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Extend the Settings Ribbon Group in SharePoint 2010 for Document Libraries: Ribbon.Library.Settings.Controls

Posted by GeorgeH on November 26, 2011

This article demonstrates how to customise the settings group on the Ribbon for Document Libraries in SharePoint 2010. Custom Actions are created containing the new controls, which are integrated int... [read more]


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Free SharePoint 2010 Templates & Themes

Posted by GeorgeH on November 20, 2011

In this post, a range of links to SharePoint 2010 Templates, Themes and Master Pages are provided with descriptions. Some references to information that can help when implementing third party themes ... [read more]


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Customise the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon: View Format Group for Document Libraries (Ribbon.Library.ViewFormat)

Posted by GeorgeH on November 16, 2011

The SharePoint 2010 Ribbon architecture allows new tabs, groups and controls to be added to Extend the built-in controls for managing sites, lists and items/content in SharePoint 2010. This article de... [read more]


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Add Custom action to the New group on the Ribbon for Document Libraries in SharePoint 2010

Posted by GeorgeH on November 15, 2011

The Server Ribbon in SharePoint 2010 can be extended using Custom Actions to include additional links and controls. Various attributes and child elements of the CustomAction element can be used to ta... [read more]


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Dynamic Content Filtering on SharePoint Web Part Pages using Metadata & Audiences

Posted by GeorgeH on October 20, 2011

In the article below, two methods to target content to different audiences on SharePoint Sites based on meta data are explained.  Both methods assume that the targeting to each audience is being ... [read more]


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SharePoint User Acceptance

Posted by GeorgeH on October 20, 2011

User Non-Acceptance or resistance when adopting new systems and processes implemented using SharePoint can be quite common. Factors such as the computer skill level of end users and the process of im... [read more]


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SharePoint: Show or Hide Content based on Permissions

Posted by GeorgeH on October 11, 2011

In this article I explain how to use the SPSecurityTrimmedControl class in SharePoint to show or hide content on a page based on the current user’s permissions. This can be applied to a Master Page, ... [read more]


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Developing a custom User Control for SharePoint 2010

Posted by GeorgeH on October 10, 2011

The purpose of the tutorial is to demonstrate how to create a custom User Control for SharePoint using Visual Studio 2010. The example User Control generates and displays a title of the site, list an... [read more]


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SharePoint Master Page: Include Title of a Site as a link to the Site’s Homepage

Posted by GeorgeH on October 3, 2011

When building a Master Page for use on multiple sites across a SharePoint site collections, there is often a need to include the Title of the current site on every page on a site that links back to th... [read more]


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Hide SharePoint Global / Top Navigation Settings from Sites

Posted by GeorgeH on September 22, 2011

This tutorial demonstrates a method to allow owners of SharePoint sites to have control over the navigation menu for the current site, but to restrict changes to the top (global) navigation menu to en... [read more]

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Free SharePoint 2010 Templates & Themes

Posted by GeorgeH on November 20, 2011

In this post, a range of links to SharePoint 2010 Templates, Themes and Master Pages are provided with descriptions. Some references to information that can help when implementing third party themes ... [read more]

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40 templates for Sharepoint Foundation 2010

Posted by Pierre Erol GIRAUDY on October 11, 2010

Microsoft Fab 40 templates on SharePoint Foundation server. Due to increasing requests, we attempted to set up some of the templates and were successful in doing that. We have been posting the individ... [read more]

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Developing a custom User Control for SharePoint 2010

Posted by GeorgeH on October 10, 2011

The purpose of the tutorial is to demonstrate how to create a custom User Control for SharePoint using Visual Studio 2010. The example User Control generates and displays a title of the site, list an... [read more]

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SharePoint: Show or Hide Content based on Permissions

Posted by GeorgeH on October 11, 2011

In this article I explain how to use the SPSecurityTrimmedControl class in SharePoint to show or hide content on a page based on the current user’s permissions. This can be applied to a Master Page, ... [read more]

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Minifying custom JavaScript files in SharePoint 2010

Posted by Wictor Wilén on August 8, 2010

If you have noticed SharePoint 2010 supports production and debug JavaScripts side-by-side. When you are debugging your SharePoint site you will see that all JavaScript files have a name like SP.debu... [read more]

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Hide SharePoint Global / Top Navigation Settings from Sites

Posted by GeorgeH on September 22, 2011

This tutorial demonstrates a method to allow owners of SharePoint sites to have control over the navigation menu for the current site, but to restrict changes to the top (global) navigation menu to en... [read more]

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Extend the Settings Ribbon Group in SharePoint 2010 for Document Libraries: Ribbon.Library.Settings.Controls

