SharePoint 2016 RTM and keys are available for downloading in MSDN

Great news!

SharePoint 2016 RTM and keys are available for downloading in MSDN!

SharePoint 2016 in MSDN

SharePoint 2016 in MSDN

It is not officially anounced yet. I think the official anouncement of the general availability will be in a few hours on The Future of SharePoint event. If you haven’t registered for it yet, I would recommend to do it. Jeff Teper, the father of SharePoint, will unveil Microsoft vision and roadmap for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business on this event.

SharePoint Server 2016 Beta 2 and Project Server 2016 Beta 2 are available!

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SharePoint team has just anounced SharePoint Server 2016 Beta 2 and Project Server 2016 Beta 2!

This is the last public preview of SharePoint Server 2016 before General Availability which is expecting to be in Q1 of 2016. Upgrade from SP Server 2016 IT Preview is not supported and you need to install beta 2 and migrate IT Preview content to the new Beta 2 deployment.

Some links:

Announcing SharePoint Server 2016 Beta 2 and Project Server 2016 Beta 2

SharePoint Server 2016 Beta 2 (download link)

SharePoint Server 2016 Beta 2 (technet resources)

If you stumbled into some issues with this beta, you can find help on this forum: SharePoint Server 2016 Preview (Technet forums)

SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview is available!

Great news, friends!

Several minutes ago Microsoft anounced availability of SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview! You can find details here: Announcing availability of SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview and cloud hybrid search.

Here are some useful SharePoint 2016 links:

SharePoint Server 2016 Preview (download link)

SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview Reviewer Guide

SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview Quick Start Guide

SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview Datasheet
 

 

The SharePoint Community

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Hi colleagues!

Probably, some of you have already known about SharePoint Community and are already its members. Those of you who don’t know about it yet, should definitely at least take a look at it. It is a very fast growing community and it already has more than 3000 members. It has really nice articles, features and benefits.

One of the cool features I have been looking for since I started working on SharePoint was online chat with other SharePoint administrators and developers. This community has it! It is pretty active so you can talk with other SharePoint guys in real time!

Also it has a lot of benefits for members. Today, I was one of the lucky people and have won a prize. It is a book which was donated and written in part by Jasper Oosterveld. The book is called The SharePoint 2013 Handbook: An insight by the SharePoint community. I have not started to read it yet, but will definitely do that in a few days.

So, I invite you to join this awesome community, because it is really worth it!

You can feel free to add me as friend. This is a link to my profile.

Regards, Michael


My blog has been moved to the new domain sp2013.pro

Hi friends!

Several days ago I finally moved my blog to a new domain. Now its main location is  http://sp2013.pro. Old domain (http://sp2013-blog.com) and old direct links will be either accessible for about a year, but it is better to update bookmarks even now.

I have prepared quite a few interesting posts, but for a while they are only in my mind and in some pieces of code. 🙂 I hope I’ll find some time to publish them soon. So, stay tuned!

Regards, Michael.

Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 released

Several hours ago, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2012 Update 2. This update includes several improvements for SharePoint 2013 development.

Some points from the description to this update:

  • Support is now provided for web and load testing for SharePoint applications.
  • Support is now provided for record and playback through Coded UI to perform UI validations on SharePoint 2013 applications.
  • IntelliTrace support is the same as that provided in SharePoint 2010.

It is almost installed on my development environment and I hope, today, I will try these new features 🙂

Regards, Michael.