Service Pack 1 for SharePoint Server 2013 and Office 2013 released Paid Members Public
Microsoft just released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for SharePoint Server 2013 and Office 2013 (and a bunch of other products that doesn’t quite relate to my focus). As per request from a few clients and friends, here’s a quick link list with download details. SharePoint Server 2013 SP1

Visual Studio Online - Let's you leverage the cloud for your development projects Paid Members Public
In the past I’ve written some technical articles about “TFS Preview” which was the name of Visual Studio Online [http://tz.nu/1fX925M] while in beta. Now that it’s officially launched (and awesome), I’d like to make a small wrap-up of the features I really love with

Tools for your SharePoint 2013 development toolbox Paid Members Public
Some of my students, clients and community peers have asked about my favorite tools for working with SharePoint. So with that in mind, I quickly noted down some of my favorite tools that every developer should have in their toolbox. I’ve written posts about this before but as times
Tip: Getting the normal domain username from the claims username in SharePoint 2013 Paid Members Public
Introduction to the problem It’s not uncommon when upgrading to SharePoint [http://sharepoint.microsoft.com] 2013 from a previous version of SharePoint that you’ll get encoded claims usernames in the places you may have seen normal usernames (DOMAIN) syntaxes before. In my case it was a matter of

Automating SharePoint Development - Iterative Development Process Paid Members Public
When dealing with SharePoint development, there’s tons of things to consider. There’s the aspects of code quality, aspects of proficient testing taking place and of course having a reliable process to re-do and fix anything that comes up along the way. Most importantly in my opinion is to

Preparing for upgrade to SharePoint 2013 - Iterative Upgrade Process Paid Members Public
Every cycle of SharePoint [http://sharepoint.microsoft.com] comes with challenges around upgrades and migrations. In one of my current projects I’ve been part of designing an iterative upgrade process – as I like to call it – which means we’ll be upgrading our Farm (all content databases) from SharePoint

Tip: Work Management Service Application keeps telling us "Last updated at 1/1/1901 12:00 AM" fixes Paid Members Public
Recently while working with the Work Management Service Application in some of our environments, we got the common problem of not receiving any actual tasks on our My Sites. Instead, we saw this message: Last updated at 1/1/1901 12:00 AM Now, throw a google query and you’
FindBestContentDatabaseForSiteCreation() problem after upgrading to SharePoint 2013 - Solution Paid Members Public
In one of the projects I’m currently involved, we’re in the process of upgrading from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. One of the problems we faced were the fact that we had some orphaned content databases in our production environments, but the problem didn’t surface in SharePoint
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