Year: 2012
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Use Case: Export User Profiles to a SharePoint list – phonebook style
SharePoint User Profiles Service Application has a lot of nice and very useful features but it misses one small but important thing. Customers often want to display all their contacts (from User Profile Store) in a single list, phonebook style. Here is a simple solution how to achieve this with a PowerShell script. The script…
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Use cases for Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint
At Acceleratio, we often receive various use case requests from customers using our product Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint, here are few of those use cases: Use case – Upgrading farms or resuming maintenance after rogue admin left Customer writes: I have taken over administration of a SharePoint farm at [enter company name here] and will…
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Sync your files to SharePoint 2013 or Office 365
As you probably heard SharePoint 2013 Preview has been released. There is number of cool features available but there is one that’s super simple yet so very useful. I am huge fan of DropBox, this simple application allows you to sync your folders to the cloud. Now you can do the same with SharePoint 2013,…
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Document farm configuration settings in SharePoint Server 2010 – SPDocKit 2.0
I forgot to post this earlier, but last month we released a major release of Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint 2.0 (SPDocKit) . The product has been on market for almost a year know and I must say we are very happy with it’s progress. To this date more than 150 customers, large and small, from 25 countries…
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Juice up your SharePoint with SharePoint Cool Buttons
When working with customers one often hears the following complaint: “Wow, this SharePoint is sooo ugly…”. I personally think SharePoint 2010 has very nice nice and professional design, but since customer is always right, from time to time I need to make it look more pretty. For some customers the “fix” is very simple, just…
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Walkthrough: Add tabs for custom scopes in Enterprise Search Center
When configuring SharePoint Search for customers I often help them configure their SharePoint Enterprise Search center. Companies usually index various content: SharePoint, Web Sites, File Shares, and it’s always good to divide different content sources with tabs, just as popular Search Engines like Google and Bing do. So what do you need to do to…
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Localizing CoreSearchResults Web Part with XSLT
I recently had to create a custom formatting via XSLT for SharePoint CoreSearchResults Web Part. This is not very complicated, and has been around since SharePoint 2007 (Customizing Enterprise Search Results). This time, however, we had to localize the XSLT transformation so that it displays different labels based on SharePoint UI language selected. A colleague of mine,…
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Use case: Managing Job Applications with SharePoint
I recently hired two employees for my company. The process is usually simple, an opening is posted on local jobs site and all the job applications are received via email. As we always require applicants to submit some additional forms and to complete a small writing or code development task it’s sometimes hard to track…