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Site Policy in SharePoint
If you're using a SharePoint product then you've probably got some sites to manage — sites you've created, sites your users have created, and sites other administrators have created. Maybe some of these sites are tracking small projects that will...(read more)
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Hosting the SharePoint 2013 three-tier test lab on a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V server
Microsoft test lab guides are deliberately written to be independent of how you actually put them together. For example, you can use physical components (computers and switches/hubs), virtual components (virtual machines and virtual networks/switches...(read more)
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Service descriptions for SharePoint Online and on-premises SharePoint 2013 solutions
This blog post is contributed by SharePoint Technical Writer, Jennifer Bost .
What, exactly, do you get in SharePoint 2013?
Are you looking for a list of SharePoint 2013 features? Perhaps you’re trying to figure out which SharePoint offering...(read more)
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Microsoft BI Solution Builder: Business Intelligence tools and capabilities are available
Recently, Microsoft released the BI Solution Builder ( http://www.bisolutionbuilder.com ), an online tool that you can use to find out what business intelligence capabilities are available to you based on what your organization currently owns. It's quick...(read more)
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How to install update packages on a SharePoint farm where search component and high availability search topologies are enabled
The March Public Update (PU) for SharePoint Server 2013 and SharePoint Foundation 2013 is available. Here's information to help you install it on SharePoint farms where search components and high availability search topologies are enabled. For servers...(read more)
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Stage 5: Connect your publishing site to a catalog
This is a blog post in the series “How to set up a product-centric website in SharePoint Server 2013”. In this series, I'll use data from a fictitious company called "Contoso" to show you how to use search features to set up a website based...(read more)
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From site column to managed property - What's up with that?
This is a blog post in the series “How to set up a product-centric website in SharePoint Server 2013”. In this series, I'll use data from a fictitious company called "Contoso" to show you how to use search features to set up a website based...(read more)
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Stage 4: Set up search and enable the crawling of your catalog content
This is a blog post in the series “How to set up a product-centric website in SharePoint Server 2013”. In this series, I'll use data from a fictitious company called "Contoso" to show you how to use search features to set up a website based...(read more)
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Stage 3: How to enable a list as a catalog
This is a blog post in the series “How to set up a product-centric website in SharePoint Server 2013”. In this series, I'll use data from a fictitious company called "Contoso" to show you how to use search features to set up a website based...(read more)
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New Learning Roadmaps for SharePoint 2013
As described in this previous post , a learning roadmap is a way of organizing content (articles, white papers, videos, blog posts, etc.) to provide a customized and optimized learning path for a technology, feature, product, or solution. Starting with...(read more)
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Stage 2: Import list content into the Product Catalog Site Collection
This is a blog post in the series "How to set up a product-centric website in SharePoint 2013." In this series, I'll use data from a fictitious company called "Contoso" to show you how to use search features to set up a website based on product catalog...(read more)
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Stage 1: Create site collections for cross-site publishing
This is a blog post in the series “How to set up a product-centric website in SharePoint 2013”. In this series, I'll use data from a fictitious company called "Contoso" to show you how to use search features to set up a website based on product...(read more)
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An introduction to cross-site publishing
To build our Contoso website, we'll be using cross-site publishing, a new publishing method that's just been introduced with SharePoint 2013. Before we start however, let's get a bit more familiar with how cross-site publishing works.
What is cross...(read more)
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How to set up a product-centric website in SharePoint 2013
In this series of "how to's" blog posts I'll describe how you can use SharePoint 2013 to set up a website that is based on product catalog data. I'll show you how to use the cross-site publishing feature, and how you can use SharePoint search features...(read more)
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Get the new Office Visio stencil with the cool icons
Community members have noticed the cool new icons that have been appearing in our content. Here is an example: This new icon set is the result of a huge joint effort by people in the Lync Server, Exchange Server, SharePoint, and Office groups here at...(read more)
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SharePoint and Mobile
SharePoint Server 2013, including the new SharePoint Online, is an exciting release, especially for mobility. It offers several new features and capabilities that are available to help improve productivity and usability. While many of these features are...(read more)
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Conceptual videos for upgrade
Because the upgrade process has so many steps, we’re trying to make it as clear as possible when to do what, and who needs to do which step. To that end, we’ve created a series of very short (1-3 minute) overview videos with graphics that illustrate the...(read more)
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Troubleshooting methodology content for SharePoint environments with the new “Claims authentication does not validate user” topic
The Claims authentication does not validate user troubleshooting topic is now available.
I see troubleshooting content as falling into two categories: break-fix and troubleshooting methodology.
Break-fix troubleshooting content is designed to fix...(read more)
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