SharePoint Democracy and Rock n Roll

Back in Portugal it was sort of a habit (or maybe it was just my habit) when someone start beeping their horn in traffic jams, other drivers join in, even if they don’t know what the original honker was complaining about in the first place. Sort of like a Vuvuzela frenzy on traffic jams. All for a glimpse of hope that traffic might start moving or if you’re lucky maybe a couple of drivers will jump out of their cars and we get to watch a live kick boxing match on the tarmac.

Today is D+2, D being the day Microsoft announced the release of the first public Beta of Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013. Many exciting news, a few turf wars in the community, and certainly a lot of noise. And in good vuvuzela frenzy / Lisbon traffic jam style, here goes my shout.

I’ve been re-twitting all the links that looked more interesting to me, but eventually they will all get lost in the flood of twitter activity, so I thought I should note them down somewhere, and maybe add a little more information to why I found them interesting.

Here they go

RT @erik_perez ‪#sp2013‬ app store here:http://officepreview.microsoft.com/en-us/store/ap …

My first tweet was for the app market. Little did I know at this stage how much the development models had changed. Still a very exciting approach, and looking fwd to see how this can be leveraged on-premises 

RT @robwindsor SharePoint 2013 developer training content (done by @andrewconnell & @TedPattison) on MSDN http://bit.ly/LmaDDj ‪#sp2013‬

 

Note to self: Must find time to start watching these videos

 

@stephaneeyskens Leveraging .NET 4 in ‪#SharePoint2013‬ Series (1) – Tuples http://www.silver-it.com/node/107 Retweeted by Jorge Carvalho

 

This was a twit to alert me to the .Net 4 series by Stephen Eeyskens.a new SharePointer to follow, and a great series to follow and try.

 

RT @wictor Just blogged: SharePoint 2013: Claims is the new blackhttp://bit.ly/OCOZev 

 

This was my first WTF from the news on SP2013. As I’m in an early stage of a 2007-2010 migration at my new job, this was handy to find out. I am definitely pushing for claims on 2010 to save me the pain down the track.

 

RT @robwindsor Developing new sandboxed solutions against SharePoint 2013 Preview is not supported… http://bit.ly/MdFMxd  ‪#sp2013‬<- wtf

 

Seriously? You bring a new development model, sell it as the way to go moving forward, and as the only option to deploy stuff to Office365. and in the following version you deprecate it. Nice one Microsoft.

I am still to try SharePoint Designer 2013, and see how you can move SharePoint Designer Workflows across environments without using Sandbox solutions.

Also, this seems to be something fairly new because in the first couple of videos on msdn developer training this is not mentioned, and Sandbox are still shown there side by side with the SharePoint-Hosted/Developer-Hosted/Azure Auto-hosted Apps.

 

RT @jantielens Explore the SharePoint 2013 Preview by reading these “What’s new in …” articles: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ … ‪#sp2013‬

 

Jan Tielens is a personal hero from my days in Belgium, and his  SmartPart, aka the mother of Visual Web Parts, was a great help back in the day.

Good list summarizing what’s new in multiple topics. (What’s new in authentication, or social computing, workflow, etc)

 

RT @waldekm New post: ‘Device Channels in SharePoint 2013′http://tinyurl.com/cchj2el  ‪#SharePoint2013‬ <– The coolest so far 4 me

 

This was cool news for me, and probably one of the first things I will try.

Key sentence from Waldek’s post: “that allows you to define a number of channels, map them to devices using user agent matches or custom logic, and associate different Master Pages to each channel”

 

Having different code behind executed, depending on which device you’re running the page in, can be rather powerful.

 

RT @sahilmalik New stuff in SharePoint 2013 http://goo.gl/fb/5QRp9  <– Great summary

 

Another SharePointer, new to the list of people I follow, and definitely worth every minute of my attention.

Some highlights from his summary:

• Web Analytics are now part of Search. Search is one of the areas with major changes in this version. Content Search Web Part is a good candidate to replace Content Query Web Part. Also, there is now the option for a continuous crawler. I guess this is why the hardware requirements are way beyond what I can get out of my 8Gb laptop
• BCS supports ODATA sources
• #SP2013 uses Shredded Storage in SQL Server, when you hit “Save” in office, only the delta goes all the way back to SQL. No more storing every single version of every single document. This one is better than increasing capacity boundaries. 
• Office Web Apps no longer a Service Application. Separate Server now.

RT @gannotti Downloadable eBook: Deployment guide for SharePoint 2013 Preview http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download …

 

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