SharePoint 2013 gives us a lot of new options when it comes to creating new Managed Properties for Search. Luckily there’s only a single Search Service Application to deal with with SP2013 and the process in UI is fairly straightforward. In your Search Service Application, find the “Search Schema” in the left hand navigation under […]
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Mobility in SharePoint 2013 (Device Channels)
Mobility support has always been a sore point in the earlier versions of SharePoint. In the new version, mobility has a decent support OOTB. Now you can define channels for different user agents which can render a different page structure based on the user agent. Simply put, you can configure different Master Pages for different […]
Deep Dive Part 2: Image Renditions (SharePoint 2013)
Rendering & Cache Part 1 of this post describes where the definitions for the image renditions are stored and how versioning is handled. This post will describe how those renditions are applied to an image and how those images are stored. If you are the curious kind and always want to know what goes on […]
Deep Dive Part 1: Image Renditions ( SharePoint 2013 )
My last post introduced Image Renditions and how to setup and use them. This post will dive a little deeper in the inner working of the feature. Storage and Maintenance Creating a image rendition definition: Click on Site Settings->Image Renditions. You will see all the existing (if any) renditions that have been defined. Initial impression […]
Image Renditions in SharePoint 2013
In SharePoint 2013, there is a new feature called Image Renditions. I think if the content owners use this feature wisely, it will definitely reduce the load on the bandwidth. What does the feature do? Image renditions lets the site owners define what sizes the images can be scaled to when adding an image to […]
Navigation, Managed Metadata Enhancements in SharePoint 2013
In SharePoint 2013, site navigation can be driven by Managed Metadata (Term Sets). This is a fantastic improvement over how navigation was controlled in the previous versions of SharePoint. Here are a few features of Term Set based navigation: 1. SEO optimizations. 2. User Friendly URL’s. 3. Custom Properties for each term & Term-Driven pages. 4. […]
What Can Claims Do For You?
In case you haven’t heard, all web applications in SharePoint 2013 will default to claims-based authentication. While it’s possible to create a “classic” web application still, Microsoft has deprecated the functionality in favor of the future. That means many organizations will be defaulting to a claims-enabled world. Fear not! Claims is not the end of […]
SharePoint 2013 Claims: Your New Best Friend
What’s New in SharePoint 2013’s Authentication Model SharePoint 2013 brings with it significant changes in the authentication model behind the scenes. To the end user, it will appear as if nothing has changed when they log in. These are the major behind the scenes changes that exist in SharePoint 2013 and I’ll go through each […]