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Archive for August, 2012

SharePoint 2013: Claims Infrastructure – Part II

Welcome to Part II of SharePoint 2013 Claims Infrastructure.  Previously I wrote about the Distributed Cache Service and how it will revolutionize the authentication model in SharePoint 2013 (along with a lot of other great use cases).  In this post, I want to focus on the way Open Authentication (OAuth) works with SharePoint Apps and […]

IBM Business Analytics – What’s In Your Data?

IBM is an industry leader in Smarter Analytics. They offer a broad, integrated portfolio of information and analytics solutions (service, software and hardware). These capabilities can be deployed individually or through a Big Data platform. The insights revealed through Smarter Analytics can help companies make faster, more informed decisions and automate processes. Business Analytics is a […]

Understanding SharePoint 2013 and the Social Landscape

I’m going to be presenting a webinar on “Understanding SharePoint 2013 and the Social Landscape” on September 19. Anyone who has been following this blog, or enterprise social computing in general, already knows that this space and the outlook for it has changed drastically in just the last twelve months.  We’ve seen Microsoft go from […]

Informatica: Use session parameters in session command

A variable defined in a parameter file cannot be used in a post-session command alone. It must be used along with other session properties like Output file directory or Source file directory for it to be used in the post-session command. Example Consider a variable $OutputFileRepSybase that is defined as /home/test in the parameter file. If this variable is used in a post-session command alone, as […]

Reason #7 to be excited about Dreamforce: Education

In my last post, I shared my excitement about attending Dreamforce for the first time. Now I will start to dive into the various reasons why, starting with education. After all the hype and hoopla surrounding the event is put aside, the primary reason I am going is to expand and reinforce my skills in the Salesforce ecosystem. Social sessions […]

IBM WebSphere Portal 8 Syndication

IBM’s web content management system has long had a feature called syndication.  Syndication is used to move content from one server to another.  In the typical environment, content is authored in one server, goes through a workflow process and finally gets approved.  Once approved, that content then needs to be delivered to the production servers […]

Design Manager in SharePoint 2013: Easier Layouts and Master Pages

In all the previous releases, creating master pages and layouts was definitely not easy for a designer considering the technical aspects of it. The designers would have to understand SharePoint and what components are mandatory on the master page and how they render to make their designs come alive. In SharePoint 2013, there is a […]

Sitecore 6.6 Tech Preview – MVC Conditional Rendering Bug & Fix

Brief Bug Description: As soon as a change is made and published to attempt to Personalize a Rendering in Sitecore 6.6 rev. 120622 (Technical Preview), an error will be encountered on the page where the personalization has been set up on any MVC site.  The error is “Method ‘ToString’ in type ‘Sitecore.Mvc.Analytics.Presentation.EmptyRenderer’ from assembly ‘Sitecore.Mvc.Analytics, […]

Sitecore 6.6 Tech Preview – MVC Conditional Rendering Bug & Fix

Brief Bug Description: As soon as a change is made and published to attempt to Personalize a Rendering in Sitecore 6.6 rev. 120622 (Technical Preview), an error will be encountered on the page where the personalization has been set up on any MVC site.  The error is “Method ‘ToString’ in type ‘Sitecore.Mvc.Analytics.Presentation.EmptyRenderer’ from assembly ‘Sitecore.Mvc.Analytics, […]

Navigation goes managed in SharePoint 2013!

Out of box navigation in SharePoint was always bound to site hierarchy until now and implementing a custom navigation around another logical structure or business concept such as hierarchy of units in an organization, categories of product or any custom hierarchy was challenging. Creating a custom source for navigation and maintaining it was even more […]

Branding and Customization – SharePoint 2013 style!

Customizing look and style of a SharePoint site is much different from traditional web site and anyone who did brand a site earlier with SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010 would quickly agree with it. One must possess knowledge of master pages and page layouts, different placeholders a master page has and the default styles a […]

SharePoint 2013: Claims Infrastructure – Part I

If you’ve used claims with SharePoint 2010, you know that it can be incredibly frustrating to work with. Setting it up is only half the battle. When you want to interface with it either via web services or your own client applications, it can quickly become a nightmare. In addition, you had to make sure […]

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