SharePoint etc.

Facilitated another workshop with  Ark Group  today. This time it was Best Practice SharePoint Intranets 2013 . Great audience, interactive conversations and high level event organisation - as usual! Moments during preparation before it started:

Have facilitated a SharePoint and Data Quality workshop today for Ark Group @ Data Quality 2013 Asia Pacific Congress . As usual - awesome audience and event organisation!

On Google page 1 search results for "sharepoint training sydney architecture" - a colleague has pointed out today :)

I have been using Office for Mac 2011 for a couple of years so far. It is missing some features that I'd like to have in comparison to the proper Office suite for Windows. But it is alright for daily office related tasks. However, today something very interesting was brought to my attention. I suddenly looked at the file size change after I opened the files in Office for Windows (Word 2007 to be precise) that were created in Office for Mac, changed two sentences in one file and one word in another and saved both: 1. Files created on Mac 2. Same files saved in Office after very insignificant update So the Windows version of Office compress the files more efficiently. Something to consider when you choose the working platform.

Have just jumped on a brand new SharePoint 2013 massive Intranet project and because of specific working conditions have found some items that required addressing almost immediately in order to continue the job. Maybe this will be interesting to someone else who is about to start SharePoint 2013 development to have an idea of what might be necessary. I started working with SharePoint using my own infrastructure in 2009. I used iMac with 320GB HDD and 4GB RAM running VMWare Fusion to virtualise Windows  environment ( SQL Server 2008, standalone SharePoint 2007, Visual Studio 2008, Office 2007). It was all-in-one virtual machine. A bit slow, but enough for any SharePoint work that I had at that time. For communication with colleagues and partners we used GoToMeeting . Great tool that worked (and still works) without any problems. Voice, video, screen-sharing - all worked well using built-in audio/video hardware. In 2010 I got a MacBook Pro  with 500GB HDD and 8GB ...

There were earlier posts where we discussed External Content Types setup for SharePoint 2010: Setting up External Content Type for SQL Server database using SQL Server authentication - SharePoint 2010 Foundation External Content Types - Reload - Setting up for SQL Server database using SQL Server authentication - SharePoint 2010 Server This one is about creating connection to the custom SQL Server database (External System) in SharePoint 2013. 1. Create Secure Store Service Target Application 1.1. Go to Central Administration -> Manage Service Applications -> Secure Store Service Application. Click "Generate New Key" if required: 1.2. Provide Pass Phrase: 1.3. Create "New" to create new Target Application: 1.4. Provide the name and other parameters and click "Next": Note : It's good idea to specify "Group" for Target Application Type. In that case you would be able to manage access to the external ...

New Team Site on my new SharePoint 2013 installation is just amazing. One of the good new features I like is Newsfeed: So I wanted to add a picture and some message: Chosen the picture file and posted: My post appeared on the newsfeed: I looked into the Site Contents to see where those posts are stored and found the list called MicroFeed: The content of this list are items with the metadata values related to the posts: This is one item:  As far as I see the image is stored as an attachment to the list: Then I decided to share the site with Consulting Services department people. Clicked the Share button at the top right corner of the page and got a dialog box. When I started typing I have got the people list dynamically shown and selected the person I need: Selected the level of permissions: and hit shared: Then I logged in as a Consultant: I saw the post on the Newsfeed, Liked it and wrote a comment: ...