Microsoft SharePoint is a Web application platform developed by Microsoft. First launched in 2001, SharePoint has historically been associated with intranet content management and document management, but recent versions have significantly broader capabilities
How to implement SharePoint in your organizationSPC Adriatics
Speaker: Joško Ivankov;
SharePoint has a large number of options, which is great because it covers a lot functionality, but it also presents a problem in choosing the right functionality for a particular purpose, and also the order of implementation. In this session, based on our practical experience in many implementations of intranet (T-HT, Podravka, HEP, Zagreb airport…) and business applications on SharePoint, we will propose the best way for the introduction of SharePoint in your organization. You will find out quick wins in implementing SharePoint that users will love, and how to set up the basic structure and integration for future (sure) growth of SharePoint implementation.
How to implement SharePoint in your organizationSPC Adriatics
Speaker: Joško Ivankov;
SharePoint has a large number of options, which is great because it covers a lot functionality, but it also presents a problem in choosing the right functionality for a particular purpose, and also the order of implementation. In this session, based on our practical experience in many implementations of intranet (T-HT, Podravka, HEP, Zagreb airport…) and business applications on SharePoint, we will propose the best way for the introduction of SharePoint in your organization. You will find out quick wins in implementing SharePoint that users will love, and how to set up the basic structure and integration for future (sure) growth of SharePoint implementation.
SharePoint Online (SPO) is full of new innovation and welcome improvements.
The premier sharing service is updated with a new, fluid user interface, active personal file sharing, higher storage limits for both personal and team sites, a high-end cloud app development model, and more robust tooling for admins to more easily and effectively control their SPO environment. Everyone benefits from the new SharePoint Online!
Extending Collaboration with SharePoint and Microsoft TeamsChristian Buckley
Webinar presented on July 11th, 2018 for the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Community that walks through the latest updates on SharePoint and Microsoft's messaging around "intelligent communications," and the role of Microsoft Teams alongside existing and future SharePoint infrastructure. Great guidance for people wondering how SharePoint and Teams should coincide.
An updated version of Understanding the SharePoint basics given at SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities. This covers an introduction to SharePoint Objects and some do's and don'ts when beginning your SharePoint Site.
It's always been a dilemma -- do you invest in servers, licenses and people to set up and maintain a fully controllable SharePoint infrastructure in-house, or is it time to explore hosting SharePoint off-premise? Legal IT professionals have been struggling with this decision for years.
The on-premise option offers peace of mind from a security and controllability standpoint, but comes saddled with high costs, a demand for resources and limited scalability. SharePoint Online, on the other hand, alleviates the burden associated with SharePoint on-premise by removing the need for servers, software licenses and personnel, and can be rolled out to a large pool of people virtually overnight. However, you'll still need support for integration projects. Join us as we discuss the pros and cons of each option and give you recommendations based on our experiences, deployments and feedback.
Speakers:
Ted Theodoropoulos, as the founder and President of Acrowire, combines his interest in technology with his passion to improve the business productivity of entrepreneurs and corporations. He has a background in technology going back to the early 1980s and is an expert at reducing the cost of doing business by identifying process inefficiencies and implementing the right technology solution to bridge the gap. Ted has earned Six Sigma Green and Black Belt certifications, and his Green Belt work led to a United States patent for which he was recognized with the 2007 Best of Six Sigma Award. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional and a Certified Scrum Master. Contact Ted at ted@acrowire.com.
Brian Gough, a Solutions Architect at Acrowire, offers a wealth of knowledge with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He has been working with SharePoint since version 2003, and has set up more than 50 farms and over 200 sites in nine languages. Brian has twice been recognized by Microsoft and his peers as a SharePoint MVP for his contributions to the SharePoint community and knowledge of the product. He has taught classes in SharePoint development and given numerous speeches and presentations around the country on a variety of SharePoint topics. Contact Brian at bgough@acrowire.com.
Training – Introduction to SharePoint Online for Collaboration and Document M...Suhail Jamaldeen
Introduction to SharePoint Online for Collaboration and Document Management. The course was based on 55029BC but customized and focused only for SharePoint Online.
SharePoint Tutorial and SharePoint Training - IntroductionGregory Zelfond
Are you new to SharePoint and want to learn more about it? You are in luck. This FREE SharePoint tutorial is an excellent resource and will let you learn SharePoint in no time. It explains in basic and non-technical terms what SharePoint is all about. With this tutorial, you will learn the following key concepts:
• SharePoint Sites
• SharePoint Pages
• SharePoint Web Parts
• SharePoint Views
• SharePoint Security
• SharePoint Navigation
SharePoint and OneDrive play a special role in Office 365, by connecting the workplace with intelligent content management and intranets.
Today we’re going to focus on key areas where you can leverage our innovations to achieve significant benefits. Specifically, how you can:
Share and work together inside and outside your organization through anywhere access to your content and seamless collaboration experiences.
Inform and engage people by connecting them with the resources they need to do their jobs and fostering open conversations.
Transform business process by automating repetitive tasks and streamlining workflows.
Harness collective knowledge by making it easier to find information and expertise right when it's needed, and to encourage best practice sharing.
All with the with full confidence that you can protect and manage your organization’s content as well as extend and develop on SharePoint to meet your unique business needs.
SharePoint powers content collaboration across Microsoft 365
SharePoint is the foundational service in Microsoft 365 that powers content collaboration across the suite, enabling people and organizations to:
Store, access and share files from anywhere with OneDrive
Collaborate on Office documents in real-time
Work together on shared content in Microsoft Teams and within Outlook
Build dynamic and engaging intranet sites enriched with Yammer and Stream
Automate business process and build no-code apps with PowerApps and Flow
Advantages of storing and sharing content in Microsoft 365
Storing and sharing content (Office docs, photos, PDF’s, 3D images, etc.) in Office 365 has the following benefits for end-users and for IT:
End-user benefits:
Simple, consistent and secure file access and sharing experiences across O365 apps and devices
Office document co-authoring with the latest Office desktop clients, mobile apps, and Office Online
AI – intelligent features like personalized search and discovery, recommended content, most recently used, trending sites, viewing insights
Benefits for IT and developers:
Intelligent, built-in security consistent across O365, including DLP, conditional access, ATP, ransomware recovery with Files Restore, etc.
Unified management – common admin, governance and management across users, apps, devices and services
Extensibility – since SharePoint files, sites, lists and pages are available in the Microsoft Graph, developers can use the single Graph API to connect to 3rd party services and build custom solutions
20 M365 Productivity Tips That You've Probably Never Used (But Should)Christian Buckley
Sometimes you attend sessions that cover deep and complex topics that require a lot of attention, thought, and work on the part of the attendee… and then there is this one. Presented April 28th, 2021 as part of the M365 Virtual Marathon event.
In this fun and informative session, Microsoft MVP+RD Christian Buckley will present some of his favorite Microsoft 365 Productivity tips. The tips shared will focus on personal productivity, spanning the entire M365 platform (Yammer, SharePoint Online, Office ProPlus, etc).
Attendees should walk away with two or three gems that could change the way they work on a daily basis.
An overview of Power Automate, cloud and desktop flows. Hints and tips on how to get started with Power Automate.
Examples and links to key documentation and additional information.
To improve productivity in the workplace, learn more about how Microsoft Teams can help. Built on the power of Microsoft 365. Dock can build a custom SharePoint intranet portal to fit your business needs.
Request a demo: https://app.hubspot.com/meetings/joe24/dock-demo
Microsoft OneDrive - Part of Office 365
OneDrive lets you get to all your files on any device
Collaborate with deep Office integration
Share with colleagues inside and outside your organization
Slide from my webinar. A walkthru of the Top 10 productivity features in SharePoint 2013. I explain why a productivity focus is important, and compelling reasons to move to SP2013.
SharePoint Online (SPO) is full of new innovation and welcome improvements.
The premier sharing service is updated with a new, fluid user interface, active personal file sharing, higher storage limits for both personal and team sites, a high-end cloud app development model, and more robust tooling for admins to more easily and effectively control their SPO environment. Everyone benefits from the new SharePoint Online!
Extending Collaboration with SharePoint and Microsoft TeamsChristian Buckley
Webinar presented on July 11th, 2018 for the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Community that walks through the latest updates on SharePoint and Microsoft's messaging around "intelligent communications," and the role of Microsoft Teams alongside existing and future SharePoint infrastructure. Great guidance for people wondering how SharePoint and Teams should coincide.
An updated version of Understanding the SharePoint basics given at SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities. This covers an introduction to SharePoint Objects and some do's and don'ts when beginning your SharePoint Site.
It's always been a dilemma -- do you invest in servers, licenses and people to set up and maintain a fully controllable SharePoint infrastructure in-house, or is it time to explore hosting SharePoint off-premise? Legal IT professionals have been struggling with this decision for years.
The on-premise option offers peace of mind from a security and controllability standpoint, but comes saddled with high costs, a demand for resources and limited scalability. SharePoint Online, on the other hand, alleviates the burden associated with SharePoint on-premise by removing the need for servers, software licenses and personnel, and can be rolled out to a large pool of people virtually overnight. However, you'll still need support for integration projects. Join us as we discuss the pros and cons of each option and give you recommendations based on our experiences, deployments and feedback.
Speakers:
Ted Theodoropoulos, as the founder and President of Acrowire, combines his interest in technology with his passion to improve the business productivity of entrepreneurs and corporations. He has a background in technology going back to the early 1980s and is an expert at reducing the cost of doing business by identifying process inefficiencies and implementing the right technology solution to bridge the gap. Ted has earned Six Sigma Green and Black Belt certifications, and his Green Belt work led to a United States patent for which he was recognized with the 2007 Best of Six Sigma Award. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional and a Certified Scrum Master. Contact Ted at ted@acrowire.com.
Brian Gough, a Solutions Architect at Acrowire, offers a wealth of knowledge with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He has been working with SharePoint since version 2003, and has set up more than 50 farms and over 200 sites in nine languages. Brian has twice been recognized by Microsoft and his peers as a SharePoint MVP for his contributions to the SharePoint community and knowledge of the product. He has taught classes in SharePoint development and given numerous speeches and presentations around the country on a variety of SharePoint topics. Contact Brian at bgough@acrowire.com.
