Monthly Archives: December 2010

Restricting SharePoint 2010 workflow usage and other web application settings

In my last post on managing the throttling settings on your web application we started talking about some of the properties of web application object to restrict resource usage on your portal. In this post I would like to add … Continue reading

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Get a quick report on SharePoint 2010 Features running in your site collection

Whether you’re doing a routine maintenance or something blew up – it’s quite handy to be able to query your site collection and get a report on features that are running on each of the sub sites. Just recently I … Continue reading

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PowerShell: Manage resource throttling for SharePoint 2010 Web Application setting

One of the improvements in SharePoint 2010 is more granularity on managing resource throttling for your web applications. If you navigate to Central Administration -> Manage Web Applications -> select web application, you will have an option on a ribbon … Continue reading

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SharePoint automation with PowerShell: replacing properties of web parts in sites of a site collection

As you maintain your SharePoint 2010 site, over time you may be changing properties of web parts that appear on the site. Whether those have been developed in house or third party – if the instance of the web part … Continue reading

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Leveraging synchronous and asynchronous event receivers in SharePoint 2010

When adding a new event receiver to a SharePoint 2010 entity with Visual Studio 2010 you get variety of events – some of which are synchronous and some asynchronous. What’s the difference and when to use which? Synchronous events run … Continue reading

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Enabling multi-tenant hosting in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 allows for multi-tenant hosting, which means you can have subscribers in your farm representing separate entities which can host their own sandbox solutions and subscribe to one or more service applications. As an example of usage for such … Continue reading

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Getting started with SharePoint 2010 site analytics and usage statistics

One the many other social features in SharePoint 2010 (few of which we customized in my book) is SharePoint 2010 site and web analytics functionality. To enable data collection for your site: 1. Navigate to Central Administration. 2. Click Configuration Wizards … Continue reading

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SharePoint 2010 Branding: Creating and deploying themes

In the last episode on SharePoint 2010 branding we looked at deploying your custom masterpages and CSS. In this short video on SharePoint 2010 branding we’ll take a look at how you can deploy your custom themes using Visual Studio … Continue reading

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How you can win TechNet Professional Subscription in 15 min by deploying Azure app!

Ok, so you heard about Azure apps in the cloud, no? Well this is your chance to get familiar with it. Yes, then it’s your easiest chance to win TechNet Professional Subscription and get access to tons of Microsoft resources … Continue reading

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How To: Enable or Disable sandbox solutions in your SharePoint 2010 farm

In SharePoint 2010 we have a brand new concept of sandbox solutions – which I have been writing about for a while now. In your farm you may want to disable sandbox solutions upload to avoid even power users uploading … Continue reading

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