Deploying a SharePoint 2013 Lab Farm on Windows Azure VMs

Here you can find an article, which I wrote in the last weeks, about deploying a SharePoint 2013 Farm (mainly for testing purposes) onto a Windows Azure VMs infrastructure. The PowerShell scripts and the article are in “draft mode” … and any suggestions or improvements will be really appreciated. Enjoy playing with SharePoint 2013!” target=”_blank”>Here […]

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ASMX Web Services of SharePoint: Finally deprecated!

Browsing in the SDK of the SharePoint 2013 Preview I found this: Two API sets are still supported in the SharePoint 2013 Preview framework for backward compatibility, but we recommend that you not use them for new projects: the ASP.NET (asmx) web services, and direct Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) calls to the owssvr.dll file. I […]

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Microsoft SharePoint 2013: What’s new

Let’s start playing with Microsoft SharePoint 2013! First of all, when you install it you will find the following prerequisite components: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Windows Management Framework 3.0 (CTP2) Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Native Client Windows Identity Foundation (KB974405) Microsoft Sync Framework Runtime v1.0 SP1 […]

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What’s new in Visual Studio 11 Ultimate for SharePoint developers

Here you can find a very interesting post about the VS11 Ultimate roadmap. For me, as a SharePoint developer, is very interesting to see the following new features: Expanding support for teams working Tools for SharePoint performance profiling Unit testing by providing Behaviors support for SharePoint API’s IntelliTrace support SharePoint load testing tools I’m looking […]

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