Once the SharePoint 2013 User Profile Service is connected to Active Directory for a network domain, then all of the users registered to Active Directory, complete with their profiles, can be immediately added to the SharePoint 2013 User Profile service. In a video titled, Import users into SharePoint User Profile data from Active Directory, Asif […]
Use Microsoft Office Quick Parts to Rapidly Add Metadata to SharePoint 2013 for New Documents
The intended audience for a new video tutorial titled Use Microsoft Word to populate metadata in SharePoint columns, on SharePoint-Videos.com, are SharePoint Administrators, or Site Collection Administrators. As Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT notes at the opening of this tutorial, “Microsoft Word can be used to take data from the word document itself, and […]
Setting Up Workflow Manager 1.0 for SharePoint Server 2013
Setting up Workflow Manager is the last step in building a test environment for SharePoint Server 2013. Workflow Manager is, of course, required if your organization plans on building no code processes on SharePoint 2013. Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT demonstrates how to install and configure this component in a video tutorial, approximately 6 […]
Setting Up SharePoint Server 2013 to Host Apps
A PowerShell script is provided with SharePoint Server 2013 which is used to add app hosting to server functions. Creating a SharePoint 2013 testing environment – Part 8 – Configure SharePoint for hosting Apps, a video tutorial available to all subscribers to SharePoint-Videos.com, shows SharePoint admninistrators, developers, architects and power users how to successfully add […]
Adding SharePoint Server 2013 to a Windows Server 2008 R2 Network for Testing
Once an instance of SharePoint Server 2013 has been installed, configured and activated, it needs to be added as a host to a Windows network. In a short video tutorial, MCreating a SharePoint 2013 testing environment – Part 6 – Configuring DNS for hosting SharePoint sites and Apps, Asif Rehmani demonstrates the steps to take […]
Setting Up SharePoint Server 2013 for a Test Environment
In a video that take less than 7 minutes to watch, Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT demonstrates how to configure and install SharePoint Server 2013 in a test environment. Our new video tutorial, Creating a SharePoint 2013 testing environment – Part 5 – Installing and configuring SharePoint Server 2013 demonstrates the steps required to […]
Setting Up a Database and Initial Users for a SharePoint 2013 Test Environment
Two short video tutorials, Creating a SharePoint 2013 testing environment – Part 3 – Installing AdventureWorks sample database and Creating a SharePoint 2013 testing environment – Part 4 – Setting up service accounts in Active Directory, authored by Asif Rehmani, wrap up a presentation on how to build the supporting infrastructure required for a test […]
Building a Test Environment for SharePoint 2013, Part 1
In a video tutorial Creating a SharePoint 2013 testing environment – Part 1 – Setting up Windows 2008 properties, Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT presents the required steps that must be taken with Windows Server 2008 to support a SharePoint 2013 test and development environment. The first step that Asif Rehmani takes is to […]
Use Promoted Links on SharePoint 2013 Team Sites to Publish Important Information Directly to Members
On February 18th and 19, 2013 we published posts to this blog on the topic of the new Promoted Links feature for SharePoint 2013 Team Sites. This afternoon we explored one of the web parts included in the out of the box SharePoint 2013 set of 4 Promoted Links for Team Sites, “Tasks, Timeline and […]
Use Newsfeeds to Follow Discussions and Participants on Community Sites in SharePoint 2013
This is a second post on Community Sites in SharePoint 2013. Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT authored a video tutorial on Community Sites in SharePoint 2013. In his video tutorial, which is available for unlimited viewing to any subscriber to SharePoint-Videos.com, he observes that users can follow discussions, and participants, as they engage on […]