Toni on Tech

Hey there! I’m Toni, the Co-Founder and CEO of Syskit, creators of Syskit Point and SPDocKit. Welcome to Toni on Tech, where we explore the ever-evolving world of software, technology, and business.

  • SharePoint Days 2011, Slovenia

    For third year in a row, I will be speaking at SharePoint Conference Slovenia. This time we are heading to beautiful alpine lake Bled. I will have two sessions: Building business forms with InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010 – Part1 and Building business forms with InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010 – Part 2. Full schedule…

  • There was an error in communicating with Excel Calculation Services in SharePoint 2010

    While working with a client yesterday we noticed users could not view Excel files in browser. A quick analysis of ULS logs revealed the following issue: There was an error in communicating with Excel Calculation Services http://server_name:port/2a7905259ea644f3a2d8ebd2bcf1ee9f/ExcelService*.asmx exception: An error has occurred. ServerSession.GetNextServerHealthBased: There are no healthy servers although the number of available server in the farm…

  • Backup SharePoint 2010 site collections with PowerShell, send alerts and much more

    Last year I wrote a PowerShell chapter for SharePoint 2010 Unleashed. One of the scripts that is available in the book allows you to easily backup SharePoint 2010 site collections. The Backup-SPSite cmdlet is available in SharePoint 2010 OOTB, but we wanted to show our readers you can do more with PowerShell. Therefore this script allows you to:…

  • Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint – our new product

    After many months of development I am happy to announce that we have finally released Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint. Two years ago I realized I really do not want to document SharePoint farms I deploy for customers by taking screenshots or typing settings to a Word document. I wanted to have an application that would go inside the…

  • SharePoint Columns – Features and limitations

    SharePoint list columns are very easy to use and configure. However when working with customers you will hear many different questions related to columns e.g.: “Can I edit managed metadata column in datasheet view?”. I made the following table for my own reference and I am sharing it with you. The table lists features and…