Training – Introduction to SharePoint Online for Collaboration and Document M...Suhail Jamaldeen
Introduction to SharePoint Online for Collaboration and Document Management. The course was based on 55029BC but customized and focused only for SharePoint Online.
SharePoint Tutorial and SharePoint Training - IntroductionGregory Zelfond
Are you new to SharePoint and want to learn more about it? You are in luck. This FREE SharePoint tutorial is an excellent resource and will let you learn SharePoint in no time. It explains in basic and non-technical terms what SharePoint is all about. With this tutorial, you will learn the following key concepts:
• SharePoint Sites
• SharePoint Pages
• SharePoint Web Parts
• SharePoint Views
• SharePoint Security
• SharePoint Navigation
SharePoint and OneDrive play a special role in Office 365, by connecting the workplace with intelligent content management and intranets.
Today we’re going to focus on key areas where you can leverage our innovations to achieve significant benefits. Specifically, how you can:
Share and work together inside and outside your organization through anywhere access to your content and seamless collaboration experiences.
Inform and engage people by connecting them with the resources they need to do their jobs and fostering open conversations.
Transform business process by automating repetitive tasks and streamlining workflows.
Harness collective knowledge by making it easier to find information and expertise right when it's needed, and to encourage best practice sharing.
All with the with full confidence that you can protect and manage your organization’s content as well as extend and develop on SharePoint to meet your unique business needs.
SharePoint powers content collaboration across Microsoft 365
SharePoint is the foundational service in Microsoft 365 that powers content collaboration across the suite, enabling people and organizations to:
Store, access and share files from anywhere with OneDrive
Collaborate on Office documents in real-time
Work together on shared content in Microsoft Teams and within Outlook
Build dynamic and engaging intranet sites enriched with Yammer and Stream
Automate business process and build no-code apps with PowerApps and Flow
Advantages of storing and sharing content in Microsoft 365
Storing and sharing content (Office docs, photos, PDF’s, 3D images, etc.) in Office 365 has the following benefits for end-users and for IT:
End-user benefits:
Simple, consistent and secure file access and sharing experiences across O365 apps and devices
Office document co-authoring with the latest Office desktop clients, mobile apps, and Office Online
AI – intelligent features like personalized search and discovery, recommended content, most recently used, trending sites, viewing insights
Benefits for IT and developers:
Intelligent, built-in security consistent across O365, including DLP, conditional access, ATP, ransomware recovery with Files Restore, etc.
Unified management – common admin, governance and management across users, apps, devices and services
Extensibility – since SharePoint files, sites, lists and pages are available in the Microsoft Graph, developers can use the single Graph API to connect to 3rd party services and build custom solutions
20 M365 Productivity Tips That You've Probably Never Used (But Should)Christian Buckley
Sometimes you attend sessions that cover deep and complex topics that require a lot of attention, thought, and work on the part of the attendee… and then there is this one. Presented April 28th, 2021 as part of the M365 Virtual Marathon event.
In this fun and informative session, Microsoft MVP+RD Christian Buckley will present some of his favorite Microsoft 365 Productivity tips. The tips shared will focus on personal productivity, spanning the entire M365 platform (Yammer, SharePoint Online, Office ProPlus, etc).
Attendees should walk away with two or three gems that could change the way they work on a daily basis.
An overview of Power Automate, cloud and desktop flows. Hints and tips on how to get started with Power Automate.
Examples and links to key documentation and additional information.
To improve productivity in the workplace, learn more about how Microsoft Teams can help. Built on the power of Microsoft 365. Dock can build a custom SharePoint intranet portal to fit your business needs.
Request a demo: https://app.hubspot.com/meetings/joe24/dock-demo
Microsoft OneDrive - Part of Office 365
OneDrive lets you get to all your files on any device
Collaborate with deep Office integration
Share with colleagues inside and outside your organization
Slide from my webinar. A walkthru of the Top 10 productivity features in SharePoint 2013. I explain why a productivity focus is important, and compelling reasons to move to SP2013.
What new?
HTML based Master Pages
Enhancements and alignment with mobility
Social and collaboration
SkyDrive Integration
Workflow alignment with Azure Cloud
Important new application services
Cloud App model
Introduction and What’s new in SharePoint 2013MJ Ferdous
What is SharePoint?
Why SharePoint can be used for?
Types of SharePoint edition
SharePoint 2013 Overview
What do you think about new version?
SharePoint 2013 Three-tier farm configuration
Capabilities and Features in SharePoint 2013
Market Overview
SharePoint 2013 training opportunity
Common Questions by Dev/IT Pro
10 Best SharePoint Features You’ve Never Used (But Should)Christian Buckley
A walk through of the advances made in the SharePoint 2010 platform from earlier versions, as well as a list of 10 out of the box features that most end users are not using, but should. From a webinar given on 6-5-2012
Don't Suck at SharePoint - Avoid the common mistakesBenjamin Niaulin
Recording: http://bit.ly/SeyVK8
How do you avoid the most common mistakes when using SharePoint, if you've never used it before?
What makes SharePoint so popular is also its worse enemy, it's easy to use. As a platform, it allows you to build whatever you want to help the organization. But for it to be successful, you need to avoid the common mistakes made.
As a consultant, I have unfortunately had a lot of experience seeing or even doing some of the things in SharePoint that lead to utter chaos or disaster. That's why I would like to share them with you this time, show you how to not suck at SharePoint.
In this webinar we'll discuss:
-A brief overview of SharePoint as a platform
-Common scenarios SharePoint is used for
-Things that have miserably failed
-Bad architecture
-Solutions and Best Practices when starting
A slide deck to complement my 2-hour, FREE, on demand SharePoint Training available here: https://youtu.be/mSVC08zbQ7M
The following topics are covered in the course:
- What is SharePoint, OneDrive and Office 365
- The concept of Sites, Pages and Web Parts
- How to upload and download documents from the document library
- How to share a document in SharePoint
- How to setup alerts to be notified of changes to your documents or content
- How to create your own views in a library or list
- The concept of Versioning, Check-in and Check-out
- The concept of Co-Authoring
- How to sync documents to your desktop via OneDrive
- How to sync Calendar, Tasks and Contacts to Outlook
- How to search for documents and items in SharePoint
- How to Export SharePoint information to Excel
In this webinar, Toby Ward, President and CEO of Prescient Digital Media, and Tamer El Shazli, VP, Technology + SharePoint Lead, Social Business Interactive, discuss the pros, cons, and overall capabilities of SharePoint 2013, and see how it stacks up to the competition.
August 23 session
SharePoint is transforming the way organizations are connecting their people, business processes, and enterprise-wide information. In this exclusive two-part series on 23 & 25 August, led by SharePoint MVP Randy Williams, IT managers and SharePoint users will walk away with the blueprint they need to ensure they can successfully deploy SharePoint to meet their specific business needs.
In this session, don't miss Randy Williams give a high-level overview of SharePoint and how to utilize the platform for not only managing documents and business processes, but also ushering about true enterprise collaboration.
This workshop was given during the SharePoint Summit in Toronto. Though a lot of it was done in Demo, I hope this can give you a good overview of what's new in SharePoint 2013.
The long awaited SharePoint 2016 is finally coming! As Microsoft is expected to release in the Spring of 2016, Benjamin Niaulin, Office Servers & Services MVP at Sharegate, gives us the grand tour of the new SharePoint features!
SharePoint has been on the market from 2001, and since then, matured into a very stable and popular business collaboration platform. The beauty of SharePoint is that it is relatively easy to customize and it provides an experience already familiar to users via Office suite. Most frequent use of the platform by corporations has been in the areas of web content management, information sharing and document management.
However, adoption of SharePoint as a true Project Management Information System (PMIS) has been slow. Out-of-the-box SharePoint is unappealing, customization takes time and acceptance at PMO level is often very bureaucratic.
In this presentation I will demonstrate how you can customize SharePoint to help you with your next project. You will walk away learning tips and tricks that you can implement literally in hours. Among other things, you will learn how SharePoint can help you facilitate project team collaboration, integrate existing methodologies and empower your project team.
Understanding SharePoint site structure what's insideBenjamin Niaulin
I did this presentation at SharePoint Saturday Ozarks - Slides give some information about what's inside a Site. A lot of the information on SharePoint was given during the presentation. Contact me if you have any questions
L'atelier d'une journée servira à démystifier les nouveautés de SharePoint 2013. Les nouvelles fonctionnalités de la plateforme sont souvent présentées d'un point de vue marketing, mais jamais en détail ou en démonstration. Cet atelier permettra de les exposer à travers différents exemples d’utilisation dans un contexte de travail. Il vous sera très utile si vous ne savez pas encore si une migration vers SharePoint 2013 en vaut la peine. Les points suivants seront présentés :
Les nouveautés de SharePoint 2013
Comment effectuer une migration
Présentation des différentes fonctionnalités entre les versions SharePoint (et considération de Office 365)
Le fonctionnement réel
Les limitations
Cette journée complète vous permettra d’en connaître un peu plus sur SharePoint 2013 et de poser toutes vos questions en plongeant dans cette nouvelle plateforme. Vous serez ensuite en mesure de savoir si SharePoint 2013 s’adapte à vos besoins.
With the arrival of SharePoint 2013 on the market and the push for Office 365, many are planning to make the move on to this new version of SharePoint. I consider myself lucky to have already participated to a few of these so far. Often, I come across some challenges in the organization surrounding this upgrade. I thought I would put up this post and hopefully some of you will continue the reasons a migration can fail through the comments.
Prepare for SharePoint 2016 - IT Pro best practices for managing your SharePo...Toni Frankola
SharePoint has come a long way since the first release in 2001. As the product evolves so does our understanding of how to plan, install, operate and manage a SharePoint farm. In this session, we are going to discuss the entire process that starts with the SharePoint capacity planning all the way to the successful management of a SharePoint farm. We also going to discuss the most common best practices and help you avoid some most common pitfalls. The best practices outlined in this session are something that should be applied to farms large and small. To keep you up to the with the new SharePoint 2016, we are going to spend a fair amount of time discussing some of the current hot scenarios like MinRoles in SharePoint 2016, automated installation with PowerShell and SharePoint Online hybrids.
