Out of the box list view web part does not support lists that are contained in a different site collection. In this post I will show you how you can write a simple web part that will allow cross site collection list support. Within the custom web part...

I recently installed Camtasia on windows server 2008 r2 instance and ran into an error when ever I started Camtasia “Program cannot start missing WMVCore.dll”. It worked on my Windows Server 2008 instance and for the life of god I couldn’t figure out...

  I recently had to provide our infrastructure and security team information regarding SharePoint 2010 service accounts, required permissions, database roles and permissions, registry and file system permissions needed etc. I compiled all the info...

As you are planning security for your SharePoint sites its important to understand the default SharePoint groups, Permissions, Permission Levels etc. I put together a worksheet that will help with this, If you are interested you can download this worksheet...

This is a very long overdue post, I have implemented this back in SPS 2003 and same approach works in current version of SharePoint either WSS or MOSS. In this post I will cover how you can implement a custom document library filtering functionality into...

A well documented code is always a good thing especially when it comes to maintaining it. I’d like to remind you guys a quote from Rick Osborne “ Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where...

  I’m amazed how many people don’t know you have social tagging and bookmarking external sites capabilities in SharePoint 2010. In this article I will show with few simple steps how you can start tagging and bookmarking external sites Browse to your...

Here is exact steps to move SSP Administration site to a new web application Create a new web application through central admin Define a new "ssp/admin" manage path for the new web application created for SSP Admin site, ensure the new web application...

When I was looking to implement this for one of the SharePoint sites I worked on, I never was able to find a step by step instructions. Here is exact steps to hide scopes drop down in site master page Under your Features folder look for "OSearchBasicFeature...

I posted my sharepoint javascript utilities to msdn code gallery site, it contains re-usable methods for getting sharepoint list data, getting list schema information, etc from client. Also has a dropdownloader JS Object that you can instantiate and use...

Word automation services in SharePoint 2010 provides you a “Save-As” experience on the server which otherwise would have required Office client installed. By default there is no UI integration available and you have to write custom code and use OM to...

I’m working on a Search oriented portal using FAST search, one of the requirements we have is the ability to save currently executed search so users can re-run the search at a later point of time. We wrote a custom web part that leverages “My Links” to...

I’m wondering why on earth “ImportModelReceiver” class is defined in “Microsoft.Office.SharePoint.ClientExtensions.dll” under “Microsoft.Office.SharePoint.ClientExtensions.Deployment” namespace. Incase some...

Couple of weeks ago I was tasked with helping the infrastructure team at my current client to build out 20 some Virtual Development Images (VDI’s) for SharePoint 2010 Development both for onshore/offshore team. Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7...

Over the weekend I was busy setting up my HP Mediasmart Home Server. I have to say I'm extremely happy with my decision to purchase the product. My top 4 reasons for purchasing this product Centralized storage solution (Easy to upgrade) Share...

This is sort of a delayed post but its better late than never right? In March I got to attend MCM SharePoint R2 rotation in Seattle Washington along with I guess 16 other SharePoint peeps mostly internal full time MS employees and a handful of partners...

Office Web Applications is one of the coolest features available with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010, there are couple of things you need to be aware of when planning an Office Web Applications Deployment One of the important things to understand...

I’ve had a few scenarios where I needed to download files from a document library remotely without using any object model code. Here is simple program that does just that. First step is use the Lists web service to retrieve list items from the document...

Business Data Connectivity Service in SharePoint 2010 supports two types of files Model (contains the base meta data for the LOB system) Resource (enables you to import or export only the localized names, properties, permissions, custom environment settings...

In SharePoint 2010 the CustomPages dictionary allows you to replace AccessDenied, Confirmation, Error, Login, RequestAccess, Signout, or WebDeleted pages by supplying an alternative path to a different file in the layouts directory.  You can access...

If you are looking to auto create External Lists for all the ECTs defined in your BDC Model, I published PowerShell Script to Scripting Repository site on TechNet  http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/en-us/82437789-f294-4bcd-8210-a1ba0e081f82...

We have been using Silverlight heavily in my current SP2010 project and here are the things you should know when using silverlight in SP2010 sites SL Webpart does not load in IE 64bit, be sure to browse the site in IE 32 bit mode SL Webpart did not load...

You can create host named site collections if you would like to host all of your portal sites as site collections within one SharePoint web application. · provide a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for your SharePoint web application through the...

The other day I ran across an error in the new Claims Picker Dialog for a SharePoint 2010 web application configured in Claims Mode. See the screen print below regarding the actual error I was getting Basically the cause for this error was I had the web...

I recently came across an issue while working with Business Connectivity Services. When developing with BCS its pretty common to implement your “ReadList” and “ReadItem” methods first, create the external list and test the functionality and then go back...