SharePoint Use Cases

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 courses for new SharePoint developers. Here are some links I usually email to them after the course: (Please comment below if you think I should add something…) SharePoint [...]

Last year my friend Michael Noel asked me to contribute a chapter for his SharePoint 2010 Unleashed book, and I wrote a chapter on SharePoint 2010 PowerShell automation. As part of that book project we wrote a number of SharePoint PowerShell scripts with two scripts configuring SharePoint 2010 farm and most of the service apps without [...]

The second annual Live Online SharePoint Saturday EMEA is on January 22nd. Mark your calendar. Click here to register… Page Content Live Online SharePoint Saturday EMEA is shaping up to be a pretty spectacular event. If you weren’t able to attend last year, you’ve got another chance to hear some interesting ideas about using SharePoint [...]

In case you have an existing site collection and want to enable language settings (multilingual SharePoint 2010 UI) for all the sites in that site collection, here is a simple PowerShell script to automate that task. It’s going to enable/disable multilingual UI and add a desired language/culture along with it. [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint") cls if((Get-PSSnapin | Where [...]

A customer emailed me today with the following questions: If we are using Remote Blob Store, can users see these files from SharePoint web interface and SharePoint Workspace? How are we going to backup these files? The answer is: Yes, users will be able to use both SharePoint web interface and Workspace to work with [...]

We are working on SharePoint Saturday EMEA 2011, here is the “official” press release: I’ve been working with Toni, Isaac and Ayman to layout the format for speaker submissions for SharePoint Saturday EMEA. We have agreed that the content for this special event will focus on the SharePoint End User. Imaging that… We are going to [...]

While demonstrating new and cool SharePoint 2010 features to a customer, I wanted to show how easy it is to switch languages on SharePoint 2010 sites, but I was surprised by the following error message: So it seems there are OOTB templates which do not support alternate languages (Supports Multilingual UI). I did some PowerShell magic and here [...]

If you ever installed SharePoint 2010 using the installation wizard you probably noticed up ~15 new databases deployed to the SQL Server. Not just you now have to manage 15 more databases but all these have very non-admin friendly names like: WebAnalyticsServiceApplication_ReportingDB_33ae7492-5e53-433a-bfca-2b1d819dc646. A number of people (like Todd Klindt, Shane Young and others) posted articles [...]

Two weeks ago I visited Slovenia and Hungary and presented at SharePoint Days 2010 in Ljubljana, Slovenia and Hungarian SharePoint User Group in Budapest, Hungary. Here are my slides: Best practices with SharePoint 2010 sandboxed solutions View more presentations from Toni Frankola. Building SharePoint 2010 applications with InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 View more [...]

I already blogged about Automatically applying theme to a SharePoint Foundation 2010 subsite but it seems language settings are not propagated to the subsite either. Imagine this scenario: A site collection http://intranet has been created with the default English language template. Administrator enabled Italian and French languages to be used on this site collection. Once user selects a language, (s)he [...]