SharePoint Use Cases

In order to use Windows PowerShell for SharePoint 2010 Products, a user must be a member of the SharePoint_Shell_Access, and you can do that via Add-SPShellAdmin cmdlet. However if user needs to work with a lot of content databases then you need to repeat this procedure over and over. Here is a simple script that [...]

Yesterday Microsoft announced Office365 (trial) availability in 22 additional countries (including Croatia ). This blog post explains what you need to do in order to enable additional languages for the SharePoint site hosted in the Office365 environment: Open your team site via browser. Click on the Site Actions > Site Settings. Navigate to the Site Administration > [...]

Two weeks ago I had a privilege to present at SharePoint Days 2010 at Bled, Slovenia. I delivered two presentations on Building business forms with InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010. Here are my slides: Building business forms with InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010 – Part 1 View more presentations from Toni Frankola Building business forms [...]

Few days ago I spoke at Advanced Technology Day 7 conference organized by Microsoft Croatia here in Zagreb. You can find my slides below, all the samples are available for download on codeplex or here. Intro to SharePoint Sandboxed Solutions View more presentations from Toni Frankola

I am reposting my original post with new links and (+ some borrowed from Wictor Wilen class links). ————————- I recently taught a couple of SharePoint 2010 readiness courses for 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…) General [...]

For third year in a row, I will be speaking at SharePoint Conference Slovenia. This time we are heading to beautiful alpine lake Bled. I will have two sessions: Building business forms with InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010 – Part1 and Building business forms with InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010 – Part 2. Full schedule [...]

While working with a client yesterday we noticed users could not view Excel files in browser. A quick analysis of ULS logs revealed the following issue: There was an error in communicating with Excel Calculation Services http://server_name:port/2a7905259ea644f3a2d8ebd2bcf1ee9f/ExcelService*.asmx exception: An error has occurred. ServerSession.GetNextServerHealthBased: There are no healthy servers although the number of available server in the farm [...]

Last year I wrote a PowerShell chapter for SharePoint 2010 Unleashed. One of the scripts that is available in the book allows you to easily backup SharePoint 2010 site collections. The Backup-SPSite cmdlet is available in SharePoint 2010 OOTB, but we wanted to show our readers you can do more with PowerShell. Therefore this script allows you to: [...]

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 [...]