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After the setup of a new SharePoint 2013 environment, I started testing it by creating a really simple SharePoint-Hosted App, like a basic "Hello World??? App. For this environment, I am using a Visual Studio 2012 development machine remotely from the SharePoint 2013...

Last November, during the SharePoint Conference 2012, I bought the Surface RT and so far, I'm really happy with it (and don't want to change for a Pro version). But, yesterday, when I took it to read my favorites blogs, I saw that there was no WiFi connection. I was...

After two weeks of vacations in Las Vegas and around, after the SharePoint Conference (@SPConf, #SPC12), I had time to think about what I found good and less good at this event. Even though it was not mandatory to let that amount of time to write a wrap-up, doing a...

Speaker : Mirjam Van Olst With SP2007, web templates required to create a site definitions to be deployed in the 14 hives. Changes to the template needed a change to the site definition. From SP2010, web templates can be changed afterwards even if sites were already...

Speakers : Oleg Kofman, Jon Epstein The goal of a SharePoint governance is to keep both IT and users happy and to set some processes in place. It should involve a broad range of people, from the business (really important to get adoption) to the network people. Legal...

Speaker : Sesha Mani SharePoint 2013 Server-to-Server (S2S) Out-of-the-box implemented scenarios : SP to Exchange, SP to SP and SP to MTW (Multi-tenant workflow service). OAuth is a standard that enables an application to access user's resources without prompting for...

Speaker : Eric Shupps The SP2013 model still has sites, content, services API, but has now Apps with package, HTML/JS (or other technology) and data. In order for an App to be authorized in SharePoint, it uses OAuth. Autohosted App model enables SharePoint to...

Speakers : Mike Ammerlaan, Neil McCarthy To integrate Yammer in an App, "Yammer Embed??? is what to use. It provides support for profile information and also communicates with the Yammer platform. When conversation is started in your application, the embed will also...

Speaker : Spencer Harbar Almost all the features of SharePoint have to deal with Identity management and the User Profiles. Identity Management is only 10% about technology. One of the primary consideration when talking about Identity Management is "who owns??? the...