Configure Apps for SharePoint 2013

Gaurav Mahajan

Microsoft has published a very comprehensive set of guidelines for installing, configuring and managing Apps for SharePoint 2013. These guidelines are available on the TechNet site here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp161232.aspx. Without duplicating those details however, I wanted to capture the few necessary steps for those who wanted to quickly get apps for SharePoint 2013 going on a dev. farm. Please note that the examples assume you are using the VM downloaded from my earlier blog post:

1. Configure DNS entries: First a little background on why we need to do this – Each installation of an app has a unique URL in your environment. You determine the template for that URL (by determining a domain name and an app prefix), and then app URLs are automatically generated based on that template. Paths for the apps are based on the URL for the site where they are installed. When you install an app to a site, a…

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Marquee – SharePoint 2013 or 2010

In SPSCairo, one of the attendees had a problem with the marquee in SharePoint that it is not moving, I know its basic but I promised to write this post for him, because he was the only one that had this concern.

I did not do anything more than what is required to write the marquee tag and put text in between and all that was in the “Page Content” field in a page, not even “Content Editor” WP, no need cause I used the “Edit Source” to insert HTML tag.

I believe that you did not enable the animation in the Internet Options, if you open “Internet Explorer” and go to “Tools”, then click “Internet Options”; under “Multimedia” category, as below select the “Play animations in webpages”, I tried on and off and if it is not enabled, obviously the marquee stopped working.

I tried on both SharePoint 2010 & 2013 – it is the same html marquee tag that I wrote and on both enabling the animation from Internet Explorer is a must.

the marquee tag I wrote; <marquee>this is in SharePoint 2010 .. just saying</marquee>

I wrote as below screen shot; nothing else and saved it. For SharePoint 2013;

For SharePoint 2010;

Success Cairo SharePoint Saturday

Last Saturday on 6 September, we had the first SharePoint Saturday in Cairo – Egypt since the revolution. It was great to be done in ITWORX.

The day was great, more knowledge & informative to everyone J we started with a keynote by Mr. Wael Amin [CEO of ITWORX]

Then after the sessions started.. in case you missed it or you don’t know what we had, check this link http://www.spsevents.org/city/Cairo/Cairo2014/sessions

I’d like to thank the organizers J yup & Mahmoud Hamd, find how to contact us; http://www.spsevents.org/city/Cairo/Cairo2014/about

Especial thanks to Gokan Ozcifci MS MVP delivered 2 sessions, who came all the way from Belgium J Thank you Gokan.

And after our sessions & at the end of the day, we had a helpful & useful discussion with the attendees and answered all their questions & concerns.

In case, you missed that day, we will do it again soon and we’d love to hear your feedback or suggestions or any recommendations. All welcome and if doable then why not J

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