Introduction to SharePoint 2013 with Videos

Now the SharePoint 2013 is out some good learning material has started to appear. A good set of videos on SharePoint 2013:

1. Introduction to Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 Development

2. SharePoint 2013 app model for developers

3. SharePoint 2013 developer tools

4. Create hosted apps in SharePoint 2013

5. Create cloud-hosted apps for SharePoint 2013

6. SharePoint 2013 client object model (CSOM) and REST APIs

7. OAuth and application identity in SharePoint 2013

8. Develop SharePoint 2013 remote event receivers

9. Workflow changes and features in SharePoint 2013

10. Business connectivity services changes in SharePoint 2013

11. Search features and changes in SharePoint 2013

12. Enterprise content management changes in SharePoint 2013

13. Social features in SharePoint 2013

14. Office services in SharePoint 2013

15. Create mobile apps for SharePoint 2013

Crawled Properties And Managed Properties

Crawled Properties and Managed Properties are very basic SharePoint concepts but they are core to SharePoint Search. Many times I have seen people are not clear with this so I will try to explain them in a simple manner.

As we all know that SharePoint can crawl data from different sources. The data in these various source system have metadata which can have different name but it refers to the same information. As an example different systems can store the information about the Author in various system with the name as Author, Created By, Writer, Owner, and in case of emails it stored in the field From. But all these field represent the same information which represent who has created this.

Now when SharePoint crawl these various system all these properties become Crawled Properties. In SharePoint we can group all these Crawled Properties under one Managed Property:

The below figure will help you to understand the above:

Also one crawled property can be part of multiple Managed Properties.

Now this Managed Property can be used in scopes, refiners etc. This simplifies the whole management of the Metadata with SharePoint search. 

Integrating LinkedIn with SharePoint Sites

These days LinkedIn is one of the most important social networking site for professionals. It has got some very useful information and now it is easy to display this information in the SharePoint site.

LinkedIn site provide plugin which we can utilize to display information from the site. The LinkedIn plugin are available @ https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins

The few plugin which are available are:
Apply with LinkedIn: Make it easy for candidates to apply for your jobs using their LinkedIn profiles.
Share on LinkedIn: Enable users to share your website with LinkedIn’s professional audience, and drive traffic back to your site.
Member Profile: Bring LinkedIn member profiles to your site to help users discover common professional connections.
Company Insider: Enhance your content and show rich personalized insights about companies featured on your site.
Company Profile: Bring LinkedIn company profiles to your site to display key company information at-a-glance.
Full Member Profile: Bring full LinkedIn profiles to your site to display a person’s professional background at-a-glance.
Recommend with LinkedIn: Enable users to recommend your products and services to LinkedIn's professional audience, and drive traffic back to your site.
Jobs You May Be Interested In: Boost site engagement with personalized job listings.
Follow Company Plugin: Make it easy for prospective customers, job-seekers, and business partners to engage with your company.
Sign In with LinkedIn: Make it easier for people to sign in or register with your site by using their LinkedIn identity.

Now I will use the Company Profile Plugin and display the information on the SharePoint Site. To do this we will the following steps:

1. I will get the code by clicking on Get It Button.

2. Once we click on the Get It it allows to select the company name and change the few properties:

I have selected the company as Microsoft to show the information. Now we will get the code by clicking the Get Code button.

3. Once we have the code we will copy this in a notepad file and save it in a document library.

4. Now we just need to insert a content editor web part in any SharePoint Page and refer the link in the web part. With this it will show the information like below: