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Creating related external BCS lists in SharePoint 2010

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

SharePoint 2010 allows you to create external BCS lists which can surface the data from external data source. As it often happens, external data sources may have various inter-related entities where foreign keys represent relationship between those entities. In this … Continue reading →

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Setting alternative Masterpage for SharePoint 2010 collaboration sites

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

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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Have SharePoint public site – here is how to make it mobile friendly

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

SharePoint, especially 2010 release, is becoming more popular as a public site platform – and with an increased number of mobile devices – mobile site experience is expected. Both SharePoint and SharePoint 2010 have mobile support. When user with a … Continue reading →

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Automated SharePoint 2010 install/upgrade using PowerShell

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

When you develop with SharePoint you often have to set up development, build, qa environments, but wait – there is also production etc. All that takes time and SharePoint 2010 really stepped up in how you can quickly automate building of … Continue reading →

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Demystifying: SharePoint site collection specific timer jobs

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

If you worked with timer jobs in SharePoint (both MOSS and 2010) – you know that those execute on Web Application level. There in Central Administration you can see all of the definitions and statuses of running job. In SharePoint … Continue reading →

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Programmatically accessing SharePoint 2010 Visual Upgrade options

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

One of the cool features in SharePoint 2010 is it’s ability to easily upgrade the site from MOSS. Just recently I have been upgrading a heavily customized site that had custom branding (and I’m talking custom-custom), JQuery calls to web … Continue reading →

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Top 60 custom solutions built on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Today is pretty exciting day for me – my book titled “Top 60 custom solutions built on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010” is available for sale. It’s right now available for purchase here and at Amazon.com and in few more months … Continue reading →

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25 min screencast on Extending SharePoint 2010 document ID provider

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In my last article on document ID we looked at how SharePoint 2010 document center allows you to add new documents to the site and then after they are assigned unique ID – be able to find them by that ID. … Continue reading →

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Provisioning SharePoint lookups fields into existing list schema

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In SharePoint lookup fields allow you to display information from a parent list in the child list. At the time of you provisioning the child list you must already have a parent list where the field is going to be … Continue reading →

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Automatically enabling anonymous authentication on SharePoint 2010 site

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

When building public site using SharePoint 2010 one of the items on the list is to make the site accessible to anonymous user – obviously. There are few things involved having this happen. First setting must be performed on Web … Continue reading →

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