Yearly Archives for 2010

SharePoint 2010 Themes Gallery

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - September 27, 2010

There is total of 21 built-in SharePoint 2010 Themes, here is the gallery:

Continue Reading

Automatically apply theme to a SharePoint Foundation 2010 subsite

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - September 27, 2010

SharePoint 2010 comes with a number of very nice looking site themes. In case you apply one of these themes to the root of your site collection, the theme will not be automatically applied to newly created subsites. My customers usually want one theme to be used and automatically applied across entire site…

Continue Reading

The SharePoint50 Project: Who are the main influencers in SharePoint?

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - September 27, 2010

Mark, the founder of EndUserSharePoint.com and his company Global 360 conducted a survey to find Top 50 influencers in SharePoint. You can find more about this project at EUSP. We started a little wager on twitter to find who the top 10 influencers will be… and you can still try…

Continue Reading

What should I do if webpart was removed from the gallery?

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - September 15, 2010

Today I tried to add a custom web part to a SharePoint 2010 web page. Web part was listed in while via Insert > Web Part gallery but SharePoint failed to add it to a web part page with the following error: “The operation could not be completed because the…

Continue Reading

Add all site collections as PerformancePoint trusted locations via PowerShell

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - August 4, 2010

In case you have been playing with SharePoint 2010 IW Demo VM you might bumped into this error: The query could not complete because the following items are not in a PerformancePoint trusted location… The solution for this problem is simple, you just need to add all PerformancePoint locations to…

Continue Reading

Top 10 technical questions you should be asking before upgrading your customer to SharePoint 2010

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - July 28, 2010

A customer emailed me this morning saying: Hey Toni, we want to upgrade Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to the latest SharePoint. Can you send me a quote and we are ready to go… Before doing anything else, you need to ask your customer a few simple questions just to make…

Continue Reading

Updated – Search AutoComplete for SharePoint 2010 Central Administration

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - July 7, 2010

We have just updated release of our Search AutoComplete for SharePoint 2010 Central Administration web part. The solution has been tested and updated for SharePoint 2010 RTM release and we also fixed deployment script for Farm solutions. You can download for FREE with full source code. Click here to send your feedback.…

Continue Reading

Retract SharePoint solution from Central Admin with PowerShell

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - July 7, 2010

I deployed a custom made solution to the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration application. However when I tried to remove the solution and failed from both PowerShell and GUI. The solution remained in the Deployed state. After examining the log files I figured out that SharePoint timer iterates all the web…

Continue Reading

Compile and package Sandboxed and Farm solutions using the same code base

SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - July 4, 2010

SharePoint Sandboxed solutions allow site administrators to deploy custom web parts without physical (console) access to the SharePoint server. Sandboxed solutions are easily uploaded via Solutions gallery. Sometimes, while developing a solution, you want to know if your code is running sandboxed or as a normal farm solution. In order…

Continue Reading

Remove all Service Applications from SharePoint 2010 farm with PowerShell

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - May 31, 2010

Well, sometimes things do not go as planned and you need to undo some things you did in SharePoint testing environment or for a client. As I am currently working on a script to install Service Applications I had a need to remove 10-20 service application from my testing farm…

Continue Reading