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For many versions of SharePoint, you have been able to configure the number of days the new indicator shows up on a document in a library. For example, here is how a new document is indicated in a document library. I’ve worked with a number of user...
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It’s been a big year and I thought I would take a moment today to cover some of the SharePoint highlights for 2013. 1) SharePoint moves to a “services-first” offering Wave 15 of Office brought us a number of new features to SharePoint Online including...
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Does anyone remember back in the day when an application had an error, it actually displayed some kind of error message? Albeit the errors were usually cryptic, it was at least something that you could run with. Now if you look across the...
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After spending the holidays with the extended family, a number of tech topics came up including Windows 8, tablets, and “the cloud”. It’s always fun to have these discussions with family because I get an idea of what people across a number of generations...
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Cloud Business Apps are a new project type that you will find in Visual Studio 2013 for SharePoint development. What exactly are they? They are the next evolution of LightSwitch using the app model. If you’re not familiar with LightSwitch...
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At MVP Summit this year, many of us were lucky enough to pick up a Surface 2 32 GB. As many of you know, I have been a die hard supporter of my Surface RT and I think it runs great with Windows 8.1 . I simply love the connected standby and...
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If you have been following my posts lately, you might have noticed I have been dissecting the inner workings of the Hashtag Profile page (HashTagProfile.aspx). I started with using search to query hashtag data and then yesterday I posted on how...
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Last week, I posted on how to query items matching a hashtag . Today, I want to extend that concept further and talk about how to determine which tags are trending. What I am specifically talking about today is the functionality in the “Trending...
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I’ve been digging deeper into the SharePoint 2013 social API a bit more lately and I was particularly interested in social tags (hashtags). In particular I wanted to find a way to see what social feed items have been tagged to a given hashtag similar...
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For those of you that know me, you know I am a die hard supporter of Surface RT. I absolutely love the device and I’ll be picking up a Surface 2 here shortly. When the preview of Windows RT 8.1 came out over the summer, I jumped on it immediately...
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Last week, I had the opportunity to speak at Dev Connections 2013 in Las Vegas. Unfortunately, not all of my sessions went according to plan when I found out earlier that week that my co-presenter, Fabian Williams ( @fabianwilliams ) came down with...
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As an administrator or developer, there may be times when you really want to see everything in the search index. It’s great for troubleshooting. Unfortunately, the way you do this seems to vary between SharePoint versions. I wrote on...
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With SharePoint 2013, Upgrade Evaluation Site Collections can come in quite handy. They allow you to test what a site will look like once upgraded without affecting the site you just attached. If there are issues, you can just correct them...
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In SharePoint 2013, host-named site collections (HNSC) are all the rage. SharePoint Online has been using them heavily for some time now and in general, they are the preferred method for creating site collections now with SharePoint 2013. ...
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I’m excited to be giving two sessions at Dev Connections in Las Vegas next month. I haven’t been to this conference since 2004 I believe so I am excited to be returning as a speaker. I’ve got two session on Thursday (10/3). My first...