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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Hiding SharePoint 2010 web templates programmatically
When you allow your users to create sites with SharePoint 2010 – they have variety of web templates to chose from; you may choose to show only templates you’re comfortable being used on your site. In my book we looked … Continue reading
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Tagged limit sharepoint 2010 web templates, set allowed web templates
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Adding SharePoint 2010 site data rollups using SharePoint designer
Data roll-ups are very common when building SharePoint 2010 applications, in my book I dedicated the entire chapter on the subject. When you need a custom data roll-up you don’t always need to create a web part with custom code. … Continue reading
Provisioning sandbox compatible SharePoint 2010 site templates
One of the features you probably want to give to your users, whether your solution is hosted in a cloud or on premises is the ability to create SharePoint sub sites based on defined template and features in it. One … Continue reading
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List your SharePoint 2010 site collections in site directory
Site Directory allows your users to find site collection on the portal by using categories which you can define. Site Directory has been around since MOSS and due to upgrade compatibility issues from MOSS – it has been turned off … Continue reading
Manage quotas for SharePoint 2010 site collections
SharePoint allows web application users to be able to create personal site collection using Self Service site creation service. With all of those site collections created you probably want to specify quotas to make sure users don’t exceed the storage … Continue reading
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Powershell: approving and publishing all publishing pages on the site
When testing your SharePoint 2010 publishing site with many pages waiting to be approved in your Publishing site collection – you may want to publish them to test content deployment scenarios and so on. With PowerShell you can access the … Continue reading
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Tagged approve all sharepoint pages, powershell, publish all sharepoint page, sharepoint approve pages
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Applying custom branding to cloud hosted SharePoint 2010 site
In the recent while there has been a lot of talk about hosting your solution in the cloud. Lot’s of providers out there already offer SharePoint 2010 hosted environment. There is a also a lot of debate what you can … Continue reading
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Tagged branding in sharepoint sandbox, sandbox solution, theming in sharepoint sandbox solution
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Using PowerShell to add and configure SharePoint 2010 webparts
When it comes to post deployment SharePoint solution maintenance – your users might ask you to add certain functionality to already deployed site. One way to achieve this would be manually adding web parts to each page. Another way, would be … Continue reading
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Tagged automate webpart provisioning, provision webpart powershell
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Provisioning External Data Column to your SharePoint 2010 lists
As you may know SharePoint 2010 allows you to add an External Data column to a list. The external data column will connect to the external content type which in turn can connect to any external system, such as SQL … Continue reading
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Tagged create external column, external column, sharepoint external column
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Synchronizing content types between SharePoint 2010 site collections
When you have several site collections for various departments of your organization, you may need to share content types representing corporate information across all sites. As content types evolve and administrative users update them – they would also require to make such … Continue reading
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