January, 2013

Earlier this month, the 10 startups in our Fall 2012 Accelerator class got the chance to pitch to a room full of investors, mentors and technology enthusiasts. Over three hundred people joined us on the Redmond campus to see the final pitches in person. Aseem Badshah, CEO of Socedo , using social to deliver sales leads. For venture capitalists and angel investors, Demo Day was the chance to meet, and possibly fund, ten new startups that are looking to change the world.   For the companies...

Here is what you need to do: go to SharePoint Central Admin-System Settings-Manage Farms Solution and deploy powerpivotwebapplicationsolution.wsp to your web application :   Blog Post by: sergeluca

If you use SharePoint 2013 and if you take a look at your workstation file system, you might notice the following (blue) folders :SharePoint and Skydrive Pro : The SharePoint folder allows you to synchronize document libraries of any SharePoint sites with your workstation The SkyDrive Pro folder allows you to synchronize your mysite document [...] Blog Post by: sergeluca

Congratulations to Bayer White on his recently published book, Pro WF 4.5 ! Blog Post by: Jurgen Willis

During the BUILD 2012 conference we announced a new capability of Windows Azure: the Windows Azure Store . The Windows Azure Store makes it incredibly easy for you to discover, purchase, and provision premium add-on services, provided by our partners, for your cloud based applications. For example, you can use the Windows Azure Store to easily setup a MongoDB database in seconds, or quickly setup an analytics service like NewRelic that gives you deep insight into your application’s performance. There...

Today we released a number of great enhancements to Windows Azure.  I blogged earlier today about the general availability (GA) release of Windows Azure Media Services .  Windows Azure Media Services provides everything you need to quickly build great, extremely scalable, end-to-end media solutions for streaming on-demand video to consumers on any device. We also today released a preview of a really cool new Windows Azure capability – Notification Hubs.  Notification Hubs provide an...

I’m excited to announce the general availability (GA) release of Windows Azure Media Services .  This release is now live in production, supported by a new media services dev center , backed by an enterprise SLA, and is ready to be used for all media projects. With today’s release, you now have everything you need to quickly build great, extremely scalable, end-to-end media solutions for streaming on-demand video to consumers on any device.  For example, you can easily build a media service...

Introduction In this post I will give you a quick overview of the SharePoint 2013 REST/oData service; I will only use the browser (and Http GET calls) to illustrates several REST statements; in other posts, we will start writing code (.net and javascript) Step1.The big picture. In SharePoint 2013, Microsoft has extended the impact of [...] Blog Post by: sergeluca

In SharePoint 2013  if you use the out of the box Content Deployment , you cannot have users rating the document library of a source site and users rating the same document library in a target site. The reason is : rating is stored in the list, not in the social database, therefore ratings in [...] Blog Post by: sergeluca

A colleague recently asked me this question, so let’s share the answer : yes check the http response headers; now how can you do this ? 1°Browse the web site with Internet Explorer (in my case I browsed our corporate public web site based on O365 that we published a few months ago): 2°In the [...] Blog Post by: sergeluca

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This Wednesday, January 9th, I’m doing another online LIDNUG session .  The talk will be from 2pm to 3:30pm (Pacific Time).  I do these talks a few times a year and they tend to be pretty fun.  Attendees can ask any questions they want to me, and listen to me answer them live via LiveMeeting.  We usually end up having some really good discussions on a wide variety of topics.  Any topic or question is fair game. You can learn more and register to attend the online event for...

Happy New Year! I’ve gotten a few requests for WF customer examples, so I thought I'd kick off 2013 with a list of some published case studies. These are case studies specific to the use of WF directly; there are numerous additional case studies for other Microsoft products that build on top of WF, e.g. SharePoint, CRM, Axapta, TFS, PowerShell, System Center, etc. If you have any questions or would like to work with us to publish a case study with your company, please let me know. You can...