Videos for upgrading SharePoint 2010 Sites to SharePoint 2013

To upgrade a Site collection from SP2010 to SP2013 we can only utilize the Database Attach approach. The In-Place upgrade method is not available with this version.

Below is the link for 6 part videos explaining the process in detail:

1. SharePoint 2013 Upgrade: Overview

2. Creating a SharePoint 2013 Farm for the upgrade:

3. Copying SP2010 Database to SP2013 Farm:

4. Upgrading the Service Applications Databases to SP2013:

5. Upgrading the Content Database to SP2013

6. Upgrading the Site Collection to SharePoint 2013

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.