SharePoint Use Cases

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 [...]

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 [...]

I really happy to report that SAMS has published SharePoint 2010 Unleashed by Michael Noel and Colin Spence. Last year Michael invited me to contribute on this book and I wrote a chapter 7. on PowerShell “Leveraging PowerShell for Command-Line SharePoint Administration and Automation”. Writing books is not easy, and writing developer stuff (anything that includes code) is even more [...]

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 2010 Links SharePoint 2010 IW Demo Virtual Machine SharePoint 2010 Developer kit SharePoint 2010 Labs SharePoint Edition Comparison Creating [...]

Joel recently posted: Warning to SharePoint Administrators: Don’t Ignore the Red Health Bar and you should follow his advice and maintain your farm. While preparing a roll-out for a client I created yet another SharePoint 2010 lab/test farm. Once finished I wanted to check if everything is okey with the farm, but could not wait for hour/day/week [...]

SharePoint 2010 comes with a number of very nice looking site themes. In case you apply one of these themes to the root of your site collection, the theme will not be automatically applied to newly created subsites. My customers usually want one theme to be used and automatically applied across entire site collection. I created a simple [...]

Mark, the founder of EndUserSharePoint.com and his company Global 360 conducted a survey to find Top 50 influencers in SharePoint. You can find more about this project at EUSP. We started a little wager on twitter to find who the top 10 influencers will be… and you can still try to guess at this page.

I deployed a custom made solution to the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration application. However when I tried to remove the solution and failed from both PowerShell and GUI. The solution remained in the Deployed state. After examining the log files I figured out that SharePoint timer iterates all the web applications except central admin. Here [...]

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 [...]