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I have an earlier blog entry using SharePoint 2013 to crawl and index Lotus Notes documents. However, the value of doing so is much greater if I actually demonstrate some of the capabilities of SharePoint 2013. One capability that I find advantageous is the use of refiners in search results. I increased the available memory to my SharePoint 2013 ...

I am involved with Lotus Notes application migrations to SharePoint from time to time. I am looking for a solution that can keep some legacy Lotus Notes applications in place; but provide search capabilities to the legacy data to SharePoint 2013 users. This could be a very practical and cost-effective business solution to customers. I want to ...

This blog entry provides the details on installing and configuring SharePoint 2013 on a Windows 2012 server. I include some PowerShell scripts for setting up a few services and a content database. I also show how to configure and run the crawler service for the first time. As a reminder, I am separating the details into four blog ...

I did an install of SharePoint 2013 on a single virtual machine last summer (2012). It works; but it has some shortcomings. A single virtual machine is not an ideal representation of a real SharePoint 2013 server environment. A three server environment provides a more realistic environment. I saw how I could create the three server environment on ...

I’m continuing from Part 1. I am ready to install SQL Server 2008 R2. I suspect that I should really install SQL Server 2008 R2 before starting with SharePoint 2013. But I wanted to see what would happen. So now I know. I run setup from the SQL Server ISO file The User Account Control window appears. I click [Yes] to continue. Processing ...

I decided to try and install SharePoint 2013 Preview on a VM on my laptop. Doing it yourself is still the best way to learn. It’s even better to make a record of what you did. You may want to read through both posts quickly before you start with the first one. It may help you identify what to do and not to do. I suspect that I’m not going to ...