Category: SharePoint 2010

SharePoint Built-in Lists: Content Approval, Versioning and Security

May 4, 2014

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Toni Frankola

in Misc, Office 365, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013

My team was researching SharePoint built-in lists like Calendar, Document Library etc. while developing new features for our product Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint (SPDocKit). Not all of these lists support the same features. We were checking versioning and security settings for each list type and comparing them. Here is the matrix we compiled, maybe it could…
Users with privileged access to the entire SharePoint farm?

Jun 13, 2013

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Toni Frankola

in SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013

Use case: We recently worked with one of the world leading IT audit companies. They had a project to audit a SharePoint farm security for a customer. One of the key things they wanted to check was: “Who are the users that have privileged, admin access to the entire SharePoint farm?” Users can be granted…
How to show file path inside a SharePoint Document Library view

May 2, 2013

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Toni Frankola

in SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013

I recently created a view in a document library that shows files modified in the last 30 days. We use a number of levels (folders) in this document library so I wanted to indicate in which folder a modified file was stored. Here is how you can do this. This is an overkill for task…
How do I check out a document in SharePoint 2013?

Apr 5, 2013

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Toni Frankola

in SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013

We recently upgraded our company to Office 365 from Google Apps (more details in another post). Our colleagues from Marketing Department never used SharePoint in real production so I received an interesting question: “Toni, how do I lock a document so no one can change it while I do?” The answer is, you need to perform check…
Display full name in Sharepoint Designer workflows

Apr 4, 2013

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Toni Frankola

in SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013

Use case: You have been given a task to create an email notification from your workflow that contains full name of the user who created certain item, along with some other information that is irrelevant to this blog post. While creating workflows in SharePoint Designer you will quickly notice that most activities will display Person…
Use case: Automatically importing user profile pictures to SharePoint 2013 (and 2010)

Dec 23, 2012

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Toni Frankola

in SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013

In last three years I helped numerous customers to install and configure SharePoint 2010 (2013). New User Profile Service application introduced the ability to easily sync User Profile properties from & to Active Directory. In this article I will explain how you can leverage PowerShell to sync user profile photos from file share to SharePoint…
Use Case: Export User Profiles to a SharePoint list – phonebook style

Nov 5, 2012

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Toni Frankola

in SharePoint, SharePoint 2010

SharePoint User Profiles Service Application has a lot of nice and very useful features but it misses one small but important thing. Customers often want to display all their contacts (from User Profile Store) in a single list, phonebook style. Here is a simple solution how to achieve this with a PowerShell script. The script…
Use cases for Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint

Sep 14, 2012

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Toni Frankola

in SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013

At Acceleratio, we often receive various use case requests from customers using our product Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint, here are few of those use cases: Use case – Upgrading farms or resuming maintenance after rogue admin left Customer writes: I have taken over administration of a SharePoint farm at [enter company name here] and will…
Auto populate Search suggestions for SharePoint People Search

Aug 9, 2012

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Toni Frankola

in SharePoint 2010

One of mine customers wanted to replace their existing phone directory with the SharePoint OOTB user profiles. They already had all the data in the Active Directory and also had pictures for most employees, so SharePoint sounded like an obvious choice. One of the requests was to have search as you type suggestions for people…
Document farm configuration settings in SharePoint Server 2010 – SPDocKit 2.0

Jul 12, 2012

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Toni Frankola

in SharePoint, SharePoint 2010

I forgot to post this earlier, but last month we released a major release of Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint 2.0 (SPDocKit) . The product has been on market for almost a year know and I must say we are very happy with it’s progress. To this date more than 150 customers, large and small, from 25 countries…