31. January 2012 23:19
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This is a follow up of my previous post – Understanding SharePoint Sites When customers ask me what they should be doing with their newly deployed SharePoint environment, I say Put People First! – Let users find their peers, colleagues. Let them share information with their peers/colleagues. Redire...
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31. January 2012 05:39
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Are you eagerly waiting for “Office 15”? Then here is some news! We just announced the beginning of the “Office 15” Technical Preview and a public beta later this summer! (Summer in the USA, Winter here in NZ) While the Technical Preview program is already full, everyone will have the opportun...
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30. January 2012 11:55
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One of the new enterprise search feature added to SharePoint 2010 is the ability to search people by their ‘nicknames’. For example: You could search ‘aron’ for ‘aaron’ or ‘jon’ for ‘john’. We geeks call this Phonetic search Below is a screen shot of the nickname search: How does this wor...
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26. January 2012 23:13
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Spencer has written by far THE BEST blog post on configuring User Profile Service (UPS) Application in SharePoint 2010. Below are the steps I always check/validate when I provision the UPS:
1) Add SPFarm admin account to local administrators group
2) Allow log on locally to SPFarm admin account
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25. January 2012 21:50
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SharePoint is a platform. When you deploy SharePoint, it is going to help you build and automate many business solutions, not just the project for which you are deploying. Yes, I hear you – Every project starts with building an Intranet! But is your organisation ready for the Intranet? And what abo...
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7. October 2011 14:10
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Ari Bakker and Wictor Wilen both have done great jobs on documenting what it takes to provision SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata fields.
- Ari Bakker’s Provisioning SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata fields
- Wictor Wilen’s How to provision SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata columns
Yes, ...
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20. September 2011 23:46
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SharePoint Calendar is a great tool to manage events related to your site and also provides many other capabilities like creating multiple calendars and overlaying calendars.
The Problem
What about exporting individual events as .ical so you can add them to Outlook?
It is available out of the box...
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15. September 2011 21:11
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The Problem
If you are using custom web templates to create your site, you may face an issue where InfoPath forms don’t work in your site.
Here is the screen shot of the error message:
Read more here
15. September 2011 00:05
by Chaks
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Earlier I blogged about how to make use of the new dialog framework in SharePoint 2010. It covered working with Application Pages in the _layouts directory.
What about sandboxed solutions? Can you create custom sandboxed dialogs?
Yes, you can! It involves a little bit of work though.
First of all...
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4. September 2011 22:44
by Chaks
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Below is a simple code snippet that you can wrap in a site scoped feature to publish and subscribe to content types from a content type hub.
As a precaution, please be careful to use this code snippet in production unless you have thoroughly tested it.
Why do we need it?
This is very useful when ...
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4. September 2011 21:14
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The Problem
Web templates allows you to specify which features to activate by customising the onet.xml file. Usually developers will pick the nearest one or more site definition’s onet.xml they want to use – copy the WebFeatures and SiteFeatures (which is totally acceptable). For exampl...
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4. September 2011 16:17
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I have had some interesting discussions with Wayne Ewington and others on what base template should you use for web templates.
A little background to what this base template means to web templates:
Web Templates depend on an existing site definition installed in the server. The general guideline i...
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4. September 2011 15:25
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As promised, you can download my session – Provisioning SharePoint Sites Using Web Templates – slide deck and sample.
The sample is a Sandboxed solution that can be deployed to a site (web). It is also Office365 ready!
30. June 2011 00:10
by Chaks
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One of the cool new features introduced in SharePoint 2010 SP1 is the Site Recycle Bin feature. Earlier, the only way to restore deleted sites and site collections required to restore the appropriate content databases. But from SP1 onwards, deleted sites can be recovered from the Site Recycle Bin. ...
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19. May 2011 00:41
by Chaks
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In SharePoint 2007, we have the choice of using _layouts folder for deploying document templates that are used in content types. That option still exists in SharePoint 2010 for farm based solutions, but the SharePoint Root (14 hive) is not accessible in Sandboxed solutions and hence it is not possib...
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