Back to the Basics: SharePoint Fundamentals by Joel OlesonJoel Oleson
SharePoint Fundamentals is a look back at the core information architecture and core physical infrastructure. It focuses on the core fundamentals to deployment and operations.
SharePoint 2010 as a Development Platform, Ayman El-Hattab MVPAyman El-Hattab
1. Understand SharePoint editions and prerequisites.
2. Understand the features SharePoint offers as a development Platform.
3. Explore the differences between a site collection and a site.
4. Create site collections and sites
5. Create lists and libraries through the browser.
6. Use Web Part pages.
Architectural Guidance Connecting HANA Live to Power BIVishal Pawar
Architectural Guidance
Connecting HANA Live to Power BI - Architecture, Data Validation, Recommendations, Gateway and Various Approach with few demo example
Secrete of 5 min Power BI Report Development Vishal Pawar
How to develop your Power BI report quickly. Understand Metadata, Master Data, Numerical Data, Groups for categorization. Use Master data for filter and charts.
General Presentation - DIAD and AIAD, Dashboard and AppsVishal Pawar
General presentation by Vishal Pawar for DIAD and AIAD
Green House Data invites you and your team to a 3 day online Power BI and Power Apps Training with Vishal Pawar, Microsoft MVP who has 10+ years in Microsoft BI and the data stack.
Day 1: Power BI Dashboard in a Day
Day 2: Power Apps and Power Automate in a Day
Pascua Yaqui Tribe App in a day and dashboard in dayVishal Pawar
Microsoft organized app in a day and dashboard in a day, Learn and gain insight of Power Platform. App in a day and dashboard in a day are one-day learning events.
Cherokee nation 2 day AIAD & DIAD - App in a day and Dashboard in dayVishal Pawar
Cherokee nation 2 day AIAD & DIAD - App in a day and Dashboard in day
Power Apps: A software as a service application platform that enables power users in line of business
roles to easily build and deploy custom business apps. You will learn how to build Canvas and Modeldriven
style of apps.
Common Data Service (CDS): Make it easier to bring your data together and quickly create powerful
apps using a compliant and scalable data service and app platform that’s integrated into Power Apps.
Power Automate: A business service for line of business specialists and IT pros to build automated
workflows intuitively.
Power BI: Self-service business intelligence capabilities, where end users can create reports and
dashboards by themselves, without having to depend on information technology staff or database
administrators.
Choctaw Nation - Power bi dashboard, report server report in DayVishal Pawar
This document has two main sections:
• Power BI Desktop: This section highlights the features available in Power BI Desktop and walks the user through the process of bringing in data from the data source, modeling and creating visualizations.
• Power BI Service: This section highlights the features available in Power BI Service including the ability to publish the Power BI Desktop model to the web, creating and sharing dashboard and Q & A.
The document flow is in a table format. On the left panel are steps the user needs to follow and in the right panel are screenshots to provide a visual aid for the users. In the screenshots, sections are highlighted with red boxes to highlight the action/area user needs to focus on.
South Florida SQL Saturday - Power BI Report Server Enterprise Architecture, ...Vishal Pawar
SSSF-Power BI Report Server Enterprise Architecture, Tools to publish reports and Best Practice.
•Chief Architect in Aptude Inc
•Microsoft MVP
•Microsoft Certified Trainer
•PASS BA VC Group Admin
•Global Power BI Group 20K+
•Udemy Free Power BI Course 30K
•VPawar@Aptude.com
Sql Saturday Jacksonville- Power BI Report Server Enterprise Architecture, to...Vishal Pawar
Sql Saturday Jacksonville- Power BI Report Server Enterprise Architecture, tools to publish reports and best practice
Power BI Ecosystem
Architecture of Power BI Report Server
Best Practices for PBI Report Server
General Best Practices Power BI Ecosystem
Q&A
Power BI Report Server Enterprise Architecture, Tools to Publish reports and ...Vishal Pawar
To improve the performance, sustainability, security and scalability of enterprise-grade Power BI implementations with constant velocity, we need to adhere best practices with sloid architecture.
In this session Vishal will go over Power BI Ecosystem with quick Example, Power BI report Server evolution from its inception till date with Architecture for Enterprise PBI RS and usage through various tool available to publish -SSDT SSRS, Power BI Desktop(Optimized Version), Report Builder and mobile report builder and various Best Practices for PBI Report Server.
SqlSaturday#699 Power BI - Create a dashboard from zero to heroVishal Pawar
Every data has meaning, but we had limitation to use data through big long running process Extraction, Transformation and Representation, but now Power BI solves your problem to kick start having Data extraction in Power Query, Data Modelling and Transformation in Power Pivot and reach data representation using power view and power map on demand any nearby device on your fingertips.
Learn how to create Power BI Dashboard from scratch.
All Microsoft Azure Service offering Consolidated in one pageVishal Pawar
Microsoft Azure is a growing collection of integrated cloud services that developers and IT professionals use to build, deploy, and manage applications through our global network of datacenters. With Azure, you get the freedom to build and deploy wherever you want, using the tools, applications, and frameworks of your choice.
Power BI Create lightning fast dashboard with power bi & Its Components Vishal Pawar
Every data has meaning, but we had limitation to use data through big long running process Extraction, Transformation and Representation, but now Power BI solves your problem to kick start having Data extraction in Power Query, Data Modelling and Transformation in Power Pivot and reach data representation using power view and power map on demand any nearby device on your fingertips, You will learn all latest and greatest features of Power BI.
Groupby -Power bi dashboard in hour by vishal pawar-Presentation Vishal Pawar
Power BI Dashboard in an hour with Various Slides.
Target Audience:
Useful for Develops and DBA those who want to know what is Power BI and How we can utilize various features.
Also session will be useful for anyone who wants learn Power BI from basic.
Abstract:
In this session, We will walk through various features of Power BI, How Power BI can transform your company’s data into rich visuals and Easy yet powerful Analytics solutions for your whole organization.
At end of session with following Power BI Dashboard example
sp_Blitz in Dashboard
SQL Server Info Dashboard
Twitter Dashboard
World Dashboard
Most important takeaways from session –
You will be learning basics of Power BI with the additional perk of analyzing sp_Blitz in Power BI.
Various features of Power BI making you from ZERO to HERO
After this session, you will be able to analyze data into Power BI
Dashboard for Life Series “Episode 02 - David Kay's Kickstarter Funded Projec...Vishal Pawar
Kickstarter data on projects who at least met their funding goal, identifying any patterns that may have led
to greater funding (i.e. location, category, social media etc)
Dashboard for Life Series “Episode 1 - Vishal's Server SQL Info DashboardVishal Pawar
Dashboard Summary
ALL SQL Server Information
Drive Info
Hardware info
Instance Information
SQL Server Start time
SQL Server Configuration Details
KPI
CPU Usage
Memory Usage
Disk Free Vs Total Space
Dashboard Evolved as
Dashboard is inspiration for DBA
Save time to know anything about SQL Server
Visualization of SQL Server information
Intention is to “To help DBA to know SQL Server info at a glace and monitoring”
How to Get Lightning Fast Answers with Power BI Q&A and CortanaVishal Pawar
How to interact with your corporate data right from within the Cortana experience including voice integration for querying your data. How Q&A can resolve our day today question from organization. How to Use natural language queries to find answers in your own data. Start with a question, and have fun traveling through your data refining or expanding your question, uncovering trust-worthy new information, zeroing in on details and zooming out for a broader view
SSIS coding conventions, best practices, tips and programming guidelines for ...Vishal Pawar
SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS ) coding conventions, best practices, tips and programming guidelines for sql server.This slide is really helpful for starting conversion between architects and developers. Just print 2nd slide and put on your desk as coding life board.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
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1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
2. Overview
What is Sharepoint?
-Microsoft SharePoint is a Web application platform
developed by Microsoft. First launched in
2001, SharePoint has historically been associated with
intranet content management and document
management, but recent versions have significantly
broader capabilities
3. About SharePoint
SharePoint is the business collaboration platform for the
Enterprise and the Internet. When people need to work
with other people, with content and information, or with
line-of-business data, they can use the rich, out-of-the-box
set of integrated capabilities in the SharePoint platform.
People can also customize these capabilities to address
specific business needs and integrate them with other
products and solutions. Using the same set of capabilities
and tools, companies can deploy SharePoint both inside
the enterprise (that is, intranets) and outside of the firewall
(that is, extranets, the Internet) so employees, customers,
and business partners can work with the platform.
4. SharePoint comprises a multipurpose set of Web
technologies backed by a common technical
infrastructure. By default, SharePoint has a Microsoft
Office-like interface, and it is closely integrated with
the Office suite. The web tools are designed to be
usable by non-technical users. SharePoint can be used
to provide intranet portals, document & file
management, collaboration, social
networks, extranets, websites, enterprise search,
and business intelligence. It also has system
integration, process integration, and workflow
automation capabilities.
5. Typical SharePoint site may Contain
• Document library: For many file types, including documents
and spreadsheets, use a document library.
• Picture library: To share a collection of digital pictures or
graphics, use a picture library.
• Wiki page library: To create a collection of connected wiki
pages, use a wiki page library.
• Form library: If you need to manage a group of XML-based
business forms, use a form library.
List webPart :you can add items to the list
Discussion Boards: you can call it as announcements
Contacts: you can add the contacts here
Content Editors: you can use it add the static content
Links: it can contain the different link you can add it directly
6.
7.
8. SharePoint Family
Windows SharePoint Services
Site Framework Foundation
Web Parts/Web Parts Pages
Lists
Sites
Collaboration Features
Document management
Workspace sites
Surveys, discussions, etc.
