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Yesterday, Microsoft has released “SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview”. Official documentation is available at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303422(v=office.16).aspx You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48712

SharePoint Server, an advanced collaboration platform from Microsoft, has been received warmly by small, mid-sized, and organizations across the world. Organizations that have been using traditional File Servers are now using this new product for better collaboration and data sharing. It, being an intranet platform, can be accessed through the network of the organization. Its advanced collaboration features have made working together as a team more comfortable. But, still there is a confusion regarding whether SharePoint is meant to replace the traditional File Servers. File Servers and SharePoint – An Unfair Comparison Yes, it is unfair to compare File Servers with SharePoint! MS SharePoint offers unique collaboration and document sharing features that File Servers cannot provide. Before discussing them, let us understand the situations where File Servers are more suitable. File Servers are less expensive compared to SharePoint SharePoint is more expensive than File Servers...

On 4th May 2015, MS has showcased SharePoint 2016 demo site at the Ignite Keynote. http://sp2016demo.fpweb.net/SitePages/Home.aspx Request you all to share your valuable feedback here (comment). 18 - May - 2015 : Fpweb.net has restrict above URL until SP 2016 preview release for public Beta in Q4 of 2015.  

If you would like to get first information about SharePoint 2016 I would recommend the following below blog posts. Evolution of SharePoint - from Julia White, general manager for the Office Product Management team The SharePoint related session list from Microsoft Ignite in Chicago 4 May 2015 - 8 May 2015 Top 3 sessions to learn more about SharePoint Server 2016 at Microsoft Ignite - by Bill Baer (Senior Technical Product Manager and Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint in the SharePoint product group in Redmond, Washington) Reference :   Learn about SharePoint 2016

Introduction While creating the app in SharePoint we are using JavaScript and Client side object model. In development of app, we would require some basic properties to handle our app, SharePoint provide the few properties with _spPageContextInfo object. _ spPageContextInfo will provide the below properties   webServerRelativeUrl   webAbsoluteUrl siteAbsoluteUrl serverRequestPath layoutsUrl webTitle webTemplate tenantAppVersion isAppWeb webLogoUrl webLanguage currentLanguage currentUICultureName currentCultureName env nid fid clientServerTimeDelta updateFormDigestPageLoaded siteClientTag crossDomainPhotosEnabled webUIVersion webPermMasks pagePersonalizationScope userId userLoginName systemUserKey alertsEnabled siteServerRelativeUrl allowSilverlightPrompt themedCssFolderUrl themedImageFileNames Implementation You can also access this object in JavaScript model as <script type=”text/javascript”> var propertyV...

Microsoft has introduced REST (Representational State Transfer) service along with SharePoint 2013. Now you can use the REST services to access data / information from SharePoint remotely, it means we can perform the CRUD operation with SharePoint data via REST service. Read more about  Get started with the SharePoint 2013 REST service . One Drive for business is a place where you can store, sync and share your work files. SkyDrive is now OneDrive, and SkyDrive Pro is now OneDrive for Business. Read more about  What is OneDrive for Business? Below are the steps to access One Drive data via REST services To access your OneDrive for Business library, you simply click OneDrive in the Office 365 menu bar, as shown Click to "Shared with Everyone" folder  Upload a file to "Shared with Everyone" folder by drag and drop or via click to upload (in our example file name is vivek.docx) To use the REST API to view the information on the uploaded...

Recently one of our project faced performance issue in newly installed & configured on-premises SharePoint 2013 farm. I have looked in to this problem and came to know something interesting, so I am sharing my experience with you all. Problem statement The SharePoint servers had frequent 8321 events error related to certificate validation. It turns out that SharePoint periodically checks the validity of the Security Token service certificates used for signing security tokens. To check the validity of these certificates the server tries to connect to the Internet and if there is no connectivity from the server to the Internet, it takes 15 sec before the connection attempt times out. This majorly impacts the overall performance of the SharePoint farm. Solution http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2625048 is a KB article describing the issue. This is relevant since our servers do not have Internet connectivity. Per the suggestions in the document, I first tried importing the ce...