Slipstreamed Copies of Office 2013 and SharePoint Server 2013 with SP1 Announced

At the SharePoint Conference today Microsoft announced that a slipstreamed version of Office 2013 and SharePoint Server 2013 with service pack 1 is releasing.

Available today for download from the Microsoft Volume Licensing site, IT Pros will be able to provide full installation versions of Microsoft's Office and SharePoint products with the integrated SP1 bits. This ensures an easy installation of Office 2013 with SP1 to new systems and provides the ability to install SharePoint 2013 with SP1 directly to Windows Server 2012R2. It also delivers IT Pros with the tools to create administrative installations and custom deployments.

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Sharepoint 2013 adds new social features

If you still think of SharePoint as document libraries with a nicer interface and more management tools than a file share then you're missing a lot of the value. Increasingly, SharePoint is about connecting employees as well as letting them collaborate on documents.

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Identify SharePoint 2013 Foundation or Server (Version)

It's crazy that there are easy ways to determine what the Edition (SKU) of SharePoint 2013 is that you are running. I have come across this several times, where someone asks me a SharePoint question. Not that I want to answer a question with a question, but the first thing I ask is what version of SharePoint they are running.

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Show Tree View Navigation SharePoint 2013

Sometimes the default SharePoint 2013 Quick Launch is not enough to assist users to navigate to a SharePoint site. The tree view is an extra navigation option that provides a hierarchical view of all sites, lists and libraries in the site, including any sites below the current site level, such as the Document Center site template, display tree view navigation by default.

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SharePoint 2013 doesn’t support Windows Server Core Installation

Last week I was talking to Bill Baer, (blog | Twitter) my BFF and Senior Technical Product Manager for SharePoint at Microsoft. We were chatting about fun things like muscle cars, schnitzel, and how awesome Iowa is. I’d recently been asked by a couple of customers if SharePoint 2013 supported being installed on a Server Core installation of Windows. For those of you that haven’t played with this yet, it’s a minimal installation of Windows Server. The idea is that the fewer things you have running on Windows the fewer resources it will take, the less you’ll have to patch, and the fewer places the bad guys will have to attack your server. Everybody wins except the bad guys.

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Create App Catalog Site in SharePoint 2013

This article explains how to create an app catalog site in SharePoint 2013 using SharePoint 2013 Central Administration/PowerShell. An app catalog site contains a special type of Document Library that is used to upload and store app package files.

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Configuring and fine tuning SQL Server for SharePoint 2013

Hot on the heels of my award-winning, life-changing, awe-inspiring article, Set Up SQL Server 2012 as a SharePoint 2013 Database Server, comes parts 2 and 3 at SharePoint Pro Mag. If there was a story that demanded a sequel, this is it. Now, if you haven’t read part 1 yet, go ahead and get caught up. You don’t want to start in the middle of the story. You need to know who the characters are, and what our protagonist's motivations are, what the exotic locations are, what is the McGuffin, etc. The story in part 2 picks up right where part 1 ends, so you’ll need to be up to speed.

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SharePoint 2013 and HTTP Module

How to deploy http module in SharePoint 2013.

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How to tell which Service Pack 1 you have installed on SharePoint 2013

It’s been a fun couple of months for guys like me that watch SharePoint patching. Earlier this month Microsoft discovered aparticularly nasty bug in SharePoint 2013 Service Pack 1 and they pulled it. They locked their best and brightest patchmeisters into a room, threw in some Mt. Dew and Snickers bars and had them crank out a newer, better, stronger,more-able-to-be-patched version of Service Pack 1. If you were one of the people that installed the first, broken SP1, the fix is to install the new, shiny SP1 over top of it. The problem is figuring out which version of SP1 you have installed. The new SP1 looks an awful lot like his older brother, right down to the Farm build number (15.0.4569.1000). There is an easy way to tell them apart in Central Administration.

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How to Upload Files to SharePoint 2013 with PowerShell

Every once in a while I get to add a little flair to a project I’m working on. Recently I was working on a couple of projects that intersected, sort of. First, I’ve been writing some scripts to automate some processes we have. These scripts do some pretty good logging to the file system in case there are problems. The average person would have stopped there, but not me. I wanted to take it a step farther. I added a bit where the script uploads the log files to a SharePoint document library. This makes them easier to get to for support personnel, and it makes it easier to search through them for specific issues. SharePoint saves the day again.

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How to Configure Page Output Caching in SharePoint 2013

In a normal operation, SharePoint generates ASP.NET pages dynamically from page templates and database content. These ASP.NET pages are then converted into HTML and sent to the client browser. This is a resource-intensive process. Page output caching stores the HTML output for specific SharePoint pages in memory, so that SharePoint does not need to regenerate a commonly-requested page every time.

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Enterprise Keywords in SharePoint 2013

I have noticed that SharePoint Users take a lengthy route of column creation to add Enterprise Keywords.

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Working With Search Engine Optimization Settings in SharePoint 2013

SharePoint 2013 introduces native support for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) that requires custom solutions in SharePoint Server 2010 and earlier versions of the product. This feature primarily focuses on Web Content Management (WCM) implementations, because it is available only for publishing sites with the feature activated.

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How to Debug SharePoint 2013 Using Server-Side Request Tracing

In some cases, problems can occur before requests reach SharePoint. To investigate such problems, you may need to capture and analyze network traffic or IIS requests.

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Nintex Forms in SharePoint 2013 / Office 365

Welcome to an article on Nintex Forms in SharePoint 2013 / Office 365. Here we will see how to use Nintex forms; I will be showing everything in detail so even a first time user doesn't have any issue.

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Terms as Search Refiners in SharePoint 2013

In this article we can explore how to convert Managed Metadata Terms into Search Refiners.

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Forms-Based Authentication in SharePoint 2013

Forms-Based Authentication is a claims-based identity management system that is based on ASP.NET membership and role provider authentication.

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Problem and Solution - SharePoint 2013 Prerequisites Installation on Windows Server 2012 R2

After I installed my Windows Server 2012 180 days trial version I decided to install SharePoint Server 2013 and give it a try (I know I'm late but being late is better than never).

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Your SharePoint 2013 farm in Microsoft Azure is just clicks away

The Azure Preview Portal now supports the automated creation of a basic or high-availability SharePoint farm in Microsoft Azure.

You can use your Azure subscription, an Azure trial subscription, or your MSDN subscription to set up your farm.

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SharePoint 2013 Search - Part 1

In this Article:

• Result Sources
• Federated Search
• Setup Bing Search
• Search External Data Sources
• Setup File Shares Search

SharePoint enterprise search is regarded as one of the world’s best search technologies. SharePoint 2013 has gone one step farther and added new enhancements to this world-class technology. There are new enhancements for finding people and expertise. Phonetic search works in multiple languages. Search results display authored documents and information about past projects that can showcase a person’s expertise. There are contact cards that provide a way to contact people directly from the search results.