30. September 2012 19:14
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Last week we introduced something special for Napa – Share Project Share Your Projects Yes, you can now easily share your projects with everyone with just a click (three to be precise) Once you click the Share Project icon, you will asked for your permission to share Once you click Share but...
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16. August 2012 23:49
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If you are not familiar with the new App Model, I would highly recommend users to read my previous blog post to get familiar with the new App Model before building your first SharePoint App: Introducing Apps for Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 Getting Your Office 365 Preview Account To build...
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16. August 2012 12:10
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Today, we made available Visual Studio 2012 RTM for MSDN subscribers However Visual Studio 2012 RTM does not include the Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 Developer Tools Preview with it. So, to install the preview tools, you need to grab the Microsoft Web Platform Installer Download the web platfor...
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16. August 2012 01:18
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One of the new SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013 development model is the App model. Using this new App model, developers can easily extend SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013 and build great apps that integrate with millions of services out there. Below is a video introducing apps for Office 2013 and S...
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30. May 2012 21:05
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My Windows Phone App – Event Finder App – just got published last week and is available now in the Marketplace! If you are in New Zealand, you can use the app to browse local events in your region from the Event Finder web site – http://www.eventfinder.co.nz For the rest of the world, the app sho...
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5. May 2012 20:43
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Recently I have received a lot of misinformation on associating workflows to content types managed via Content Type (CT) Hub.
It is true that workflows do not get published along with the content type from the hub. That means, if you have associated a workflow to a content type and publish the cont...
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5. March 2012 19:39
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Microsoft released Visual Studio 11 Beta last week – This also includes Team Foundation Server (TFS) 11. What you might have noticed is the addition of new product TFS Express 11 available for FREE. TFS Express 11 is a new product line-up in the Visual Studio Express Editions giving you the capabil...
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31. January 2012 23:19
by Chaks
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This is a follow up of my previous post – Understanding SharePoint Sites When customers ask me what they should be doing with their newly deployed SharePoint environment, I say Put People First! – Let users find their peers, colleagues. Let them share information with their peers/colleagues. Redire...
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31. January 2012 05:39
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Are you eagerly waiting for “Office 15”? Then here is some news! We just announced the beginning of the “Office 15” Technical Preview and a public beta later this summer! (Summer in the USA, Winter here in NZ) While the Technical Preview program is already full, everyone will have the opportun...
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30. January 2012 11:55
by Chaks
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One of the new enterprise search feature added to SharePoint 2010 is the ability to search people by their ‘nicknames’. For example: You could search ‘aron’ for ‘aaron’ or ‘jon’ for ‘john’. We geeks call this Phonetic search Below is a screen shot of the nickname search: How does this wor...
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26. January 2012 23:13
by Chaks
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Spencer has written by far THE BEST blog post on configuring User Profile Service (UPS) Application in SharePoint 2010. Below are the steps I always check/validate when I provision the UPS:
1) Add SPFarm admin account to local administrators group
2) Allow log on locally to SPFarm admin account
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25. January 2012 21:50
by Chaks
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SharePoint is a platform. When you deploy SharePoint, it is going to help you build and automate many business solutions, not just the project for which you are deploying. Yes, I hear you – Every project starts with building an Intranet! But is your organisation ready for the Intranet? And what abo...
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7. October 2011 14:10
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Ari Bakker and Wictor Wilen both have done great jobs on documenting what it takes to provision SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata fields.
- Ari Bakker’s Provisioning SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata fields
- Wictor Wilen’s How to provision SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata columns
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20. September 2011 23:46
by Chaks
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SharePoint Calendar is a great tool to manage events related to your site and also provides many other capabilities like creating multiple calendars and overlaying calendars.
The Problem
What about exporting individual events as .ical so you can add them to Outlook?
It is available out of the box...
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15. September 2011 21:11
by Chaks
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The Problem
If you are using custom web templates to create your site, you may face an issue where InfoPath forms don’t work in your site.
Here is the screen shot of the error message:
Read more here