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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

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Things to know about working with SharePoint SPQuery on a List

Every once in a while you will hit that roadblock where you can’t use out of the box Content Query WebPart and you got to write your own webpart to render result you’re after. One of the most common methods … Continue reading

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Customizing AccessDenied, SignOut and other pages in SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell

When building custom solution on SharePoint, whether intranet or public facing, you often need to balance out-of-the-box functionality with custom look and feel your customer is asking. There are number of out-of-the-box system pages which SharePoint uses to display upon … Continue reading

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My SP2010 PowerShell Expert Cookbook is available in RAW version

As you may know I have been writing my powershell expert cookbook for a while now and now it’s available in RAW (Read As we Write) format. CHeck out details here. As my other books, this one is written in … Continue reading

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SharePoint Productivity Roadshow: Financial – Bellevue, WA

Over the last few weeks, my colleagues from Knowledgetech and I were working on putting together a presentation-demo on how SharePoint and K2 business process automation tools can help you automate manual processes presently used at almost any organization. As … Continue reading

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Changing default content appearing in SharePoint page breadcrumb

Got a note from Eric today with a scenario I’d like to share here. Say you have a SharePoint 2010 Publishing site with multiple pages in your Pages library: As your users navigate through the site – you want to … Continue reading

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Adding SharePoint 2010 site data rollups using SharePoint designer

Data roll-ups are very common when building SharePoint 2010 applications, in my book I dedicated the entire chapter on the subject. When you need a custom data roll-up you don’t always need to create a web part with custom code. … Continue reading

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

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

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

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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