Monthly Archives: June 2009

Customizing SharePoint advanced search available property options

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

SharePoint Advanced search does not only have advanced search features for users, it also has set of extendable properties that developers and sharepoint administrators can use to make their user’s search experience more applicable to the organization. Let’s assume you … Continue reading →

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SharePoint Asset Inventory tool

Posted on June 28, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

This tool has been released a while ago but many I heard are not aware of it. In a scenario where you have to manage IT in larger organization you may find that departments are setting up an ad-hoc WSS … Continue reading →

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Programmatically generating Word documents based on a template

Posted on June 26, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

SharePoint lists are great for storing information and perfornming all sorts of agregation and analysis. There is a lot of features that help managing data within a list. In some cases list item in the list is not going to … Continue reading →

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Limiting number of sharepoint sites hosted within SQL content database

Posted on June 24, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Here is the scenario: Your intranet is growing fast and you decided to implement a policy that will limit number of sites that will be created per content database in SQL. Default value is 15000 sites per content database and … Continue reading →

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SharePoint DR, Backup, restore take-aways from this evenings VanSpug session

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

This evening I attended VanSPUG sponsored by Habanero where Carmen Craciun talked about DR, Backup&Restore scenarios and tools available for SharePoint. Few things I found usefull for everyone to know; one of them – what do we back up? Here … Continue reading →

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Creating sites of custom templates with SharePoint Designer workflow

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Here is the scenario: You need to create a sub-site based on user filling out a SharePoint out of the box list form that will define the sub-site. In my recent scenario I had a list where user created item … Continue reading →

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Changing form that gets displayed on list item New, Edit event

Posted on June 21, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

One of my colleagues (Shereen Qumsieh) has posted some excellent article on this quite common problem, which I faced in the past and pretty sure many of you had too. As you may or may not know you can create … Continue reading →

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20min screencast: Multifactor, Legacy system, and mixed environment authentication for SharePoint

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

If you need to have multifactor or custom authentication logic implemented when authorizing users to access your sharepoint – you`ll find this screencast right up your alley. Recently I had to create authentication for mixed environments (MAC and PC) – … Continue reading →

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Adding/updating new item to SharePoint list from within JS

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In many cases operation such as adding new items to SharePoint, deleting or updating existing can be done using an executable on the server. But in many other instances, when your logic is executed from outside of the server environment, … Continue reading →

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15 min screencast: Programmatically create/update items on remote SharePoint server with web services

Posted on June 12, 2009 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Creating list items and uploading files to SharePoint using object model couldn’t be easier; as long as your application runs on the same SharePoint server. I had a case where a client needed to access SharePointP from a legacy application … Continue reading →

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