SharePoint Community Newsletter - May 2014

SP24 was built on SharePoint Foundation 2013 hosted by Fpweb.net and we did a lot of development to get it all ready on time. Some of the development was custom-coded and some of it comprised 3rd party applications / add-ons. Here's a list of what we used.

On April 16th 2014, I was part of a team that ran the world's largest virtual, SharePoint Conference known as SP24. This was one of the most enjoyable projects I have ever worked on, but also one of the most challenging.

This is the Ultimate Script to download SharePoint Conference 2014 Videos and slides into an organized folder format with absolutely no errors!

Configuring SharePoint 2013 to support workflow Management Service By default, in SharePoint 2013, Workflow Manager Service is not configured. Workflow Manager...

The reason I am writing this article is the introduction of #hash-tags in SharePoint 2013. I was curious about the relationship with the existing Tags and Notes feature. What was the impact? Do we only have to use #hash-tags or also Tags and Notes? Wait, we also have keywords!

Few days back we had seen MS has recalled the latest released SP1 for SharePoint 2013 and Project Server 2013. Some of the news are available here: http://ww...

Today, I was looking into a way of getting the assemblies / dlls used by the SharePoint Online environment and surprisingly I found it that any user can downlo...

It's been a while since I asked this, but I am really interesting to see what the new answers are. Office 365 if now becoming more prominent so am wondering if...

To hide the user interface controls that provide the SharePoint Server 2013 social features, you'll create a custom cascading style sheet (CSS) file and add it to a Master Page. This removes SharePoint Server 2013 social features and replaces them with equivalent Yammer features.

A new stand-alone service of OneDrive for Business with Office Online is now available. This stand-alone service provides cloud storage to your users, and allows you as an IT professional to make sure that the storage meets enterprise standards for quality and control.

Microsoft Azure provides a compelling option for hosting Internet sites based on SharePoint Server 2013. Advantages include the following:

Azure is a good environment for hosting a SharePoint Server solution. In most cases, we recommend Office 365, but a SharePoint Server farm hosted in Azure can be a good option for specific solutions. This article describes how to architect SharePoint solutions so they are a good fit in the Azure platform.

I recently went through the exciting process of setting up our SanSpug.org site to support various authentication mechanisms (LiveID, Google, Federated Auth, etc). I started off using Azure Access Control Services (ACS) because I thought it had everything I could ever want in a login aggregation platform.

Let's talk apps for a moment. A couple of questions for you: If you were to build a single purpose app, where would you do it, how would you do it...why would you do it?