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I did several tests playing with the Zero Downtime Patching feature and found that the developers in Microsoft have overfulfilled this task. Or they just have dirty subconsciousness and have added 69 in the status bar ...

Being serious I must honestly say - this feature is extremely helpful. Test it!
And the above screenshot is not manipulated. I saw it several times while upgrading the servers.

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ClientPeoplePicker in SharePoint 2013

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In the past year I invested my free time in activities related to the SharePoint User Group Bulgaria. This is the reason why I stopped writing in this blog. Please start following this new place www.sugbg.com . I promise you that you will find there truly valuable content.

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