Monthly Archives: March 2011

Creating new SharePoint 2010 Document Set content type

In my last article, we looked at how you can programmatically add a new instance of a Document Set into a library. The document set we used was an out-of-the-box SharePoint document set content type. One of the few benefits of … Continue reading

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Working with SharePoint 2010 Document Sets Programatically

SharePoint 2010 has a new concept of a Document Set, which is essentially a folder-like container allowing you to group your files in and perform various activities on the set, such as trigger workflows, submit entire set to a record … Continue reading

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Extending SharePoint people search web part to be more social

People search is a NOT a new feature in SharePoint 2010. When you create an enterprise search site, you have the ability to search for individuals in your organization and see results as shown below: In my book we looked … Continue reading

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Resetting SharePoint 2010 social rating using PowerShell

As you probably know from variety of blogs, including my book, SharePoint 2010 allows you to turn on rating feature on your list items and documents so that your users can rate the content. One of the things you will … Continue reading

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Managing SharePoint 2010 auditing settings with PowerShell

In my last article on document and list item auditing we looked at how you can set auditing setting with SharePoint UI. If you’re in charge of administration of a large portal and would like to automate setting up and managing … Continue reading

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Document and list item auditing with SharePoint 2010

With all the content hosted in SharePoint, at some point you might be interested to perform an audit and see which documents or items are most popular, and also who edits and changes documents hosted in your libraries. In some … Continue reading

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Setting alternative Masterpage for SharePoint 2010 collaboration sites

Just like in case of publishing pages, you can set custom masterpage with structural and markup changes, styles, and images for collaboration sites. By default each collaboration site page (for example: http://intranet.contoso.com/default.aspx) already references a default masterpage. By setting a … Continue reading

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Tips and Tricks with SharePoint 2010 DataView web part

Just today @bsouthby asks me, how do we create a many to many view in SharePoint. Let me clarify. Let’s say we have a list called Projects and a list called Resources. You can add new resources and new projects … Continue reading

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