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Event Receiver Doesn't Work in Sandboxed Solution
This article provides a quick overview of the new features in the Managed Metadata service in SharePoint 2013
SharePoint Conference 2012 sessions now available on Channel 9
Registration for SharePoint Conference 2014 is just around the corner, but here is something special to hold you over. For the first time, we have made every session from SharePoint Conference 2012 available on Channel 9! Every single session. That is over 300 hours of the greatest SharePoint content in the world delivered by leading industry experts. Download them, tweet them, or even embed them on your own sites and pages--they are all yours!
SharePoint Conference registration is now open!
This is what you've been waiting for. Registration for SharePoint Conference 2014 is now open to the public through the Registration page of the SharePoint Conference website. Don't miss out as the biggest SharePoint Conference on the planet takes over the Venetian Hotel and Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada from March 3-6th. This is your chance to get an all-access pass to everything that the conference has to offer, from the best sessions to the latest and greatest technology, to unbeatable access to Microsoft pros and industry experts, and much, much more.
Start working social with Yammer
To help our customers with their enterprise social adoption, we are continuing to drive the Social Journey forward with a series of videos, prompts, and other resources to help you understand how Yammer can help change the way you work together.
https://about.yammer.com/yammer-blog/want-start-working-social-take-interactive-social-journey/
New languages, stores, and offerings for Office and SharePoint apps
In spring 2014, the Office Store will begin supporting 5 new languages in Office apps to tie in with 8 new storefronts around the world. The Office Store also will offer subscription pricing for Office and SharePoint apps to allow developers a more convenient method of making monthly payments.
Create SharePoint 2013 development environments quickly on Azure
In this blog post we will walk you through creating a SharePoint 2013 development environment on Windows Azure using the Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 RC image.
Microsoft Internet Information Server
New features in ARR (Application Request Routing) 3.0
Application Request Routing (ARR) is a proxy-based routing module that uses HTTP headers, server variables, and load balance algorithms to determine how to forward HTTP requests to content servers. The release of ARR 3.0 in July 2013 contains a few new features, as well as bug fixes. The following information describes the new features and how to use them, as well as general information about ARR 3.0
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Documents
SharePoint Technologies
eDiscovery Flow Across SharePoint, Exchange, Lync, and File Shares
Learn how eDiscovery works across SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, Lync Server and file shares
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39349
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
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
Discover SharePoint
Discover SharePoint: download the use case catalog and adoption guide.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39372
Design Sample: Corporate Portal with Host-named Sites for SharePoint Server 2013
This design sample illustrates the use of host-named site collections with all sites deployed in a single web application on the farm. This method is highly scalable and is flexible in managing URLs.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30362
Enterprise search architectures for SharePoint Server 2013
This design sample shows the search architecture for a variety of sizes of server farms.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30383
Microsoft Internet Information Server
Prepending www to 2nd level domain names
A fairly common request for URL Rewrite is to prepend a www to all 2nd level domains, regardless of the domain name. Following is an IIS URL Rewrite rule which will add the www to domain names without requiring you to create multiple rules. It will also maintain the http or https while doing so.
http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2013/09/21/prepending-www-to-2nd-level-domain-names.aspx
Updating my HTML Application for Configuring your WebDAV Redirector Settings
A couple of years ago I wrote a blog that was titled "How to create an HTML Application to configure your WebDAV Redirector settings", where I showed how to use HTMLA to create a simple editor for most of the WebDAV Redirector settings. These settings have no other user interface, so prior to my blog post users had to manually edit the registry in order to modify their WebDAV Redirector settings.
Let’s fix production troubleshooting
Production troubleshooting sucks. With LeanSentry, our vision has been to fix how IT and developers deal with production troubleshooting.
http://mvolo.com/lets-fix-production-troubleshooting/
How to Create a Blind Drop WebDAV Share
How can someone create a "Blind Drop Share" using WebDAV? By way of explanation, a Blind Drop Share is a path where users can copy files, but never see the files that are in the directory. You can setup something like this by using NTFS permissions, but that environment can be a little difficult to set up and maintain.
http://blogs.iis.net/robert_mcmurray/archive/2013/09/17/how-to-create-a-blind-drop-webdav-share.aspx
Require Client Certificates in IIS 7.5
Systems administrators often mistakenly correlate client certificates with SSL server certificates. Here is a great post from David Dietz that helps clear up some of the misconceptions.
http://blogs.iis.net/rickbarber/archive/2013/09/04/require-client-certificates-in-iis-7-5.aspx
Certificates on the rebound
http://blogs.iis.net/rickbarber/archive/2013/09/04/require-client-certificates-in-iis-7-5.aspx
Downloads
SharePoint Technologies
Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 (KB2817315)
A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened. This update resolves that vulnerability.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40160
Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 (KB2810067)
A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened. This update resolves that vulnerability.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40161
Security Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB2760589) 64-Bit Edition
A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 64-Bit Edition that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened. This update resolves that vulnerability
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40189
Security Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB2760589) 32-Bit Edition
A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 32-Bit Edition that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened. This update resolves that vulnerability.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40148
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