If you are building workflows in SharePoint 2013, you'll no doubt have installed Workflow Manager 1.0, the new standalone service which actually executes the workflows. A new set of tutorials have just been released on creating your first workflow...

I needed to deliver some basic "getting started" sessions recently for developers who are new to SharePoint. Whilst SP 2013 is now in market, many customers are still developing for SP2010 (or even just getting around to installing it!) so all the new...

These posters are a great place to start when learning/planning your SharePoint 2013 infrastructure: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263199.aspx They provide visual representations of recommended solutions for SharePoint 2013 in the...

All this low level stuff also got me thinking about the first ever Windows worm I had to deal with when working at a previous company - The Nimda Worm ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimda . This was the first every worm that I had captured and analysed...

Every so often I get excited about the internals of Windows and how it works (I secretly harbour a desire to be a hard core kernel debugger!). Recently whilst watching "Defrag Tools" ( http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Defrag-Tools/ ) on Channel 9, I decided...

At time of writing, these are the latest versions of the various things you'll need to have installed to develop effectively on the SharePoint 2013 platform. I say "effectively" because prior to this, there where so many bugs/problems that is made development...

I'm going to start a keeping a list of the new stuff I've learnt about SharePoint recently. Just how regular I'll actually upload stuff remains to be seen. Whilst you might find this list useful, I've got to be honest: I'm creating it for myself so I...

When working with and editing User Profile properties in SharePoint, you'll notice there is a section of the EditProperty.aspx page which gives a count of the number of profiles currently using that particular profile property, e.g.: However...

There is no way in the UI or via an out of the box PowerShell command to change the application pool used by a web application. Don't bother trying to create one manually in IIS and setting the web app to use this, it won't work because the application...

I'm learning about workflow in SharePoint 2013 at the moment and when looking for some background reading, I came across this series of videos. They cover the underlying WF platform and development best practices. Workflow and Custom Activities...

If you need sample apps for SharePoint for demo or training purposes, you can download lots of them from: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/officeapps/

If you've just built a new preview/beta SharePoint 2013 farm and followed this up with an installation of Visual Studio 2012 RTM you might be surprised to see that VS2012 doesn't include any of the SP2013 developer templates (just some updated versions...

As part of my SharePoint work (especially when working with SharePoint claims and ADFS v2.0) I need to configure Active Directory Certificate Services. Part of this means setting up AD CS to issue Web Server certificates (i.e. SSL certificates). So...

Here's my list of SharePoint 2013 Beta 2 learning and training resources. Theses are the videos/labs/documentation I'm reading myself to skill-up on the new version..... PS SharePoint 2013 Beta 1 was only made available to a limited set of customers...

This article provides ASP.NET developers with an insight into SharePoint development concepts from an ASP.NET developer’s perspective, making it easier to transition to become a SharePoint dev. As a prerequisite, you should have a basic understanding...

Hands on Labs for Developing Applications on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 These are a set of 10 Hands on Labs (HOLs) for developing applications for WSS3.0 (but are also fully applicable to SharePoint Foundation) with Visual Studio provided in C#...

It can be difficult for a developer new to SharePoint to know what to use to implement various scenarios, or even what is possible. These articles contains a high-level overview of SharePoint as a development platform, compares and contrasts SharePoint...

These courses contain free technical training on emerging Microsoft products and technologies. Each course includes a set of videos, hands-on labs, and source code samples to get you up-to-speed quickly. Watch the videos to get an overview of the technology...

Found this last week and it related to a problem I was working on. http://sharesilver.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/sharepoint-bugs-1-item-deleting-event-receiver/

For those wanting the quick start guide to SharePoint patching, read this little baby.... Install a software update (SharePoint Server 2010)

About a year ago I wrote a little command line tool in C# which downloaded the Bing background image each day for each country around the world. I've got 100s of images now as you'd expect which I use for filling image libraries when doing SharePoint...

Now that you can install Microsoft SharePoint 2010 on the Windows 7 and Windows Vista operating systems, what is the best way to do it? There are many considerations from RAM and CPU to sample content and custom properties. One of the keys is PowerShell...

Rob Miles and Andy Wigley are back! The "Building Applications for Windows Phone "Mango" Jump Start" is a follow-up to last year's Windows Phone 7 Jump Start sessions. During these videos, Rob and Andy outline how to create Windows Phone applications...

Just as I was hitting the books to learn all things SharePoint and BI, along comes this set of business intelligence training videos....just what I needed! SharePoint Server 2010 Business Intelligence Insights Training It also helps to have had...

This is a simple script I knocked up to locate which SPWebs and SPLists where using a particular content type. Just update the first two lines of the script to include your web application name and the content type you are looking for. The script will...