SharePoint

Customise SharePoint 2010 “Site actions” menu 27 February 2011 The Site Actions menu is available on every page inside of SharePoint Foundation. You can add an additional item to this menu using the following custom action. Let’s start J 1. Create an empty SharePoint project in visual studio 2010 2. Now Double-click Feature1 under feature […]

Enable rating in SharePoint 2010 custom content types 26 February 2011 The rating allows users to rate items in lists and libraries in SharePoint. This is another highly usable and awesome feature tied to the Managed Metadata Service Application (MMS). To turn on ratings on a list you normally go to Library/List Settings > Rating […]

Edit welcome drop-down menu in SharePoint 2010 26 February 2011 If you want to extend the welcome menu on SharePoint (the one that states your name on the top right corner and drops down options like “My Settings”, and “Sign Out”). I will show you step by step on how to do that in SharePoint […]

What is SharePoint? 23 February 2011 Microsoft SharePoint, composed of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), is a collection of Web-based software components designed to empower business users in the areas of collaboration, content management, business processes and business intelligence. At its very base level, SharePoint’s main function is […]

Virtualization of SharePoint Components 23 February 2011 Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization provides a great deal of design flexibility for SharePoint architects. Each server role operates in a different way, and each has different memory and disk requirements, so it is important to understand in which scenarios the most benefits can be obtained from virtualizing […]

SharePoint virtualization 22 February 2011 Virtualization provides for the ability to consolidate multiple virtual guests within a single physical server, sharing the physical resources across the virtual machines. For SharePoint administrators, virtualization also allows for the flexibility to quickly provision new farm members to handle specific functions or to provide for redundancy of a specific […]

InfoPath 2010 & SharePoint Designer list forms Editing 20 February 2011 List Forms: SharePoint list contains a set of list forms that you use to view, edit, or add items to a list. Each list form displays the columns from that list as fields on a page where users can view add, or edit information. […]

Sharepoint 2010 rating feature 16 February 2011 Rating: In SharePoint 2010 there is a new feature called Ratings. Ratings are very generic things that have a lot of flexibility they allow: 1).Users to rate content (of any type, Lists, Documents, Pages on a site, and even Content Types). 2).Store that ratings data in the database […]

SharePoint 2010 my sites configuration 13 February 2011 You can configure settings for My Sites in the My Site host location for each User Profile Service application. Most of these settings are configured during initial deployment and only changed infrequently during normal operations thereafter. The following My Site settings can be configured on the My […]