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 [...]

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 [...]

There is total of 21 built-in SharePoint 2010 Themes, here is the gallery:

Today I tried to add a custom web part to a SharePoint 2010 web page. Web part was listed in while via Insert > Web Part gallery but SharePoint failed to add it to a web part page with the following error: “The operation could not be completed because the item was removed from the [...]

In case you have been playing with SharePoint 2010 IW Demo VM you might bumped into this error: The query could not complete because the following items are not in a PerformancePoint trusted location… The solution for this problem is simple, you just need to add all PerformancePoint locations to the trusted list in PerformancePoint [...]

SharePoint Sandboxed solutions allow site administrators to deploy custom web parts without physical (console) access to the SharePoint server. Sandboxed solutions are easily uploaded via Solutions gallery. Sometimes, while developing a solution, you want to know if your code is running sandboxed or as a normal farm solution. In order to check if the code [...]

Well, sometimes things do not go as planned and you need to undo some things you did in SharePoint testing environment or for a client. As I am currently working on a script to install Service Applications I had a need to remove 10-20 service application from my testing farm automatically. Here is the script [...]

Yes, I spent an amazing week in Peru attending and speaking at SharePoint Conference Peru. After the conference we visited Cusco and Machu Picchu and we all had amazing time. Conference was an amazing success, with more than 170 attending, all sessions were packed and people were very enthusiastic about SharePoint 2010 release. I presented [...]

Every once in a while your customer might ask you to customize permissions for a document library in such a way that authors can only change their own documents. There was no such feature for document libraries in SharePoint 2007, and the “problem” is still present in v2010. (Both versions support automatic item-level permissions OOTB [...]

One of the usual challenges with SharePoint 2007 was to build a lookup field between two lists but also apply a custom filter to the values being displyed. Let’s consider a simple scenario: You have two lists on your site: Projects and Project Tasks. You want to link each task in Project Tasks list with [...]