SharePoint Portal Server
An application of WSS
Areas and Listings – provides organization/structure
Search, Alerts
User Profiles, Audiences, “My Site”
9. Sites, Workspaces and Areas
Collection of pages, lists and other information to
present a set of related information
Analogous to a “Site” in IIS
Same as a “Site” or “Web”
in FrontPage
Windows SharePoint
Services
Team Sites
Meeting workspaces
Document workspaces
SharePoint Portal
Server
Areas
Personal sites
(“My Site”)
10. Sites and Workspaces
Technically,
Site == Workspace
“Top-level” sites are islands
(without SPS site directory)
Child sites are sub-
directories below their
parents
“Top-level site” and its
children are called a “Site
Collection”
Site collection stores
common:
Web Part Gallery
List Template Gallery
Site Template Gallery
Top-Level
Site
Child
Site
Child
Site
Child
Site
Child
Site
Site Collection
11. Page Customization
The best thing about SharePoint technologies:
Ready-to-use “Out of the Box” UI
The worst thing about SharePoint technologies:
Ready-to-use “Out of the Box” UI
Customizing the SharePoint look and feel:
Themes
Cascading Stylesheets
FrontPage 2003
Site Definitions
12. Templates (WSS Only)
List Templates and Site Templates
Allows end-users to reuse and share customizations
Stored in site-collection level galleries
Packaged as .STP files (import and export from gallery)
A FrontPage .FWP file is almost the same thing
Rename to end in “.CAB” to see what’s inside!
Template changes do not affect existing sites and lists
13. Where is the content?
SQL
Files
• Site definitions
• Admin Pages
• Javascript
• Style sheets
• Web part code
• Lists
• Web part
placement,
metadata
• Site metadata
• User Content
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}
14. What Is A Site Definition?
Each ‘Site Definition’ defines a unique type of SharePoint site
Multiple site definitions ship in Microsoft® Windows®
SharePoint™ Services
Team Site
Meeting Workspace
Document Workspace
15. What Is A Site Definition? (cont.)
Set of files located in the file system of a Windows
SharePoint Services Web server (incl. SharePoint Portal
Server)
XML files
ASPX pages
Document templates (.dot, .htm, etc.)
Content files (.gif, .doc, etc.)
Site definitions specify list types, Web pages, navigation, and
site content
Site definitions reference installed list definitions, Web Parts,
event handlers, and custom JScript
16. SharePoint Development
Web Part Development
Event Handlers
UI Customizations
Style sheets
FrontPage customizations
Custom Pages
Custom Site Definitions
Web Services Interfaces
21. Web & Application Servers | Single Server Farms
Minimum Hardware Requirements
Processor: 64-bit, 4 cores
RAM:
Single server installation – 24GB
WFE or app server in a three-tier
farm – 12GB
Hard disk:
80 GB free for system drive
Maintain 2x free space as available
RAM
Web tier
Application tier
Database tier
Web servers with
query component
Database server with:
• Central Administration
configuration and content
databases
• Content databases
• Search administration databa
• Crawl database
• Property database
Application servers with:
• Central Administration
• Search administration
component
• Crawl component
Load balanced or routed requests
Hardware Requirements
22. Database Servers
Minimum Hardware Requirements
Processor:
64-bit, 4 cores for “small”
deployments
64-bit, 8 cores for “medium”
deployments
RAM:
8 GB for “small” deployments
16 GB for “medium” deployments
Overall RAM depends on usage
models and data size
Hard disk:
80 GB free for system drive
SP Data Storage dependent on
corpus
size, performance requirements, etc.
Web tier
Application tier
Database tier
Web servers with
query component
Database server with:
• Central Administration
configuration and content
databases
• Content databases
• Search administration databas
• Crawl database
• Property database
Application servers with:
• Central Administration
• Search administration
component
• Crawl component
Load balanced or routed requests
23. Web & Application Servers Minimum Software Requirements
64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Standard, Enterprise or
Data Center
Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter
Preparation tool installs the following prerequisites:
Web Server (IIS) role
Application Server
role(s)
Microsoft .NET
Framework 4.5
Microsoft Information
Protection & Control
Client (MSIPC)
Windows Identity
Foundation 1.0 and WIF
Extensions
SQL Native Client 2008
R2 SP1
Sync Framework 1.0 SP1
Windows Server
AppFabric (Velocity) +
CU1 (KB2671763)
WCF Data Services 5.0
(ODataLib – Open Data
Library)
Windows PowerShell 3.0
Software Requirements
24. 64-bit edition of
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 OR
Microsoft SQL Server 2012
For BI scenarios SQL 2012 SP1 is required
64-bit edition of
Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Standard, Enterprise,
or Data Center OR Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter
Database Servers
Minimum Software Requirements
25. Office 2010 or Office 2013
For full offline and integrated experience
SharePoint Designer
SharePoint Designer 2010 only works for 2010 mode sites
SharePoint Designer 2013 works for both 2010 and 2013 mode
sites
SharePoint Workspace
SharePoint Workspace 2010 work for 2010 mode (“14 mode”)
sites
2013 introduces new SkyDrive Pro to replace this product – part
of the Office client installation
Office Client Minimum Software Requirements
26. Browser Support Matrix
Supported in 2013
Supported with
limitations
Not Tested
Internet Explorer 10 (32-bit) X
Internet Explorer 9 (32-bit) X
Internet Explorer 8 (32-bit) X
Internet Explorer 10 (64-bit) X
Internet Explorer 9 (64-bit) X
Internet Explorer 8 (64-bit) X
Internet Explorer 7 (both) X
Mozilla Firefox (Latest
version in-market) X
Google Chrome (Latest
version in-market) X
Safari (Latest version in-
market) X
27. Browser Compatibility for
Publishing Sites
WCM features in 2013 provide
deep level of control over
markup and styling
Designers can target browser
compatibility based on user
agents
Includes different mobile devices
IE6 or standards based (IE 8+,
Firefox 5.x, etc.)
Design Manager for easy mark
up editing and modification for
different browsers
30. Create Control Protect
Create and
organize content
easily with the help
of relevant
discovered
information
Manage content
policy, information
architecture and
taxonomy
Reduce risk and
manage compliance
with centralized
eDiscovery tools
31. Enterprise Content
Management
Site-level retention policies
Compliance levels extended to sites
Policies include:
Retention policy for sites and
Team Mailbox associated with site
Project closure and expiration
policy
Discovery Center
Designed for managing discovery
cases and holds
Establishes a portal through which
you can access discovery cases to
conduct searches, place content on
hold, and export content
32. Enterprise Content
Management
eDiscovery capablities
Support for searching and exporting
content from file shares
Export discovered content from
Exchange and SharePoint
Team folders
Seemless integration of Exchange
and SharePoint to provide best of
both world and end user flexibility
33. Internet Sites
Use familiar tools to
design rich and
beautiful sites that
represent your brand
Create, reuse and
consume content for
any device and
language
Surface the right
content to the right
user with adaptive
experiences
34. Web Content
Management
Support the tools and workflows
designers use
Variations & Content Translation
Search Engine Optimization
Cross Site Publishing
Video & Embedding
Image renditions
Clean Urls
Metadata navigation
36. Social
Microblogging
Share content, links, and media
Follow people, sites, content, and
conversations
Activity Feeds
Provides a view into recent activity
related to content, links, media, and
people
37. Social
Communities
Community sites with self-service
administration and moderation
Modern community features such as
achievements and reputation
Discussions
Modern discussion boards
Blogs
Client application integration
Categories, comments, and
moderation
38. Connected Platform
Ensure that information
communicated via internal
social networks is secure
and compliant with
centralized IT policies.
Provide a single view of
the people in an
organization and bring
together identity-based
information from many
sources.
Build new social apps, and
bring important
information from your LOB
applications directly into
the newsfeed.
39. Mobile
Classic and Contemporary views for
mobile browsers
Automatic Mobile Browser Redirection
Target different designs based on user
agent string
Office Mobile Web Apps
Excel
PowerPoint
Word
Push notifications
40. Find what you’re
looking for with
intelligent results
tailored to you
Get answers and
take action with an
experience that’s
always a step ahead
Build smarter
applications that
can scale for any
need
41. Search
New Search architecture with one unified
search
Personalized search results based on
search history
Rich contextual previews
42. Business Intelligence
Easily combine data
from any source to
create fully
interactive reports
and insights with
guided exploration
Visually discover
and share insights
for collaborative
decision making
across the
organization
Manage self-service
BI with control &
compliance for end
user created assets
43. Business Intelligence
Excel BI
Instant analysis through In Memory
BI Engine
Power View Add-in
Excel Services
Improved data exploration
Field List and Field Well Support
Calculated Measures and Members
Enhanced Timeline Controls
44. Business Intelligence
PerformancePoint Services
Filter enhancements and Filter
search
Dashboard migration
Support for Analysis Services
Effective User
Visio Services
Refresh data from external sources –
BCS and Azure SQL
Supports comments on Visio
Drawings
Maximum Cache Size service
parameter
Health Analyzer Rules to report
on Maximum Cache Size
47. Cache Service
There is a new distributed cache service in SharePoint 2013 based on
Windows Server AppFabric Distributed Caching
It is used in features like authentication token caching and My Site
social feeds
SharePoint 2013 uses caching features that cloud-based cache
(Windows Azure Cache) does not support at this time, so only local
cache hosts can be used
SharePoint ONLY supports the version of caching that it ships – you
cannot independently upgrade it.
48. Request Management (RM)
The purpose of the Request Management feature is to give SharePoint
knowledge of and more control over incoming requests
Having knowledge over the nature of incoming requests – for example,
the user agent, requested URL, or source IP – allows SharePoint to
customize the response to each request
RM is applied per web app, just like throttling is done in SharePoint
2010
RM is turned off by default
49. New Replacement for Web Analytics
Service
The Analytics Platform replaces the Web Analytics service application
Some of the reasons for that included:
There was no concept of item-to-item recommendations based on
user behavior, i.e. people who viewed this also viewed that
Couldn’t promote search results based on an item’s popularity (as
determined by # of times an item was viewed)
It required a very powerful SQL box and significant storage and IO
Lists don’t have explicit view counts
The architecture had problems scaling to large numbers
50. Themes
Theme styling has been dramatically improved:
Everything is now based on XML instead of a proprietary
format
PowerPoint is no longer used to create custom themes
Supports “web fonts”, enabling web site designers to build
a custom look without having to worry whether clients
have the fonts installed locally
You get much richer themes and common building blocks
for customizing them
A background image, palette and fonts with live preview
The ability to preview how a site theme will look has been
streamlined and no longer requires the publishing feature
to work
51. Theming Experience
This is what the theme experience looks like
now, along with a sample of a site based on a
customized theme:
57. Why to dedicated Office Web
Apps?