Posted by GeorgeH on November 26, 2011

This article demonstrates how to customise the settings group on the Ribbon for Document Libraries in SharePoint 2010. Custom Actions are created containing the new controls, which are integrated int... [read more]

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Multiline Text Field - Consolidate Appended Versions

Posted by Daniel S on January 23, 2011

The following explains how to use a Multiple line text field and a SharePoint Designer Workflow to store all historic entries, when the field is configured to append to previous entries. The scenario... [read more]

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SharePoint Master Page: Include Title of a Site as a link to the Site’s Homepage

Posted by GeorgeH on October 3, 2011

When building a Master Page for use on multiple sites across a SharePoint site collections, there is often a need to include the Title of the current site on every page on a site that links back to th... [read more]

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Dynamic Content Filtering on SharePoint Web Part Pages using Metadata & Audiences

Posted by GeorgeH on October 20, 2011

In the article below, two methods to target content to different audiences on SharePoint Sites based on meta data are explained.  Both methods assume that the targeting to each audience is being ... [read more]

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SPTECHCON 2012 in San Francisco - Thanks for Coming Out!

Posted by Amanda Murphy on March 23, 2012

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of heading down to San Francisco for the SPTECHCON conference. This was a great opportunity for me since I hadn’t spoken at this conference be... [read more]

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The road to the social enterprise

Posted by ifttt on March 23, 2012

There is no doubt that the world of social networking has been heating up. As Facebook has captured the attention of the consumer world, many organizations are looking at how they... [read more]

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Microsoft’s Lack of Consistency for End Users is Frustrating

Posted by Andrew Connell on March 23, 2012

Maybe it's just me, but the only thing I can think of since seeing the new UI for the beta of Visual Studio 11 and all the explanation the Visual Studio Blog puts out (specifically... [read more]

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Testing SharePoint

Posted by Mark Wilson on March 22, 2012

Testing SharePoint can be a pain, unit testing is quite hard on a lot of SP projects. Unless you invest in Typemock Isolator for SharePoint which gets expensive for a large team th... [read more]

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Product Review: Colligo Briefcase - Secure SharePoint Sync on your Terms

Posted by Joel Oleson on March 22, 2012

My experience with Colligo Briefcase The one thing that stands out about the unique value that Colligo brings to the table with Colligo Briefcase Pro for iPad and their enterprise ... [read more]

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The road to the social enterprise

Posted by sharepointblog (Microsoft SharePoint Team) on March 22, 2012

Body: There is no doubt that the world of social networking has been heating up. As Facebook has captured the attention of the consumer world, many organizations are looking at how... [read more]

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PSIGEN Continues Technical Leadership in SharePoint Scanning and Capture with Enhanced Feature Release

Posted by Spade on March 21, 2012

IRVINE, Calif., June 2, 2011 – PSIGEN Software, Inc., the technical leader in SharePoint scanning and capture, announced the release of an Enhanced Feature Set for SharePoint. Th... [read more]

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OneNote for the iPad…it does work

Posted by Tony on March 21, 2012

I have to admit I did not test it well enough the first time and was fast to jump to the conclusion that the app was not good.Read More... [read more]

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GL Hearn

Posted by Spade on March 21, 2012

At GL Hearn we fully recognise that our business has a social, economic and environmental impact. We have established policies to ensure that our business operates and respects all... [read more]

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Variations in SharePoint 2010 - Connecting People with Content

Posted by Spade on March 21, 2012

When you provision a new SharePoint publishing site, one of the first options you'll see on the default welcome page is to use the Variations feature to manage multi-lingual sites ... [read more]

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The Simple Solutions of SharePoint - Surveys Part 4

Posted by Microsoft SharePoint End-User Content Team on March 21, 2012

Category: Collaboration; Surveys Published: 3/20/2012 9:13 PM # Comments: ... [read more]

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Occupy SharePoint Get Rid of the ActiveX 1%

Posted by Joel Oleson on March 16, 2012

Setup your tents, it's time to do some reality checks and look around. First off we see the decline of Flash, Silverlight, and Custom plugins for rendering, an... [read more]

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SharePoint 2010 BI Shopping list

Posted by Serve Hermans on March 16, 2012

So there you are sitting with your customer trying to translate the requirements into SharePoint BI features. Not so easy! Wouldn't it be nice to have a simple ... [read more]

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SharePoint 2010 Browser Supportability Matrix and What Features Work Matrix

Posted by Joel Oleson on March 15, 2012

With all the service packs and SP1 additional support for Chrome and iPad on iOS5 for December CU support for reports and scorecards. It's definitely time to r... [read more]

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A Perspective on the Community Ecosystem

Posted by ifttt on March 15, 2012

Back in the day, products came with manuals. Now they come with communities.@ScotHillier Well said, ahem tweeted, Scot. The gravitational pull of technology se... [read more]


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