Category Archives: sharepoint
Final checklist for an outstanding SharePoint public site
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
Checklist for a successfull SharePoint 2010 public site – part 1
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
Transfering SharePoint 2010 branding customizations to Visual Studio
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!
Unauthorized when using SharePoint PowerPivot document from Report Builder or Excel?
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
Troubleshooting PowerPivot: Unable to refresh data for a data connection in the workbook
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
Creating custom SharePoint site templates for the cloud
By this time you’ve probably had a chance to create SharePoinnt site templates for on-premises hosted environmenets. Learn how you can create new SharePoint 2010 site templates for cloud hosted environments such as office 365 etc. This will allow your … Continue reading
SharePoint branding with SharePoint Designer – screencast
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
How To: Create a reusable SharePoint web template in sandbox
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
How To: Set granular restriction on SharePoint 2010 Sandbox Solutions uploads
SharePoint 2010 sandbox solutions allow individual site collection owners to manage limited access solutions without involving administrators. To manage sandbox solutions you’ve got to have the following permissions: Manage Web Manage Sub webs Add and Customize Pages If you delegate … Continue reading