Contents tagged with SharePoint 2010
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Apply language packs to SharePoint 2013
Any collaboration platform that allows teams to work together should have the user interface available in multiple languages. As a market leader in portals and collaboration technology, it is one of the important but easiest features to configure inside SharePoint 2013. Now a days it is common in enterprises to have teams mixed with people speaks different languages. Getting the menus and commands translated to user’s local language will increase the productivity for the user. In this walkthrough I am going to demonstrate how you can apply language pack in SharePoint 2013.
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Configure Email notifications on SharePoint 2010 list
In this article I am going to demonstrate how you can configure email notification feature on SharePoint List. For the purpose of demonstration I chose the default tasks list that is coming with almost all default SharePoint sites. Tasks list have one column “Assigned To”. When an item is created in the task list, I would like to send an email to the user to whom the task is assigned. The scenario is very simple and straight forward.
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Getting started with LINQ to SharePoint
One of the major advantages of SharePoint 2010 is the support for LINQ. If you are new to LINQ, I would recommend you to read the below article from MSDN.
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SharePoint 2010 : Sharing data between Visual Web Parts
Web Parts are essential parts of SharePoint 2010 that helps developers and site owners to customize the SharePoint portal. There are lots of out of the box web parts available in SharePoint 2010. When you are building business portals definitely you will be in need to create your own web parts corresponding to your business requirements. SharePoint 2010 supports Visual web parts. Visual web parts allow developers to easily design the user interface as they are doing in conventional ASP.Net applications.
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Developing custom field type for SharePoint 2010
The ECM features of SharePoint 2010 are excellent. The best thing is the extendibility of the platform using SharePoint designer and Visual Studio. By default SharePoint includes field types such as Single line text, multi-line text etc. The following is the snapshot of the fields available in SharePoint 2010
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SharePoint 2010: Missing new and edit options from the Site Menu
Recently one of SharePoint WCM client has reported that they were not able to update the site. All the edit/new/upload menu items were missing from the site. It was fine till the week before and suddenly it happened. I thought of publishing the steps for troubleshooting the issue as it may help somebody facing similar issues.
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Create a List Definition in SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio 2010
In this demonstration, I am going to create a list definition using Visual Studio 2010. For the demonstration purpose, I am going to create a list definition for storing expenses, once deployed, the list definition can be used to create lists to store expenses. The list definition will define a list template that inherit from custom list and add columns expensedate and amount.
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Developing SharePoint 2010 features using Visual Studio 2010
Developers can extend SharePoint by creating new features. Using features developers can develop customizations and extensions that can be capable of automated deployment, management, un-installation and upgrading. SharePoint Feature allows developer to create a set of functionality to group into a component and allows administrators to add that functionality to the site/site collection. In addition to this, administrator can disable or uninstall the feature if they wish. With SharePoint 2010, it is possible to upgrade the feature to a new version. In this article I am going to demonstrate how to create a feature using SharePoint 2010.
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Determine the version of MOSS 2007 installed
Recently I came across with an assignment to upgrade MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010. MOSS 2007 was already installed but no documentation was available. I asked the system administrator and he had no clue as he just joined the company. I need to know the service pack installed in the MOSS 2007 farm and I thought of document this as it may help others.
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Configure Forms based authentication in SharePoint 2010
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Create a Web Application in SharePoint 2010 using Claims Based authentication
SharePoint 2010 supports two types of authentication modes. Classic Mode and Claims based. Classic mode supports only windows authentication, where in case of Claims based authentication you can use any of the supported authentication methods such as windows authentication, forms based authentication (LDAP, SQL Server, custom) and SAML token based authentication.
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Backup and Restore in SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell
It is essential to have proper backup/restore strategy in place for your SharePoint farms. SharePoint 2010 provides three types of tools for backup/restore for your server farm. The tools are
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Configure BLOB cache for SharePoint 2010 web applications
SharePoint 2010 supports disk-based BLOB Cache that controls the caching for binary large objects. If you configure BLOB for frequently used images, audio files, video files, java script files, css files etc., the performance will be improved. BLOB cache needs to be enabled in the front end web server and once configured; the configured files will be retrieved from the database and stored in a directory under Front end web server. This reduces the network traffic/load on the database server.
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Create a Visual Web Part using Visual Studio 2010
Create a Visual Web part using Visual Studio 2010
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Change SharePoint authentication from classic mode to claims based
Recently I was in a situation to enable form authentication for a SharePoint web application that was configured using classic mode authentication. So the solution for me is to change the authentication mode to claims based.
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Retention Policy for document library in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint is emerging as an enterprise level content management system. Usually enterprises load all the records to the ECM system. Most of the records are not relevant after a few years. These documents need to be removed from the ECM System. Over the years SharePoint is emerging as an Enterprise ECM and it allows its users to easily setting up document retention policies. Retention policy specifies how a document is disposed.
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Install SharePoint 2010 in a farm environment
Recently for one of my project, I had a requirement to install SharePoint on a farm environment. I had a walkthrough with technet site and completed the installation. I thought share my scenario so that somebody with similar requirement may find this useful.
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Installing SharePoint 2010 in one machine with built in database
It is very easy to deploy SharePoint 2010 in a single server using the built-in database. Normally one need to choose such installation for evaluation purposes.
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Disable the ActiveX warning in Sharepoint 2007 sites
The activeX warning is appearing because Sharepoint is trying to load a control that is used to display presence information in the Sharepoint site. There are two ways of dealing with this, one that is server based and another that is specific to a master page. Use Server Based Solution if you need the solution to apply for all the sites in the server. Apply the Master Page Solution if you want to apply for a particular site/master page.