What a great time in Austin! The organizers Bruce Weatherford, Jim Bob Howard, Justin Ong, Matthew Lathrop, and Richard Calderon did an amazing job. I spoke on Developing Provider Hosted SharePoint apps. You can download my slides at: SlideShare SkyDrive I got to sit on a couple of talks, Becky Isserman’s “iOS Development with…

Where is Yammer for Windows 8?

Yammer is now my favorite iPad app. I use it more than any other app on my iPad. I also use it heavily on my Android phone. On Windows 7 and Mac OS, I use the browser version (web based app). But lately, I’ve been spending much of my free time experimenting with Windows 8,…

SharePoint 2013 Shredded Storage Test Results

In this blog post, I’m going to share some test results when using SharePoint to store multiple versions of a file. As you can see in Test Results section at the end, the new Shredded Storage feature in SharePoint 2013 can mean significant improvement in efficiencies of storage requirements for specific use cases. Shredded Storage…

SharePoint 2013 – Using Claims to Manage Licensing

A new feature is introduced in SharePoint 2013 that will allow you to check if a user has rights to use an “Enterprise” feature. It is turned off by default, but if you want to enable it you can using PowerShell. For example, you can create a security group in Active Directory called “HR Managers”…

F# Weekly #47, 2012

Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2012 Update 1

Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 is now available for download today.

What’s New in SharePoint 2013 Editions Comparison

Update: 2/20/2013 (Feb 20th). Please read the end of this post, since the main reason I posted this in the first place was because at the time it was published Microsoft TechNet did not have a good reference for this data. Microsoft has published it now, oddly enough on their SharePoint Online Office 365 documentation…

SharePoint 2013 Development Environment

In this post, I’m going to describe my setup and some of the software and system requirements I needed for getting a SharePoint 2013 development environment up and running. I’ll try to update this post as new releases of the Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 are released or I make major changes…