Setting My Regional Settings
The quesion that came up today was if the SharePoint Server is set to a specific time zone and users are all around the world, how would I programmatically set the right time zone under “My regional...
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Adding Additional Farm Admins to an Existing Farm
Scenario: You have installed a SharePoint farm and life is great in your company with you being the only person who looks after that farm! Your employer is kind enough to hire a new resource to help...
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Office Web App Licensing Quick Guide
I get these questions a lot: What does it take to be properly licensed for Office Web Apps? Are Excel Services, Visio Services and Access Services part of Office Web App offering/licensing model? What...
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Policy Enforcement Solutions in SharePoint
In SharePoint, the concept of policy enforcement is different than security.Security features of the product are used to stop people from accessing secured information and policy enforcement solutions...
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Quick Guide: Transitioning from BPOS to Office 365
1) First, make sure the transitioning process is completed and you have received an email from Microsoft confirming it. This is important! 2) Uninstall old BPOS SSO App from Control Panel > Programs...
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My 2 Reasons to Love Yammer
I only have two reasons to love Yammer: 1) I love Yammer because it’s easy to use (just like Facebook). To me, Yammer is Facebook on diet …I mean there is no fluff or information overload and you can...
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Office 365 : Service Interoperability
Just to be clear, there are two breeds of Office 365 currently available in the market: Office 365 RTM (SharePoint 2010, Lync 2010, Exchange 2010 and Office Pro 2010) which is the focus of this blog...
View ArticleLead Author of Professional SharePoint 2013 Development Book
I am excited to announce that I have been working with Wiley Publishing as the lead author of a new book named “Professional SharePoint 2013 Development“. We put together a great team of well-known...
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Filtering Out Disabled Users
Not sure if you noticed this, but in SharePoint 2013 when you setup a sync connection you can exclude disabled users by just clicking on a checkbox. Given that, you no longer need to...
View ArticleInteresting Difference Between “View Only”&“Read” Permission Levels
As the saying goes, the devil is in the details! This meant to be a note to self, but I thought it might be helpful for some of you too. Here we go: If John has “Read” permission level to a document...
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Document Set Creator Web Part
When working with content types we all can agree that the user interface that SharePoint provides is not the most intuitive one. Specifically when creating a new document set! The problem is that the...
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Designing Your Taxonomic Hierarchy
When using taxonomic hierarchies to classify information, managed metadata is definitely your best friend. In SharePoint, taxonomic hierarchies can be defined using two methods: Method A: Single...
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Fix: Publishing Hyperlink Issue
If you have used the Publishing Hyperlink as a list column before, you might have run into the following problem. Create a new item with a link. The item is created properly and the link works...
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SharePoint Jargon Is Not a Value-Add, Be Simple!
As SharePoint evolves, so does its language! For every new feature or workload Microsoft introduces in this great platform, a whole new buzzword is born. As a SharePoint consultant who has worked with...
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Co-Authoring Excel Documents with SharePoint 2013
Co-authoring documents has been part of SharePoint for quite a while. This feature helps multiple authors work on a given document at the same time while they see each other works in the document so...
View ArticleHow to avoid site scoped search results confusion
The SharePoint search can be a confusing user experience Take a look at the following scenarios. A. SharePoint search is setup to show results from the current site. However, the user is expecting a...
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