Community Sites are a new feature exclusive to SharePoint 2013. We read a case study on an upgrade from SharePoint Server 2010 to 2013 for Aeroports de Paris (ADP). This case study notes the customer’s interest in the new Community Sites feature when they decided to upgrade. We took a look at the feature with […]
Changes in Excel Services for SharePoint with SharePoint 2013
This is the first of a couple of posts on changes in Excel services for SharePoint 2013. Background: Microsoft® Excel is growing in popularity as a Business Intelligence (BI) tool. But the PowerPivot add-in for Office 2013 is no longer a free feature. To obtain this add-in an organization needs to purchase the professional addition […]
Search is an Improved Feature in Sharepoint 2013
Any document management system needs an information retrieval system. SharePoint 2013 is no exception. The search feature of SharePoint 2013 includes some improvements over earlier versions: auto completion for queries on page display of identified documents search refiners for precise identification of targeted information These improvements make search in SharePoint 2013 more attractive for users […]
Site Access Procedures have Been Changed with SharePoint 2013
Site access procedures, including how to request access to a web site and how to either approve or deny access requests, have been changed with SharePoint 2013. In a short video tutorial titled Security access requests process in SharePoint 2013, Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT demonstrates the method of requesting site access for site […]
Adding Promoted Links in SharePoint 2013 is a Straightforward Process
This is the second of two blog posts on the topic of Promoted Links, which is a new feature of SharePoint 2013. In this second post we comment, specifically, on a video tutorial, Display important links graphically using Promoted Links web part. We repeated each step that Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT takes to […]
Promoted Links is a SharePoint 2013 App that Allows Teams to Collaborate Better on Shared Tasks
In a video tutorial entitled Display important links graphically using Promoted Links web part, Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT demonstrates how to work with a new web part that ships with SharePoint 2013, the Promoted Links App. After we spent, literally, the better part of an hour simply searching for some information that would […]
Wrapping Up a Video Training Course on How to Move Documents Within and Across Libraries in SharePoint 2013
This is our final post on a class on Moving documents within and across libraries. On the topic of the chore represented by copying web parts in order to duplicate the same document library as a sole method of moving documents from within shared document libraries to other libraries within the same site collection in […]
Annotations on Moving Documents Within and Across Libraries in SharePoint 2013
It is essential for line of business (LOB) organizations looking to maximize their return on an investment in SharePoint to understand the likely daily computing procedures that end users will need to perform. The need to develop this understanding is no less true for SharePoint Server 2013 than is the case for either SharePoint Server […]
Using the Wizard to Configure SharePoint Server 2013 Preview and Setting Up a Site Collection
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 […]