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How to install update packages on a SharePoint farm where search component and high availability search topologies are enabled

Posted 2 months ago

by Kirk Stark
- 7 Comments
The March Public Update (PU) for SharePoint Server 2013 and SharePoint Foundation 2013 is available. Here's information to help you install it on SharePoint farms where search components and high availability search topologies are enabled. For servers...
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Stage 5: Connect your publishing site to a catalog

Posted 2 months ago

by Bella_Engen
- 13 Comments
This is a blog post in the series “How to set up a product-centric website in SharePoint Server 2013”. In this series, I'll use data from a fictitious company called "Contoso" to show you how to use search features to set up a website based...
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From site column to managed property - What's up with that?

Posted 2 months ago

by Bella_Engen
- 6 Comments
This is a blog post in the series “How to set up a product-centric website in SharePoint Server 2013”. In this series, I'll use data from a fictitious company called "Contoso" to show you how to use search features to set up a website based...
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Stage 4: Set up search and enable the crawling of your catalog content

Posted 2 months ago

by Bella_Engen
- 0 Comments
This is a blog post in the series “How to set up a product-centric website in SharePoint Server 2013”. In this series, I'll use data from a fictitious company called "Contoso" to show you how to use search features to set up a website based...
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Stage 3: How to enable a list as a catalog

Posted 2 months ago

by Bella_Engen
- 0 Comments
This is a blog post in the series “How to set up a product-centric website in SharePoint Server 2013”. In this series, I'll use data from a fictitious company called "Contoso" to show you how to use search features to set up a website based...
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New Learning Roadmaps for SharePoint 2013

Posted 2 months ago

by Joe Davies
- 2 Comments
As described in this previous post , a learning roadmap is a way of organizing content (articles, white papers, videos, blog posts, etc.) to provide a customized and optimized learning path for a technology, feature, product, or solution. Starting with...
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Stage 2: Import list content into the Product Catalog Site Collection

Posted 2 months ago

by Bella_Engen
- 15 Comments
This is a blog post in the series "How to set up a product-centric website in SharePoint Server 2013." In this series, I'll use data from a fictitious company called "Contoso" to show you how to use search features to set up a website based on product...
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Stage 1: Create site collections for cross-site publishing

Posted 2 months ago

by Bella_Engen
- 8 Comments
This is a blog post in the series “How to set up a product-centric website in SharePoint Server 2013”. In this series, I'll use data from a fictitious company called "Contoso" to show you how to use search features to set up a website based...
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An introduction to cross-site publishing

Posted 2 months ago

by Bella_Engen
- 13 Comments
To build our Contoso website, we'll be using cross-site publishing, a new publishing method that's just been introduced with SharePoint Server 2013. Before we start however, let's get a bit more familiar with how cross-site publishing works. Note : most...
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How to set up a product-centric website in SharePoint Server 2013

Posted 3 months ago

by Bella_Engen
- 23 Comments
In this series of "how to's" blog posts I'll describe how you can use SharePoint Server 2013 to set up a website that is based on product catalog data. I'll show you how to use the cross-site publishing feature, and how you can use SharePoint search features...
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Get the new Office Visio stencil with the cool icons

Posted 3 months ago

by Samantha Robertson
- 2 Comments
Community members have noticed the cool new icons that have been appearing in our content. Here is an example: This new icon set is the result of a huge joint effort by people in the Lync Server, Exchange Server, SharePoint, and Office groups here at...
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SharePoint and Mobile

Posted 3 months ago

by Brendan Mitchell
- 1 Comments
SharePoint Server 2013, including the new SharePoint Online, is an exciting release, especially for mobility. It offers several new features and capabilities that are available to help improve productivity and usability. While many of these features are...
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Conceptual videos for upgrade

Posted 3 months ago

by Samantha Robertson
- 1 Comments
Because the upgrade process has so many steps, we’re trying to make it as clear as possible when to do what, and who needs to do which step. To that end, we’ve created a series of very short (1-3 minute) overview videos with graphics that illustrate the...
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Troubleshooting methodology content for SharePoint environments with the new “Claims authentication does not validate user” topic

Posted 3 months ago

by Joe Davies
- 0 Comments
The Claims authentication does not validate user troubleshooting topic is now available. I see troubleshooting content as falling into two categories: break-fix and troubleshooting methodology. Break-fix troubleshooting content is designed to fix...
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Improve navigation through search results using refiners based on custom entities

Posted 5 months ago

by Katja Krauss
- 0 Comments
Audience: Search Admin/ITPro Pre-requisite: This post assumes the reader has basic Search Administration knowledge. If you want to ease navigation through your search results and your documents already have metadata, you can enable refiners based on...