Sandbox

Last week Microsoft announced that they are ending support for Sandboxed Solutions with code. In less than 30 days Sandboxed Solutions with code will stop working and your intranet might break. What are you doing about it?

SharePoint 2013 introduces the new App Model for deploying customizations. Find out what you need to take into account to convert your existing no-code Sandboxed Solutions to the new Apps for SharePoint.

Despite the advent of apps in SharePoint 2013 there are still plenty of valid scenarios for using Sandboxed Solutions. One of the challenges when working with Sandboxed Solutions in SharePoint is, that although you can quite easily upload multiple Solutions to the Solutions Gallery, there is no easy way of activating multiple Solutions if you don’t have access to the server API. And this is exactly where Mavention Batch Sandboxed Solutions Activator for SharePoint 2013 comes in.

When creating new content you can create new page from scratch but if the content is very similar to an already existing page you might as well start by copying the existing page. Find out how to easily duplicate Publishing Pages with Mavention Duplicate Page.

By default when applying an Image Rendition to an image, SharePoint references the particular rendition by its ID. And although it works, it introduces a number of challenges. Although you could manually change the ID-based reference to size-based manually there is a more convenient way to get this done.