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Automatically set SharePoint 2010 masterpage on publishing site provisioned

When creating SharePoint 2010 sites for your users, you’ll be sometimes asked to allow users to create new site instances with the custom look and feel. This is a common request; for example, if all of your company press releases … Continue reading

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Determine SharePoint 2010 site template definition

We’ve looked a lot about customizing site definitions on this blog; this time I’d like to show you how you can find an existing site definition. Whether those are custom site definitions or out-of-the-box, you can see what it’s made … Continue reading

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Hiding SharePoint 2010 ribbon based on the security context

Whether you’re working on the public SharePoint site or an intranet, you might consider hiding SharePoint ribbon for certain users. One of the easiest way to do this, is to use SharePoint out-of-the-box security trimmer and hide the ribbon for … Continue reading

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Provisioning SharePoint 2010 site collection quota template

As you let your admin users create sites for their unique projects, you may run into a risk of running out of disk space. After all, you can’t rely on all of your advanced users to be super diligent about … Continue reading

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SharePoint 2010 branding DVD tutorial is out!

About a month ago, I got involved in a new and exciting project with folks at Sharepoint-Videos.com Today is super-exciting day when my new SharePoint 2010 Branding DVD tutorial is out! Basically speaking, it’s over 2 hours of pure demos … Continue reading

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Script to provision SharePoint 2010 publishing pages

In this post, I’d like to share a method of provisioning many publishing pages automatically using a PowerShell script. The scenario where this is handy, is when you need to migrate old company press release, for example, to an archive … Continue reading

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Use PowerShell to modify SharePoint 2010 search results web part properties

As you know, your SharePoint 2010 Search results page is just another publishing page which you can: check out, modify web parts on, and check back in. In this post, I wanted to share an approach for modifying the Core … Continue reading

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SharePoint 2010 Business Data Connectivity throttling

When working with BCS in SharePoint 2010, you are likely to connect to an external system which already has its primary function. Maybe it’s a legacy application which users work with and you need to consume data from to present … Continue reading

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