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European SharePoint 2013 Hosting – Amsterdam :: SharePoint 2013 Mobile Features
Mar 7th
The below list comprises some of the notable, new features Microsoft has developed for SharePoint 2013. This isn’t really a list for any particular type of user; it’s just a general overview of how Microsoft is adding to the feature set. The list is ranked based on my opinion of relevance and value to the organization.
1. Contemporary View
The first feature that will grab everyone’s eye is the new HTML5 view that is best suited for mobile devices. Think of it as a mix between the boring and lifeless classic view from SharePoint 2010 and the new metro look and feel for SharePoint 2013.
What you get is a clean and highly compatible UI that should work on just about any device supporting HTML5. A new site feature handles whether or not mobile devices are automatically routed to this view or not, so it couldn’t be easier to deploy for IT pros.
2. Push Notification Support for Mobile Applications
Push notifications have become staple features for mobile applications and the devices that support them, so it’s not shocking that Microsoft is now supporting this with SharePoint 2013. This feature requires adoption though from 3rd party developers or internal custom development.
The end result is that your device will be able to receive notifications from SharePoint lists and sites. For instance, a new document is uploaded in a library that you’re following, and the notification service sends your device a notification. Simple, yet necessary for today’s mobile devices.
3. Support for PerformancePoint & Excel Services Reports on iPads
This is probably the least impressive new feature, because Microsoft only suggests that “certain kinds” of reports will be viewable on mobile devices. Since we don’t have an RTM build yet, I can’t say really what those reports will be. To further limit the exposure of this new feature, it’s apparently only available for iOS 5 iPads. To even further confuse you, Microsoft says on another page that “PerformancePoint dashboards can now be viewed and interacted with on iPad devices using the Safari web browser.” That seems to suggest that all PP dashboards can be viewed in Safari.
4. Device Channels
Here’s a gem for site managers and devs. You now have the ability to render content for the appropriate device without having to duplicate the content itself. This functionality lets you serve up the same content with multiple master pages, page layouts and style sheets. If all goes well, you should be able to support most of the mobile devices in your firm with a lot less overhead than with 2010. The current list of compatible mobile browsers is available on the Microsoft Technet site.
5. Geolocation Field Type Support
Although this is another “under the hood” feature of SharePoint 2013, it should have an interesting effect on using SharePoint with mobile devices in the future. Microsoft has added native support to geolocation fields which can be exposed through Visual Studio. By adding a geolocation field to a list, you can embed coordinates, which can then be rendered with Bing Maps. The obvious benefit here is the ability to use your GPS-enabled mobile device to plot your location in a SharePoint list.
European SharePoint 2013 Hosting :: Using Metadata and SharePoint Search in SharePoint 2013
Feb 27th
Over time, we quickly realize that knowledge can be difficult to find within an organization. Having a dedicated knowledge repository can be very helpful, but the true knowledge in your company usually goes beyond a dedicated place to store articles and documents. SharePoint is great for capturing knowledge through documents, blogs, wikis, discussion boards, social newsfeeds and other content, but this knowledge often gets lost over time, especially as new content is added throughout your environment. How do we harness this knowledge so that it becomes more relevant and useful for the users of your system?
One of the key foundations to a good knowledge management system in SharePoint is the definition of content types and managed metadata. This provides a global structure that can be used across your SharePoint environment and provides consistency when searching for information in SharePoint, no matter where your content lives.
Using Enterprise Keywords is an easy way for users to tag content with Metadata that doesn’t fit in the structured taxonomy. Using the Managed Metadata Service, these Enterprise Keywords can easily be moved into the formal taxonomy if and when it makes sense.
To pull all of this content together, SharePoint Search can be used to return content from across your organization into a single location. The search results page allows users to further refine their results using both your structured and non-structured metadata. A simple example of this may be in finding all training documents related to a particular topic, no matter which department they originated from.
Tapping into the knowledge of the people within your organization can provide amazing benefits. Users can complete their SharePoint profile in order to manually add skills and experience that is relevant to their job. SharePoint Search can use this information to return the relevant people for your query.
Search in SharePoint 2013 can also determine the relationship between people and the documents they have authored, making it even easier to find the right person with the skills or experience you are looking for without the need for users to keep their profile constantly up to date.
