Author Archives: Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

About Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Yaroslav is currently involved in SharePoint and custom .NET solution architecture and implementation. He is Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Application Developer with an extensive development portfolio involving medium and large businesses, non-profit and government organizations. Yaroslav has been involved in software development since a year of 2000 and is highly passionate about his work. Yaroslav ensures project success through close and continuous interaction with end users and stakeholders throughout each phase of the application development lifecycle. Yaroslav enjoys actively contributing to widespread technical community. He shares his ideas and findings with user group members by presenting at local events, online community, and his blog: www.sharemuch.com.

Final checklist for an outstanding SharePoint public site

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Yesterday, you’ve seen the first half of my checklist for a successful SharePoint 2010 site. Today, I’m going to talk about few final tips so your next site is as good as you want it gets. Beware of out-of-the-box forms … Continue reading →

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Checklist for a successfull SharePoint 2010 public site – part 1

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Whether you’re building a public site using SharePoint foundation, cloud hosted environment OR using a dedicated environment with SharePoint Enterprise edition, there are few things to be aware of and pay attention to: Keep the branding fresh This applies to … Continue reading →

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Speaking at SharePoint Summit – May 14 – 16, 2012

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

That’s right, I’ll be speaking at SharePoint Summit in TOronto this year on branding of your SharePoint site. If you’re around, or not, come join us to get all the info you need to make a successful SharePoint story. Here … Continue reading →

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Transfering SharePoint 2010 branding customizations to Visual Studio

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Whether you’re using SharePoing Designer to customize your site or other tools, you’ll benefit from this quick tutorial on how to transfer those customizations to Visual Studio so that you can share them with others. Enjoy!

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Come join me for the first ever office 365 saturday in Redmond this Feb

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

That’s right, first ever Office 365 Saturday is taking place in Redmond this Feb. I’ll be speaking on branding of Office 365 sites and you will also find many other innovative speakers Here is the general info on the event: … Continue reading →

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Unauthorized when using SharePoint PowerPivot document from Report Builder or Excel?

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Here is the scenario: You’ve got WFE Server which is also an app server with PowerPivot set up, we’ll call it SPWFE. You also have the database server which is a SharePoint database, let’s call it SPDB. That same server … Continue reading →

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Troubleshooting PowerPivot: Unable to refresh data for a data connection in the workbook

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

If you’re trying to explore one of the cool new integrations in SharePoint 2010 BI stack, PowerPivot, you might run into the problem where your PowerPivot workbooks will return the following error, when you try clicking on the slicer in … Continue reading →

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SharePoint branding with SharePoint Designer – screencast

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

If you’re involved in a SharePoint branding project and it’s a new topic for you, you’ll love this screencast which is going to go over tons of gotchas in about an hour It was recorded recently and I`ve got some … Continue reading →

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How To: Create a reusable SharePoint web template in sandbox

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

If you’re working with a hosted SharePoint 2010 environment, any customizations you’re allowed to do are limited to sandbox solutions and artifacts compatible with sandbox solutions. This, of course, means you don’t have access to the file system; naturally nobody … Continue reading →

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