SharePoint 2010: What is SharePoint 2010
Microsoft SharePoint 2010: SharePoint was born out of a simple idea: “Sharing Documents”. Microsoft developed family of software products called “SharePoint”, to perform features like File Sharing,...
View ArticleBranding your Search Center in Sharepoint 2010
The OOTB search center doesn't have any navigation and the minimal.master doesn't show any top navigation. You could see the detail description of the issue here and John Ross explained the scenario...
View ArticleAdd Vs Upload a document in a document library
The document library provides a small link at the bottom that says "Add document" but it does show an upload pop up when you click that link. It definitely misleads users. So, here is few simple steps...
View ArticleCustomize your document library or a list "view" based on the workflow status
f you are looking to customize the doc view based on the workflow status, it's not straight forward to give the filter column with "Approved" status. No, it doesn't work with any Text enetered. You...
View ArticleHow to get your WebSite found in Google and Bing?
How to get your WebSite found in Google? 1. Add your website to google - http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl 2. If you are having a retail products, you could display the products in 'google...
View ArticleSharepoint 2010 Resources
The best best is the msdn documentation. #1 : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd776256.aspx #2:...
View ArticleComplete backup of a List including the privileges
If you need to back up a list that includes the Version history and permissions of the list, You should probably do that from the Central Administrator>Backup and Restore>
View Article070-667,070-668, 070-573, 070-576 Cert-Drive #01 : Content Organizer Feature
We are going to create a collection of Blog entries that could help you prepare for your Sharepoint 2010 Certifications (070-573, 070-667 & 070-668). Good Luck and keep following the blog entries....
View Article070-667,070-668, 070-573, 070-576 Cert-Drive #02 : Crawl Rule Vs Crawl Impact...
Learn the difference between the Crawl Rules and a Crawler Impact Rules here : Crawl rules provide you with the ability to set the behavior of the Enterprise Search index engine when you want to crawl...
View Article070-667,070-668, 070-573, 070-576 Cert-Drive #03: Enable anonymous...
To enable Anonymous authentication for a web application, Pleasefollow the below steps (Refer to the below picture): 1. You should be a “SiteCollection Administrator” for the web application. 2....
View Article070-667,070-668, 070-573, 070-576 Cert-Drive #04: Understanding Policies in...
Managing permissions for thousands of site collections can becomplicated and error-prone, especially if some users or groups need specific permissionsother than those that apply for the entire Web...
View Article070-667,070-668, 070-573, 070-576 Cert-Drive #05: Closer Look @ Web...
Lets explore some of the options available in "Web Application General Settings" 1. Navigate to Central Administrator > Application management > Manage Web Application 2. Select a web application...
View Article070-667,070-668, 070-573, 070-576 Cert-Drive #06: Resource Throttling
Sharepoint 2010 offers a lot of new features over MOSS 2007. One of those is the List Threshold and throttling of Sharepoint lists. The maximum list items a view can return in MOSS 2007 was about 2000...
View ArticleFilmStrip as the default view style in Sharepoint 2010 Picture Library
Sharepoint 2010 Picture library uses some specific JavaScript for Image Libraries (/_layouts/1033/imglib.js). One of the functionality is to switch the view style from one of the 3 styles provided...
View Article070-667,070-668, 070-573, 070-576 Cert-Drive #07 : Sharepoint Designer...
There are two ways you can restrict site owners to use sharepoint designer for a specific site. You can do this either configuring the same at the SiteSettings of the top level site collection or can...
View Article070-667,070-668, 070-573, 070-576 Cert-Drive #08 : Sharepoint 2010 Backup...
You can do your back-up in various different ways based onyour needs. You should choose the right approach as this operation can consume server resourcesand limit server performance. The following...
View Article070-667,070-668, 070-573, 070-576 Cert-Drive #09 : Unattached Content database
SharePoint 2010 has a out of the box feature for recovering data, and it’s done directly through the Central Administration. The feature is known as the Unattached Database Recovery. As the name...
View Article070-667,070-668, 070-573, 070-576 Cert-Drive #10 : Site Actions >> Audit Log
You can see a set of Audit reports for Content Activity (Content modification, Content and List modification, Content Viewing and Content Deletion), Information policy reports and custom reports by...
View Article070-667,070-668, 070-573, 070-576 Cert-Drive #11 : Administrative Reports
UsingAdministrative Reports (CentralAdministrator>Monitoring>Reporting>View AdministrativeReports>Search Administration Reports) you can perform the followingreports 1. Crawl Rate per...
View ArticleRestrict 'New' tag from appearing when you add items to a sharepoint 2010 list
How would restrict the New! tag (attribute) when you add a new entry to announcements, to events, to lists or to links on your SharePoint Portal? By default, the new! tag will appear for 2 days after a...
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