SharePoint

SharePoint Search

Did i mention the SharePoint Search is great? Indexing your fileservers, websites and public folder (see here how to index Exchange 2010 public folders: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee806927.aspx) is easy to configure. You should look at the logs, though. Warning can give you a good hint where to look to solve indexing problems. I looked at the document, which could not be indexed. My Visio 2010 opened the document without complaining. The File Tab shows some information from the document.

List members of SharePoint Groups

Every SharePoint group has a setting to prevent users, who are not members of the group, to see who actually is a member. This setting works great when you use a browser to access the group. The setting can be configured on the property page of every SharePoint group. As you can see, you’ll get a message telling you that you may not see the members of that particular group.

CKS:EBE 3.0-Enhanced Blog Edition 3.0

Like many other blogs running SharePoint, my blog uses the EBE to add more functionality to the default SharePoint blog. And since I am one of the developers of the EBE 3.0, I’m glad that we announce the release of the next release. Version 3 brings along many new features and improvements of already implemented features. New Features *Ability to theme wiki pages *Ability to export post to PDF

How To install SharePoint 2010 prerequisites automatically

SharePoint 2013: If you want to install the prerequisites for SharePoint 2013, see here: Installing SharePoint 2013 Prerequisites Without an Internet Connection SharePoint 2010: Don’t leave if you read “Powershell” and think “Oh my. Why does it take Powershell to do this?”. Powershell is easy to use and a great tool for this task. This post is about installing all required components that are needed for a SharePoint 2010 installation (Hardware and software requirements (SharePoint Server 2010)).

SPListItem.GetItemByUniqueId

Did you know you can fetch an item by its UniqueId even if it is in the recycle bin? You can even update its data while it is already recycled. I wonder if there is a scenario, where you would want to modify an already recycled ListItem…

SharePoint 2010 SDK

The Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Software Development Kit (SDK) contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, samples, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on SharePoint 2010 products and technologies. You can grab it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f0c9daf3-4c54-45ed-9bde-7b4d83a8f26f The download contains the SDK for SPF and SPS. No need to download two separate files anymore. The SharePoint Developer Center can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/default.aspx

Using a custom field type in a BCS model

The BCS Team (Business Connectivity Services) wrote an blog post about using complex formatting and custom field types within your BCS model. Obviously this post was the source for the SDK article. The example shows that you can use a custom field type to render data from external data sources this way: <TypeDescriptor TypeName="Customer.Address" Name="CustomerAddress" DefaultDisplayName="Customer Address"> <Properties> <Property Name="SPCustomFieldType" Type="Customer.Address">Customer Address</Property> </Properties> </TypeDescriptor> Well, to help you map this example to your data, I’ll write some more about the SPCustomFieldType property of the BCS model.

SharePoint 2010 Language Packs available for download

Yesterday MS has released the language packs to the public. What is a language pack? Language packs enable site owners and site collection administrators to create SharePoint sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Word breakers and stemmers enable you to efficiently and effectively search across content on SharePoint sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of SharePoint Server 2010.

New Contoso Hyper-V with SharePoint 2010 RTM

Microsoft has published a new version of the Contoso VM for evaluating SharePoint 2010. Grab it here: 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM) Take a close look at the Instructions on the download page. Virtual machine “a” contains the following pre-configured software: Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Evaluation Edition x64, running as an Active Directory Domain Controller for the “CONTOSO.COM” domain with DNS and WINS Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition with Analysis, Notification, and Reporting Services Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2 Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition Microsoft Office Web Applications Microsoft FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Microsoft Project Server 2010 Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Microsoft Visio 2010 Microsoft Project 2010 Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2