Create a Web Application and Site Collection in SharePoint 2013 Preview
We continue our journey in exploring what SharePoint 2013 Preview has to offer and in today’s post I will be providing you with a step by step guide in creating your first SharePoint 2013 Web Application and Site Collection to host your subsites. In the last two posts, I provided you with instructions on installing SharePoint 2013 Preview on a Windows 2012 Server with SQL 2012 as our database server. If you need to catch up on my previous posts in this series, you can access them from the following links below; Installing SharePoint 2013 Preview on Windows 2012 Server with SQL...
Read MoreInstalling SharePoint 2013 Preview on Windows 2012 Server with SQL 2012-Part 2
Welcome back to part 2 on installing SharePoint 2013 Preview on Windows 2012! In part 1 we focused on installing SQL 2012 on a Windows 2012 server and in today’s post we focus our efforts on getting SharePoint 2013 and its prerequisites installed and configured on a second dedicated Windows 2012 server , which in our testing environment will act as an Applications and Web Front End server. As previously stated, for development and testing purposes, you can install SharePoint 2013, Active Directory and SQL on the same box. Articles in this series – Installing SharePoint...
Read MoreInstalling SharePoint 2013 Preview on Windows 2012 Server with SQL 2012-Part 1
I am sure there are a lot of you who are contemplating installing or have already installed SharePoint 2013 consumer preview, and with all the talk around the town, SharePoint 2013 raises the bar again on what SharePoint has to offer. I can’t believe how time has flown and it was almost 3 years ago that I wrote my first blog post on Installing SharePoint 2010 beta on a Windows 2008 R2 Server. Today will be the first of many blog posts on SharePoint 2013 so make sure you stay tuned as we begin a new adventure with the latest iteration of SharePoint. In this two part series on installing...
Read MoreInstalling and Configuring Reporting Services for SharePoint 2010 in an existing Farm
As you are well aware, SharePoint and SQL work very closely together and with each iteration of SharePoint and SQL, that integration gets tighter and tighter. One of the main attractions to integrating SharePoint with SQL Server Reporting Services, commonly referred to as SSRS is to allow users to create, modify and publish reports from within SharePoint itself. Reporting Services (SSRS) provides some predefined content types that are used to manage various files, including the shared Report data source (.rsds) files, the Report Builder model (.smdl), and the Report Builder report...
Read MoreInstalling SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint 2010–Step by Step Guide
Microsoft SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint extends SharePoint 2010 and Excel Services out of the box capabilities to provide you with the ability to add server-side processing for PowerPivot Excel Workbooks that are residing in SharePoint. As I have been doing some PowerPivot installations for SharePoint 2010 in recent times, I thought it would be a good idea to prepare this step by step guide, helping my readers with the process of getting it up and running smoothly. In summary, PowerPivot allows you to store massive amounts of data which can then be displayed as a powerful data...
Read MoreWelcome to GKM2 Solutions
It has been a long time coming, but I have finally partnered up with a long time colleague and friend, to establish our own IT consulting services company. GKM2 Solutions is a boutique Microsoft Partner firm helping small to medium enterprises transform their business with Microsoft Technologies. You can read more about us here and here. What will happen to SharePoint George you may ask? Well, it is being re-ignited and it will be a personal goal of mine to get back into blogging and share with you more SharePoint goodness that you have all come to love. You can connect to us via any...
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