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Finally reached the 60th SharePoint Tip. I wish I published 120th :) but quite busy in these days and publishin new SharePoint 2010 matherials takes a lot of time. Tip #60: How to change the Spell Checker Language Tip #59: How to set the default duration...
Quick overview of the latest 10 SharePoint Tips and Tricks on our new portal http://www. SharePoint-SandBox .com Tip #50: FBA crawling doesn't support Wizard-based and Dynamic Pages with AJAX Tip #49: SharePoint sites are not crawled via "Crawl...
Last 2 months I've been working on the site to host all my "SharePoint Tips and Tricks" and it has been released recently. And now...welcome to http://SharePoint-SandBox.com , the new place for our tips series, where all tips have been organized...
Sometimes you have a already created site but wanted to know the site definition of that site, or gets the name of the site definition from which the site template that was used to create the site is derived. There are several steps to get that template...
Almost all changes that developers and administrators introduce to SharePoint are completed via “jobs” mechanism of SharePoint ( Central Administration –> Operations --> Timer Job Definitions ). Your changes are queued and SharePoint complete them...
Virtualizied environment is very common for SharePoint farm. One of the most important factor of such farms is optimization that differs slightly from optimization of the physical environment . But firstly, we need to know how good our farm operates,...
SharePoint Site Template has one very handy feature – it can be registered inside a Site or you can restrict certain sites to use only certain templates. It’s obvious how to do this for site collection, because UI provides you specific links...
SharePoint provides you a nice feature to save you site as template and install it easily on another instance of SharePoint. But have you noted that for Publishing sites you don’t have “Save site as template option” option?! (located before “Reset...
Sometimes, you may find that you get “HTTP 400 Bad Request” error, or “HTTP 401.1 - Unauthorized: Logon Failed” error when navigate to local SharePoint sites and asked for credentials tree times. This mostly happens for Web sites that use Integrated Authentication...
SharePoint provides you several navigation providers to be used for you sites. There are 5 WSS navigation providers: SPNavigationProvider SPSiteMapProvider SPContentMapProvider SPXmlContentMapProvider SPXmlAdminContentMapProvider (via Central Administration...
SharePoint provides OOTB support for document versioning, allowing user to check-in/check-out files, and keep history of changed documents. But unfortunately, versioning system doesn't provide inbuilt method to find these all check-out items made...
Historically, SharePoint 2007 provides a nice feature called Explorer View (came from 2003 version) that simplifies document management - like upload, delete, and copy items across different Document library, using drag-and-drop feature. There is a document...
SharePoint provides you two approaches to design and deploy WorkFlows - via SharePoint Designer(SPD) and using Visual Studio. But you should be aware that deployment of WorkFlows has some differences in the security model that might cause you permissions...
SharePoint development relies on “12-hive” folder and each who writes code for SharePoint uses that folder intensively. SharePoint uses that folder to store features, log, content types are other stuff. 12 hive folder structure is not private...
SharePoint functionality is build on the top of SQL Server and has a tight cohesion with SQL Tables. Any user’s actions on the SharePoint site lead to the data entries manipulations across several tables. Unfortunately, SharePoint implemented in...
SharePoint provides different levels of permissions, from the “Full Access” to “Limited Access”. Last one is not documented clearly and designed to cover some side-effects of item’s hierarchy. Cite from “ Permission...
SharePoint provides you a nice ASP.NET model of Web Parts functionality. But when we are building the internet faced public sites and trying to apply Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) on Web Part Zones it come back and bite us. The major problem...
Sometimes you are developing some serviced or administrative application for SharePoint and what to have feature on the level of Central Administration. Something like “SharePoint Administrative Toolkit” To achieve such level activation you need to add...
SharePoint content databases grow very rapidly when used in document imaging system or in file share replacement scenarios. With this in mind it is important to consider growth and overhead factors when determining how much content will eventually be...
Steve Sheppard published nice recommendation regarding optimizing the MOSS Cache performance and how to measure the performance. Citing the tips section from his post We feel this level of cache performance will meet an economical customers performance...
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