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The Office Developer Tools team snuck a new feature into the RTM version of the tools for Visual Studio 2012.  This new feature allows you to deploy apps and actually alter the search schema on the host web .  That’s right.  You can deploy...

In just over two weeks time we are back in London, for the fifth year, with the SharePoint Evolution Conference 2013 . Simply the best SharePoint event outside of North America, with the best speakers, the best content, and the best entertainment, this...

My time with Idera has come to an end, so I wanted to aggregate some of the resources I assembled with them. I also wanted to share some information about my new company, Bitstream Foundry LLC.

With the combination of analytics and search in SharePoint 2013, there is a heap of new features to help determine which content is actually being used.  No longer is this information buried in reports for administrators, but it in fact is available...

AppFabric Caching (and SharePoint) (1) AppFabric Caching (and SharePoint) (2) The Distributed Cache Service SharePoint’s distributed caches are hosted and maintained by the Distributed Cache Service, itself a thin wrapper over a Windows Server AppFabric...

Body: First, let me be clear, do NOT do this on a production server. Repeat after me, “I will NOT do this on a production server, or Todd will rip all the tags off of my mattresses.” Okay, now that we have that out of the way, let’s get down to it. A couple of times in the last week I’ve seen a question about culling a huge WSS_Logging database in a test VM environment. When you start considering snapshots and thin provisioned drives, a 3 GB WSS_Logging DB can be a real bummer, with almost no benefit to most people. The WSS_Logging DB is created with the Usage and Health Analysis Service Application and logs all kinds of usage information. Unless you’re testing that directly, it probably doesn’t do much good. However, having it around is probably good, in case anything you are testing uses it. I suggest a happy medium; leave it enabled, but reduce its overhead. That’s what this blog post will tell you how to do. By default the WSS_Logging keeps 14 days’ worth of information. That results...

Body: Welcome to my 150th Netcast. I spend a lot of time talking about the March 2013 Public Updates to SharePoint and the Office Web Apps and the patches for the Workflow Manager. I also talk about how to use PowerShell to prune out unwanted versions of files. I also explain why all web applicatiosn, even the ones you don't like very much, must get a root site collection. MP3 File WMV File M4V (iPod) File YouTube ( Subscribe ) Running Time: 40:41 Links: March 2013 Update for SharePoint 2013 and friends is out (7:40) Office Web Apps 2013: Patching your WAC farm with no downtime (20:18) Lockdown Mode in SharePoint 2010 (29:17) Must have a root site collection (30:40) Watch this Netcast live on your Roku box UStream Premium Membership (no commercials during the live stream) SharePoint 2013 Professional Administration TechEd North America TechEd Europe Brought to you by Rackspace ShortURL: http://www.toddklindt.com/Netcast150 Category: Netcast Published: 3/21/2013 2:37 PM

This is to share with you all, specially those who are looking forward to Project 2013 and Project Server 2013 certifications, that expected availability of new Project and Project Server exams are  April 2013.  Expected date, and details of...