SharePoint Use Cases

After many months of development I am happy to announce that we have finally released Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint. Two years ago I realized I really do not want to document SharePoint farms I deploy for customers by taking screenshots or typing settings to a Word document. I wanted to have an application that would go inside the [...]

SharePoint list columns are very easy to use and configure. However when working with customers you will hear many different questions related to columns e.g.: “Can I edit managed metadata column in datasheet view?”. I made the following table for my own reference and I am sharing it with you. The table lists features and [...]

I wrote how to integrate BotDetect Captcha into Sharepoint 2010 article for Lanapsoft Inc. Compared with reCaptcha I used before with WordPress, BotDetect Captcha runs on your server, allows full control of appearance, doesn’t require human visitors to retype an additional word, and supports captcha code pronunciations in many languages.

Last weekend I presented at SharePoint Saturday Copenhagen 2011. Event was a great success and it was my pleasure to speak there for the second time. Copenhagen is such an amazing city! I have delivered two sessions on on InfoPath and one on SharePoint, here are the PowerShell slides: Automating SharePoint 2010 administration tasks with [...]

Last week I was at Microsoft Windays 2011 and delivered a SharePoint workshop, Office 365/SharePoint keynote and a session on Developing SharePoint 2010 no-code solutions with InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010. Here are the slides: Windays 2011 – SharePoint no-code solutions with InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 View more presentations from Toni Frankola

For fifth year in a row I’ll be speaking at Microsoft Windays 2011 (April 4th – 8th 2011.) in city of Rovinj, Croatia. I will have one session, and one workshop as follows: Workshop: Developing a SharePoint Web Part, Monday 4/4/2011 – 15:00 – 16:45 (Details in Croatian…) Session: Developing no-code solutions with SharePoint Designer 2010 and [...]

Problem Last week we installed a brand new SharePoint 2010 farm for a client. After initial configuration, SharePoint was working perfectly (We used these PowerShell scripts to automate most of the installation and initial configuration). However, on the next day, Central Admin greeted us with the following error: Service Unavailable – HTTP Error 503 I checked Windows [...]

I’ll be speaking at Microsoft SharePoint & Office Conference 2011, Milano, Italy, 19-21 April 2011. I am very happy as I will be traveling to one of mine favorite countries: Italy, meeting some old and new friends, enjoying some pasta and brushing  my Italian language skills. Hope to see you there! Here are my sessions: DEV303 5 ways to build [...]

While configuring SharePoint 2010 for a client we encountered the following error in the search crawl logs: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80070422) Had no idea how to fix it because all the SharePoint services were up [...]

Configuring PDF related stuff for SharePoint 2010 (and 2007) is very simple, yet annoying and often forgotten SharePoint configuration step. There are nice articles (link, link) to help you configure it but when you do it manually chances are you will misconfigure something. I wrote a simple PowerShell script to automate this, and it will do everything for you [...]