Intellects

Configuring SharePoint 2010 Document Libraries with Exchange Server 2010 to receive mails from internal/external world

Sameer Dhoot — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:36:04 PDT

This article will help you to configure SharePoint 2010/2007 server to receive Incoming emails. Following are high level step in order to configure this Configure SMTP Server on SharePoint Server which will receive emails Configure SharePoint to pick up the email from the SMTP server Configure Document Library to receive email Configure Exchange Server, create External [...]

Installation Issue SharePoint Server 2010 Release Candidate on Domain Controller

Sameer Dhoot — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:16:53 PST

I just got the RC bits for SharePoint Server 2010 (14.0.4730.1010). Well the good news is that the prerequisites installer now takes care of the WCF Hot Fix required. Apart from this there is no change in Prerequisites. To fully utilize the SharePoint functionality and to overcome the restriction on using Local Account we decided [...]

SharePoint 2010 Resources on Architecture, Planning, Search, SDK

Sameer Dhoot — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:09:00 PDT

Here are some resources which will help you to learn more about the upcoming SharePoint Server 2010 Here are some technical diagrams and Visio diagrams on architecture for SharePoint Server 2010 Title Visio PDF Description Services in SharePoint 2010 Products Visio PDF Describes and illustrates the services architecture, including and common ways to deploy services in your overall solution design. Cross-farm Services in [...]

SharePoint 2010 now supports Integrated ASP.NET Pipeline

Sameer Dhoot — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:34:00 PDT

I have been waiting to see this transition of SharePoint 2007 currently working in classic mode ASP.NET pipeline even when running under Win 2008/IIS 7.0. Win 2008 and IIS 7.0 has improved a lot and has been very modular. IIS 7.0 has ability to operate the application pool under Integrated mode ASP.NET pipeline which essentially means [...]

Boot From VHD - Replacing Vista or Windows 2008 Bootloader with Windows 7 Bootloader

Sameer Dhoot — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:12:15 PDT

Windows 7 introduce a cool feature enabling us to boot OS on bare metal from a VHD file. This is done by using the new bootloader which comes with Windows 7. So many people out there (specially techie) who might have vista or windows 2008 as their OS might want to try out Windows 7 or [...]

SharePoint Calculated Columns Formulas

Sameer Dhoot — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:28:13 PST

SharePoint/WSS has field type which is calculated column. This is very handy for end users who do not have to run to their IT for new calculated data they require. Well but they are not well documented and not everyone knows tricks to put formulas to work. I have numerous situations where I need to [...]

SharePoint Cumulative Update for Feb 2009

Sameer Dhoot — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:17:00 PST

Microsoft has released cumulative update for WSS 3.0 on 24 Feb which has the following HotFix 961750 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961750/ ) Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): February 24, 2009 963023 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/963023/ ) Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): January 27, 2009 961175 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961175/ ) Description of the Windows SharePoint [...]

Windows Shortcuts

Amit Sharma — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:12:52 PST

We all know a few or every available Shortcuts in Windows. Mainly they are “Windows Key” + other keys But we need more (humans are always greedy:D) lol Not just greedy, some people are lazy too, like me and don’t even want to do more than a few clicks. Without clicks, one can not use Windows, we [...]

SharePoint Planning and Architecture Resources : Visio Diagrams

Sameer Dhoot — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:56:00 PST

Arno Nel has published links to a really cool set of Visio drawings that relate to Microsoft SharePoint on his blog: Arno Nel 2.0 - The Information Worker. The diagrams illustrate models, scenarios, and flowcharts for planning, designing and deploying SharePoint installations. These high-quality Visio drawings were created by Microsoft for the TechNet site, and include [...]

Running CQWP on Team Site without publishing infrastructure feature enabled (MOSS 2007)

Sameer Dhoot — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:22:00 PST

Content Query Web Part (CQWP) is by far the most useful web part when it comes to render the contents and allowing developers full control over its style and layout. It is bundled as part of MOSS 2007 and it is enabled with Publishing Infrastructure. So if you are using Team Site template then the [...]