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http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2013/06/18/huge-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-for-you-including-office-office-365-sharepoint-sql-server-system-center-visual-studio-web-development-windows-windows-azure-and-windows-server.aspx

Cross farm Service Applications Integration between two separate SharePoint farms

http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2013/09/03/cross-farm-service-applications-integration-between-two-separate-sharepoint-farms.aspx

Infopath's built in Username() function returning “i:0#.w|Domain\UserName” instead of just UserName

 I can modify the UserName() return string to display only the username as opposed to "i:0#.w|Domain\UserName"
 using substring-after function we can get only user name instead of "i:0#.w|Domain\UserName"

Eg:


Here I will use two controls one is "LoginUserFullName" ans second is "UserName"
 "LoginUserFullName" control has "i:0#.w|Domain\UserName" now am going to store the user name with out domain in "UserName"control by using substring-after(LoginUserFullName, "\")

UPS service Issue: While configuring the UPS, getting No permission of 'Replicating Directory Changes' at the parent domain(domain user name) for domain user name

Solutions:

Permission of 'Replicating Directory Changes'  to parent domain for UPS user.

Eg: Here am using system account for UPS configuration. If is there any more than one node in Active Directory(Parent and child) we need to provide permissions for system account in both nodes in AD.

SharePoint on iPad - Microsoft BI

Microsoft has recently released a Cumulative Update 2011-12 for Microsoft SharePoint that enables consuming Microsoft BI data visualizations on Apple iPad running iOS 5 Safari browser. Not all visualizations are supported:

http://venkatpolepalli.blogspot.in/2014/04/sharepoint-on-ipad-microsoft-bi.html

SharePoint 2016 new features Ignite Updates

http://www.enjoysharepoint.com/Articles/Details/sharepoint-2016-new-features-ignite-updates-21150.aspx

SharePoint Server 2016 Hardware and Software Requirements

http://www.enjoysharepoint.com/Articles/Details/sharepoint-server-2016-hardware-and-software-requirements-21141.aspx