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Test the Machine Translation Service Application with PowerShell

October 4, 2016

The Machine Translation Services Service Application is a Service Application that allows users and developers to translate not only sites, but their content as well to other languages. The Machine Translation Services is interacted through APIs, and the users do not have a “Translate Document” button, unless of course, their developers created a custom action...Read More

Powershell, SharePoint Server

Test the Word Automation Service Application with PowerShell

September 19, 2016

by Vlad Catrinescu

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The Word Automation Services Service Application is a Service Application that automatically converts documents supported by the Word client application into formats such as PDF and XPS. In a simpler way to explain it, the Word Automation Services takes the “Save As” functionality of the Word client, and replicates the functionality on SharePoint. However, the...Read More

Powershell, SharePoint Server

Use the Cloud Search Service Application On-Premises

June 9, 2016

by Vlad Catrinescu

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One of the new features included in SharePoint Server 2016, and also available with SharePoint 2013 as long as you have the required PU, is the Cloud Hybrid Search. The Cloud Hybrid Search has many advantages, especially for end users and if you don’t know what it’s about, check out my overview I did on...Read More

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New Pluralsight Course: Implementing a Hybrid SharePoint Infrastructure

June 7, 2016

by Vlad Catrinescu

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I am extremely happy to announce that my fourth Pluralsight course has been released this weekend, and this one is on a subject that is quite popular these days: SharePoint Hybrid! As more and more organizations want to deploy a hybrid SharePoint environment to benefit from the advantages of both SharePoint on-premises and SharePoint Online,...Read More

Announcements, Learning & Certifications, SharePoint Server

Microsoft Delays SharePoint 2013 MCSD Retirement

May 31, 2016

by Vlad Catrinescu

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In February, I wrote a blog post that touched many SharePoint Developers announcing that Microsoft is retiring SharePoint 2013 MCSD developer exams as soon as September 30th, 2016. Microsoft recently did an unannounced update to delay that date. If we look at the Exams scheduled to retire page (make sure you’re on the en-us version,...Read More

Learning & Certifications, SharePoint Server

Microsoft Releases SharePoint 2016 MCSE information

May 16, 2016

by Vlad Catrinescu

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After a popular session at Collab365 Conference last week where Microsoft Learning talked about the SharePoint 2016 exams, they finally released the information on their site as well. The exam number is 70-339 and is called Managing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016. According to the Collab365 Conference session, the 70-339 exam will be the only SharePoint...Read More

Learning & Certifications, SharePoint Server

Creating a SharePoint 2016 External Content Type trough OData in VS 2015 with EF6

May 12, 2016

by Vlad Catrinescu

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A few weeks ago, I started playing with Hybrid SharePoint Server 2016 scenarios, to see if there are any differences with SharePoint 2013. As I am mostly an IT Pro, usually I never did the OData Source myself, but had a developer set that up for me. This time, I was in my lab, and...Read More

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SharePoint 2016 DLP: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: site

May 2, 2016

by Vlad Catrinescu

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As more people start playing with Data Loss Prevention (DLP) in SharePoint 2016, some of them have come across an “Unexpected” error when applying a DLP Policy to a Site Collection. The error message in the ULS Log for your correlation ID would be similar to the following line: Getting Error Message for Exception System.Web.HttpUnhandledException...Read More

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Speaking at IT Pro Con NY – March 25 2016

March 14, 2016

by Vlad Catrinescu

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The conference formerly known as “New York City Techstravaganza” will now be called “IT Pro Con NY”. It is a one-day grassroots technical conference for IT Pros that is brought to you by a few of the local community groups in cooperation with Microsoft. IT Pro Con NY 2016 will be held on March 25th,...Read More

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The Real Cost of the Cloud Search Service Application

February 29, 2016

by Vlad Catrinescu

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The Cloud Search Service Application has been in beta since August 2015, and will come Out of the Box with SharePoint Server 2016, and is available with SharePoint Server 2013 August 2015 Public Update or later. The Cloud Search Service application greatly improves the Hybrid Search experience by mixing up your SharePoint On-Premises results with...Read More

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