Project Oslo and the Office Graph – first indications

At this year SPC in Las Vegas, Microsoft introduced codename Oslo and the Office Graph. If you want to see how the product should look watch this YouTube video:

Microsoft is working on the product. The TAB program is about to start and Oslo is now appearing with status "started" on Yammer release Schedule: https://about.yammer.com/success/engage/grow-your-network/release-schedule/

In my Office 365 Tenant belonging to my MSDN Subscription I also found the first indications. I have a look in several other Tenants and can actually not found anything of this. Not sure it´s because of this Tenant is part of an MSDN Subscription.

New result source

Interesting artefact is the new result source: “Local SharePoint Graph”

This result source is not shown under SharePoint online administration or in the site settings menu. It’s actually only visible in the Query Builder. Latest news from Microsoft says that the Office Graph gets its own index. We can assume that this new result source is mapped to the new Graph Index. Actually the new result source shows the same results like the “Local SharePoint Results” source.

Stay tuned about upcoming news about Project Oslo & the Office Graph….

Chapter 1 - SharePoint 2013 Analytics Feature

First chapter of my tutorial about SharePoint 2013 Analytics Feature is only on itUnity:

The SharePoint 2013 Analytics feature

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Welcome to IT Unity

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Rename public facing website O365 greyed out

Drying to rename public facing website in O365 SharePoint Online is greyed out because of there is no more storage available.

Making storage available activates “Rename Website” button:

Future of DocPush feature in SharePoint 2013

One of the most missing features in SharePoint Search is the option to push content direct to the index. In FAST ESP we have that functionality. Within FAST for SharePoint 2010 there was a tool called docpush.exe. Using this tool you can push content to the index. But this tool was not designed for productive use. There were several problems around this. For example if you push a document direct to the index using this tool and the crawler catches it also you have duplicates. During SPC14 the information came up that a push functionality for SharePoint 2013 search was already on the roadmap for SP1. Because of some unsolved problems it did not come with SP1. But this means it’s no longer a question if this function is coming – it’s only the question when it comes.

The function is no longer realized in a separate tool like the docpush.exe in FAST for SharePoint 2010. The function would be integrated as part of the SharePoint 2013 Search REST API. So there is a good changes that it also comes for SharePoint online. Locking forward what that all could mean for missing option to create own content sources for SharePoint Online. Stay patient. News are coming up soon.