Here's something that might cost you a TON of time if you aren't careful, so please take a few minutes to read this. You should be seeing some documentation pretty shortly that describes how to create what we call an S2S application, which means Server...

Nothing really earth shattering here - the previous version of FBA Configuration Manager for SharePoint 2010 ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010/07/28/sharepoint-2010-forms-based-authentication-configuration-manager.aspx) won't deploy directly...

In SharePoint 2013 we add some great new features around self-service site creation (SSSC). You can configure things like whether to use a custom form to create the site collection, whether to create a subweb or site collection, what path should be used...

SharePoint 2013 includes a number of new features to make it easier than ever before to style and publish web sites. One of those features is Design Manager; it allows you to do things like create different channels for your content – such as one...

I thought I'd phrase my answer in the form of a question...no wait, that isn't exactly right. Okay, let me just say that this is one short little post that falls in the category of "It's the Little Things You Love" about SharePoint 2013. Today's feature...

As folks start working with the SharePoint 2013 beta 2 bits, you may randomly notice certain errors that once they start, don't go away. You may get dialog boxes (coming from javascript) that mention a 500 service activation error, or you may see search...

Here's your first development tip as you start cranking out SharePoint 2013 solutions using Visual Studio 2012. An old an really annoying problem in Visual Studio 2010 when building SharePoint apps is that it defaulted to creating x86 applications. The...

In previous blogs for SharePoint 2010 I've talked about how to do claims migration - http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010/07/20/migrating-from-windows-classic-auth-to-windows-claims-auth-in-sharepoint-2010-part-2.aspx and others. In SharePoint...

Right after I published my last post on using custom display templates, of course one of the first questions I got was great – how do I debug them? Well there are a couple of ways that I’ve found to debug these: In your display template...

<Standard Disclaimer: Blog formatting sucks. Do your eyes a favor - download the attachment, which is the Word document version of this.) UPDATE: a few things have changed for RTM so I am updating this post and adding the artifacts I used to create...

Here’s a little tip that’s not particularly brilliant, but just useful, as you start working with the new application model in SharePoint 2013. You always need a subscription settings service application, but it’s one of those things...

As you know or will soon learn, Office Web Apps in SharePoint 2013 is no longer a service application that is part of your SharePoint farm. Instead it is installed as a separate farm, which provides a number of advantages, such as reuse between multiple...

One of the things you’re likely to hear a lot about in SharePoint 2013, and I may end up writing a lot about, is oAuth. In SharePoint 2013 oAuth is used to establish a trust between two applications for purposes of establishing the identity of a...

Hey folks, just an FYI that we are finally ready to start peeling back the kimono on the next version of SharePoint, which we are calling SharePoint 2013. In addition to today's announcements, we've released quite a bit of technical content on the new...