SharePoint Dragons

The popular SharePoint 2013 Best Practice page, a Wiki initiative of Margriet, has been updated again: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/12438.sharepoint-2013-best-practices.aspx

Going up can be a little bit difficult in SharePoint 2013, especially for newcomers. To address the issue, here’s a list of things you can do:

• Create global navigation by inheriting navigation from parent sites
• Manually, add navigation links to the top link bar
• Turn on the tree view
• Work with hyperlinks and favorites
• Add the site map control using SharePoint Designer: http://www.manageprojectsonsharepoint.com/blog/2012/12/19/restore-navigate-up-on-sharepoint-2013/
• Use Managed Navigation: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn194311.aspx

The question how to deal with going one level up in navigation is an ongoing discussion, the latest version can be found on the following Wiki page: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/17829.sharepoint-2013-going-up-in-the-navigation.aspx

We’ve added how to enable the DeskTop Experience on a Windows Server 2012 machine to the Wiki article How to Create a SharePoint 2013 Dev Environment. This is a crucial step if you want to work with opening libs via Windows Explorer, adding network mappings etc. You can find it here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/17828.sharepoint-2013-creating-a-dev-environment-enable-the-desktop-experience.aspx

Margriet’s latest TechNet Wiki Ninja post. For sure, different than normal: http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2013/06/09/the-little-moon-bear.aspx

Currently our favorite tool for working with working with ISO images: http://www.slysoft.com/nl/virtual-clonedrive.html Even easier than MagicDisc.

The ever changing and improving SharePoint 2013 best practices has undergone some improvement cycles. Check the latest version at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/12438.sharepoint-2013-best-practices.aspx

We’ve accumulated the most common tips for backing up a SharePoint Online environment at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/17195.sharepoint-2013-best-practices-back-up-sharepoint-online.aspx Feel free to make additions!

A tool tip: Ninite is great for installing all sorts of handy apps and frameworks (such as Skype, Spotify, .NET framework, various imaging tools and such). Check it out at http://ninite.com/