SharePoint 2013 Six Pillar New Features

Cross-product solutions with Exchange, Lync, and SharePoint Server

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn262744.aspx 

Explore SharePoint 2013

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261970(v=office.15) 

SharePoint 2013: New Features and Comparison with SharePoint 2010

1. Instead of six pillars in SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013 have 4 features 
1. Share
2. Organize
3. Discover
4. Build 
5. Manage
2. Search - Combination of SharePoint OOB Search and FAST Search called SharePoint Search
3. Hover and preview documents in search results, document libraries, lists etc. We can editing and sharing in the preview itself
4. Whenever we create site/list/library we can define policy, terms, templates and retention policy
5. HTML 5 compatible
6. Mobile device channel option for IOS, Android 
7. Short URL do not need additional steps to create hyperlink in navigation
8. Synchronization with SkyDrive
9. Navigation - We can edit and modify on the same location without going to Site Action -> Site Settings
10. Edit with Dream Viewer (Master Page and CSS) and import the HTML code and apply in SharePoint
11. Site Action moved to right top side from left
12. SharePoint 2013 is all about Application, instead of creating list in 2010, we can create list App in 2013
13. App catalog to buy and install apps in SharePoint
14. SharePoint 2013 has 15 Hive Folder
15. No In-Place migration, only database migration
16. Social networking works as the concepts of Facebook, twitter
17. In SharePoint Designer 2013 in only code section, design has removed
18. Video Search as in You Tube

Test lab guides for SharePoint Server 2013

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh872914.aspx

Why we need to go SharePoint 2013

1. Why we need to go SharePoint 2013
2. What is the advantage of SharePoint 2013

http://www.cio.com/article/728615/7_Things_About_SharePoint_2013_All_IT_Pros_Should_Know?page=1&taxonomyId=3160 

A Warning window appears with a message An error occurred querying a data source. Log ID:5566

I tried to publish InfoPath Form 2013 into SharePoint 2013 Form Library. Deployment is fine no issue on that. After that I configured get current user from GetUserProfileByName using "/vti_bin_/userprofileservices.asmx" .
InfoPath 2013 preview its bring value without any error / warning

While accessing form via browser its showing below warning message prompt with Ok button.

"A Warning window appears with a message An error occurred querying a data source. Log ID:5566"

After clicking Ok the form is loaded without user information.


I found solution from below link

http://spvee.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/auto-populate-user-information-in-infopath-with-claims-based-authentication-part-3-of-3/
http://spvee.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/auto-populate-user-information-in-infopath-with-claims-based-authentication-part-2-of-3/
http://spvee.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/auto-populate-user-information-in-infopath-with-claims-based-authentication-part-1-of-3/

Thanks Veenus Maximiuk

InfoPath 2013 textbox data from the User Profile Service in SharePoint 2013

http://www.cdhtalkstech.com/2013/05/31/using-infopath-2013-to-query-data-from-the-user-profile-service-in-sharepoint-2013/

http://blog.walisystemsinc.com/2012/11/sharepoint-2013-and-infopath-2013.html

Creating a Site Collection with a custom Site Template

• First take site as template
• Site Action - > Site Settings -> Manage Site Features -> Save site as template 
• then I found "Save Site As Template" option is missing
• to bring back that option
• Deactivate SharePoint Publishing Feature (Manage site features under Site Actions)
• Now we will get Save site as template option otherwise we can access directly with below url
• “_layouts/savetmpl.aspx"
• Once done we will get WSP(Web Solution Package) file in Solution Gallery
• using Powershell OR STSAdm deploy in SharePoint
• Now we will get Template in Site Collection Custom Tab

http://neelb.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/save-site-as-template-in-sharepoint-2010-missing/

http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=218

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/richin/archive/2011/12/05/save-site-as-template-option-missing-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx

Configuration of Information Rights Management for SharePoint 2013

One of our requirement  to configure Information Rights Management for SharePoint Server 2013.

