HideFromDelve!
Just stumbled on this buried in the middle of a Search Schema document.To hide documents from Delve you basically create a new Site Column named HideFromDelve as a Yes/No column, add it to your library and then set this column to Yes for everything you don't want to show up in Delve.
If you've not heard of Delve then start here: https://support.office.com/en-US/article/What-is-Office-Delve-1315665a-c6af-4409-a28d-49f8916878ca?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
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Microsoft Azure has had a pre-configured SharePoint 2013 image for quite a while, but you still had to create a SQL Server image to make it work and then run the SharePoint wizard to create the farm. Now they have a wizard approach to quickly create a ready to use three server basic farm or a nine server high-availability farm. Just click, click, click, wait a while and start playing with SharePoint! Just the thing for evaluations, demos and development.
The three server farm includes a SQL server, a DC server and a SharePoint server. The high-availability farm includes two DC servers, three SQL server servers, two application servers and two SharePoint web servers. (This one should drain your Azure budget! Remember to turn these off when not in use.)
Details on both configurations can be found here: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-sharepoint-farm-config-azure-preview/
Here's the steps to create your Azure SharePoint 2013 farm: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-sharepoint-farm-azure-preview/
A few observations:
Things you will need to do to have a complete SharePoint:
Now all we need is a volunteer to create the PowerShell scripts to do the final work for us!
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I'll be presenting the 20488 Developing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Core Solutions class in two weeks, actually a week and a half (time flies!). February 16th, 2015. We've set up this class for both local and remote students. Online students will be able to view the class and have remote access to the lab computers.
Just as a little incentive, when you register enter my code of "TTN50" and get a $50 discount on the class.
Details here: http://www.maxtrain.com/Classes/ClassInfo.aspx?Id=101693
In this 5 day instructor-led course, students learn core skills that are common to almost all SharePoint development activities. These include working with the server-side and client-side object models, developing and deploying features, solutions, and apps, managing identity and permissions, querying and updating list data, managing taxonomy, using workflow to manage business processes, and customizing the user interface.
At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
More details at http://www.maxtrain.com/Classes/ClassInfo.aspx?Id=101693
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Actually a few notes…
I found two interesting SharePoint 2013 search books at Amazon and ordered them. I just received them… and I'm going to return both of them. This will be the first time I have ever returned a printed book!
Self-publishing is easy, fun and very rewarding. But…
Note 1: All printed technology books must have an index! Indexes are easy to create in Microsoft Word. You can either create a busy looking, but not too useful, index using the automatic features, or invest a couple hours and manually create a very useful one. In any case be forewarned, I do not buy technical books that do not have an index!
Note 2: Do not tell me in the book's intro that all of the content in the book is straight from your blog articles. Especially don't tell me that I could have gotten it all for free from the blog. (Boy, do I feel dumb paying for that book.) Don't just copy your blog articles and call it a book. Books that build on your blog articles can really be useful. Creating the book is your opportunity to expand on the topic and rewrite the quickly written text into nice complete articles. Fix up the screen captures. Fill in the gaps. Rewrite the hastefully written text. You know… create what you would have done in the blog if you had time to do it right the first time.
Note 3: Do not fill the pages with giant screen captures so there's an average of one screen capture and only one or two sentences per page. That works for a kid's picture book, but does not deliver much value as a technical book. In any case, please, please size and crop the screen captures so they are always readable and to the point.
Note 4: Pay somebody, anybody, to proofread the book. They don't have to know the technology. They just have to know some basic English and know enough to ask if all the code really should be underlined! If you want to really do it right, find someone who has heard of the Chicago Manual of Style, At a minimum buy yourself a copy of the Microsoft Manual of Style, and give a copy to your proofreader.
Note 5: Look at some of the tech books from the big publishers. I mean, open them, look at the details, note what is there and what is not. Note the use of "front matter". Note that page numbers go on the outside edges of pages, not in the gutter. Note the use of font size and the limited use of bold and italics.
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Do you ever have a PowerShell script that just won't sort right?
The problem? PowerShell makes assumptions, and not always the ones you would make. For example let's get a list of SharePoint lists and sort them by their BaseTemplate property:
$mtg = Get-SPWeb http://maxsp2013wfe/sites/Meetings
$mtg.Lists | Sort BaseTemplate | Select BaseTemplate, Title
Is the result you would expect?
