SharePoint 2013 provides a new and improved SharePoint Designer action the Start a Task Process. To learn more about it, just follow the excellent youtube video authored by SharePoint MVP Laura Rogers. I’ve recently tried this activity and one of the issue I’ve faced is that when you assign this task process to a (SharePoint) [...] Blog Post by: sergeluca

  I just did follow the 4 hour (live from Redmond & free) course available here and I really enjoyed it : Blog Post by: sergeluca

Here are the slides of my presentation on Apps for SharePoint 2013 @Ephec (Ecole Pratiques des Hautes Etudes Commerciales), Brussels. Blog Post by: sergeluca

3 years in a row, I kinda feel home in Canada: next month, I’ll present the following session : Blog Post by: sergeluca

I did a session SharePoint 2013-Business Intelligence in French in Paris last month with my partner in crime in BI Isabelle Van Campenhoudt (SQL Server MVP). This session was part of “SharePoint et les 10 Commandements”. Blog Post by: sergeluca

The slides of my session can now be downloaded here.   Blog Post by: sergeluca

Today we released a number of great enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Mobile Services : HTML5/JS (CORS) Client + PhoneGap + Windows Phone 7.5 + .NET Portable Library support Web Sites : Mercurial Source Control + Dropbox Deployment support HDInsight : New service that enables you to easily deploy and manage Hadoop Clusters on Azure All of these improvements are now available to start using immediately (note: some services are still in preview). Below are more details...

This past weekend we released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Mobile Services: Android support, East Asia Region Support, iOS dev content SQL Reporting Services: Support in the management portal Active Directory: Support in the azure management portal, user and domain management Availability Monitoring for Cloud Services. Virtual Machines, Web Sites, and Mobile Services Service Bus: New configuration tab and metrics Storage: Ability to download blobs directly...

My article has recently been published on this topic, go read it here: How to Coordinate Startup Across Multiple Windows Azure Instances

I am pleased to announce the release of the first Cumulative Update (CU) for Workflow Manager 1.0; you can find the associated KB article here . The Workflow Manager CU has a dependency on Service Bus CU1 (KB is here ), which was also just released. There are a couple of options for the installation: Direct installation from the Microsoft Download Center; the appropriate links are in the KB articles above Via the Web Platform Installer : Web PI link for Workflow Manager CU1 Web PI link for Service...

Sometimes you just need a quick comparison between cloud vendors and there features, this table attempts to do that without getting into which is better. Compute Azure Amazon PaaS Cloud Services N/A Websites N/A IaaS Virtual Machines EC2 Reserved Instance...

I’m excited to announce the final release of the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 update .  This update is a free download for Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5, and adds some great additional features to both ASP.NET and Visual Studio. Today’s update makes no changes to the existing ASP.NET runtime, and so it is fully compatible with your existing projects and development environment. Whether you use Web Forms, MVC, Web API, or any other ASP.NET technology, there is something in this update for you...

Learn to setup the CISCO ASA 5505 VPN device to connect with Azure Virtual Networks.

My partner in crime Isabelle Van Campenhoudt (SQL Server MVP) and I did 2 SharePoint 2013 presentations in the Microsoft Offices in Luxemburg in december. I forgot to post the slides as promised (oops) Here is are the slides of: the presentation of SharePoint 2013 BI I did with Isabelle my presentation of SharePoint 2013 [...] Blog Post by: sergeluca

Hey, it's been a long time since I updated this blog. Did anybody miss me? Didn't think so. Since the intertubes never stop piping out noise, obviously nobody will have noticed a little silence. In any case it feels nice to give everybody a warm fuzzy 'hello long time no see' post. No wait, don't yet ! There's actually news here, sort of. Well no, not the workflow news you were probably coming here to see. Because, as it turns out, I personally don't work on workflow any...

In a typical SharePoint 2013 Business Intelligence farm, we install Excel Services, SQL Server 2012 SP1, Reporting Services, Analysis services and so on…Therefore Excel documents (with the Powerpivot and Powerview stuff) are  managed and rendered by Excel Services.Great. Then we install Office Web Apps in a WAC server and we associate the SharePoint farm and [...] Blog Post by: sergeluca

During my previous presentation, my SharePoint 2013 VM became much too slow: the culprit was one of the Search component that ate my CPU : To reduce it cpu footprint, the solution was to set its Performancelevel to Reduced In Powershell, just type Set-SPEnterpriseSearchService -PerformanceLevel Reduced  and restart the SharePoint Search service. Before doing that [...] Blog Post by: sergeluca

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