• Installation of Active Directory Rights Management Service on the Windows Server 2012
• Configuring Information Rights Management in SharePoint 2013

http://sp-vinod.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/installing-and-configuring-active.html

http://sp-vinod.blogspot.com/2013_08_01_archive.html

http://sp-vinod.blogspot.com/2013/08/configuring-information-rights.html

SharePoint database migration from WSS3.0 to SharePoint Server 2013

I tried to migrate WSS3.0 to SharePoint 2013. its not possible to migrate directly. We have migrate WSS3.0 to MOSS 2007 then SharePoint Server 2010 finally SharePoint 2013.

SharePoint 2010 Database Migration to SharePoint 2013

http://en.share-gate.com/blog/step-by-step-upgrade-sharepoint-2010-database-to-sharepoint-2013

http://sharepointgeorge.com/2009/upgrading-content-database-sharepoint-2010-database-attach-method/

How to create page layout in SharePoint 2013

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/e99b8cb8-522b-4f7e-8a82-cedfd81d0870/create-a-custom-page-layout-in-sharepoint-2013

http://blog.navantis.com/create-a-custom-page-layout-in-sharepoint-2013/

http://blogs.technet.com/b/tothesharepoint/archive/2013/04/10/stage-7-upload-page-layouts-and-create-new-pages-in-a-publishing-site.aspx

SharePoint 2013 Business Connectivity Service - Login failed for user 'NT Authority\IUSR'

http://blog.walisystemsinc.com/2012/11/sharepoint-2013-business-connectivity_22.html 

SharePoint 2013 Developer Dashboard Configuration

http://www.sharepoint-journey.com/developer-dashboard-in-sharepoint-2013.html

InfoPath 2013 cannot save the following form network problems

I am trying to publish InfoPath 2013 in SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 machine(Development Server) am faced below error.

I found the solution in the KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2752612
In a nutshell you have 2 choices :-
 1.   If you must develop InfoPath forms on the Sharepoint Server. 
       Add Windows Server Feature: User Interfaces and Infrastructure -> Desktop Experience 
       Reboot 
      Start Windows Services -> Themes service
 2.  Don't develop on your server.
      Run InfoPath on a client machine & publish to the server. 

How to hide / remove Search box in SharePoint 2013

I wish remove Search Box in SharePoint 2013. I opened master page using SharePoint Designer 2013.

seattle.master

Using SharePoint Designer 2013 select master page from Navigation there you can see below master pages

V4.master - SharePoint 2010 MasterPage

Seattle.master - SharePoint 2013 MasterPage

Minimal.master - Search MasterPage

Oslo.master - SharePoint 2013 MasterPage

Select Seattle master, right click on that click on Edit in Advanced mode and  Ctrl + F  

find "searchInputBox" after that add style="display:none" as like below.

Now you will get without searchbox. 

SharePoint 2013 Migration from SharePoint 2010

Overview of the upgrade process to SharePoint 2013
Step by step SharePoint 2010 database migration to SharePoint 2013

Plan for high availability and disaster recovery for SharePoint 2013

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263031.aspx

SharePoint 2013 Backup and Restore

Backup and restore SharePoint 2013
Overview of backup and recovery in SharePoint 2013
Backup and restore best practices in SharePoint 2013

SharePoint 2013 and InfoPath 2013

Configure InfoPath Forms Services
How to Configure and Publish InfoPath to SharePoint 2013
InfoPath 2013 Basics Video

SharePoint 2013 RSS feed Configuration

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/5c51198e-a682-4817-b098-78b8b302e1aa/rss-viewer-in-sharepoint-2013
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/view-rss-feeds-in-sharepoint.html

http://jaredmatfess.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/sharepoint-february-2013-cu-cod-breaks-the-rss-viewer-webpart/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adamhems/archive/2006/06/13/629761.aspx

SharePoint 2013 - Creating and Configuring MySite

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee624362.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721052.aspx

https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/itpro/Pages/SharePoint-2013-Creating-and-Configuring-MySite.aspx

SharePoint 2013 Information Rights Management

Apply Information Rights Management to a list or library
What's New with Information Rights Management in SharePoint and SharePoint Online?
AD RMS Client 2.x Deployment Notes

