Toni on Tech

Year: 2011

  • How to enable alternate languages in Office365

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    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 >…

  • Building business forms with InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010 – Slide decks

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    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…

  • SharePoint Days 2011, Slovenia

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    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…

  • There was an error in communicating with Excel Calculation Services in SharePoint 2010

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    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…

  • Backup SharePoint 2010 site collections with PowerShell, send alerts and much more

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    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:…

  • Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint – our new product

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    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 Columns – Features and limitations

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    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…

  • My slides from Windays 2011 on SharePoint no-code solutions

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    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 about SharePoint at Microsoft Windays 2011

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    For fifth year in a row I’ll be speaking at Microsoft Windays 2011 (April 4th – 8th 2011.) in city of Rovinj, Croatia. I will have one session, and one workshop as follows: Workshop: Developing a SharePoint Web Part, Monday 4/4/2011 – 15:00 – 16:45 (Details in Croatian…) Session: Developing no-code solutions with SharePoint Designer 2010 and…

  • SharePoint 2010 – Service Unavailable

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    Problem Last week we installed a brand new SharePoint 2010 farm for a client. After initial configuration, SharePoint was working perfectly (We used these PowerShell scripts to automate most of the installation and initial configuration). However, on the next day, Central Admin greeted us with the following error: Service Unavailable – HTTP Error 503 I checked Windows…