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SharePoint 2013 End of Life Part 4: What Can I Do to Prepare?

OK, this is the 4th installment of this blog series, and I have to admit that I have sort of tricked you. At one level or another, all of these articles have tried to introduce you to some of the steps to take as part of your upgrade. 

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SharePoint 2013 End of Life, Part 3: What Cool Stuff Do We Get?

In our first 2 installments of this series, SharePoint 2013 - End of Life, What Next? and Migrating SharePoint 2013 to a modern version of SharePoint: Is there an easy way? we discussed what the “End of Life” for SharePoint 2013 this upcoming April means for organizations and if there is an easy way to move it to something newer.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

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SharePoint 2013 End of Life, Part 2: Is there an easy way to migrate?

In my last article, we talked about Microsoft’s SharePoint 2013 reaching end of life in April of 2023. This means that organizations using SharePoint 2013 must move to other options, and we gave a brief overview of the platforms that Microsoft has provided as choices going forward.

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SharePoint 2013 End of Life, Part 1: What's Next?

A New Year always brings a lot of new opportunities, but sometimes it also signals that it is time to let go of things from the past. One of the things we will all have to let go of soon is SharePoint 2013. 

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InfoPath Forms Services and External Users

A few weeks ago on Twitter we saw an interesting post regarding InfoPath forms not working properly for external users. Naturally we had to investigate this issue, because as a consulting firm it's important for us to know these little quirks and kinks before recommending an InfoPath form solution to companies that might have a lot of external users. Thanks to Twitter's 140 character limit, I didn't have a lot of information to go off of to launch my investigation, so I decided to start in the most obvious place and then dig. I opened InfoPath and created a very simple SharePoint List Form and connected it to my SharePoint playground. Then I invited my personal email address to the site as an external user and tried to interact with the InfoPath form and list. To my great surprise, it worked. I decided I needed more information on this InfoPath form issue.

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