft releases and many people have been waiting patiently to get their feet wet. Last week’s public beta marks a major milestone in the SharePoint 2013 journey. Whether or not your organization plans to upgrade to the new version immediately after the RTM – whenever that may be– the time is right to start preparing for it. Learning about ways to upgrade to SharePoint 2013 and what has changed in the upgrade process is an important step in getting yourself ready.