Not all documents are in SharePoint
Provide unified platform for other applications as well
performance of Office Web Apps independent of the SharePoint environment
Easier upgrade and maintenance for Office Web Apps
functionality
Easier consuming of Office Web Apps functionalities
without complex SharePoint federation
Easier to setup also without SharePoint – if only used for
example with Exchange
58.
59.
60. Office Web Apps Collaboration
With anyone with a browser
Document Review Multi-user
Authoring
Change tracking
Commenting
Editing OneNote Web App
Excel Web App
PowerPoint Web
App
Word Web App
Meetings
Lync Integration
Presentation
Broadcast
Async Navigation
Media Playback
61. New, edit, view capabilities
Office Web Apps 2013 can be also used as
source for creation of the documents –
not only for viewing or edits
Creation and editing of documents
require licenses for end users
Updated licensing policy for better usage
scenarios without Office client
installation requirements
62.
63.
64.
65. Resources
SharePoint Products and Technologies on MSDN
http://msdn.microsoft.com/sharepoint
User Samples and informal Resource postings on GotDotNet
http://www.gotdotnet.com
SharePoint Customization
http://www.sharepointcustomization.com
SharePoint FAQ
http://www.spsfaq.com
Web Component Directory
http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/webparts
Product Information
http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint
Newsgroups on msnews.microsoft.com
http://wellytonian.com/2010/08/sharepoint-2010-site-template-
screenshots-2/
67. For Any Further Queries on Sharepoint
Rich out to me at Vikas@nmug.org
For general Queries about NMUG
admin@nmug.org
Editor's Notes
IIS- Internet Information Services
SharePoint is the place to share ideas, content and the vision of your company. It’s scalable enough to organize and manage all your information assets but it’s also designed to organize and store documents to enable personal productivity, keep teams’ in sync, and projects on track. It’s where you go to discover experts, share knowledge and uncover connections to information and people. It’s a hub for developers to build and deploy modern apps and for designers to build eye-catching websites. And because it’s built in the cloud in mind, IT Pros can manage cost, and meet the demands of compliance to manage risk. Finally, SharePoint 2013 has been built to handle almost anything our customers can throw at it so IT Pros can spend more time managing information, delivering innovation and manage their time effectively.
2010 Required .Net 3.5 SP1
On the client side, the best experience will be had by Office 2010 and Office 2013clients. SharePoint Designer 2010 will only work for 14 mode sites and site collections, while SharePoint Designer 2013 will work for both 14 and 2013 mode site collections. SharePoint Workspace 2010 and 2013 will work both 14 and 2013 mode sites.
ActiveX controlsSome features in SharePoint Server 2013 Technical Preview use ActiveX controls. In secure environments, these controls must be able to work on client computers before their features will function. Some ActiveX controls, such as those included in Microsoft Office 2013 Technical Preview, do not work with 64-bit browser versions. For Microsoft Office 2013 Technical Preview (64-bit), only the following controls work with 64-bit browsers:ppslax.dll – Slide library and PowerPoint 2013 Technical Preview integrationname.dll – Presence informationIE7 is fine with 2010 compatibility mode, but not in general with SharePoint 2013
WCM-web content management
With every release Microsoft have redefined collaboration and document management and with SharePoint 2013 Microsoft have designed a product that represents a new way to work together. Microsoft have continued to invest in its core capabilities but Microsoft wanted to put people at the center of the SharePoint experience. This manifests itself not only the way Microsoft have designed the product but also in the way we talk about “what you can do with SharePoint?” (Transition) This was a question that helped us to define SharePoint 2013 and can it be summarized in 5 key principles.
SharePoint Server 2013 provides the most flexible and robust version of SharePoint to date. It provides IT Professionals more control over the infrastructure, and provides an enterprise-class foundation for efficiently handling multiple workloads and when combined with the powerful virtualization technologies in Windows Server 2012 enables you to increase your server consolidation ratios while reducing the amount of administrative effort required for managing the infrastructure. Through increased automation and improved remote administration, SharePoint Server 2013 helps organizations save money and time by automating repetitive IT tasks. The investments in the SharePoint Server 2013 platform can be categorized into three (3) pillars: Manage RiskCompliance with regulatory standards and the need to prevent business critical and personal data from being viewed by unauthorized users will continue to be a priority for businesses and corporate IT. One of the key pillars for compliance and preventing unauthorized access is the ability to exercise fine control over who has access to information and being able to monitor and report who actually accessed and modified critical information. SharePoint Server 2013 provides a broad range of features and capabilities designed to automate the assignment of compliance policies. Manage CostSharePoint Server 2013 provides scalability, reliability, and security while allowing customers to take advantage of the latest hardware innovations and computing technologies – making it capable of handling enormous amounts of data faster, more efficiently, and at a lower cost. Pressure to optimize your IT infrastructure for ever changing business conditions requires you to be agile, and that means investing in solutions that provide reliability and choice. SharePoint Server 2013 provides the flexibility to tailor your deployment based on your businesses’ unique needs. Manage Your TimeIT is facing exponential growth in managing user requests, users need to be enabled to do more with less dependency on their IT departments. In many cases IT is considered a bottleneck by users to productivity, and from an IT perspective, it’s increasingly difficult to keep up with emerging user demands while expected to maintain compliance and availability. Supporting users through intuitive tools and solutions enable them to choose how and when they’re upgraded, and programmatic access to centrally managed compliance policies ensures consistency, open collaboration, while allowing IT to focus on innovation.
ECM has played a central role in Microsoft’s Business Productivity infrastructure. The promise that SharePoint has delivered over the years has been about bringing ECM to the masses, or bringing organizational content to everyone. The traditional approach to content management was one where it lived in its own unique silo, and didn’t really connect or talk to anything else. Independent apps with different user experiences handled social networking and collaboration. And enterprise search would be a different experience as well. Our Approach has been fundamentally different. In SharePoint 2010, we really brought these things together into a unified user experience that gives you the social networking and collaboration in the context of the content that is being managed. As a result, SharePoint 2010 provided the core capabilities required by most businesses with a standard platform at a reasonable cost.In SharePoint 2013, we take these core capabilities even further. Create: The content lifecycle begins with its creation, and it is rarely created in a silo. With SharePoint 2013, content creation is easier because you have the tools to find other relevant information or people to help. You can collaborate with colleagues to build content together, search for related content, and share your own work to facilitate collaborative work. In short, SharePoint 2013 delivers capabilities to make it even easier for individuals, teams and organizations to ideate, create, collaborate on, share and discover content.Control: We also continue to deliver rich content organization capabilities (e.g. , leaving organizations in control of the policies and processes that govern content management. Protect: Finally SharePoint 2013 delivers additional features that enable organizations to better meet compliance demands with eDiscovery capabilities that span the Office platform.
This release of SharePoint is a pivotal release in many ways. What is today the best platform for collaboration, content management and search, now combined with the fresh new WCM capabilities allows organizations to create beautiful, adaptive and personalized experiences that can span across different channels and marketsDesign: In the past designing eye-catching websites meant training your team to use SharePoint Designer or engage with specialist developers. Today designers can build dynamic sites and do all their work using design tools they are familiar with (like Dreamweaver, Expression Blend, etc…)With SharePoint in this release we’ve made it easier to bring in design elements, and create beautiful sites that can work across a multitude of devices.Publish:The new search driven publishing model allows organizations to break down content silo’s while making it easier to re-use content acrossdevices and multi-lingual sites. With simple taxonomy based navigation controls non technical users can create targeted userexperiences that drive action, all without ever having to write a single line of code.Engage:With SharePoint 2013 Microsoft have introduced a new dimension to adaptive personalized experiences. Search not only plays a key role in targeting and tailoring the experience for users, but also with the new user behavior analysis can surface recommendations and help users stay engaged on your site andallow them to discover even more…
With SharePoint 2013 organizations can deliver engaging, adaptive and cross-channel customer experiences to drive online business success.The first step of creating an engaging experience is getting the design right. In this release we made sure that designers areNOT tied down to the restrictions of the tools and standards they have to use, instead they can focus their energy on creating beautiful and rich sites usingthe design tools(Such as Adobe Dreamweaver, Microsoft Expression Web, or any other HTML editor) and standards(HTML5, CSS, JS) they are familiar with.Also in this release, we have significantlyminimized the SharePoint knowledge needed to successfully design and brand a SharePoint site with the new simplified markups, style sheets and the snippet gallery. For instance the snippet gallery allows designers to easily add SharePoint functionality to their sites without requiring them to be a SharePoint developer or expert.In previous versions of SharePoint, branding a site required specific technical expertise about things like what content placeholders are required on a master page, or how a master page implements certain classes of styles and SharePoint components…SharePoint 2013 introduces the Design Manager – a new interface and central hub for managing all aspects of branding your SharePoint site.The Design Manager enables a step-by-step approach for creating, importing design assets that you can use to brand your site. Upload design assets—images, HTML, CSS, and so on—and then create your master pages and page layouts. You can preview how your design looks either with-inyour design tool or on the page itself as you are designing it.As you only need to work with HTML,the Design Manager enables you to design great looking sites without requiring deep SharePoint expertise.Most companies todaystruggle engaging with the growing mobile audience. A site carefully crafted and designed for a desktopbrowser usually does not lead to the same experience on a smaller device. Engaging a mobile audience is more then simply ensuring that your content is readable on a small mobile device or a tablet.When users visit your site with mobile devices, with many distractions surrounding them it is important to make the most of that limited windowof opportunity. This requires more then just optimizing the content and layout for a small screen, but tailoring and delivering a whole newengaging experience that complements each devices unique characteristics. In this release with Device Channels designers can create channels that allow a single published site to be rendered in multiple devices in different tailored designs and layouts.Tailoring the experiences for any device works well if you can also tailor the content. With the new media asset management capabilities, it isnow much easier to handle image and video content. For example you can select a thumbnail used for a video just through the browser,display YouTube videos and manage multiple renditions of digital assets such as images.Creating an engaging user experience is only possible if your users can discover content and navigate on your site intuitively.The new Managed Navigation in SharePoint 2013 allows you to drivethe navigation elements on your site by using the term tagged with-in your content.This not only means that managing your site navigation is much easier now using the term store, but also because the same termstore is used for tagging content by your authors/editors, it will ensure that the user experience is consistent and adapts over time as your content also changes.In SharePoint 2013 as users navigate through your site and explore different categories, the experience will be adapt to that new context.In the example above, for Contoso News Video category we surfaced “Duration” refiner for videos, while for Contoso Electronics we provided a “Screen Size”refiner for “Laptops Category”. Managed navigation also provides the ability to create dynamic topics/category pages while minimizing the amount ofphysical pages needed. This is another example on how content and navigation should come together to provide a engaging and contextaware experience while ensuring content is re-used as much as possible.