SharePoint Search out-of-the-box will provide some ranking of the results based on relevance. With some additional configuration, search can provide very specific ranking for your organization. This may be based on the age of the content, the feedback (ratings) of content received by peers, the source of the content, or even the popularity of the content.
With some initial planning and configuration, users can see the true potential in using SharePoint for finding knowledge throughout the organization.
European SharePoint 2013 Hosting :: Integrating Twitter in SharePoint
Dec 20th
This is only brief tutorial and hope you enjoy it.
First you’ll need an account created in twitter.
After logging in, add a couple of entries (so when you integrate Twitter into SharePoint, you can see some updates)
Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and click on Apps
Click on Widgets
Click Continue >> at the bottom right
Select the Interactive Widget, and click Continue >>
Select the preferred style and size, then copy the code
Paste it into Content Editor Webpart on your SharePoint page
Done!… Easy and simple. 🙂
European SharePoint 2013 Hosting :: SharePoint 2013 Mobile Features
Dec 10th
The below list comprises some of the notable, new features Microsoft has developed for SharePoint 2013. This isn’t really a list for any particular type of user; it’s just a general overview of how Microsoft is adding to the feature set. The list is ranked based on my opinion of relevance and value to the organization.
1. Contemporary View
The first feature that will grab everyone’s eye is the new HTML5 view that is best suited for mobile devices. Think of it as a mix between the boring and lifeless classic view from SharePoint 2010 and the new metro look and feel for SharePoint 2013.
What you get is a clean and highly compatible UI that should work on just about any device supporting HTML5. A new site feature handles whether or not mobile devices are automatically routed to this view or not, so it couldn’t be easier to deploy for IT pros.
2. Better Office Web Apps UX with Touch Support on Tablets
Working with Office Web Apps on a mobile device in SharePoint 2010 left a lot to be desired. Editing documents was not really possible on many devices and browsers (without a hack), which left users with the ability to basically view only.
Flash forward three years, and the dominance of information workers working on the go has caused Microsoft to revamp their offerings. Unless you were living under a rock, you should already be familiar with the big push Microsoft is making for the new web-based versions of the popular Office apps.
The new UI sports bigger buttons, gesture support, context menus (rejoice!), support for touch, mouse and keyboard input, and many more cool features. I don’t expect the experience to be any different coupled with SharePoint 2013, so you can test drive the experience now with SkyDrive or Office 365.
3. Push Notification Support for Mobile Applications
Push notifications have become staple features for mobile applications and the devices that support them, so it’s not shocking that Microsoft is now supporting this with SharePoint 2013. This feature requires adoption though from 3rd party developers or internal custom development.
The end result is that your device will be able to receive notifications from SharePoint lists and sites. For instance, a new document is uploaded in a library that you’re following, and the notification service sends your device a notification. Simple, yet necessary for today’s mobile devices.
4. Device Channels
Here’s a gem for site managers and devs. You now have the ability to render content for the appropriate device without having to duplicate the content itself. This functionality lets you serve up the same content with multiple master pages, page layouts and style sheets. If all goes well, you should be able to support most of the mobile devices in your firm with a lot less overhead than with 2010. The current list of compatible mobile browsers is available on the Microsoft Technet site.
5. Geolocation Field Type Support
Although this is another “under the hood” feature of SharePoint 2013, it should have an interesting effect on using SharePoint with mobile devices in the future. Microsoft has added native support to geolocation fields which can be exposed through Visual Studio. By adding a geolocation field to a list, you can embed coordinates, which can then be rendered with Bing Maps. The obvious benefit here is the ability to use your GPS-enabled mobile device to plot your location in a SharePoint list.
6. Support for PerformancePoint & Excel Services Reports on iPads
This is probably the least impressive new feature, because Microsoft only suggests that “certain kinds” of reports will be viewable on mobile devices. Since we don’t have an RTM build yet, I can’t say really what those reports will be. To further limit the exposure of this new feature, it’s apparently only available for iOS 5 iPads. To even further confuse you, Microsoft says on another page that “PerformancePoint dashboards can now be viewed and interacted with on iPad devices using the Safari web browser.” That seems to suggest that all PP dashboards can be viewed in Safari.
