Tag: SharePoint
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Governance Toolkit for Office 365
It’s been a while since I posted something here, but we were very busy with our newest product: Governance Toolkit for Office 365. So what is this about? GovKit365 is the younger brother of our successful product Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint. In recent years we have witnessed a number of companies moving to the cloud and migrating from…
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How to show file path inside a SharePoint Document Library view
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…
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How do I check out a document in 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…
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Display full name in Sharepoint Designer workflows
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…
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How to configure uniform Document Library settings for entire site collection in SharePoint Online
Recently, we finally migrated all our content to SharePoint Online (Office365). Microsoft really did a great job with their infrastructure and optimizations. SharePoint works great in the cloud. When deploying our new intranet portal I defined the following rule for Document Libraries: Each should be visible in Quick Launch Major versions should be enabled You…
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Document farm configuration settings in SharePoint Server 2010 – SPDocKit 2.0
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…
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Juice up your SharePoint with SharePoint Cool Buttons
When working with customers one often hears the following complaint: “Wow, this SharePoint is sooo ugly…”. I personally think SharePoint 2010 has very nice nice and professional design, but since customer is always right, from time to time I need to make it look more pretty. For some customers the “fix” is very simple, just…
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Walkthrough: Add tabs for custom scopes in Enterprise Search Center
When configuring SharePoint Search for customers I often help them configure their SharePoint Enterprise Search center. Companies usually index various content: SharePoint, Web Sites, File Shares, and it’s always good to divide different content sources with tabs, just as popular Search Engines like Google and Bing do. So what do you need to do to…