Land this point:Social should live where your people are. It should just be where they go to get work done.As organizations look at becoming more social it’s crucial to think beyond a set of features, and start to understand how social can help them achieve some of their key business needs; such as keeping employees up-to-date, breaking down silos, increasing reuse of information, documenting tacit knowledge, finding who knows what, making collaborative decisions and getting work done.Get connected: Break down silos and get your organization talking; the people inside organizations are used to social networking and use it in their personal lives to make it easier to connect with people with very little effort. Social isn’t just about what we do while we’re at our desks, but at all times of the day(and sometimes night); helping to ensure that regardless of location or device people can be social.Share knowledge: Organizations are a treasure trove of information – much of which is never documented. Often we associated the fact that information isn’t documented as a way to protect jobs, but more often then not it’s because the effort needed to document information and make it findable out weighs it’s benefit. SharePoint 2013’s social capabilities make this easier than ever to share information, to discuss and find answers with communities, and even find people/expertise based on the content people author as part of their everyday work. In other words - taking the effort out of making knowledge and people discoverable.Work together: SharePoint 2013 talks about ‘The new way to work together’, and social is really the center of this. Working together is truly representative of the need to connect experiences – from Lync, to SharePoint, to Outlook and beyond people work in many different ways on many different applications and locations all with the same goal: Get more done in less time.
Social isn’t just about a features, it’s about the ability for users to stay up-to-date with information that they care about, helping people to get to know each other, and sharing information that’s important. Just getting this right would save a huge number of unneeded duplicate interactions and allow people to spend time getting their work done.The heart of the social experience in SharePoint 2013 is the newsfeed – it’s a summary of all your social interactions from your microblogs and community conversations, to the sites, content, and people you follow.The newsfeed gives people the ability to post, to reply to others comments, to like. If you’re following a hashtag, or someone posts a comment on a community of site all of this activity will appear on your newsfeed. The newsfeed can also be filtered to show information targeted directly at you, including @mentions, to help you quickly get involved in the conversation.There are multiple feeds as part of the social experience, your personal newsfeed, an ‘everyone’ or company feed that is used to share information with everyone at the company, and individual site feeds. It’s possible to post straight to another feed, such as a site feed or company feed, straight from your microblog.Following in SharePoint 2013 includes not only people, but documents, sites and tags. Trending tags displayed based on social analytics designed to help everyone in the organization keep a close eye on what everyone in the organization is talking about at any one time.When we think about communication and collaboration, we don’t want to limit where, or when someone can collaborate. With SharePoint 2013, we are bringingthe breadth of our experiences to all devices, and to all places. We’ll be delivering mobile applications, with a great mobile browsing experience for other platforms. Working from anywhere goes beyond SharePoint with native applications for OneNote and Lync on your favorite device.
Speaker NotesOrganizations have large amounts of information spread across repositories and in people’s heads; the question is how organizations can make it easier to share knowledge – from questions and answers in communities, to finding information spread throughout silos in the organization, to determining who can help with a particular problem.In SharePoint 2013 we’re introducing an entirely new feature called ‘community sites’. You can think about it like a discussion forum, where you can get your questions answered and find people that would be relevant to your work. It’s really important to note that the impact that the ‘open by default‘ model that community sites follows has on an organization – this is a free place for people to communicate, ask questions and get answers; what makes this especially powerful is that also acts as a place for tacit knowledge to collect and when combined with the powerful search capabilities in SharePoint ensures that it’s discoverable even by those who aren’t members.In this screenshot we’re showing the Communities Portal site that will allow users to find and discover communities including those that have been featured, newly created, or recommended specifically for you. The goal for the portal is to make communities highly discoverable that will further the number of discussions, and the quality of the questions and answers.In this screen you can see that I can navigated into a community and I’m shown a list of recent discussions; this helps me understand what people are talking about right now, and allows me to interact with the community, or with a single click create a new discussion. Statistics like # of new members, views, or posts, as well as who the top contributors are great to get a sense of what topics are active or who is participating. Communities are designed to not just facilitate conversation, but reward people who contribute and ensure they’re visible. These types of rewards are crucial to ensure that people remain active and engaged.You can see threaded discussing with commenting, reply's, posts, and you see from this discussion, other people you might be interested in engaging with. Most importantly is the ‘best answer’ capability that allows community moderator or thread owner to select the best possible answer to the posted question – this is then made directly searchable with search so that when someone is looking for an answer to a question, they get it instantly through search.
We’ve shown you how users EXPECT that social should follow them where they work with consistent Connected Experiences – but what does this mean for IT? It’s not a question of IF organizations will become more social, but a matter of WHEN. This means that IT has to figure out:This means that IT has to figure out how to -manage the environment, and all the users; -how to ensure that information is being shared securely to the right people without jeopardizing propriety information;-how to ensure that corporate governance – how to handle eDiscovery of information contained within social.-how to extend and develop to bring new solutions that continue to add business value.Office and SharePoint are the place where social across a company meets, and already offers many platform capabilities that IT departments will be looking for including:-Securing information – not just securing ACCESS to downloading information, but having the ability to control that actual information itself and avoiding compliance issues before they arise.-Managing identitiesSharePoint’s user profile allows organizations to take many identities from Active Directory to HR systems and bring them together in one place. This means social applications can go to one place, and get the information they need.-Integrating business applications Most organizations have many different systems that offer(or will offer) social experiences, how do you make it so that users don’t have to check several newsfeeds to get the information they need? SharePoint offers the ability to make existing LOB applications more social and to bring the social capabilities of applications directly into the newsfeed.
Speaker NotesAutomatic Mobile Browser RedirectionTo access a site using the optimized mobile browser experience, a new feature called Automatic Mobile Browser Redirection must be activated on the site. When activated and a mobile browser is accessing the site, this feature checks the mobile browser to determine if it is capable of handling HTML5 or not. If the mobile browser supports HTML5, the contemporary view is rendered, else the classic view is rendered. This feature is activated by default when any of the following site templates are used: Collaboration templates: Team Site, Blank Site, Document Workspace, Blog, Group Work Site, Visio Process Repository Meetings templates: Basic Meeting Workspace, Blank Meeting Workspace, Decision Meeting Workspace, Social Meeting Workspace, Multipage Meeting Workspace Enterprise templates: Document Center, Records Center, Business Intelligence Center, My Site Host, Basic Search Center, FAST Search Center All other site templates require you to explicitly activate the feature. Office Mobile Web AppsIn SharePoint Server 2010, Office Web Apps provides browser-based companions to Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. When Office Web Apps is installed on SharePoint Server 2010, Office Mobile Web Apps is also installed on the server. Office Mobile Web Apps enables users to open documents in the mobile web application using a mobile browser. With SharePoint Server 15, Office Web Apps is no longer a companion product installed on a SharePoint Server. Instead, Office Web Apps Server is a new stand-alone server product that delivers Office Web Apps functionality on your private network. Although these are now separate products, Office Web Apps Server continues to enable Office Mobile Web Apps, making them available to mobile users who access SharePoint sites. Together, SharePoint Server 15 and Office Mobile Web Apps offer a better user experience when interacting with documents on a mobile device. For instance, when both products are used together, a user opens a server-based version of the document in the mobile browser. Without Office Mobile Web Apps, the end user would first have to download the file and then open it in Office Mobile or an office document viewer. Push NotificationsSharePoint Server 15 supports applications on mobile devices (such as smartphones, tablets, and so on) that should receive notifications from a SharePoint site. Notifications can include events that happen in the site, such as when a user adds an item to a list or updates an item. For mobile devices to receive such notifications, device applications must register with a SharePoint site. Once the device is registered, you can write event handler code to interact with Microsoft Push Notification Service or notification services of other mobile device platforms. Notifications are sent from the server where the application is hosted to the registered mobile device application.
Microsoft has invested heavily in search in the past several years….In this release we brought together SharePoint Search and FAST Search into a next generation search engine that we consider the best of both worlds. The scale and power of FAST with the simplicity and manageability of SP Search. But this release is far more then best of both worlds, it is step ahead for the entire search industry.Search in SharePoint 2013 focuses not just on technology, but the core belief that search should help users find what they are looking for and get answersto the questions they ask. This means doing far more then searching a index, but requiring the development of a entire new experience dedicated to the usersintent, that can analyze user interactions while having the flexibility to draw information from across the enterprise and even from out in the web.The search experience in SharePoint 2013 is beyond just a great user experience, as it will allow anyone looking to leverage the extensible engine to build their own experiences that can benefit much of the richness that SharePoint provides.Over the course of this presentation we will show how SharePoint 2013 search has made it easier to find information, get answers to questions and extend to beyond SP.
Speaker NotesThe heart of a search engine is its ability to get the results you are looking for. However this can be hard to do because the “right results” can differ based on who you are, your context and even your previous actions and history.Out of the box SharePoint was designed to help you find the right result utilizing a combination of advanced relevancy algorithm’s from FAST combined with a entirely new analysis engine that can drive better results based on user interactions. With the analysis engine SharePoint 2013 search is far more tuned to what users are doing, and what others have found successful.Today’s information workers produce huge volumes of increasingly different types of content. SharePoint provides OOB connectors to common enterprise repositories such as Lotus Notes, Documentum, etc and makes it easy to add new custom connectors to help bring the right content to the right user.Search in SharePoint Server 15 includes many new capabilities and enhancements, from a re-designed architecture that is highly scalable to a customizable end-user experience that provides targeted results. An all new Search Experience, from the engine to the UX designed to make it easier than ever to find what you’re looking by combining your personal history, highly relevant results, and rich graphical navigators in a single highly usable interface. Personalized search results based on your search history: Make re-finding information easier than ever by promoting content that you’ve searched for in the past; making Search about more than finding documents, but as an aid to navigation.Rich contextual previews with meaningful actions: Finding the right document is made simpler by providing a variety of previewing capabilities to ensure you’ve got the right document, combined with contextual actions to continue your journey and complete your task.Intelligent and customized search results experience: SharePoint “15” enhances results relevance out-of-box with an ability to alter the layout and ranking based on what you’re looking for, and what you’ve found; taking relevance to a new level and giving administrators powerful tools for improving the Search Experience.
