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SharePoint Technologies
SharePoint Server 2010 Service Pack 2 has been released (Updated July 31st, 2013)
Service Pack 2 for the SharePoint 2010 Product Family has been released today.
Announcing DiscoverSharePoint.com
Today, we're pleased to announce the availability of www.DiscoverSharePoint.com, a new site geared towards driving end-user adoption. SharePoint is all about helping people get things done better together. This new site is a great place to go for end users to discover SharePoint and learn what's in it for them. The site features various business scenarios, along with a set of how-to videos and guides to help people get started. All content is downloadable and sharable, so that you can easily spread the word and start changing how people work together!
http://blogs.office.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2013/07/26/announcing-discoversharepoint-com.aspx
Discover SharePoint
Discover SharePoint: download the use case catalog and adoption guide.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39372
SharePoint Newsfeed app available in Windows Store
Need to stay connected while you are on the road? The SharePoint Newsfeed for the Windows Store app is now available! The app can be found in the Windows Store and is compatible with SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2013. The SharePoint Newsfeed app allows you to access, view, post, reply, and upload documents by simply signing into your SharePoint or Office 365 account.
Advancing the enterprise social roadmap
To celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Yammer acquisition, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on where we've come from and talk about where we're going. It has been a busy year, and it's exciting to see how our vision of "connected experiences" is taking shape.
SkyDrive Pro apps now available for Windows 8 and iOS
The SkyDrive Pro apps for Windows 8 and iOS are now available in the Windows Store and Apple Store respectively for SharePoint Online users in Office 365. Find out more about how you can use SkyDrive Pro apps to access, view, and upload documents from anywhere on the O365 technology blog.
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Application Request Router (ARR) 3.0 RTM is now available
The final version of ARR (Application Request Router) 3.0 is now available, thanks to some intensive work by our product team.
WebDeploy 3.5 RTW
WebDeploy v3.5 is now available for download, and there are a few features to consider in this minor release.
http://blogs.iis.net/msdeploy/archive/2013/07/09/webdeploy-3-5-rtw.aspx
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Documents
SharePoint Technologies
Case Study: Cambridgeshire Constabulary
The Cambridgeshire Constabulary wanted to replace an outdated Lotus Notes environment and transform how the organization worked. In 2012, the constabulary used Microsoft SharePoint 2013 to explore how it could better help its employees discover information, share documents, and organize data. As a result, the constabulary expects to lower costs, increase collaboration, and enhance public safety.
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=710000001618
Store, sync and share with SharePoint
Whether you are an individual working on a document by yourself, or a team that needs to collaborate on a project, SharePoint has many capabilities that help improve productivity across an organization. This post focuses on a small subset of those capabilities. We cover a scenario that shows you how SharePoint makes it easy to share stuff with others in your organization--whether they are documents or ideas. We cover SkyDrive Pro, SharePoint sites, Yammer and how the other office products like Microsoft Word work seamlessly with SharePoint.
http://blogs.office.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2013/08/01/store-sync-and-share-with-sharepoint.aspx
Changes to content deployment in SharePoint Server 2013
If you're familiar with the content deployment feature in previous versions of SharePoint Server, then you've probably heard that there have been a few changes to make it easier in SharePoint Server 2013. In this blog post, We''ll explain those changes.
Now available: Refresh of Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 developer training
We are excited to announce a refreshed version of the developer training materials for Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 to help administrators, architects, and developers learn about new developer capabilities. The developer training package is publicly available from the Apps for Office and SharePoint Dev Center to help you get started building apps for Office and SharePoint today.
