Yesterday, the SharePoint Team announced President Bill Clinton, Founder of the Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the United States, as the keynote presenter for SharePoint Conference 2014. President Clinton will deliver a keynote address Monday, March 3rd at 8:30 am.
All attendees with a General Registration pass can attend the keynote and are advised to arrive early.
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Speaking @ SharePoint Conference 2014
That’s a super cool feature in Outlook Web App that will be rolled out during a few weeks, the snapshot below summarizes it all !
Read more about it here ..
The first update for Visual Studio 2013 came out a couple of days ago and is heavy on bug fixes but not much in the way of new functionality. You can download the latest update from the following link:
http://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs#d-visual-studio-2013-update-1
Here is a list if the new additions underlined:
I’m very pleased to report that I’ll be speaking at SharePoint Conference 2014. This year, SPC14 is fully loaded with cutting edge content, hands-on labs, workshops, discussions, showcases, and networking events to guarantee attendees leave with the skills, and solutions they need to take them to the next level.
Session Topic : Application Lifecycle Management in Office & SharePoint
Session Description : There are several methods to customize SharePoint. Developers have the option of creating new cloud applications for SharePoint or maintaining legacy full trust code. Coupled with the complexity many organizations have in terms of managing SharePoint customizations across Office 365 and on-premises implementations, developers and solution architects will need to understand how to adjust application lifecycle management (ALM) techniques to support and deploy quality solutions. This session will focus on the establishment of development, testing and deployment best practices for on-premise and cloud applications and solutions. We, too, will include concepts such as continuous integration, release management and testing.
Speaker Page : http://www.sharepointconference.com/content/speakers/ayman-el-hattab
Session Page : http://www.sharepointconference.com/content/sessions/SPC273
Last week, I had the pleasure to get interviewed by EMEA MVP Community. Just today, the interview was published on their official Facebook Page.
You can read the full interview here.
The SharePoint Developer Team just blogged to clear any confusion around the future of Sandboxed Solutions:
While developing sandboxed solutions that contain only declarative markup and JavaScript — which we call no-code sandboxed solutions (NCSS) — is still viable, we have deprecated the use of custom managed code within the sandboxed solution. We have introduced the new SharePoint app model as a replacement to those scenarios that required the use of managed code.
Read more here …
Lesson 8 in the “SharePoint Server 2013 Administration” Arabic course is now available on SharePoint4MEA YouTube channel, you can watch it from here.
Presenter : Ahmed Said Moussa
Publisher : SharePoint4MEA
Language : Arabic
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Lesson 1 : Preparing for SharePoint 2013 Installation
Lesson 2 : Installing SharePoint Server 2013
Lesson 3 : The logical Architecture of SharePoint 2013
Lesson 4 : Creating SharePoint 2013 Web Applications
Lesson 5 : Managing Web Applications in SharePoint Server 2013
Lesson 6 : Creating Site Collections in SharePoint Server 2013
Lesson 7 : Managed Metadata Service Application in SharePoint Server 2013
Do you know that you you can convert your existing ASP.NET Web Application (Whether it’s Web Forms or MVC) into a Provider-Hosted SharePoint App in a few steps ? Yes, Visual Studio 2013 has this feature built-in. Nobody is talking about it though, Google it and you will find nothing!
So here are the steps :
1. Tailspin Toys is a large solution that has been built over the years, Tailspin.Web is an ASP.NET MVC Project for the web layer.
2. Right-click the asp.net application and choose “Convert” then choose “Convert to App for SharePoint Project”
3. Enter the SharePoint Site URL for debugging.
4. Now the SharePoint App project is being created
5. Now that it has been created, press F5 to deploy & debug it.
6. Trust it ..
7. The app launches in the browser, note the URL.
8. Check the AppManifest of the Provider-hosted app.
Today’s app is one of the currently featured apps in the store and is called “Document Shared With Me” . It works on both SharePoint On-prem and SharePoint Online. You can watch the video from here.
Generally speaking, the app “Documents Shared with Me” provides a holistic overview of all documents shared with the logged-in user. Thus the user is automatically informed of shared documents without leaving the current working context.
All documents shared in public libraries, e.g. on SkyDrive Pro, are listed in the app. The listed content in the app allows a direct interaction with the particular user. Because of this, the user doesn’t have to open the MySite or SkyDrive to get an overview of all shared documents.
Another great feature is that users can select what will be displayed in the “Documents Shared with Me” App. In this case users can enable documents shared from specific users, for instance.
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“TOP OFFICE 365 APPS” – NAPA Development Tools – Part 3
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“TOP OFFICE 365 APPS” – Mavention Profile Completeness
Today’s App is : “Mavention Profile Completeness”. It’s actually one of my favorite apps. You can watch the video from here.
Mavention Profile Completeness helps you to encourage your users to fill in the blanks on their profile. By confronting them with real-time statistics on how far their profile is completed your users will have an incentive to fill in missing information. Mavention Profile Completeness empowers users and helps them to achieve a full and active profile, making it quicker to find talent and colleagues within any given organization. By providing triggers to fill in missing information Mavention Profile Completeness strives to improve engagement and awareness on your intranet. Also, it’s worth mentioning that the app works on both SharePoint on-premise and SharePoint Online.
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“TOP OFFICE 365 APPS” – NAPA Development Tools – Part 1
“TOP OFFICE 365 APPS” – NAPA Development Tools – Part 2
“TOP OFFICE 365 APPS” – NAPA Development Tools – Part 3
“TOP OFFICE 365 APPS” – SP2 CAML Query Tester
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