SharePoint 2013

If you never heard of SignalR – it’s a real-time web framework for bi-directional communication between a client and server – in short: your server (here SharePoint) can notify a client that something very important happened. Let’s say you want to have Task List and a Dashboard where you can see how many tasks are open (you can watch this example here by Matt Menezes)– in real-time, without hitting F5 permanently and without having an AJAX function polling the list every second.

SharePoint Search Federation is a really underrated feature if you ask me. You can greatly improve your company’s knowledge management and create a single point of entry to all kind of data. Federation comes into play when you can not crawl the data source (too big or too complex). With SharePoint 2013 and the very cool query templates you have literally thousand of options (to be honest you had them before but with XSLT its not that much fun) to enhance your search results.

A while ago I wrote about chocolatey and how to install a lot tools automatically. Thats especially handy if you have to set up a new environment for SharePoint 2013 RTM… Now even more Today and yesterday I added two more packages - two tools that I always use and now I can add them in my scripted setup: ULSViewer and CKSDEV (Server) CKSDev The Visual Studio Extension is installed if you have a Visual Studio 2010 or 2012 installed.