Introducing MVC support for apps for SharePoint
ASP.NET MVC gives you a powerful, pattern-based way to build dynamic websites that lets you separate different aspects (model, view and controllers) of your app and gives you full control over markup for enjoyable, agile development. Before Visual Studio 2013 Preview, to build an app for SharePoint with an MVC web application as a remote project, you had to first create the MVC web application project and then “app-etize” the MVC web project to add an app for SharePoint. Now support in built in to Visual Studio 2013 Preview
Security in SharePoint Apps
Steve Peschka brings together all the information you need to understand security in SharePoint Apps into one place.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2013/07/29/security-in-sharepoint-apps-part-1.aspx
Integrate Yammer with on-premises SharePoint 2013 environments
This white paper addresses how to replace the social features in SharePoint Server 2013 with equivalent Yammer features in a SharePoint Server 2013 on-premises deployment.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39357
Test Lab Guide: Configure Intranet and Team Sites with SharePoint Server 2013
This paper explains how to set up multiple web applications, site collections, subsites, and pages for intranet departments and teams.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30379
Test Lab Guide: Configure SharePoint Server 2013 in a Three-Tier Farm
This paper provides a brief introduction to SharePoint Server 2013 and illustrates how to create a three-tier test lab.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30386
Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate Permissions with SharePoint Server 2013
This paper provides a brief introduction to SharePoint Server 2013 and illustrates how to configure permissions.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39040
Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate Forms-Based Authentication with SharePoint Server 2013
This paper explains how to configure and demonstrate form-based authentication for SharePoint Server 2013 based on the Test Lab Guide: Configure SharePoint Server 2013 in a Three-Tier Farm (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30386
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34684
Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate SAML-based Claims Authentication with SharePoint Server 2013
This paper provides a brief introduction to SharePoint Server 2013 and illustrates how to create a three-tier test lab that uses SAML-based claims authentication
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30385
Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation
The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in SharePoint Products and Technologies.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25255
eDiscovery Flow Across SharePoint, Exchange, Lync, and File Shares
eDiscovery Flow across SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, Lync Server and file shares
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39349
Feature Integration Across Microsoft Office Products
Illustrations for cross-server features: This multi-tab file includes descriptions and architecture illustrations for features that work across Microsoft Office server products. (Exchange Server, Lync Server, SharePoint Server)
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39348
Multi-farm architectures with SharePoint Server 2013
This model provides architectural guidance for multi-farm deployments of SharePoint Server 2013.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34973
Social feature support for SharePoint Server 2013
Discusses the different deployment architectures for SharePoint Server 2013 and the effect those deployment architectures have on the social features
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39632
Test Lab Guide: Configure an Integrated Exchange, Lync, and SharePoint Test Lab
Step-by-step instructions to create a test lab containing integrated servers running Exchange Server 2013, Lync Server 2013, and SharePoint Server 2013.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39616
Reimagine SharePoint Development Guidance
These downloads provide guidance on how to migrate legacy full-trust code solutions to apps and the cloud app model.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39047
Test Lab Guide: Configure a Highly Available SharePoint Server 2013 Search Topology
This paper contains a brief introduction to SharePoint Server 2013 and step-by-step instructions to create a test lab that demonstrates how to configure a search topology that provides high availability.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39370
Microsoft Internet Information Server
IIS presentations at TechEd available on Channel 9
Did you miss TechEd North America or TechEd Europe this year? Never fear, because although you did miss out on the live interaction of being there, you can watch some of the presentations on Channel 9.
Free ebook: Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview Release, Including IIS
Microsoft Press has just announced a free ebook version of "Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview Release." This free ebook covers the Preview Release, including IIS, as well as a recap of features added to IIS 8. IIS coverage starts on page 79.
Downloads
SharePoint Technologies
Service Pack 2 for Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 (KB2687463) 32-Bit Edition
Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 32-Bit Edition contains new updates which improve security, performance, and stability. Additionally, the SP is a roll-up of all previously released updates.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39649
Service Pack 2 for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (KB2687453)
Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 contains new updates which improve security, performance, and stability. Additionally, the SP is a roll-up of all previously released updates.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39672
Service Pack 2 for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 (KB2687464)
Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 contains new updates which improve security, performance, and stability. Additionally, the SP is a roll-up of all previously released updates.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39646
Service Pack 2 for Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 (KB2687463) 64-Bit Edition
Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 64-Bit Edition contains new updates which improve security, performance, and stability. Additionally, the SP is a roll-up of all previously released updates.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39663
Service Pack 2 for Microsoft SharePoint and Project Server 2010 (KB2687452)
Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Microsoft SharePoint and Project Server 2010 contains new updates which improve security, performance, and stability. Additionally, the SP is a roll-up of all previously released updates.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39657
Service Pack 2 for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Client Object Model Redistributable (KB2687467) 32-Bit Edition
Service Pack 2 (SP2) for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Client Object Model Redistributable 32-Bit Edition contains new updates which improve security, performance, and stability. Additionally, the SP is a roll-up of all previously released updates.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39650
Service Pack 2 for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Client Object Model Redistributable (KB2687467) 64-Bit Edition
Service Pack 2 (SP2) for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Client Object Model Redistributable 64-Bit Edition contains new updates which improve security, performance, and stability. Additionally, the SP is a roll-up of all previously released updates
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39660
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