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First User Group in Munich - with live streaming to google hangout - pretty cool stuff! Session 1: Migrations and their pitfalls First session by Dennis Hobmaier (@DHobmaier) about SharePoint migrations. Key take-aways: templates, custom-code, permissions, workflows are the main causes of trouble - thats new 😉 Session 2: Offerings for the SharePoint Community in Germany - or how to create a podcast Michael Greth (@mysharepoint) showed us the various offerings for the large SharePoint Community in Germany (there are around 30 User Groups):

Another essential SharePoint tool found its way to the chocolatey gallery – this time it’s the awesome and feature-rich SharePointLogViewer. Key Features: View multiple SharePoint log files at once Search by any field Filter the log by any field File drag & drop support Live monitoring for entire farm Export filtered log entries Bookmark log entries Get popup notification of SharePoint log events from system tray Receive email notifications on errors Redirect log entries to event log Supports SharePoint 2007, 2010 and 2013 Installation After installing chocolatey you can install SharePointLogViewer with one line of Powershell:

Inspired by Wictor Wilén yearly blog series I try to summarize my year – last year I wanted to write one but I did not gather enough stuff to fill a page – lets try it again: Wow, 2013 was an interesting year and the time has come for my annual blog post to sum up the year that soon has passed us and looking a bit into the crystal ball for the next one.

Another episode of the toolbox – who thought this would happen again? Teaser In this episode I show how to use the Color Palette Tool for SharePoint 2013 and show how easy it is to create Themes for SharePoint 2013 with it. Video: English / German Slides: slideshare.net/melchermaximilian/toolbox-color-palette-tool Download: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38182 Side Note I bought a new microphone – a SAMSON Go Mic – and I am really happy with it. Do you like the sound quality?

Recently I talked to some clients because of a “Search-First” SharePoint 2013 migration (more about this topic will follow). During a training this week I got aware of a serious issue with the “Search-first” approach, especially with the really nice Office Web Apps 2013 Search Previews you get for free (read only!). Problem Some clients want to start their migration with setting up a new SharePoint 2013 farm. This new farm then crawls the old SharePoint 2010 farm.

Yesterday I thought its time to convert my SharePoint 2010 development environment Hyper-V vhd to a new vhdx. Why bother? I used my environment hosted on my lovely Lenovo W520 to develop a migration tool to convert a SP2007 environment to a SP2010 environment. Therefore I needed ~300GB free space – easy with Hyper-V. Just extend your virtual drive and you are good to go. Afterwards you can easily shrink the disk back again – at least I thought so.

A ShareCamp.at Retrospective My colleague Sebastian and I arrived at ShareCamp in Vienna (Austria) at Friday evening. And it started well – we meet a lot of people very known in the German – and now Austrian Community. To name a bunch: Toni Pohl, Martina Grom, Christian Glessner, Thorsten Hans, Hans Brender, Heike Ritter - not a complete list. We had a, lets call it pre-conference party. A great start of a ShareCamp.

Thorsten Hans (@ThorstenHans) and Christian Glessner (@cglessner) showed us how to develop SharePoint Apps (SharePoint hosted, Provider hosted). Live coding Thorsten recommended to use the REST calls instead the JS client object model – they are faster and “more” future-proof. Their experience was that autohosted is a little odd, the price conditions are not very clear. So there is provider hosted (Azure) or SharePoint hosted remaining. Key takeaway I really like their sessions – zero slides sessions – good content.

Thorsten Hans (@ThorstenHans) showed a lot of examples how to send notifications via Windows Azure Mobile Services. The story was “Build a contact form” with push notifications As a Windows 8 App As a SharePoint App Key takeaway Easy, fast – good stuff. Wondering if the push based messages are based on SignalR. The session was good fun, thanks Thorsten!

Session about TypeScript and SharePoint by Martin Groblschegg Short introduction about TypeScript TypeScript is a free and open source programming language developed by Microsoft. It is a strict superset of JavaScript, and essentially adds optional static typing and class-based object oriented programming to the language. Anders Hejlsberg, lead architect of C#, has worked on development of TypeScript. TypeScript extends JavaScript syntax, so any existing JavaScript programs work with TypeScript without any changes.