Setting up the CloudShare SharePoint 2013 RTM Farm to Support Apps
With the recent Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of SharePoint 2013, I figured it was time to see what the new app development model is all about. Spinning up the farm When it comes to getting a...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 Site Templates
SharePoint 2013 offers a vast variety of out-of-the-box site templates. One of the success factors of your SharePoint deployment is choosing the most suitable site template that meets your business...
View ArticleHow to configure the Site Access Request in SharePoint 2013
SharePoint 2013 introduces many cool improvements in terms of user experience when working standard sites. For instance, users can easily request access to a specific site by using the new site access...
View ArticleAccess and Manipulate Data in Your CloudShare SharePoint 2013 Farm from...
SharePoint 2010 introduced the client-side object model (CSOM) to allow developers to write applications which interact with SharePoint from client-side code. In SharePoint 2013, Microsoft steps things...
View ArticleHow to Recover SharePoint 2013 Databases from Suspect Mode
I restarted my SharePoint server, opened Central Administration and encountered the following error: Server Error in ‘/’ Application Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the...
View ArticleCloudShare Feature Release – February 2013
Hi CloudSharers! My name is Anand and I joined CloudShare 4 months ago as the product manager. This is an exciting time to be at CloudShare with a lot happening on the product front. I spent most of my...
View ArticleCloudShare Going Mobile
I’m letting you in on something exciting we’re working on over here. We’ve been hearing there’s a need for software development, QA, and sales teams to be able to access their lab environments when...
View ArticleHow to configure SharePoint 2013 Content Databases in read-only mode
Read-Only Databases is a feature available when upgrading or moving SharePoint 2013 content databases to avoid any data loss and allow users access to the information stored in the system. In this mode...
View ArticleHow to Write Successful Technical Blog Content
The CloudShare community is one year old! Thank you for reading and sharing your comments and questions. At the beginning of 2012, we started the CloudShare Community blog to help us tell the story of...
View ArticleBlogging Tips from a Marketing Point of View
As the Marketing Director for CloudShare, one area of our website that gets a lot of attention is our blog. We have consistently grown the number of visitors to our blog by 12% every week in the last...
View ArticleCloudShare API – GA
We are excited to announce that CloudShare API is now GA. If you are a developer, you can access CloudShare functionality through the CloudShare API. For example, you can create, launch and manage...
View ArticleHow to Customize a SharePoint 2013 Site Top Navigation Bar
As you know, SharePoint 2013 sites have a new look and feel aligned with modern UI interfaces. For instance, the new Team Site template includes Live Tiles in the home page. Additionally, every...
View ArticleTop 10 Most Viewed Blog Posts on CloudShare Community
This week we’re going back into the blog vault to share the most popular CloudShare Community blog posts from last year. We hope you find this trip down memory lane useful (Especially all the...
View ArticleCloud Empowered ALM with TFS 2012 and CloudShare TeamLabs
CloudShare TeamLabs allows you to easily and seamlessly extend your development and QA labs to the Cloud, providing you with the labs you need, when you need, with the click of a mouse. Now, you can...
View Article“It Was Just Too Cloudy” He Said
About 9 months ago, I went out for coffee, but got totally lost. I don’t know if it was how mad I was going trying to get SharePoint Content Type Publishing to work or what. But 10 months ago, to the...
View ArticleUsing CloudShare Hosting to Test Upcoming CloudShare Releases
CloudShare like many of our customers, is software. And as all you developers know, developing, debugging, and testing software has many parts. Because we are in the same boat as you, it would make...
View ArticleHow to Change SharePoint Compatibility Range at the Web Application Level
In terms of backwards compatibility, SharePoint 2013 provides great support allowing you not only to run SharePoint 2010 migrated sites without switching to a SharePoint 2013 mode, but also to create...
View ArticleWhat I Learned from the Text Analytics Market
While, I was not really lost the last 9 months, I was diving into a new space that is very interesting. Here are my thoughts from the Text Analytics market… A quick glance at my LinkedIn profile will...
View ArticleA New Way to Manage Your Resources (and Costs) in the Cloud
Are you tired of doing multi-variate calculus to understand your Azure or Amazon (AWS) bills or overages? One of the big advantages customers experience from using CloudShare is keeping their...
View ArticleInstalling Visual Studio 2013 Public Preview in a CloudShare Environment
A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft released the first public preview of Visual Studio 2013 (VS 2013 Preview) which includes a lot of new goodies including a new version of Office Tools for Visual Studio...
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