Built-in MDM for O365.

Microsoft has introduced built in MDM for O365 recently. MDM (Mobile device management) helps you secure and manage mobile devices like phones and tabs.

O365 MDM supports following devices:

Windows Phone 8.1
iOS 6 or later versions
Android 4 or later versions
Windows 8.1*
Windows 8.1 RT*

Currently we are using Zenprise, Very much excited to check this in our tenancy.

Here is the link to start with.

I'm sure they are many MDM's in the market. Let's see how many will leverage this built-in feature.

QR code generation from O365 SharePoint site.

Microsoft has released many new and exciting features in O365. One of my favorite feature is the ability to generate QR code (Quick response code).

If you have any document library in SharePoint online, then you can generate a QR code for a selected document. This QR code will help you to pull the document using QR code scanner from your phone or tablet.

To generate QR code, you have to select the ellipsis (3 dots) on the selected item as shown in the below image. Once you click on that, a small window will pop up and you will see a small phone icon next to hyperlink as marked in the screenshot. Click on the icon.

you will see a new tab or window opened with QR code.

upgrading from mvc4 webapi project to mvc5 webapi2

This really helps. Make sure you take a copy before upgrading.
How to upgrade from MVC4 and Webapi project to aspnet MVC5 and Webapi2

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Are you an Admin / Developer ? Are you looking for WCM concepts of SharePoint 2013 then here you go..

I've recieved this book from Publisher site(http://www.packtpub.com/application-development/sharepoint-2013-wcm-advanced-cookbook). As the book title mentioned the word WCM, This book covered pretty much what a senior sharePoint developer or admin is needed to perform their job activities as a WCM. if you are powershell guy/Admin this is the best place to compare what happens in the code side. Also, for a developer this is the one of the best book as it covers pretty much all the branding concepts using designer, Visual Studio, Infopath and out of the box features. link to the book..

Creating a Sharepoint Glossary.

one of the person in Linkedin posted a problem.."How to create a SharePoint Glossary". Here is the solution which I've given.
Here are the ways which we can solve the problem.
1) Code 2) NoCode
Code path: we can create a custom webpart with link buttons and do a CAML query to our list and bind it to a grid on click of link button.
NoCode:
a) Query String b) Standard filters
I'm giving the steps using Standard filters.
1) Need a list with glossary items.
2) create a view which sorts by glossaryValue
3) create a calculated column which will take the first letter, Call the column name as FilterAlpha (paste this in your formula =LEFT([glossaryValue], 1)
4) create a wiki page
5) select two columns with header and footer layout.
6) Insert your list webpart in footer and select the view which you created in 2nd step.
7) Insert HTML Form Webpart in header.
8) copy paste the below code in source editor of HTML Form Webpart and modify the script tag and add the tags to the input types.
scrip.. function passAlpha(num) { document.getElementById("result").value=num; javascript:_SFSUBMIT_ } ..scrip..

input type="button" value="A" onclick="passAlpha(this.value)" input type="button" value="B" onclick="passAlpha(this.value)"

9) on the html form webpart under edit webpart select edit connections -> Provider form values to -> select your list view webpart.
10) under choose connection tab select connect type as "Get Filter Values From"
11) click on configure
12) select provider field name as "T1".
13) select consumer field name as "FilterAlpha " this is the calculated field which you created in 3rd step.
14) click on save and close page.
you should see your expected result now.. :). I did a filter by clicking on "S".

If you know Jquery and CSS you can do lot of fun things..like rendering your list view as well as styling your buttons..

SharePoint 2013 Video Rendition..

After long time nearly 4 years, I've decided to start blogging..These many days I've played with different architectures, different layer communications,different technologies,communicating with ERP systems form SharePoint, ADFS 2.0 SAML tokens , MVC 4 applications, Mobile applications using JQuery mobile using MVC, Windows mobile 8.0, Windows 8 apps etc... I'm going to blog more and more information in the coming months keep watching.. SP 2013 is offering a new feature called Rendition. This is really a nice feature give a try.. :)