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How to Enable Anonymous Access to Your SharePoint Site

If you finished developing your SharePoint based website and you would like to make your site or part of it available to everyone in your organization or available via Internet you have reached the right…

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CloudShare will sim-ship the final release of Visual Studio 12 RTM

Microsoft released Visual Studio 11 Beta on February 29, 2012. As one of the first partners, CloudShare offers full support for Visual Studio 11 in a dev and test environment for the greatest in development…

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Troubleshooting SharePoint Solutions with CloudShare – Part II

In my last article about troubleshooting SharePoint solutions with CloudShare, I introduced some of the services, tools and techniques available when attempting to identify issues & problems found in a SharePoint farm. One powerful Microsoft…

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How to upgrade to SharePoint 2010 with CloudShare!

If you want to move from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010, you have to know that there are three main migration approaches: In-Place Upgrade which installs SharePoint 2010 on the same hardware where SharePoint 2007…

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Calling all Canadian CloudSharers

CloudShare is headed to SharePoint Saturday and the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto! Immerse yourself in SharePoint, July 7, at SPS Toronto — FREE and open to the public. Using SharePoint for Enterprise Content…

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How to configure and integrate SQL Server Master Data Services and Data Quality Services

DQS and MDS are both SQL 2012 features supported by BI and Enterprise editions. Data Quality Services (DQS) can be used by business users and IT professionals to maintain the quality of their data and…

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Integrating SharePoint & Azure with CloudShare (Part II)

Last week, I explained how to integrate SharePoint & Windows Azure with CloudShare (read the full post here). Today, I will show you how to integrate Windows Azure Marketplace data in SharePoint 2010 sites through…

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Are folders the new “F” word?

Are folders the new “F” word? I think yes, and not because I promote disorganization. Quite the opposite, in fact. Folders give you the perception of organization. Real organization happens with meta-data. In the video…

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Too many cooks in the SharePoint kitchen

Recently as I was working in my CloudShare “development” environment, I ran into a situation that all developers have run into at one point or another. The client says to you, ”hey, I’d like to…

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Using TFS Service Preview for SharePoint Team Development with CloudShare!

Last week, Microsoft announced the arrive of the new Windows Azure. One of the new services with Azure is Team Foundation Service preview (TFS Service Preview). This is a real TFS service running on top…

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CloudShare Introduces – Windows Server 2012 and more templates!

On this Father’s Day and release day, I’m happy to bring you Windows Server 2012 RC0 ( or if you prefer, Windows Server 8 ), a new multi-server farm permalink, and some new, bare SharePoint…

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Hackathon – The Results

At CloudShare we know that once you experience it and use it, you will fall in love with ProPlus. That’s why we designed the first ever CloudShare SharePoint Experts Hackathon in coordination with the LinkedIn…

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