SharePoint

How To Customize The SharePoint Navigation Drop Down Menu

by Chandrasekar Natarajan

In a Microsoft SharePoint 2007 site, when we take the mouse pointer on the top link bar we get the drop down menu for that particular site. The drop down that shows up after placing the mouse pointer (an example is shown below) is sometimes too quick in that it doesn’t allow you to choose [...]

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Managing SharePoint User Profile Service Application Permissions with PowerShell

by Chandrasekar Natarajan

When the User Profile service application is configured in Microsoft SharePoint 2010, by default NT Authority\Authenticated Users and All Authenticated Users are granted permissions to create My Sites and use other features (personal and social) provided by the user profile service. But what if you don’t want to grant all of these permissions to all [...]

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How Visual Studio 2010 F5 Solution Deployment Works With SharePoint

by Chandrasekar Natarajan

Let’s say in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 you create a new “ContentType” project by specifying the SharePoint site and solution type as farm solution. Inherit this new content Type from the Base Content Type of “Document”,  then add the CustomField and CustomContentType xml files in the solution, as follows: Elements.XML (CustomField) <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <Elements [...]

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How To Automate SharePoint 2010 Installation Using AutoSPInstaller

by Chris Tao

(Note:  this post was updated April 2, 2012)  Deploying a large scale Microsoft SharePoint 2010 farm is typically a challenge for Enterprise IT administrators. Not only does the default PSConfig GUI wizard require administrators to manually finish each step, it doesn’t provide the administrator with the ability to customize some of the underlying parameters, such [...]

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How To Use a User Control (Web Service Call) in a SharePoint Web Part

by Chandrasekar Natarajan

In a typical ASP.NET application, using a User Control is pretty straight forward, we just need to map the control to an ObjectDataSource and bind its settings. But in Microsoft SharePoint Server, when an ObjectDataSource control is used, it will throw the error message saying “The type specified in the TypeNameProperty can be found“.  The [...]

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A Microsoft Word Document Template For Disaster Recovery Planning

by Alexander Windel

Let’s say you want to create a disaster recovery (DR) plan for a common, shared enterprise IT service such as e-mail or document collaboration in your organization. One of the results of the plan will surely be a document outlining the DR strategy for that service. But where do you start? What should be part [...]

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How To Do SharePoint Collaboration in the Absence of Proper Governance, Part 2

by Daniel Brunet

In my previous post, I explained the goal of this series of articles is to help SharePoint farm administrators make decisions when they have to maintain one or multiple SharePoint farms without governance, and touched on one of the most flexible and potentially challenging service offerings within SharePoint: Collaboration.  This is a continuation of that [...]

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How To Do SharePoint Collaboration in the Absence of Proper Governance

by Daniel Brunet

In my previous post, I explained the goal of this series of articles is to help farm administrators make decisions when they have to maintain one or multiple SharePoint farms without governance.  One of the most challenging service offerings with SharePoint besides Content Management is Collaboration, as it usually needs both flexibility and scalability. Whenever [...]

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How To Do SharePoint Operations in the absence of Proper Governance

by Daniel Brunet

If you found this article, chances are that you searched for some combination of “SharePoint” and “Governance”.This is the first of a series of articles that will be mainly focused on operational procedures for Microsoft SharePoint admins in the absence of governance. It is not meant to help build a governance process, rather to help [...]

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How To Setup A SharePoint 2010 Development Environment On Windows 7

by Chris Tao

Windows 7 is an excellent desktop OS, but what if you’re a Microsoft SharePoint developer and want to set up a SharePoint development environment on a Windows 7 client machine? Luckily, it’s doable. Compared to setting up SharePoint in server environment, it may require a few extra steps to make it work. Normally, if you’re [...]

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SharePoint 2010 and PowerShell: A Match Made In Automation Heaven

by Jeff Adkin

We have all seen it a thousand times before. We need to make a change across tons of SharePoint sites or pull a report on specific values that just are not available in Central Admin. Banging one’s head off of the proverbial wall starts to happen as we begin to wrestle with the idea that [...]

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