Microsoft offers a Business Intelligence platform that helps organizations capitalize on trends and opportunities—and discover answers to new questions that help drive business value—in a way that no other vendor does. We believe Business intelligence should empower all users with self-service capabilities through familiar tools and experiences. Microsoft enables immersive insights to all users through self-service, data exploration and collaboration delivered through Office and SharePoint, the tools users know and love. At the same time, Microsoft offers the IT department the tools and capabilities they need to ensure that Self-Service BI can be easily managed. This is the strategy we are on to help our customers maximize their business opportunities and we are confident there is no other vendor in the industry with the vision or the assets necessary to deliver on it.
Speaker NotesExcel BIExcel BI provides the capabilities to analyze and visually explore data of any size, and to integrate and show interactive solutions. In SharePoint Server 15, Excel BI offers certain new features to support business intelligence applications. These include the following: In Memory BI Engine (IMBI): The In Memory multidimensional data analysis engine (IMBI), also known as the Vertipaq engine, allows for almost instant analysis of millions of rows and is a fully integrated feature in the Excel client. Power View Add-in for Excel: Power View (Crescent) is powered by the BI Semantic Model and the VertiPaq engine, and enables users to visualize and interact with modeled data by using highly interactive visualizations, animations and smart querying. Users will be able to present and share insights with others in the organization through rich storyboard presentation capabilities. Decoupled PivotChart and PivotTable reports: Users can now create PivotChart reports without having to include a PivotTable report on the same page. Trend analysis: Excel Services supports the ability to conduct trend analysis from cells in PivotTable reports that use OLAP data, such as Analysis Services cubes or PowerPivot data models. Excel ServicesExcel Services enables people to view and interact with Excel workbooks that have been published to SharePoint sites. Users are able to explore data and conduct analysis in a browser window just as they would by using the Excel client. In SharePoint Server 15, Excel Services offers certain new features to support business intelligence applications. These include the following:Data exploration improvements: People can more easily explore data and conduct analysis in Excel Services reports that use SQL Server Analysis Services data or PowerPivot data models. For example, users can point to a value in a PivotChart or PivotTable report and see suggested ways to view additional information. Users can also use commands such as Drill Down To to conduct analysis. Users can also apply the Drill Down command by using a single mouse click. Field list and field well support: Excel Services enables people to easily view and change which items are displayed in rows, columns, values, and filters in PivotChart reports and PivotTable reports that have been published to Excel Services. Calculated measures and members: Excel Services supports calculated measures and calculated members that are created in Excel. Enhanced timeline controls: Excel Services supports timeline controls that render and behave as they do in the Excel client. Application BI Servers: Administrators can specify SQL Server Analysis Services servers to support more advanced analytic capabilities in Excel Services. Business Intelligence Center update: The Business Intelligence Center site template has been streamlined. It not only has a new look, it is easier to use.
Speaker NotesPerformancePoint ServicesPerformancePoint Services enables users to create interactive dashboards that display key performance indicators (KPIs) and data visualizations in the form of scorecards, reports, and filters. In SharePoint Server 15, PerformancePoint Services offers certain new features to support business intelligence applications. These include the following: Dashboard Migration: Users will be able to copy entire dashboards and dependencies, including the .aspx file, to other users, servers, or site collections. This feature also allows the ability to migrate single items to other environments and migrate content by using Windows PowerShell commands. Filter Enhancements & Filter Search: The UI has been enhanced to allow users to easily view and manage filters including giving users the ability to search for items within filters without having to navigate through the tree. BI Center Update: The new BI Center is cleaner, and easier to use with folders and libraries configured for easy use. Support for Analysis Services Effective User: This new feature eliminates the need for Kerberos delegation when per-user authentication is used for Analysis Services data sources. By supporting Analysis Services Effective User feature, authorization checks will be based on the user specified by the EffectiveUserName property instead of using the currently authenticated user. PerformancePoint Support on iPad: PerformancePoint dashboards can now be viewed and interacted with on iPad devices using the Safari web browser. Visio ServicesVisio Services is a service application that lets users share and view Microsoft Visio® Drawing (*.vsdx) and Visio 2010 Web drawing (*.vdw) files. The service also enables data-connected Visio Drawing (*.vsdx) and Visio 2010 Web drawing (*.vdw) files.to be refreshed and updated from various data sources.In SharePoint Server 15, new features in Visio Services include the following: Maximum Cache Size: A new service parameter, it is located on the Central Admininstration Visio Graphics Service Application Global Settings page. The default value is 5120 MB. Health Analyzer rules: New corresponding Health Analyzer rules have been added to reflect the new Maximum Cache Size parameter. Updated PowerShell cmdlet “Set-SPVisioPerformance”: This cmdlet has been updated to include the new Maximum Cache Size parameter. Commenting on drawings supported: Users can add meaningful comments to a Visio Drawing (*.vsdx) collaboratively on the web via Visio Services in full page rendering mode.
Within the last decade the internet has evolved tremendously. From simple pages to robust social sites that support loosely coupled yet highly integrated 3rd party apps. From the beginning of SharePoint to today, SharePoint has also made significant changes from being a portal site to our newest release. SharePoint 2013. For the developer and ultimately benefiting the user, SharePoint 2013 has made a significant investments to provide a new way to bring custom solutions to users with the new web standards based cloud app model that are easily discoverable and yet will give IT and developers peace of mind knowing that they can scale, are safely isolated from SharePoint yet can leverage the full capabilities of SharePoint.SharePoint 2013 also becomes web designer friendly. Now simple branding and theming can be handled by the SharePoint user, or richer branding experiences can be created by web designers and imported into SharePoint with a few simple clicks. Making the site design process easier for not only the web designer but the professional SharePoint developer as well.The new cloud app model gives the developer the freedom of choice in how they implement apps for SharePoint. No longer are you tied to writing on top of the SharePoint platform, now you can write along-side it with the tools and web hosting platforms of your choice… Whether it is on premise or in the cloud… Whether the platform is IIS/ASP.NET, a part of the Windows Azure family of hosting options or a non-Microsoft web hosting platform. The final choice is up to you.
SharePoint 2013 introduces a new distributed cache service based on Windows Server AppFabric distributed caching. The distributed cache is used in features like authentication, to cache FedAuth cookies, and social feeds in My Sites. This caching services uses features that are not available in Windows Azure Cache, so you cannot substitute Azure cache for the distributed cache service. One other thing that’s important to remember is that SharePoint only supports the version of caching that we ship with SharePoint. If an upgrade becomes available for Windows Server AppFabric caching you cannot apply that your SharePoint servers running the distributed cache service – only updates distributed by SharePoint can be applied.*****************************Pg. 6There is a new distributed cache service in SharePoint 2013, which is the latest version of the Velocity cacheIt is used in features like authentication token caching and My Site social feedsSharePoint 2013 uses caching features that cloud-based cache (!= Windows Azure Cache) does not support at this time so only local cache hosts can be used; may change in the futureSharePoint ONLY supports the version of Velocity that it ships – you cannot independently upgrade Velocity
Request Management is a new feature in SharePoint 2013 that gives you knowledge about and the flexibility to route incoming requests. By being able to look at requests for certain characteristics – like what is the user agent, what Url is being requested, where is the request coming from – you can develop rules for routing those requests when needed.The rules and settings for Request Management are applied at the web application level, but it is turned off by default when you install SharePoint 2013.****************************Pg. 8
There is a new analytics platform in SharePoint 2013 that completely replaces the Web Analytics service application from SharePoint 2010. We had some very specific reasons why we decided to take this approach. First, there was no ability to do item to item recommendations. For example, users who viewed this item also viewed these three other things. Secondly, it didn’t give us a way to promote search results based on an item’s popularity. This means being able to have items that are viewed more frequently percolate up higher in a set of search results. It also didn’t have a way to account for views of list items – so you couldn’t tell what items in a list were being viewed most frequently. Finally, from a hardware perspective it sometimes required a big server to power the Web Analytics service application, and even at that we hit certain thresholds where there was just more data than we could report on.**********************************************Pg. 121
In SharePoint 2013 the theme styling engine has been really improved. Everything is now based on an XML format instead of a proprietary format. That means you won’t be able to use PowerPoint anymore to create custom themes as you could have done in SharePoint 2010, but we benefit from having a standardized format for the theming files. We also support web fonts, which means that your theme can include links to font files as part of the theme definition. So you no longer have to limit yourself to the handful of generic fonts that are installed everywhere – instead you can stylize your theme however you want and if the client doesn’t have those fonts installed locally, they’ll be automatically downloaded and installed so your site still looks great. We also offer very rich building blocks for developing a theme. We have an easy to use background image, palatte and fonts. In addition you can flip through different options and get a live preview of what the theme will look like. Finally the ability to preview how a site theme will look has been streamlined. In SharePoint 2010 it could only be done on a site that had enabled the publishing feature, but in SharePoint 2013 it can be done on any site type, with or without the publishing feature.******************************From Lionel’s email:Thanks for sending this out. With regards to the slides around theming:I would remove the sentence about HTML5. Theming doesn’t really do anything special to support HTML5 even though we definitely don’t do anything to not support it. It just works.I would call out the support for web fonts in our font schemes. This is a big win for web designers and power users that want a specific look for their site and want to take advantage of awesome fonts without worrying if they are installed on user machines. On slide 35 you refreshed the thumbnail screenshot but not the instant preview thumbnail. We should definitely update this especially because the stale screenshot is of a masterpage that got cut and no longer ships with the product. On the general messaging I would just note the following so you don’t get called out on anything while presenting. Previewing a theme before applying existed in O14. Though this is what is better:You don’t need publishing on to use it.It’s streamlined as part of the theming experience. We removed the need to re-run the engine if you preview and then apply so in the end you get to your themed site faster.Sure here is the quick overview of web fonts. With any website you pretty much have two options when choosing a font for your site. The first option is that you stick to a set of fonts that are pretty much guaranteed to be installed on client machine. These are called web-safe fonts and there are only around 8. There’s no definitive list (here is an example of good one http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_websafe_fonts.asp) but it pretty much boils down to fonts like Arial, Times new roman, and Tahoma. You would also set a fallback stack just in case someone doesn’t have the first choice font installed they can fallback to a third, fourth, etc. The second option is specify a web-font. In this case you give the browser the URL to the right font file and it gets downloaded along with the site. This is the best way to make sure visitors to your site see the site as it was designed. Especially with heavy trends of site designs that depend on typography to portray a distinct personality. You still need the fallback stack for browsers that don’t support web fonts though. In SharePoint theming all you need to give us is:In the font scheme file for the font slot you want:Four URLs to the web-font files (4 for cross browser support). Two images for us to render in the font picker (we don’t want to trigger the download of a limitless number of font files when you open the font picker). And we take care of the rest J. Is there an upgrade story for o14 THMX files? Well, we support them as a legacy file format in SharePoint 2013, and you will not be able to create new themes in PowerPoint 15.Pg. 54
Here are a couple of examples of what the theming experience looks like in SharePoint 2013. On the left side of the page you see the theme thumbnail gallery. It displays the out of the box themes that you can use as is, or you can customize them to look exactly like you want. On the right hand side of the page is an example of a site that has had a custom theme applied. In this case we just started with an out of the box theme, spent about 2 minutes customizing the layout, background picture, colors and fonts and that was it – we were ready to go. You can see how quickly you can make a site that doesn’t look anything like SharePoint if you want.******************************From my testing
This is the theme configuration page. In this case we’ve selected one of the out of the box themes, but you can see how easy it is to change it. For the background image we can just drag and drop a new image on the existing one to change it out. In the Colors drop down we get a complete list of all the color palette combinations. The important thing to note here is that these are really palettes – meaning a collection of colors that are applied to the site, so you don’t have to manually pick one item at a time and try and change will still trying to create an artistically appealing combination. Understanding the palette combinations is very easy too – all you have to do is hover over any of the color combinations and the display will be instantly updated to show how it looks. The same holds true for the site layout and fonts drop downs. Once you’ve made all your selections click the Try It Out button. A rendering of what your home page will look like with the theme you’ve chosen will be shown. At that point you can start using it, or you can choose to try again and continue to modify your selections until you find a combination you like.Now lets take a look at a demo of the new theming capabilities in SharePoint 2013.******************************From my test
In this presentation we’ll concentrate on general introduction with Office Web Apps 2013. We’ll concentrate on key changes compared to previous versions and how Office Web Apps 2013 has been improved from end user perspective to provide more enhanced functionalities cross multiple applications.
