If you haven't heard, there's a new way to develop and integrate apps in SharePoint 2013. There's an event on May 20, 2013 that will go through this topic in depth. Feel free to sign up at the link below. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/office/apps/dn133840

I recently worked a customer issue, where the customer was going through a domain migration. The customer is running SharePoint 2010. (This works for both 2007 and 2013 as well) There are two forests, with users in both. Users from one of the domains...

I frequently see the question asking if/when will Service Pack 2 for SharePoint 2010 will be released. I don't know when, but if we look at the following KB article, it appears there will be a Service Pack 2 for SP2010. It will add support for Windows...

There are two ways to remove the Quick Launch in SharePoint 2013. The first is to open the site in Share Designer, and uncheck the option to "Display Quick Launch". While this works, it doesn't move the content to the left. You're left with an empty space...

I've recently volunteered for a project to recreate a couple of site templates for SP2013. During this process, I was creating the items on a farm in my lab. (On Premise/Private Cloud) When I finished up my work, I needed to test that the template worked...

I have a Microsoft Wireless Notebook Bluetooth Mouse 5000 for my laptop, when I go mobile. I like this mouse, because it doesn’t have an extra dongle that eats up a USB port. When I just booted my laptop up, my mouse wasn’t connecting. It had been working...

I got tapped to help with an internal project to upgrade a couple of custom site templates from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. No big deal right? I'll just create a new site in SP2010 off of the original template, content DB attach it to 2013, and...

If you're about to diagram your upcoming SharePoint 2013 farm, or want to update the one you've already made, we just released some new Visio stencils for SharePoint 2013. Big thanks to Kirk Evans for making me aware of this. http://blogs.technet.com...

A lot of customers want to know if you can upgrade from SharePoint Server 2007/WSS 3.0 to SharePoint 2013. The answer to that question is not directly. You'll have to upgrade your content and service applications(if required) through the process to get...

SharePoint 2010 does not support PowerShell 3.0 at this time. If you or your admin team install PS 3.0 on your SharePoint 2010 farm, you will have some compatibility issues with the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell. This happens, because the shortcut...

With the recent announcement that the Forefront product line is going away, a number of customers have asked me about other products that plug into SharePoint for AV. Here’ a quick list I put together. (I’ll periodically update the list) Microsoft’s Position...

If you haven't heard, the Visual Studio Load Test team is in the process of releasing some custom tools for load testing SharePoint. While the basic web test works nicely, you'll now get some more flexibility to interact with SharePoint components like...

SharePoint 2013 has reached RTM. Check out the details here. http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=1035

So you're saying to yourself, "Sweet, SP2013 has released! Now how the heck do I learn what's in such a massive product?". Fortunately Microsoft has your covered. For each of our products we have a program called Ignite. Ignite's purpose is to get as...

Office 2013 has hit the RTM milestone. I've read that MSDN and volume license customers should be able to get their hands on the product sometime between mid-November and early December. Retail availability looks like it will be in early 2013. I would...

A customer recently needed some help deleting a bunch of sites of old sites in an environment that was no longer in use. They used STSADM enumsites to take an inventory of what was in the farm/web application. They used the greater than(>) symbol in...

If you haven't noticed, I'm currently in the process of updating my blog theme to the new Windows 8 style. Over the last week or so, and the following week or two, you might see a few more changes. Please tolerate the hiccups, because I'm still a novice...

If you haven’t seen the news yet, Microsoft just changed it’s logo for the first time in 25 years. Check out the full story. http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2012/08/23/microsoft-unveils-a-new-look.aspx

Yesterday’s big announcement by Steve Ballmer was in fact the announcement of SharePoint Server 2013, Office 2013 in various flavors and other related technologies. The customer preview builds are available immediately for download as well as some training...

Steve Ballmer is hosting an event today at noon pacific time. Internet rumors say it’s going to be an Office Wave 15 announcement. Check it out to see if they’re true! http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/presskits/office/liveevent.aspx

Visual Studio 2012 is adding some features for SharePoint 2010 development. The following items have been added. Check out the links below for more details. I have to say, I wish these would have been released sooner, but late is better than never. Create...

I recently upgraded hardware on one of my machines that I use for work. In the process, my network card changed. As part of the system update, I was trying to update the Intel ProSet Network Connection Drivers/Software on my Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit...

SharePoint 2010 is now available via Azure Infrastructure as a Service. (Iaas) As you start to think about cloud deployments and migrations, keep this knowledge handy. “ Windows Azure Virtual Machines — Virtual Machines give you application mobility,...

SharePoint Server 2010 introduced Web Analytics . As part of the reporting component for Web Analytics, we create two databases, a reporting and staging database. The Web Analytics service is responsible for pushing data into these databases. The data...

If anyone is looking for SharePoint Training, we offer some on the Microsoft Learning Portal. There is a mix of online, classroom and book content. Some content is free, and some isn’t. The free content rotates on an unknown to me schedule. Check back...