SharePoint Newsletter December 2013

After a LOT of effort from the SP24 Team - we finally pushed the first phase of the SP24 site live this afternoon. Believe me, this was a lot of late nights and a lot of organizing, but we got there!

Microsoft is silently working and has made public a new certification about the cloud: Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate: Office 365. As Microsoft is increasingly trying to push companies to the cloud, IT pros will have to learn the migration process as well as learn how to help business get the most out of Office 365.

Hello SharePointers, We have the honor to announce that the SharePoint team has recognized SharePoint-Community.Net as one if it's top communities for 2013....

You might have heard it one thousand times, but one of the most important things in any SharePoint Project is User Adoption. The majority of the users embrace technology changes as long as it makes their life easier and the changes benefit THEM and not only the company.

http://gibberdoc.codeplex.com This is a raw alpha version to concept a document generator. I didn't actually expect it to be as popular as to people asking me for a codeplex! So here it is.

Draw a SharePoint workflows instead of coding them. Automate your processes and document flow.

A quick and easy way to create delightful (and insightful) dashboards in SharePoint. Free trial available.

As the year ends and the new one begins, a lot of Developer New Year's Resolutions or even 2013 objectives will be to get certified on SharePoint 2013! I mean who doesn't want to be up to date with your skills, as well as having the ability to put the cool MCSD logo on your CV?

The link to the Project is https://listfieldmanager.codeplex.com/ This edition of the CodePlex Corner turns its attention to a product called the SharePoint List Field Manager. At the time of its launch, it was created as a value-add product for CorasWorks customers and has been developed by their VP of Technology, Adam Macaulay.

original image from Why Newspapers Will be Dead Soon I wish I could find a better featured image for this post, but Why Newspapers Will be Dead Soon happens to be the best google-driven result I could manage to get. Anyway, it is surely not about Newspapers or Analog TV, but SharePoint.

Many companies and organizations consider migrating to SharePoint 2013 from their current 2010 or 2007 environment. Or better, they now that the transition is inevitable..., but what are the consequences? Answering this question requires insight in all areas impacted by the SharePoint migration. A large number of organizations struggle on getting the picture complete.

Introduction Creating a SharePoint Development Virtual Machine is something you might have to do quite a few times as a Developer. Even if it's a pretty easy process, on a slow machine it can easily kill 4-5 hours of your day only to install SQL, SharePoint, Visual Studio and all the others tools you might need to get started.

If you currently have a SharePoint 2010 Environment that is not up to Service Pack 2, you are out of luck since Microsoft pulled the plug on the RTM language packs and replaced them with Language Pack + SP2 ones.