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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]