Office web Apps 2013 is providing online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. There are some additional office web apps which are commonly think under same umbrella, like Visio, Outlook or Project - but those are not part of the Office Web Apps 2013 product, they are seperate solutions either part of SharePoint, Project Server or Exchange.This video concentrates on functionalities provided by Office Web Apps 2013, which are Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OnetNote Web Apps. In 2010 there was already a released version of these solutions, but at the time they were direclty part of the SharePoint project.
Before having detailed look on what has been changed with Office Web Apps 2013, let’s look back on how things were working back in 2010. <click>So – when users were viewing Office document using Web Apps, they were always accessing document using SharePoint, which was actually hosting this Web Apps infrastructure to view and render documents for browsers. Basically Web Apps were part of the SharePoint service application infrastructure and they were managed and operated directly from SharePoint central administration.<click>If users were using Outlook Web Access to view documents stored in Exchange, they were basically then using different tools and technology to view the documents which provided separate or alternative user experience<click>Similarly if they were using Lync, we used again different technology for showing documents or when users were viewing PowerPoint presentations actually we required that you had at least PowerPoint 2007 client installed on your computer to be able to view or share the presentations with other persons<click>Since also the Office Web Apps were directly part of the SharePoint deployment, it meant that in larger enterprises where they had numerous SharePoint farms, there was additional operational and management overhead for each of the farms to ensure that files could be accessed and viewed using browser. This basically caused additional operational costs.
With 2013 release, we really wanted to have consolidated and consistent user experience cross the different solutions, so that end users can take advantage of the same capabilities regardless of the solution they are using. <click>So what we did with 2013 release is that we separated the Office Web Apps to it’s own identity and we connect the SharePoint server to it<click>In addition you can now connect Lync to same Office Web Apps farm to provide same user experience for Lync users as for the SharePoint users<click>As we can also connect your Exchange to Office Web Apps farm to provide similarly consistent user experience – or if you have multiple exchange instances, you can connect all of them to same Office Web Apps farm<click>And similarly if you have multiple SharePoint farms, you can connect these farms to consume the services from same Office Web Apps farm, so you don\t have to setup or operate multiple different platforms for the providing the browser based access to your documents, you can rather use one Office Web Apps farm and connect to that from all of the solutions<click>You can even open up files form any file share or web server, as long as you can access the files using URL – this gives for example possibility to present presentations from your internal file shares directly on the SharePoint pages or actually on any platform, without necessary to upload the file to specific location.<click>And actually since Office Web Apps implementation is based on published and documented protocols, you can actually extend this any way you want – meaning that it’s completely possible to provide additional viewer applications to present or render any other file types using similar approach.
So – Office web apps is now it’s own product – Why did we actually want to that.First of all, not all documents are in SharePoint and we wanted to provide a way to provide consistent user experience cross different applications for the end user. Also the fact that lot of enterprises had numerous SharePoint farms, caused additional operational costs due the requirement to operate all of them individually – by providing consolidated platform as separate Office Web Apps farm, we can manipulate and configure Office Web Apps behavior from single location and that will have immediate affect cross our enterprise. This consolidated platform also provides us easier way to scale our platform based on usage. Since Office Web Apps are now hosted in dedicated hardware, we can more efficiently monitor their usage and increase the capability if needed based on overall usage of it.Now that Office Web Apps is also it’s own product, we can upgrade and maintain that without affecting availability of the SharePoint. Meaning that even though you would be upgrading your Office Web Apps all SharePoint sites would be still available and you could open up documents in Office clients…We can also now consume Office Web Apps functionalities without SharePoint – there’s no requirement to actually have SharePoint installed on the environment at all. All functionalities required for rending Office Web Apps are packaged to own servers – so there’s really no definite need for SharePoint at all for example if you only have Exchange in your on-premises and you would be using Office365 as your collaboration platform.
One of the great changes also in the Office Web Apps 2013 is the new capability to use short URLs. In previous versions if you wanted to share link to document directly to Office Web Apps viewer, you had to use really long and cryptic URLs which were copied from the browser window. This often caused emails to look really messy and caused additional confusion on what was actually opened behind the link.With SharePoint 2013 and Office Web Apps 2013, we can now send links directly to file and using the extension Web=1 to indicate that document is opened in Office Web App mode. When this kind of link is then clicked on email or from any other location, browser which is pointing to requested file will get redirected to Office Web App viewer by SharePoint. You can for example get these short links from hover panels from each document library for sharing purposes.
With Office Web Apps 2013, we also introduce better preview and presentational capabilities with SharePoint. We have that classic full screen mode for viewing and editing of individual files, but we can also use see or use Office Web Apps using alternative methods. First of all, we can review the content of all documents in document libraries without the need of opening document in full screen mode by using hover panels – but it’s not only that – you can actually embed any sized viewer to any html page hosted in SharePoint or in any alternative platform. This gives lot of flexibility from viewing perspective to present the document in any suitable location or format.
When we think about collaboration within the Office Web Apps, we basically share this to three different categories – being Document Review, Multi-User authoring and Meetings.Within 2010 timeframe with document review, we basically meant mostly about editing – editing everywhere – using browser – and anyone could collaborate with me even though they wouldn’t have Office client to use, since they could have used simply browser to achieve the same objective. <click>In 2013 we’ve added two new features to improve the scenario. Change tracking or track changes in Word – in the Web App you can have track changes also visible and other people can then see changes you’ve done using either Office client or web apps as well. Other added feature is the commenting, which we’ve added to all Web Apps, which provides end users the capability to add, edit and view comments in document directly in web Apps – these comments are then visible also offline if documents are download from SharePoint or viewed using any offline clients.<click>Following scenario is the multi-user authoring – during 2010 our story was little bit limited, since we only supported multi-user authoring with OneNote Web App and with Excel web apps – it was also supported by Word desktop client and with OneNote desktop client. With Office Web Apps 2013, we are adding Word Web App and PowerPoint web app as the supported tools to collaborate online with multi-user authoring experience. With OneNote, PowerPoint and Word you can have also mixture of clients, meaning that you can have people accessing the same file using Office client and Web App doing simultaneous edits on particular file.<click>Office Web Apps are now integrated also with Lync and we are providing the capability to do async navigation with presented documents – meaniing that you can move forward or backward in shared presentation withouth interfering on what’s presented to other meeting participants. We also provide media playback from the Web Apps, so if you have videos embedded in presentations, those are visible and playable with any modern browser.<click>And key point of all of these capabilities is that all of the these are available for anyone using browsers – basically on any browser – we provide cross browser support for all of the web apps. You can collaborate with anyone who has browser access on the files without the need for real client side applications.
Office Web Apps 2013 is also providing new capability to create new documents directly in the browser – meaning that you really don’t need to have Office client to create new document, you can rather start directly from browser and start sharing the document with your team for collaboration purposes. This capability is provide out of the box for any standard document library when Office Web Apps has been connected to SharePoint farm.We have also changed the license policy to be more user friendly for viewing purposes, so that anyone could be easily use Office Web Apps to present content of files in any html page. For the editing of the document, consumer SkyDrive is completely free, but for corporate purposes, you’ll need to have proper licenses to enable that. Kind of related on this, is the new capability in SharePoint to enforce the individual licenses even in account bases.