What you need for this book

The recipes in this book utilize the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 web interface, Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2013, Microsoft InfoPath 2013, Windows PowerShell, and Microsoft C# .NET code. Most of the recipes that use the SharePoint web interface or SharePoint Designer can be used with SharePoint 2013 hosted on Office 365 as well as with a local SharePoint 2013 server. Recipes that use PowerShell or .NET code will require access to a local SharePoint 2013 server.

In order to make full use of all recipes in this book, it is highly recommended that you have a testing and development machine with the following software. These software applications can be obtained from the links provided or, in most cases, from MSDN with an active MSDN Subscription.