Year: 2014
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Getting Users to Appreciate Lookup Columns in SharePoint – Part I
A software engineer or a technical person can easily understand the benefits of lookup columns (in SharePoint or any other system). However, not every SharePoint user is familiar with the concept of foreign keys and the advantages they provide. In this and next two posts, I will present a couple of use cases related to…
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Manage Azure database security with T-SQL
This is slightly off-topic but we recently deployed some SQL databases to Windows Azure. I wanted to tighten security and allow users to connect to a particular views only. To my amazement, even though you can connect to Azure databases with SQL Management Studio, you cannot manage any of the advanced properties including security. The…
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Deleting a SharePoint Subsite in Office 365
Some weeks ago I got this screenshot from an end user: OK, I changed his red caption a little bit. The text was more similar to “How THE HELL do I delete this???” You might be tempted to think that the delete button is just around the corner, but I actually had to send a…
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Where is “Create Custom List” in SharePoint 2013?
Users keep asking me how to create a custom list in SharePoint 2013. However, they are not asking for details and secrets of custom list functionality or settings (since this is very similar to previous versions of SharePoint). What they mean is: “I don’t see a menu option or a button which will initiate the…
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Managing document library versioning settings with Governance Toolkit for Office 365
Have you ever wanted to: enforce version control make checkouts obligatory for all the documents in your site collection, without changing the settings for each document library manually? This blog post is about our product Governance Toolkit for Office 365. I will explain how to use the product to perform those tasks by creating simple…