SharePoint 2013 Workflow Platform Not Available

Authentication issues with Host Header site collection in SharePoint 2013

http://ybbest.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/authentication-issues-with-host-header-site-collection-in-sharepoint-2010/

SharePoint 2013 Search Service Application Configure Error

I am installed SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 server 64bit with SQL Server 2012 and Office 2013. I trying to configure SharePoint 2013 Enterprise search. its shows successfully configured. After that I checked Search Service Application its showing below message

 Unable to retrieve topology component health states. This may be because the admin component is not up and running

I have checked Event Viewer
Event 2548 (SharePoint Server Search) of severity 'Error' occurred 30 more time(s) and was suppressed in the event log

http://www.mavention.nl/blog/sp2013-installation-lessons-learned-part-1
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/50acc2b8-dd56-4d5a-a660-dffa325ef807/sharepoint-2013-search-not-provisioning-correctly

How to find the template name of sharepoint site

Append /_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?Cmd=GetProjSchema to the end of the url of your site to get it. 

Example: http://myserver/sites/mysites/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?Cmd=GetProjSchema 

Host header for Web Application

http://thuansoldier.net/?p=1323
http://www.pentalogic.net/sharepoint-products/reminder/reminder-manual?p=troubleshooting%2F401errors%2F401errors.htm

http://www.sharepointdiary.com/2011/01/401-unauthorized-host-header-DisableLoopbackCheck.html

User Profile Synchronization in SharePoint 2013

http://blog.sharedove.com/adisjugo/index.php/2012/07/23/setting-user-profile-synchronization-service-in-sharepoint-2013/

Metadata Navigation in SharePoint 2013

Metadata Navigation in SharePoint 2013

SharePoint 2013 Library Add New Document

Today I saw nice feature in SharePoint 2013, normally we add document in Library using Upload option, In SP 2013 one more option is available "drag files here" option.


But its support only on IE10 as well we need to install Office 2013.

 

How to convert a numeric value into English words in Excel

1. Start Microsoft Excel.
2. Press ALT+F11 to start the Visual Basic Editor.
3. On the Insert menu, click Module.
4. Type the following code into the module sheet.

   Option Explicit
   'Main Function
   Function SpellNumber(ByVal MyNumber)
       Dim Dollars, Cents, Temp
       Dim DecimalPlace, Count
       ReDim Place(9) As String
       Place(2) = " Thousand "
       Place(3) = " Million "
       Place(4) = " Billion "
       Place(5) = " Trillion "
       ' String representation of amount.
       MyNumber = Trim(Str(MyNumber))
       ' Position of decimal place 0 if none.
       DecimalPlace = InStr(MyNumber, ".")
       ' Convert cents and set MyNumber to dollar amount.
       If DecimalPlace > 0 Then
           Cents = GetTens(Left(Mid(MyNumber, DecimalPlace + 1) & _
                     "00", 2))
           MyNumber = Trim(Left(MyNumber, DecimalPlace - 1))
       End If
       Count = 1
       Do While MyNumber <> ""
           Temp = GetHundreds(Right(MyNumber, 3))
           If Temp <> "" Then Dollars = Temp & Place(Count) & Dollars
           If Len(MyNumber) > 3 Then
               MyNumber = Left(MyNumber, Len(MyNumber) - 3)
           Else
               MyNumber = ""
           End If
           Count = Count + 1
       Loop
       Select Case Dollars
           Case ""
               Dollars = "No Dollars"
           Case "One"
               Dollars = "One Dollar"
            Case Else
               Dollars = Dollars & " Dollars"
       End Select
       Select Case Cents
           Case ""
               Cents = " and No Cents"
           Case "One"
               Cents = " and One Cent"
                 Case Else
               Cents = " and " & Cents & " Cents"
       End Select
       SpellNumber = Dollars & Cents
   End Function
         
