SharePoint blog with attachment capability workaround

By default there are not any settings in sharepoint to enable attachments with blog posts. It is not a perfect way to do this, but worth to mention on my blog I think. I have done a workaround to achieve this Create a custom list inherited form Item with default columns. Create new item &... [More]

SharePoint Cloud Based Service Providers

I have listed few cloud based service providers for SharePoint. If you guys came across any other cloud based service please add it in comments. I am just trying to put all cloud service provider in one place. Microsoft Office 365 Microsoft is committed to delivering business-grade cloud ... [More]

Configure performance counter for SharePoint environment

23. November 2011 08:01 by Rashid Aziz in   //  Tags: , , ,   //   Comments (0)
I have explained below how you can setup base line and incident performance count for your sharepoint server. This will allow producing a baseline of the source depletion over a period of time. When a problem is occur, these performance encounters can be used to analyze and compare with respect to t... [More]

Creating users alerts using PowerShell in SharePoint 2010

23. November 2011 07:38 by Rashid Aziz in Sharepoint blogs  //  Tags: ,   //   Comments (0)
We had a requirement in SharePoint 2010 to automate the creation of alerts based on SPS group membership. After spending some time searching for solution I have managed to write this code in PowerShell to automate the process. I think it worth sharing with you guys. Creating users alerts using Powe... [More]

Moving Items Between SharePoint Lists

I came across a scenario where I want to copy large amount of content from one sharepoint list to another.  I have done this by creating custom view on lists and copied contents using datasheet view. Please follow these steps to achieve this. Create one list view for both lists which shoul... [More]

Copy mysite across SharePoint farms

18. November 2011 02:41 by Rashid Aziz in   //  Tags:   //   Comments (0)
In SharePoint when you want to transfer mysite content from one farm to another. You can do this via database backup/restore of mysite content database. I recently came across a scenario while I was working with a client where I need to migrate few employee mysites but not all of them. They have abo... [More]

Show files extension in document library view

15. November 2011 04:48 by Rashid Aziz in Sharepoint blogs  //  Tags:   //   Comments (1)
If you have a custom view on document library where you need to show the each file name with extension. This is fairly simple and can be done this way. Open your document library view in SharePoint designer and follow these steps Open your web site the SharePoint designer Go to you... [More]

Remove “View all site content” link in SharePoint 2007

11. November 2011 06:55 by Rashid Aziz in Sharepoint blogs  //  Tags: ,   //   Comments (0)
Follow these steps to remove “View All Site Content” link form SharePoint 2007 site 1. Open your site master page in SharePoint designer 2. Go to the code and you will see the following <Sharepoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl runat="server" PermissionsString="ViewFormPages"> <d... [More]

Custom master page deployment in SharePoint 2010

20. May 2011 02:52 by Rashid Aziz in Sharepoint blogs  //  Tags: ,   //   Comments (2)
Today I am going to show you that how easily you can deploy your custom master page as a SharePoint feature and it automatically change the site default master page when you activate this feature. For this you need to create new empty SharePoint project. Add a new item to the project and select mo... [More]

SharePoint feature stapling with site definition

I have created a site definition, there are many ways to use features with this site definition, You can create a site from this site definition and deploy feature on that newly created site, you can also include features in onet.xml of site definition file and then create site from it. Another way... [More]