SharePoint etc.

We have recently had a chat with Mat Hiley about #SharePoint2013 and he was interested in checking whether or not copying documents in Explorer View was improved from #SharePoint2010. Here's how it works: 1. I set up a site with a sub site and uploaded a couple of documents to the document library which then have to be copied to a) library on the same site - in my case it's a library called Migrate b) library on a sub site - in my case - Secured Section  2. My original document has got two major versions and metadata fields with some values - Security Classification and Amount: 3. 4. Opened source library and target library in Explorer View: 5. Copied files to target library: 6. 7. Now we see that the only version left is 1.0: 8. Also Created and Modified dates were set to the date/time when files were copied with obvious metadata changes because of version wipe out: 9. Now trying to copy files over to the sub site: 10. Same resu

In SharePoint 2013 the Item Menu contains two screens. So now in order to edit properties or do something else you need to click twice: It's not convenient and probably a way of pushing information workers towards using the ribbon interface:

Took some notes today @ Sydney #SPUG  session "SharePoint 2013 -Technical Overview" facilitated by Aaron Saikovski from Microsoft : Took some notes today @ Sydney #SPUG session "SharePoint 2013 -Technical Overview" facilitated by Aaron Saikovski from Microsoft: 1. Search is big in SharePoint 2013 + Exchange 2013 2. Managing risks Central policies  Audit policies  RMS encryption  Info protection and prevention policies  Secure configuration for published environments  Protect and preserve  3. Manage costs Adaptive cross-premise environments with public and private clouds  Comprehensive I/O performance across disk & data  Storage optimization with Shredded Storage  Application aware routing and management ñ max availability and protects from attack  Unprecedented scale through Distributed Cache Social and security tokens ñ claims.  Rich navigation and performance reduction through Minimal Download. Reduce bandwidth.  4. Manage time

Installed Visual Studio 2012 RC last night, but got the following error when tried to start: The procedure entry point _Atomic_fetch_sub_4 could not be located in the dynamic link library MSVCR110.dll The following update seems to help with the problem: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=30178

Have got some good conversation about Content Type Hub and alternative solution that I suggested in the recent post : Details on LinkedIn

Content Type Syndication Hub is a great feature of #SharePoint2010 and upper. In the following post I described it in detail: http://wyldesharepoint.blogspot.com/2012/03/content-type-syndication-hub-explained.html However in some scenarios this feature is not the best approach. In many organisations there is usually a set of #SharePoint farms that may include all or some of the following: Development (DEV) environment Test (TST) environment UAT environment Production (PROD) environment Ideally the process of creating some custom #SharePoint work may look like: Create #SharePoint artifacts in DEV and package them Copy the packaged artifacts from DEV to TST, install there and test Rework the artifacts if there are issues in DEV then copy and test in TST until it all works well Copy the packaged artifacts to UAT, install there and allow end users to test Rework if required until UAT is completed without issues Copy the packaged artifacts to PROD, install and test

Have recently got a question regarding SharePoint 2013: "How do I create the service accounts can't find sql managment studio installed on virtualbox host os is SBS 2011 Essentials" Answer: I think service accounts should be created in AD, not the SQL Server. If that is what was requested. As per SQL Management Studio on SBS 2011 Essentials it should be SQL Server 2008 Express. Then you might need to download the SQL Management Studio Express from Microsoft site here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7593

Last week returned from New Zealand. It's an awesome country.  Blogging about my experience here:  http://traveloga.blogspot.com