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Refreshing the WebParts Automatically on a Regular Interval

2012-01-20T08:31:00.000-08:00

I was working on requirements to create a Dashboard kind of functionality for the Application Admins where data from several Lists and Document Libraries needs to come. Since this application involves high transactions so all these lists keep updated frequently. On this dashboard we are showing the data from these various lists using the list view web parts. The requirement was that we need to

Step by Step Learning for Workflow using SharePoint Designer 2010

2012-01-10T07:50:00.000-08:00

Helpful links to create workflow using SharePoint Designer 2010: 1. Understanding Workflow Conditions in SharePoint Designer 2010 2. Understanding Workflow actions in SharePoint Designer 2010 3. Introduction to designing and customizing workflows using SharePoint Designer 2010 4. How to create an approval workflow in SharePoint Designer 2010 5. Understand approval workflows in

Few Learning with Views & Alerts in SharePoint

2011-12-21T07:23:00.000-08:00

Conditional Alerts: I was working on a project where we want to use SharePoint Alerts to notify the users when any new items are added in the list but we wanted that these alerts should be sent based on few conditions. By default when we set alerts SharePoint allows to subscribe to all the changes and we can not mention any conditions on which alerts can be sent. But this can be achieved using

Understanding Extending A Web Application in SharePoint

2011-12-18T09:45:00.000-08:00

SharePoint allows to expose the same content to two different set of users with different URL's and with different authentication. This is called Extending a Web Application. I will try to explain this concept in this post. Lets say a company has a Web Site on SharePoint for Internal users. The users access the site using a URL http://demo-intranet. The internal users are using Windows

Updating Content Editor Web Parts using Powershell

2011-12-13T05:42:00.000-08:00

I was working on a project where we need to update quite a few Content Editor web parts in a SharePoint 2010 applications. This task was taking longer to do manually but can be done quickly by using a Powershell script. Here is the Powershell which you can use to load data in Content Editor Web Parts: $CEWebPart = new-object $typeName $CEWebPartType = $CEWebPart.GetType().ToString() if($

Questions on SharePoint for Interviews and Learning

2011-12-06T08:32:00.000-08:00

Putting the links of some of the good blogs having good collections on SharePoint Questions which are useful for job interviews and your learning purpose. Also sharing some links where you can take up the test to check your knowledge. Here are the links: 1. Interview Questions on SharePoint 2010 and MOSS @ http://qmoss.blogspot.com/ 2. Questions on SharePoint Administration @ http://

Test On Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010

2011-11-14T13:10:00.000-08:00

We all know Microsoft has invested significantly to improve Search in SharePoint and it has become a very critical feature for the application built on SharePoint technologies. Search has many difficult concept to understand. I have put 10 questions on various concepts on Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010 which you can use to test your knowledge on this topic. You can take this test @

Understanding Multi Tenancy in SharePoint 2010 for Dummies

2011-11-07T08:01:00.000-08:00

Multi Tenancy in SharePoint 2010 is a difficult topic to understand so I am trying to put my thoughts which can help you to understand this fantastic concept. This article only explain what is Multi Tenancy in SharePoint 2010 and why this is needed and what concepts helps to achieve this. There are further information to implement this. As we all know creating SharePoint infrastructure is not

Disabling Request Access Link from the Access Denied Page in SharePoint

2011-11-02T09:01:00.000-07:00

SharePoint shows the Access Denied page when somebody tries to access a site on which the user does not have access. On this page there is a link where people can request for Access as shown below. If the user clicks this link a request for access is by default sent to Primary Site Collection Administrator. Primary Site Collection Administrator are the administrator which are created when Site

Disabling A Content Type to be used in List or Libraries in SharePoint

2011-11-01T15:12:00.000-07:00

We have a Content Type that was getting used for a Document Library. This content type has some special settings and it was required that no other document library can again use this Content Type. We can do it using OOB settings with the following steps: 1. Create a Content Type by using general settings. Since we were using it inside a document library we have inherited it from the Document

Creating Themes in SharePoint 2010 using PowerPoint Themes

2011-10-14T12:53:00.000-07:00

Creating Themes in SharePoint 2010 can be a complicated task but there is very easy way of creating and using themes from PowerPoint 2010 in SharePoint 2010.With the below steps themes created in Power Point can be uploaded and used in SharePoint: 1. Save any PPT as thmx file: 2. Open your site collection in which you want to use this theme and go to Site Actions --> Site Settings and under

Supressing Window Prompt in SharePoint 2010 Intranet Sites

2011-10-07T07:48:00.000-07:00

Some of the users for the SharePoint sites were facing repetative Windows Prompt to provide the credentials. This can be supressed if for the users in Win 7 by adding the URL of the site with the user credentials (This works for any site though) with the following steps: 1. Go to Windows Credential Manager. You can do so by typing "Credential Manager" in the Win7 Search Box or by navigating

