Vighnesh Bendre - MS technologies

As I am exploring SharePoint 2013, I found out that there are lot of things that are new and there are lot of thing that are old but presented in a different manner as compared to SharePoint 2010. For example, Site Actions was on the top left corner in SP 2010. But in SP 15 (SharePoint 2013) we dont have ‘Site Actions’ button. But instead we have a settings icon which is placed at top right corner. When you click on the settings icon select Add an App. This will basically allow you to add custom lists, documents libraries etc. Add an App is basically the same as More Options in SharePoint 2010. From now on custom lists & libraries will be called apps. Just like in Apple store or Android store you can develop apps for SharePoint and sell it. You can find more information here: http://officepreview.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps-for-sharepoint-FX102804987.aspx When you click on Add an App you will be navigated to a different scree which will display different opti...

Finally I have installed Windows Server 2012 Full Server (8400.0.WINMAIN_WIN8RC.120518-1423_X64FRE_SERVER_EN-US-HRC_SSS_X64FRE_EN-US_DV5.ISO). I have installed it on Oracle Virtual Box. In my previous blog I have explained how I was struggling with installing Server 2012 on VMWare first. And then when I was successful in installing it on Virtual Box, I had actually installed server core version of Windows Server 2012.  This time around, I downloaded the full server version of Server 2012. I was able to proceed with installation without any hiccups.  While creating the VM (using virtual box) I had faced some issue with hard disk space allocation. I have explained it in another blog here . Let us start with the new and improved UI of SharePoint 15. This is how the UI looks like. It follows the new metro look. There are lot of new things. And old things put in new place on the screen. The famous Ribbon of SharePoint 2010 still exists and pl...

  For working with Windows Server 2012 & SharePoint 2013 this time I choose Oracle Virtual Box. Microsoft has recommended 60GB of harddisk space for running Windows Server 2012 and SharePoint 2013. When creating new virtual machine (VM) the Vbox took 25 GB as the default for hard disk space. It also mentioned that it is dynamic allocation. I guessed that this will increase as and when the VM needs more space.  I was wrong. I created new VM and installed Server 2012 successfully. But when I was installing SharePoint 2013 the istallation did not succeed because of less disk space.  After some googling, I found a command (run from command prompt) to increase disk apace allocated to the VM. Below are the steps for the same. Open command prompt on host system. Navigate to C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox . Execute below command: VBoxManage modifyhd filename.vdi --resize 61440 Above command will increse the allocated disk space to 60...

I follow Corey Roth ’s blogs. In his blogs he has given so much information regarding SharePoint 2013 that I got inspired and started my journey of learning SharePoint 2013. My first task was to get SharePoint 2013 installed on my laptop. I have Intel i5 2.4 GHz (2) with 8 gig memory. I am running on Windows 7 Professional 64bit. I already have VMWare (8.0.4 build-744019) installed where I do my development on Windows server 2008 R2 with SharePoint 2010. So my obvious choice was to get SharePoint 2013 image and install it on my already running VMWare Server 2008 R2. I downloaded the 2.1 gig image and tried installing it on my VM. But failed. There were varied reasons for the failure. So I decided to get Windows Server 2012 and create a new VM from it and then install SharePoint 2013 on it. I downloaded the Server 2012 Hyper-V Release Candidate (8400.0.WINMAIN_WIN8RC.120518-1423_X64FRE_SERVERHYPERCORE_EN-US-HRC_SHV_X64FRE_EN-US_DV5.ISO). Then tried to create a fresh new V...