SharePoint Use Cases

I recently created a view in a document library that shows files modified in the last 30 days. We use a number of levels (folders) in this document library so I wanted to indicate in which folder a modified file was stored. Here is how you can do this. This is an overkill for task [...]

We recently upgraded our company to Office365 from Google Apps (more details in another post). Our colleagues from Marketing Department never used SharePoint in real production so I received an interesting question: “Toni, how do I lock a document so no one can change it while I do?” The answer is, you need to perform check out. Here [...]

Use case: You have been given a task to create an email notification from your workflow that contains full name of the user who created certain item, along with some other information that is irrelevant to this blog post. While creating workflows in SharePoint Designer you will quickly notice that most activities will display Person [...]

Recently, we finally migrated all our content to SharePoint Online (Office365). Microsoft really did a great job with their infrastructure and optimizations. SharePoint works great in the cloud. When deploying our new intranet portal I defined the following rule for Document Libraries: Each should be visible in Quick Launch Major versions should be enabled You [...]

I recently delivered a couple of SharePoint 2013 readiness courses for the new SharePoint IT PROs. Here are some links I usually email to them after the course: (Please comment below if you think I should add something… This post will be updated as I discover new things) General Links CloudShare – Development, Testing and [...]

In last three years I helped numerous customers to install and configure SharePoint 2010 (2013). New User Profile Service application introduced the ability to easily sync User Profile properties from & to Active Directory. In this article I will explain how you can leverage PowerShell to sync user profile photos from file share to 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 [...]

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, [...]