   ' Converts a number from 100-999 into text 
   Function GetHundreds(ByVal MyNumber)
       Dim Result As String
       If Val(MyNumber) = 0 Then Exit Function
       MyNumber = Right("000" & MyNumber, 3)
       ' Convert the hundreds place.
       If Mid(MyNumber, 1, 1) <> "0" Then
           Result = GetDigit(Mid(MyNumber, 1, 1)) & " Hundred "
       End If
       ' Convert the tens and ones place.
       If Mid(MyNumber, 2, 1) <> "0" Then
           Result = Result & GetTens(Mid(MyNumber, 2))
       Else
           Result = Result & GetDigit(Mid(MyNumber, 3))
       End If
       GetHundreds = Result
   End Function
         
   ' Converts a number from 10 to 99 into text. 
   Function GetTens(TensText)
       Dim Result As String
       Result = ""           ' Null out the temporary function value.
       If Val(Left(TensText, 1)) = 1 Then   ' If value between 10-19...
           Select Case Val(TensText)
               Case 10: Result = "Ten"
               Case 11: Result = "Eleven"
               Case 12: Result = "Twelve"
               Case 13: Result = "Thirteen"
               Case 14: Result = "Fourteen"
               Case 15: Result = "Fifteen"
               Case 16: Result = "Sixteen"
               Case 17: Result = "Seventeen"
               Case 18: Result = "Eighteen"
               Case 19: Result = "Nineteen"
               Case Else
           End Select
       Else                                 ' If value between 20-99...
           Select Case Val(Left(TensText, 1))
               Case 2: Result = "Twenty "
               Case 3: Result = "Thirty "
               Case 4: Result = "Forty "
               Case 5: Result = "Fifty "
               Case 6: Result = "Sixty "
               Case 7: Result = "Seventy "
               Case 8: Result = "Eighty "
               Case 9: Result = "Ninety "
               Case Else
           End Select
           Result = Result & GetDigit _
               (Right(TensText, 1))  ' Retrieve ones place.
       End If
       GetTens = Result
   End Function
        
   ' Converts a number from 1 to 9 into text. 
   Function GetDigit(Digit)
       Select Case Val(Digit)
           Case 1: GetDigit = "One"
           Case 2: GetDigit = "Two"
           Case 3: GetDigit = "Three"
           Case 4: GetDigit = "Four"
           Case 5: GetDigit = "Five"
           Case 6: GetDigit = "Six"
           Case 7: GetDigit = "Seven"
           Case 8: GetDigit = "Eight"
           Case 9: GetDigit = "Nine"
           Case Else: GetDigit = ""
       End Select
   End Function
        

Ref: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/213360

Where's the Manage List Item Permission menu in 2013

Setting up Item level permission for a list item or document in sharepoint 2013

Sign in as a Different User in SharePoint 2013

While trying to access SharePoint site with different user but I can not find "Sign in as different user" option. Then I found that option is missing in SharePoint 2013. We have to do some customization in Welcome.ascx.

Locate and then open the following file in a text editor:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\CONTROLTEMPLATES\Welcome.ascx ( use always a copy ).

Add the following element before the existing "ID_RequestAccess" element

 <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" ID="ID_LoginAsDifferentUser"
 Text="<%$Resources:wss,personalactions_loginasdifferentuser%>"    
 Description="<%$Resources:wss,personalactions_loginasdifferentuserdescription%> "   
 MenuGroupId="100"   Sequence="100"   UseShortId="true"   />

Ref: https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/itpro/Pages/Sign-in-as-a-Different-User-in-SharePoint-2013.aspx
 

Extend a Web application

If you want to expose the same content in a Web application to different types of users by using additional URLs or authentication methods, you can extend an existing Web application into a new zone. When you extend the Web application into a new zone, you create a separate Internet Information Services (IIS) Web site to serve the same content, but with a unique URL and authentication type.

An extended Web application can use up to five network zones (Default, Intranet, Internet, Custom, and Extranet). For example, if you want to extend a Web application so that customers can access content from the Internet, you select the Internet zone and choose to allow anonymous access and grant anonymous users read-only permissions. Customers can then access the same Web application as internal users, but through different URLs and authentication settings

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261698(v=office.14).aspx

Keyboard shortcuts for SharePoint products

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/keyboard-shortcuts-for-sharepoint-products-HA102772894.aspx