Since Microsoft released SharePoint Server 2013 RTM, SharePoint community is heavily using it and trying to learn the new features. To test your SharePoint 2013 skills and get more job opportunities in your career you may think to take Microsoft certification exams. As usual Microsoft is working on the new certification paths for SharePoint Server 2013. But [...]
Learning roadmap articles for SharePoint 2013 have been published recently at TechNet. There are several articles and documents for different knowledge and experience levels. Learning roadmap is defined as follows: A Learning Roadmap steps new-to-technology or experienced IT Pros through the set of published text or multimedia resources to build prerequisite, introductory (Level 100), intermediate [...]
If you’re intended to prototype your SharePoint screens in your projects, you can use Balsamiq tool for drawing mock-up screens. Balsamiq is very useful wire-framing tool which provides lots of templates for drawing mock-up screens. You can find lots of templates from myBalsamiq site. For SharePoint 2013, James Sturges has prepared a mock-up template. So you can easily prepare wire-frame of a SharePoint 2013 portal by this template. [...]
Last week I attended the “SharePoint Ignite for Developers” training in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. SharePoint Ignite program is designed to give as much as learning material on the brand “new” SharePoint to the developers and IT people as soon as possible. SharePoint 2013 has massive amount of changes both in its architecture and features. All [...]
I finally installed SharePoint Foundation 2013 Preview. I preferred standalone installation, but I got some errors during installation (Products Configuration Wizard). I don’t know if these errors occur in farm installation.I found a solution on Microsoft support forums. Here is the link of that forum post. Before the errors I want to post my first [...]
Today Microsoft has officially announced Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013. Official Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Page Installation Guide for SharePoint 2013 Here are the download links for SharePoint 2013 Preview. http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/E/0/DE02CCED-5209-49FC-9F1B-0F86D3269D4C/sharepointclientcomponents_x64.msi http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/E/0/DE02CCED-5209-49FC-9F1B-0F86D3269D4C/sharepointclientcomponents_x86.msi http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/E/D/7EDC5BE7-811C-4854-8502-EAFDEBB981B0/sharepointdesigner_en-us_x64.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/E/D/7EDC5BE7-811C-4854-8502-EAFDEBB981B0/sharepointdesigner_en-us_x86.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/7/3/773CA2C2-579B-408C-808E-A6F561194E20/Ig15_SP_IT_training.zip http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/C/8/8C8FB472-2B18-42CE-9055-4022145350C8/SharePointFoundation_en-us_x64.img http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/6/8/568E0DFE-E5A9-4B6E-9BD6-71537A736C1C/SharePointFoundationLP_en-us_x64.exe http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/5/8/C58AC1BB-C483-4572-92C6-84060E204EA7/serverlanguagepack_en-us_x64.exe There is a PowerShell script in Jeff Jones’s blog to download everything all at once. http://www.sharepointblog.co.uk/2012/07/download-sharepoint-2013-preview-with-powershell/
Microsoft unintentionally announced the release date of Office 15 suite. An official roadmap for Office 15 is found on Dutch Microsoft site by Maarten Visser. He also explained how he found the roadmap with a video on YouTube. According to the Microsoft roadmap SharePoint 15 Beta will be released in the mid of this year [...]
Microsoft has released a technical review SDK for SharePoint 15 (or SharePoint 2013). This preliminary SDK is called as SharePoint 15 Technical Preview Managed Object Model Software Development Kit. You can download and dig into new SDK before next version of SharePoint released. Regarding to the release date of Office 15 products, PJ Hough, corporate vice [...]