Many times when I’m working on ideas for SharePoint, I like to spin up groups of Site Collections on my development Server. In a recent class, a student asked me about this and I was describing how I created 50 student Site Collections and then connected them all to the same portal using some PowerShell. … Continue reading Connect several Sharepoint Site Collections to a Portal with PowerShell
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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 at one of the AZSharePoint Pros user group meetings I joked about how amazing this … Continue reading Create a Team Site in SharePoint 2010 with PowerShell including Default Security Groups
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 longer running in the background. Depending on the Web Part, this can actually have a … Continue reading Deleting SharePoint Web Parts Running in the background
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 because you have to. It is something you are required to do in order to … Continue reading Configuring Auditing in SharePoint 2010
How to create custom security levels on a SharePoint 2010 Site and apply it to users.
This blog shows how to create a custom security level on a SharePoint Site and apply it to users. Although it's always best to attempt to manage the permissions at the site collection level, often you cannot do this and at the same time protect the content within specific areas. When the need arises you … Continue reading How to create custom security levels on a SharePoint 2010 Site and apply it to users.
Creating a Custom List Form with SharePoint Designer 2010
In this post I will go through one of the common techniques of creating a custom list form using SharePoint Designer 2010. Custom-List I CHOOSE SITE ACTIONS > MORE OPTIONS I start off with a fresh site collection for which I have chosen the team site template as the top level site. This can be … Continue reading Creating a Custom List Form with SharePoint Designer 2010
SharePoint 2010 – How to hide the View All Site Content Link from the Browser
Recently a SharePoint student asked me how to remove the view all site content link in the quick launch bar with with the standard standard Security Settings in Microsoft SharePoint 2010. This is one approach to solving this problem. This is done through the browser however I do create a custom security group to do … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 – How to hide the View All Site Content Link from the Browser