Danish Hussain

You can refer following microsoft link to configure my site however I have list down few quick step to get it done with minimul setup https://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ee624362.aspx 1. First step will be to create a mysite site collection in the web application where you would like to enable my site feature. To do this goto central administration 2. Select Application Management -> Create Site Collection 3. Save to URL for later configuration 4. For template select Enterprise -> MySiteHost Template 5.Enable self service application, Go to Central Admin 6. Select Manage Web Application under application management 7. Select Web application 8. Select "on" in the self service site creation and be hidden from user in start a site. 9. Select Manage Appluication 10. Click on Permission Policy 11. click Add new Policy 12. Grant Create Subsites - Create subsites such ..... 13. Few pre-req permission will be selected automatically 14. click save ...

As compare to earlier version of SharePoint, development on sharepoint 2013 is charm. You just need to build your development environment and you are ready for development. I used Visual Studio Ultimate Edition for this using C#. You need to install Visual Studio on a machine where SharePoint 2013 is installed so that you can start development. The resources available on Microsoft site are more then enough to kick start with the development. Following are steps for creating a Hello World web part. 1. Open Visual Studio (as an administrator, other wise it will restart on step 4 ;) ) 2. Click File -> New -> Project as shown below 3. Select Template under Visual C#-> Office/SharePoint -> SharePoint Solution 4. On the right pane select SharePoint 2013 - Visual Web Part 5. It will ask for share point site (If you need to create SharePoint site collection follow my post ) 6. Validate site URL and select "Deploy as a farm solution" 7. As soon as you click...

You open SharePoint 2013 central administration and surprised that "Managed Services on Server" link doesn't showed up. You checked that user has sufficient rights.. I had similar issue and after doing some research I found that it was because I open central admin directly from IE which will not open it as an admin. So the best way is to open in using SharePoint Central admin link in program files. If you are using windows 2012 and wondering how to access program files you may refer my  post

If you are an windows users who is new to windows 2012 you might be wondering how to access program files in Windows 2012. Following are steps to do this. 1. Press window + d to bring desktop in front. 2. Press window button and it will show start menu as show below. 3. Right click and you will show All app button on bottom right as shown below 4. As you click all app you will see complete program files as shown below

Following are few steps for intallation of Sharepoint 2013. For this post I am using VMWare for fresh installation. 1. Install Windows 2012 Data center 64 bit version: 2. Configure Active Directory (click for details) 3. Install SQL Server 2012 4. Install Sharepoint 5. Configure sharepoint services. 6. Create your first web-application Go to share point central administration Navigate to manage web application and click new to create new web application. 7. Create site collection After creating web application go to central administration Click Application Management Click create new site collection. After creation of site collection you are ready to work on SharePoint.

There are 3 essential SharePoint services you need to configure. 1. Managed Metadata service application 2. Search service application 3. User profile service application. Follow below steps for Managed Metadata service configuration. 1.Go to Central Administration. 2.Go to Application Management -> Manage Service Application 3.Click new from the ribbon and select "Managed Meta Data Service" 4. Specified attributes and click ok. 5. Goto Central Administration 6. Under System settings select "managed services on server" 7. start manage meta data service. Follow above step for Search service application with following differences. In step 2 select "Search Service Application" and stop on step 4. For User Profile service application, follow above step will following differences. In step 2 select "User Profile Service Application" In step 7 start "User Profile Service" and "User Profile Synchronization Service...

Configure Active Directory on Windows 2012 Data Center 64 bit =============================================== Before configuring active directory please ensure that your local administrator account password is set. Otherwise you may not be able to proceed with the installation/configuration of AD. Follow below steps 1. Go to computer management 2. Expand System tools -> Local Users and Groups -> Users 3. On the right pane select administrator account 4. Right click and set a password. Follow below steps for configuration of Active Directory on server 1. Open server manager as shown below. Click on Add role and feature.  2. Add role and feature window popup appears as shown below. Click next to continue. 3. Select default option i.e. Select Role Based or Feature based Installation, Select server and then you will see below feature selection screen, Select "Active Directory Domain Services" below.  4. As you click on next on previous screen ...