Regardless of what functionality actually makes it to RTM and beyond, it’s nice to know that we should be able to start interacting with dashboards, scorecards and maybe even some Excel BI/PowerPivot data on our iPads.
European SharePoint 2013 Hosting :: Feature Search in SharePoint 2013
Nov 23rd
Search is one of the big bets in SharePoint 2013. Search is new, search is different from all previous versions of SharePoint. The platform has been consolidated. It is a combination of FAST Search and SharePoint Search components. And also the good news is, it is the same from Foundation to Server. No more different flavors.
Note: be aware, that this article is mainly written based on SharePoint 2013 Technical Review and although the beta version has arrived, functionality can still change when the RTM is released.
The search architecture has changed in many ways. There are new components, new topology and new features. The new architecture is to facilitate greater redundancy and to be more scalable. The following picture displays the logical architecture and its components. In this post all components are explained briefly.
Crawl Component
The crawler is responsible for crawling the content. The crawler uses the connectors to retrieve data from the content sources, but is does not parse any text or documents. The result of crawling is both the actual content and the associated metadata. All crawled items are passed over to the next component, the Content Processing Component.
Content Processing Component
This component processes crawled items and then feeds these items to the Index Component. So, this content processing component does actually parse the content by means of Format Handlers. It has automatic file format detection and it no longer relies on file extension. Out of the box there are high-performance format handlers for HTML, DOCX, PPTX, TXT, Image, XML and PDF formats. IFilters are still supported.
Index Component
The Index Component is used in both feeding and query processes. On one hand it receives processed items from the Content Processing Component and writes those items to the index. On the other hand it receives queries from the Query Processing Component and provides results sets in return.
The Index Component is also responsible for moving the indexed content when the topology changes by the Search Administration Component.
Query Processing Component
When the Query Processing Component receives a query from the search front-end, it analyzes and processes the query. The processed query is then submitted to the Index Component. The Index Component returns a result set based on the processed query back to the Query Processing Component, which in turn processes that result set before sending it back to the search front-end.
Analytics Process Component
In SharePoint 2010 there was a Web Analytics service application. In SharePoint 2013 this is now part of the Search architecture. The new analytics component tracks and analyzes crawled items and how users interact with search results. The analytics component uses it to continuously improve the search relevance. The results of this Analytics Processing Component are returned back to the Content Processing Component to be included in the search index.
Search Administration Component
The Search Administration Component is responsible for the search topology and search provisioning. It coordinates the search components Content Processing, Query, Index and Analytics.
Summary
A lot has changed when it comes to SharePoint search. The best of all search types in SharePoint 2010 (including FAST) are consolidated into one. And this one search engine is used from Foundation to Server. The new architecture with all the components is to provide greater redundancy and for better scalability.
Premier European HostForLIFE.eu Officially Announces SharePoint 2013 Hosting in European Data Center
Nov 21st
HostForLIFE.eu, the premier European Windows and ASP.NET provider proudly announces the immediate availability of Microsoft’s new SharePoint 2013 hosting. HostForLIFE.eu offers this new product at the amazing price, just only €9.99/month.
“SharePoint 2013 is really fantastic; it brings many exciting new features, like Microsoft App Store, SharePoint Designer 2013 support, the use of mobile smart devices. And what amazing here is you can find all this new functionality for only €9.99/month” Said Kevin Joseph, manager of HostForLIFE.eu. “These enhancements are fantastic and make the platform more user-friendly, scalable, modern, and powerful as a robust collaboration, social, and knowledge management platform for the enterprise.”
HostForLIFE.eu utilizes the newly-released Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server 2012 as the foundation for the plans. The base hosting plans specification have been architected to meet Microsoft recommended configurations for both SharePoint 2013 and SQL Server 2012 and will include SQL Server and disk configuration best practices identified by HostForLife’s database administrators to optimize SharePoint 2013 performance.
The HostForLIFE.eu SharePoint 2013 product is divided into SharePoint Foundation 2013 and SharePoint Server 2013 hosting plan. SharePoint 2013 Foundation is the core platform of the product which comes with enhancements to the administration and user experience, plus new options for enterprise users to collaborate using social media features. SharePoint Server 2013 is basically Foundation with additional Enterprise services and functionality added on top. You will still get Central administration, basic search, document collaboration, and team sites with Foundation.
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