Tag Archives: SharePoint 2010
How to tell if you have 32 Bit or 64 Bit Office installed
When installing SharePoint Designer 2010 on a computer it is important to match the bit version of SharePoint Designer with the Bit Version of the Office Installation. Most of the time, Microsoft Office will already be installed. In this blog … Continue Reading
How To Correctly Configure and Use Document Workspaces in SharePoint 2010
Document Workspaces were very popular in SharePoint 2007. In SharePoint 2010 they are often overlooked. I have found that some of the functionality is a bit weird but with a little tweaking, they can be made very very useful. They … Continue Reading
Using PowerShell to create wildcard Managed Paths in SharePoint 2010
Managed Paths allow us to extend Web Applications to hundreds of thousands of site collections without having to bother the I.T. Administration staff with a bunch of DNS entry requests. It's easy enough to go into Central Administration as a … Continue Reading
Create a Team Site in SharePoint 2010 with PowerShell including Default Security Groups
Many times when testing, or teaching SharePoint 2010 I need to spin up a quick site collection. Of course the fastest way to do this is through PowerShell using the New-SPSite commandlet and passing in a couple of parameters. Recently … Continue Reading
XML Data Source Weirdness in SharePoint Designer 2010
Using the XML File Data source is SharePoint Designer 2010 is a very handy thing indeed. In my experience it can be a bit buggy to get it to work. Sometimes it just works and many times I find myself … Continue Reading
How to Create a New Content Page in SharePoint Designer 2010
In this blog I'll go through the process of adding a new .aspx page to the site pages library of a SharePoint 2010 Team Site. I created a new site collection with a team site as the top level site … Continue Reading
How to use Best Bets SharePoint 2010 Search
In this blog, I will set up a Best Bet and keyword in SharePoint 2010. Best Bets are a great way for Site Collection Administrators to help guide users to the content they are looking for as well as promoting some … Continue Reading
Configuring Content Deployment for a Team Site in SharePoint 2010
I am often asked about deploying content from a testing or development environment into production in SharePoint 2010. There are several ways to do this and depending on the situation one might be a better choice than another. For example … Continue Reading
Deleting SharePoint Web Parts Running in the background
Occasionally, we run into scenarios where Web Parts have been closed but are still running in the background. SharePoint 2010 has a built in way to get to these Web Parts and allows us to delete them so they’re no … Continue Reading
How to add a Web Part Connection using SharePoint Designer 2010
Many times it is helpful to create what we call a master details type of view on some data. For example, I have a list of SharePoint Courses and I find it easier to keep all of the data about … Continue Reading
Publish a Form with InfoPath Forms Services for SharePoint 2010
In this blog I will go through the process of creating and then publishing a simple form to be used as a template in SharePoint 2010 using Forms Services. This feature is only available in the Enterprise Version of SharePoint … Continue Reading
Configuring Auditing in SharePoint 2010
Auditing comes out of the box in SharePoint 2010. Although there is nothing to prevent you from doing so, auditing is not the tool to use to track what users are doing to satisfy curiosity. Auditing is something you do … Continue Reading
Loop Through Documents with SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow
This is a technique I use to emulate the idea of looping through a bunch of documents in a document library in order to execute a workflow on them when they already exist in a document library. I call it … Continue Reading
SharePoint 2010 Web Part Series – Page Viewer Web Part
In this blog we will explore a use of the Page Viewer Web Part in SharePoint 2010. We will use the Page Viewer Web Part in order to bring in an outside web page and display it within SharePoint (this … Continue Reading
Using BCS and External Content Types in SharePoint 2010 To Bring Contacts In and Connect To Outlook 2010
We will use SharePoint Designer 2010 to create an external content type. This will be connected to the customers table in NorthWind and will allow for the creation of a new external list. We will add the functionality of being … Continue Reading