Interesting Survey on SharePoint Usage and Stats

2011-10-06T06:33:00.000-07:00

An interesting survey on SharePoint usages :) Fall 2011 SharePoint Survey Results View more presentations from OpenText Global 360

SharePoint 2010 Licensing for Dummies

2011-10-04T07:39:00.000-07:00

Recently I was working on setting up a SharePoint 2010 Farm and understanding licensing was a nightmare. So many options and different products makes it a complicated matter. I tried to put a small table which helps on high level to understand what licenses are required. This is not comprehensive list but just a quick reference guide for dummies to get a idea about the various different licenses

Good Video on JQuery

2011-10-02T12:25:00.000-07:00

Found an interesting and very informative video on JQuery. This can be downloaded from the below link after putting some details: http://www.intertech.com/Register/Registration.aspx?AdID=42 The direct link to download is (not sure will it work): http://www.Intertech.com/Downloads/OxygenBlast/jQuery/jQueryWebinar.wmv Hope you find it useful.

PowerShell Quick Reference Guide for SharePoint 2010

2011-09-30T06:15:00.000-07:00

We all know how important PowerShell has become for SharePoint and some time it is overwhelming to remember all the cmdlets for a dummy in SharePoint. Below are few quick cmdlets which you can execute and get your way out from the plethora of cmdlets available for SharePoint: 1. List all the SharePoint cmdlets Get-Command “*sp*” –CommandType cmdlet 2. Get a count of all the SharePoint cmdlets

How to learn SharePoint 2010

2011-09-30T04:05:00.000-07:00

Today SharePoint is one of the most sought skills in IT Industry and many people ask these questions to me: 1. What is the best way to learn SharePoint. 2. What skills we need to learn SharePoint. 3. Should we learn SharePoint Administration or SharePoint Development etc... I will try to put my thoughts here which is ONE approach of learning SharePoint. Since SharePoint is a vast area there are

SharePoint 2010 Training Courses

2011-09-22T07:13:00.000-07:00

Here is some collection of nice SharePoint training course hosted: 1. Get started with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 @ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sharepoint/ee518660.aspx 2. Advanced training for SharePoint 2010 @ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sharepoint/ff420396.aspx 3. SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search IT professional training @ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/enterprisesearch/

Hiding Site Action Button for Contributors in SharePoint 2010

2011-09-20T06:17:00.000-07:00

We have a requirment where we need to hide the Site Action button in a SharePoint site as we want them to discourage going into any internal pages (though they can always do that using the URL's :)). This would be complicate to achieve if we try to hide it using some JavaScript or use someother code. A very simple way to do this if we use a special control given in SharePoint for hiding the

Answer for Test on Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010

2011-09-14T10:17:00.000-07:00

Here are the answers for the Test on Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010 (Test is available @ Test on Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010) 1. A 2. A, C 3. D 4. B, C 5. D 6. A 7. A, B, C 8. B, C 9. B, C, D 10. C

Videos on SharePoint 2010 Site Templates

2011-08-18T07:10:00.000-07:00

Found very good videos explaining SharePoint 2010 Site Templates on Microsoft site: Video on Team Site Template @ http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/redir/va101915789.aspx Video on Blog Site @ http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/redir/va101915596.aspx Video on Document Workspace @ http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/redir/va101915633.aspx Video on Document Cente @ http://office.microsoft.com/en-us

SharePoint 2010 Technology Stack

2011-08-17T07:38:00.000-07:00

A diagram helps to demonstrate the Technology Stack for SharePoint 2010. This diagram also illustrate SharePoint 2010 as three tier Architecture: SharePoint 2010 Technology Stack This diagram refers to SharePoint 2010 deployment in Production Environemnt. This Operating System includes also Win7 and others depending on the deployment. Here is the explanation of some of these components: •

Error while Configuring Managed Accounts in SharePoint 2010

2011-08-11T22:57:00.000-07:00

I got a strange error while creating Managed Account. I was creating the managed account with Automatic Password Change enabled. The Managed Account did not get created and it has given the below error: "Access denied. Only machine administrators are allowed to create administration service job definitions of type: Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPGeneratePasswordJobDefinition,

Using SharePoint 2010 Web Analytics Feature with MOSS UI sites in SP2010

2011-08-10T03:11:00.000-07:00

We have created a site collection in SharePoint 2010. There were some features which were not upgraded to 2010 in our site so we were using MOSS V3 master page. We need to use the new Web Analytics Feature of SP2010 but these options are not visible when the site uses the 2007 UI. As a workaround we can enable the SP2010 experience from the Site Actions menu -- Look and Feel -- "Title,

Providing Access to a User in Multiple SiteCollections inside a Web Application

2011-04-02T03:48:00.000-07:00

I have a sitatuation where I had to provide access to a user to hundreds of Site Collection inside a Web Application in SharePoint 2010. The user needs to have full the access on all the site collections. Either this can be done by adding the user into each site collection as a site collection administration but this would be a really big task to add the user into each of them. This can be done