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About Juan Carlos
With 8 years of experience in the TIC sector, what best define me is the interest and knowledge of new technologies as a natural way for attending and solving customer problems and needs. Mi career in the TIC sector, and particularly in the .NET platform started in 2003, just after finishing my studies at the university, in the global worldwide consultancy company Accenture. There, I had the opportunity of working during 3 years in big national and international projects performing different task and roles: development of VB.NET applications, application test and deployment, management of small development teams and so on. In May 2006 I left Accenture and started a new adventure at the Microsoft Innovation Center in Cantabria (CIIN) as a Solutions Architect. In this new stage, I have had the opportunity of knowing deeply a variety of Microsoft technologies such as SharePoint, Office 365, Windows Azure, Visual Studio, SQL Server Reporting Services, BizTalk, LINQ, Entity Framework, etc. At the CIIN I perform evangelism activities just around these technologies, and I have the honor of belonging to one of the more specialized organizations in SharePoint in Spain.
Posts by Juan Carlos
May 28th, 2013 | Filed under: CloudShare, SharePoint | Tags: CloudShare, CloudShare SharePoint, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint How To
As you know, SharePoint 2013 sites have a new look and feel aligned with modern UI interfaces. For instance, the new Team Site template includes Live Tiles in the home page. Additionally, every SharePoint 2013 site has new navigation top bars designed to simplify how a SharePoint user can access common places and functions like his personal Skydrive, his social content areas, etc. In this article I will show how you can easily customize these navigation bars by using JavaScript:
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May 7th, 2013 | Filed under: CloudShare, Demos & POCs, Dev / Test, SharePoint
Microsoft released its first public update for both SharePoint Foundation and Server 2013 last March. As you can read in several blogs on the Internet about this update, it is a mandatory requirement in order to install new SharePoint updates coming in the feature. For instance, you can read this statement in Stefan Gossner’s blog post (Note: Stefan is Senior SharePoint Escalation Engineer at Microsoft):
Due to a change in the package configuration introduced after SharePoint 2013 RTM the March Public update is a mandatory requirement in order to install subsequent SharePoint Updates.
In this article, I will show you step-by-step how to install this first public update for SharePoint Server 2013 in a CloudShare Environment.
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April 12th, 2013 | Filed under: CloudShare, Demos & POCs, SharePoint | Tags: Azure, customization, How-To, Microsoft, Microsoft Technologies, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Applications, SharePoint Configuration, windows
As you know SharePoint 2013 introduces a new development model, known as the App Model, that allows you to create and deploy applications for SharePoint On-Premise and SharePoint Online in Office 365. If you want to know more about how to build applications for SharePoint, I recommend you to visit the Build apps for Office and SharePoint portal created by Microsoft. There you can find a lot of useful information and resources about this new development model, how to build apps, and so on.
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March 13th, 2013 | Filed under: CloudShare, SharePoint | Tags: Developer Tools, How-To, office, RTM, server error, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Configuration, visual studio 2012
Microsoft recently released the RTM version of the Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 (read the announcement on S. Somasegar’s blog) as a step forward in their development support for SharePoint and Office 2013. In this article, I will explain how to install the final version of the tools in a CloudShare environment where Visual Studio 2012 + Preview 2 of the Office Developer Tools is installed.
Let’s start!
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March 5th, 2013 | Filed under: CloudShare, SharePoint | Tags: CloudShare, Data Loss, Databases, How-To, Read-Only, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Configuration, SharePoint content, Site Administration, SQL Server, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2012
Read-Only Databases is a feature available when upgrading or moving SharePoint 2013 content databases to avoid any data loss and allow users access to the information stored in the system. In this mode we can backup content databases with the latest information available, and at the same time guarantee our SharePoint users can read existing data, but not modify it. In this article, I will explain step-by-step how to configure an existing content database in read-only mode:
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January 15th, 2013 | Filed under: CloudShare, Dev / Test, SharePoint | Tags: How-To, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Configuration, SharePoint designer, SharePoint Workflow, site collection, Workflow Manager
Workflows are another key area in SharePoint 2013 where Microsoft has made great investments. In fact, workflow platform is completely new in that it allows creation, usage and deployment of .NET Framework 4.x workflows in a SharePoint 2013 farm. Microsoft has completely redesigned the workflow platform for SharePoint by creating the Windows Azure Workflow Server (WAS) that enables us to completely separate the SharePoint side from the workflow one. Indeed, workflow infrastructure in SharePoint 2013 is completely independent from the SharePoint point of view that consumes and uses workflows through a web services façade.
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December 20th, 2012 | Filed under: CloudShare, Demos & POCs, SharePoint | Tags: How-To, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Documents, SharePoint Search
Without a doubt, Search is one of the key investment areas in SharePoint 2013. From an architectural point of view and a foundation perspective, search in SharePoint 2013 includes a single search runtime that joins the best capabilities of FAST and Enterprise Search technologies. In this article, I will show you how easy and simple it is to find information in a document library and a list providing a great user experience when searching for information.
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December 9th, 2012 | Filed under: CloudShare, Demos & POCs, Dev / Test, SharePoint | Tags: CloudShare, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Administration, SharePoint Configuration, Site Administration
SharePoint 2013 introduces many cool improvements in terms of user experience when working standard sites. For instance, users can easily request access to a specific site by using the new site access request and invitation mechanism. At the same time, a site administrator can easily do a follow up of all the access requests to a specific site. In this article, I am going to show you how to configure the site access request mechanism in a SharePoint 2013 site.
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November 21st, 2012 | Filed under: CloudShare, Dev / Test, SharePoint | Tags: cmdlet, powershell, SharePoint, sharepoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, upgrade
In my previous article about upgrading from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013, I explained how to complete this task by using the Database Attach upgrade method. This technique implies the necessity to use some PowerShell cmdlets available in SharePoint 2013 to work with either content databases or service applications ones.
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October 29th, 2012 | Filed under: Dev / Test, SharePoint | Tags: SharePoint, SharePoint 2013
Adding custom JavaScript code to SharePoint 2013 site pages is just one of the many extensibility points available in the platform.
In this article I will show you how to add client logic to your pages by using the new “Script Editor” Web Part. As you can deduce, this Web Part allows you to add custom code (HTML and/or JavaScript) to an existing site page.
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