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Office 365 and Office 2013 Released for Home and Office

By Dan Holme

Yesterday, Microsoft released Office 2013, Office 365 Home Premium, and Office 365 University—a significant chunk of the “Wave 15” Microsoft Office portfolio. But business and enterprise plans of Office 365 are on hold for another month.

The general availability milestone for consumers means that Office 2013 is more officially in the wild, now. This is just one of many milestones, and there are many thousands of individuals—myself included—who have been using Office 2013 for months, whether through MSDN, TechNet, or Microsoft volume licenses, or through the suite’s inclusion on the Surface. Many thousands—myself included again—have also been working with the new version of Office 365 through preview accounts obtained during the Consumer Preview period, or through Enterprise plans.

This week, I’ll share some of the details and resources related to this release, which in my opinion is a “no brainer” for certain scenarios—especially for those of us who are the tech support for our FFANs (Friends & Family Area Networks). I’ll also address some of the rumors about the impact today’s release has on your business and your users (read: licensing!). Next week, I’ll cover and clarify the dizzying array of Office 365 offerings for business.

For those playing the “Where in the world is Dan?” game, I’m in London this week, speaking at the SharePoint User Group UK on Thursday. I fly to lovely Copenhagen on Friday for the European SharePoint Conference where I will deliver my new SharePoint 2013 Collaboration MasterClass, a keynote with Christian Buckley, and three governance sessions.

Due to this week’s Office release news, I’m going to put off sharing the next chapter in my Facebook Catfish saga which, by the way, Facebook has yet to address adequately! (MAJOR #FAIL in protecting their users!)

So, on a brighter note, the release of the stunning Office 365 and Office 2013 applications!

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SharePoint Content Explodes

By Caroline Marwitz

Because my brain has been totally corrupted by using Twitter, what else but a tweet came to mind while I was reading the just-released Metalogix SharePoint survey:

"SharePoint content explodes, admins unhurt." 

Actually, by rights it would more accurately have said "Users going ape-crazy with putting content into SharePoint, admins hopeful #SharePoint 2013 can help, if their organizations will cough up the money for it and allow for decent planning time, and by the way, ANY downtime while migrating = fail."

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Additional Resources

Protecting Unstructured Data on File Servers, NetApp, EMC and SharePoint
Organizations today increasingly depend on unstructured data – including emails, spreadsheets and other documents. That makes protecting them a priority and having the right tools is critical to success. Read this white paper to learn about your options.

Real-time SharePoint Monitoring
Try this easy-to-use tool that watches SharePoint’s disk space operation speed

SharePoint Pro Magazine Tips and How-To's

Creating Mashup Applications in SharePoint, by Todd Baginski

The Cost of Changing to SharePoint, by Robert Bogue

SharePoint Pro | Updates.

Inventorying SharePoint Using PowerShell

By Michael T. Smith

Microsoft SharePoint quickly spreads through the enterprise because it’s very easy to use. Unfortunately, that often means that it’s easy to abuse, too.

To manage the ever-growing spread of SharePoint, we often write governance plans that mandate the auditing and policing of users, content, and policies. Which tools can you use to perform these audits or even just to find out what's happening in your SharePoint installation? Third-party tools can handle some of the necessary inventories and auditing, but you already have a great instrument in your toolkit: Windows PowerShell.

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Additional Resources

The Essential Guide to Achieving High Availability for SharePoint Data
Michael Noel explores approaches for reliable, efficient distribution of SharePoint content.

Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V: The Essential Guide to New Virtualization Capabilities
Learn how Hyper V’s new advancements make it an ideal platform for all application tiers and scenarios

SharePoint Pro Magazine Tips and How-To's

Deploying FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint, by Agnes Molnar

 

SharePoint Pro Magazine Tips and How-To's

Exploring and Inventorying SharePoint with PowerShell, by Michael T. Smith

Free White Paper: Learn more about cloud computing and the major security concerns that come with it 
Learn about: the next phase of cloud, virtualizing workloads, and making the leap from virtualization to cloud computing.

A Complete Guide to Going PaperlessPrepare that first kick-off meeting, organize a paperless management project, and avoid common pitfalls

SharePoint Pro: Update

SharePoint Admins Can Learn to Love PowerShell: By Todd Klindt

As with any new release, there was a lot to learn when SharePoint 2010 hit the streets. There were new features to master, and there were even some old features with which to get reacquainted. Typically, I’m up for such a challenge. Heck, I revel in it. However, one of the biggest challenges that I almost didn’t overcome was learning Windows PowerShell.

I’ve been working with SharePoint for a long time now. Although I started with SharePoint Team Services 2001, I really cut my teeth with Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (WSS 2.0). I used it to manage a farm that had more than 1,200 site collections and more than 10,000 subsites, which are often referred to as webs. I learned very early on to love and embrace scripting.

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The Essential Guide to New Virtualization Capabilities in Fibre Channel Environments
Learn how Hyper V’s new advancements make it an ideal platform for all application tiers and scenarios

The Essential Guide to Achieving High Availability for SharePoint Data
Michael Noel explores approaches for reliable, efficient distribution of SharePoint content.

That Paperless Nirvana SharePoint Promises, by Caroline Marwitz

Creating SharePoint 2010 Workflows, Starting with Visual Studio, by Serge Luca

Configuring Content type hub in SharePoint 2010 step by step

Configuring Content type hub in SharePoint 2010 step by step

Content Type Hub is like a repository where we can store the content types in a site collection and can be shared among all site collections in a web application and multiple web applications in a farm.

It is one of the features available in Managed Metadata service in SharePoint 2010

Create a site collection name it as content type hub

http://intranet.contoso.com/my/personal/ContentTypeHub

Site collection: ContentTypeHub

Webapplication: http://intranet.contoso.com

Now configure this content type hub site collection in Managed Metadata services

Click on Manage Service applications under Application Management section

It will display all the services

Select the Managed Metadata service and click on Permissions

Add the Administrator

Click on Administrators

Select the Full control permisssions

Click on Properties

Now enter the URL of content type hub site collection here

http://intranet.contoso.com/my/personal/ContentTypeHub

Click ok and again select the managed metadata service ..click on properties

Select the Managed Metadata Service Connection and click on properties

Select all the checkboxes

Click ok

Now publish the Managed metadata service by clicking on Publish

   Select the check box..publish this service application to other farms

Click ok

Now open the content type hub site collection

Navigate to site action --> site settings

Click on site collection features under Site collection administration

Now content type syndication hub feature is already activated

Click on site content types under Galleries section

Now create a custom content type and name it as Cricket Content type

To publish this content type…click on Manage publishing for this content type

Select the publish radio button

Click ok

Now Cricket content type is published and it is available for all site collections in a web application and all web applications in a farm

Create a site collection “Australia” check this new content type “Cricket content type” is available.

http://intranet.contoso.com/my/personal/Australia

Now navigate  to site actions à site settings

Click on Site content types under Galleries section

Cricket content type is available in custom content types section

Create a site collection in another web application to check whether cricket content type is available

http://hrweb.contoso.com/sites/Newzealand

Now navigate  to site actions à site settings

Click on Site content types under Galleries section

Cricket content type is available in custom content types section