Many developers, especially those beginning their careers, have challenges with the full spectrum of what it is to be a “developer”. A “developer” is an individual who is solution focused with a programming language preference or preferences. However, if you don’t understand the core tools and methodologies behind development, even the most powerful (or popular) …
Charlotte’s SharePoint Saturday was buzzing with the new technologies surrounding SharePoint 2013, but continued to demonstrate the core challenges when implementing solutions on this platform.
With strong regional and some national representation from the speakers, the daylong event offered insights ranging from development techniques to full Cloud based implementations. Within “the Cloud” domain, sessions discussed the traditional channel of SharePoint Online, but also leveraging Azure to build entire 2013 Farms in an off-premise environment. From a development standpoint, users are excited to embrace SharePoint as a development platform, especially considering the use of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. PowerShell also took center stage; not only for Farm deployment, but options for managing content in bulk and interaction with workflows…
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Like many, I was excited about the prospects of leveraging Windows 8 built-in Storage Spaces/Storage Pool functionality. I loaded 3 x 2TB 7200 RPM disks together only to be greatly disappointed by the performance. With Read/Write speed under 22MB, it would appear that running flash drives would be more effective. While Server 2012 has a more robust approach and speeds, I would place caution for those trying to leverage this functionality in Windows 8. I strongly recommend using Crystal Disk Mark to test the before/after performance of your disks to see if it will meet your requirements. Here is an article that also speaks to this issue: Storage Spaces Performance-Windows 8
Microsoft has released a step by step progression to developing basic Windows Apps using HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript. Here is the link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br211385.aspx
Windows PowerShell 3.0 offers signficant improvements over its predecessor. Per TechNet (Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh857339.aspx), this includes and is not limited to: Disconnected Sessions Windows PowerShell Workflow Windows PowerShell Web Access Scheduled Jobs Module Auto-Loading and Cmdlet Discovery Improvements Get-ChildItem Attributes and Recursive Searches Map Network Drives Extend Types Without Types.ps1xml Files Simplified Syntax for Where-Object and ForEach-Object Updatable …
One of the most intriguing features of SharePoint 2013 is Managed Navigation. Per Microsoft, “Managed navigation lets you define and maintain the navigation on a site by using term sets. Managed navigation supplements the existing SharePoint navigation that is based on site structure. You create the managed navigation structure by adding terms to term sets in the Term Store Management tool. You can copy the navigation term set and translate it into the same languages that are used for variations labels.”
Source: TechNet
Key aspects of Managed Navigation include:
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Document Sets provide advanced flexibility and power for managing content. Per Microsoft, Documents Sets “are designed to manage all aspects of work products. They provide a user interface (UI), metadata options, behaviors, and object model elements that fill a gap in the hierarchy of containers between documents and sites.”
Source: Microsoft TechNet
Document Sets can share metadata with their contents, making it easier to tag and manage content. Workflows can be run on individual items within a set, or on the Document Set as a whole (ex. treating the Document Set as a legal case file, where once the case is closed, it is routed with all its content to a Records Center for storage and eventual disposition).
Brought online as a feature of SharePoint 2010, the SharePoint 2013 Document Sets continue to refine the capabilities of this encapsulation method.
What’s Changed
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The SharePoint 2013 Preview is here, and with it, a lot of information to consume. The following offers some high-level insights into the Architecture, Features, and Resources for SharePoint 2013. As we dig deeper into this new platform, we will take a hard look at the true value it brings to the Enterprise. Architecture While the …
While testing a Records Library in SharePoint 2010, the records will become locked and undeclaring records one by one (if you have the capability to undeclare records enabled through your Library and Site Records Declaration Settings) can be a tedious task. There may be others times when a content migration could go wrong, the Content Organizer might …
For those looking to dip their feet into SQL 2012 and cloud based database storage via SQL Azure, there are two components. The first is the Express Edition of SQL 2012 which can connect to SQL Azure. The second is the 90 day “free” trial of SQL Azure. I state “Free” because Microsoft will charge you …