Not what I first expected… but there's a hint hiding there though… Why is the BaseTemplate column right aligned as if was numeric?
If we take the above script and pipe it to Get-Member we find that BaseTemplate is not a string! It's an object of some kind. It's an SPListTemplateType object!
So let's see what that is… Doing a Bing on Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListTemplateType reveals that it is an enumeration, which internally is a number. If you look at the list in the MSDN article you will see both the text and numeric values of the base types.
What we need is the display text for the enumeration, and we can get that by using the ToString() method. As that would then be an expression, we need to add the annoying curly brackets and the $_. notation.
$mtg.Lists | Sort { $_.BaseTemplate.ToString() } | Select BaseTemplate, Title
And now we get:
And that's more like it! (except for the right align stuff that going on)
Convert the column in the Select to a string and all's well!
$mtg.Lists | Sort {$_.BaseTemplate.ToString()} | Select {$_.BaseTemplate.ToString()}, Title
So what were the PowerShell assumptions?
(And you know what "assume" does, right?)
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If you have attended one of my SharePoint Saturday PowerShell presentations or read my PowerShell series at SharePoint Pro magazine, then you know a bit about what's possible with PowerShell. This Friday. January, 30th, I will be delivering one of the more fun classes I do: "SharePoint 2010 and 2013 Auditing and Site Content Administration using PowerShell". If you are a SharePoint administrator and need to "find and inventory stuff" in SharePoint then you need this class! Whatever is hiding in SharePoint is visible to the PowerShell user, if you know where to look.
Class details are here: http://www.maxtrain.com/Classes/ClassInfo.aspx?Id=119394
You can join us at MAX Technical Training in Cincinnati or attend remotely from your office or home.
This class is available world wide though Microsoft training partners
and the Microsoft Courseware library. Just ask for course 55095.
This one day instructor-led class is designed for SharePoint 2010 and 2013 server administrators and auditors who need to query just about anything in SharePoint. The class handout is effectively a take home cheat sheet with over 175 PowerShell scripts plus the general patterns to create your own scripts. These scripts cover:
Prerequisites: You should have good SharePoint skills as and end user and administrator along with some practical experience with PowerShell.
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Go here after 4:00 PM EST for login instructions: www.CincinnatiSPUG.org
Meeting will start at 6:00 for food, social and networking. Presentation will start at 6:30 PM EST.
Attending physically or remotely? Register here and let us know! http://www.meetup.com/TechLife-Cincinnati/events/219938769/
(yah, a movie title rip off…)
Your local IT user groups… one of the few really useful free things in life. Attend, network, learn and share!
For a list of Cincinnati area user groups see here:
http://www.maxtrain.com/UserGroups.aspx
For a list of upcoming user group events see here:
http://www.meetup.com/TechLife-Cincinnati/
And don't forget tonight's Cincinnati SharePoint user group meeting!
http://www.meetup.com/TechLife-Cincinnati/events/219938769/
A list of SharePoint User Groups:
http://www.sharepointfest.com/portal/index.php/2012-04-13-17-00-56/sharepoint-user-groups/north-america/united-states
A list of .Net User Groups:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/p/dotnetusergroups.aspx
A large list of user groups / communities:
https://www.technicalcommunity.com/CommunityDirectory.aspx
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Register here: http://www.meetup.com/TechLife-Cincinnati/events/219938769/
User group site: http://www.CincinnatiSPUG.org
Speaker: Justin Kobel
Title: Branding SharePoint 2013 without breaking everything
SharePoint 2013 (and SharePoint Online) have given us a lot of different tools to offer a better design experience to our users; but it’s never as easy as the marketing materials make it out to be. In this session we’ll look at a couple of different methods to apply branding to SharePoint, while also making sure that you do not break existing SharePoint Functionality.
Topics:
We will try to have remote access available. Check the web site Thursday afternoon for details. http://www.CincinnatiSPUG.org
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Ok, this is useless trivia… In the list of SharePoint 2013 Search Result Types (Settings, Site Settings, Search section, Result Types) it looks like someone at Microsoft is not sure how to spell SharePoint! At least they did not spell it SharePint!
Oh wait… they made up for it in the next word. Everywhere in TechNet microblog has a lowercase "b"!
So, for accuracy, in my courseware should I use "Sharepoint MicroBlog", "SharePoint MicroBlog" or "SharePoint Microblog"? Decisions, decisions, decisions… Oh the life of a tech writer…
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