This is the second in our two part commentary on a video training course, Installing SharePoint Server 2013 Preview, authored by Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT. A wizard is available with SharePoint Server 2013 Preview to configure a farm. Asif Rehmani recommends using the existing managed service account, which was set up earlier in […]
Installing SharePoint Server 2013 Preview
In July of 2012, Rehmani Consulting, Inc. published a video training course on installing SharePoint 2013 Technical Preview software on SharePoint-Videos.com. The video course is authored by Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT. As Asif Rehmani notes at the start of this video course, a “number of software prerequisites must be installed prior to installing […]
Commentary on a Video Training Course on Installing SharePoint Server 2013
In February, 2013, there is much interest in SharePoint 2013. Per a recent study sponsored by Metalogix, approximately 60% of the survey respondents expressed an interest in migrating to SharePoint 2013. There are, of course, quite a number of reasons for this level of interest, not the least of which is the fact that the […]
Adding an Index and a Loop Finishes Up our Workflow that Pulls Information from an RSS Feed into a Custom List in SharePoint 2013
This is our final post on a video tutorial authored by Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT, Pull info from a Blog’s RSS feed using SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow. In the final 10 minutes of this video training course, Asif Rehmani demonstrates how to build an index of the data that will be pulled from […]
Use a Series of Dictionary Variables in Workflow Actions to Collect Information for Custom Lists in SharePoint 2013
This is a third post that comments on a video training course on SharePoint 2013, authored by Asif Rehmani, which demonstrates How to Pull info from a Blog’s RSS feed using SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow. Once the entire URL for the RSS feed (including the address of the free-of-charge XML to JSON translation service) is […]
Use a Workflow to Publish External Blog Content to a Custom List in SharePoint 2013
This is a second post in our current series of commentary on a new video training course, Pull info from a Blog’s RSS feed using SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow. The method of building a custom list to display external content in SharePoint 2013 from an RSS feed is to build a workflow with SharePoint Designer […]
Add Valuable SharePoint 2013 Collaboration Features by Including Feeds for Blogs and More
In a video training course titled Pull info from a Blog’s RSS feed using SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow, Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT demonstrates how to use SharePoint Designer 2013, along with some readily available free-of-charge online resources to add a blog feed to a SharePoint 2013 site. We think this is an important […]
Wrapping Up Our Commentary on Our SharePoint 2010 Search Webinar
This post is the last installment in our series of comments on a webinar published recently on SharePoint 2010 Search. A subscription to SharePoint-Videos.com is required to view this webinar. Joshua Noble notes that the search engine for SharePoint 2010 is configured to analyze the first 50 results to any search query. Users who require […]
The Search Refiners Panel for SharePoint 2010 Search Center can be Customized by Users
Joshua Noble prefaced his presentation for our webinar on SharePoint 2010: Search, by noting that ” . . . [he] wanted to take a look at . . . how we expose to the users the things we’ve done on the backend” (quoted from our webinar). It’s worth noting that these “things we’ve done on […]
Mapping Content Type to Custom Crawl Properties Won’t Work for SharePoint 2010 Search
Robert Piddocke mentions a popular managed property, “Content Type.” He notes that users who intent to use this managed property as a method of adding information to the search index will be disappointed. In fact this managed property is locked, and not configurable by the user. He demonstrates in this webinar how users can and […]