Announcing availability of SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview and cloud hybrid search

You can find the link here to the announcing of SharePoint Server 2016 :

https://blogs.office.com/2015/08/24/announcing-availability-of-sharepoint-server-2016-it-preview-and-cloud-hybrid-search/#.VdtKWsd2nNs.facebook

You can download SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview and try it.



Learn more about SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview and see many of these updates in actions on this week's Office Mechanics show:

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Disable “Add, Edit and Delete Web Parts” within a Web Part Zone

Recently, I have been working with page layouts and I wanted to ensure webparts are added to the web part zone only programmatically.  I wanted end users are not able to add, edit or remove webparts from  Web Part Zone.

I have find some web part zone properties like  “AllowLayoutChange” property which can be used to ensure “Add a Web Part”  is hidden while page is in edit mode.

<div>
                <WebPartPages:WebPartZone runat=”server” AllowLayoutChange=”false”AllowPersonalization=”false”
               FrameType=”TitleBarOnly” ID=”MainZone” Title=”Main Zone” Orientation=”Vertical”>
                <ZoneTemplate></ZoneTemplate>
                </WebPartPages:WebPartZone>
</div>

Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.webpartpages.webpartzone.allowlayoutchange.aspx

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