Recently, I came across an issue with custom site definition which had to display on the default page the calendar webpart as a calendar view (like the one displayed in the default Team Site). To create this custom site definition, I reused some code available in the default Team Site site definition ; especially the […]
Since the availability of Office 365 and SharePoint 2010 Online, this was a frequent request from customer to get usage statistics.
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As you already know, you can exclude some additional file type from SharePoint crawling. Unfortunately, this can be done only one file type per one file type through the search service administration. If you have a lot of file type to exclude, this will take lot of time and is not really pleasant. So, PowerShell
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As SharePoint administrators, you already know that there is some logs generated while crawling your content to show you if everything is ok or if there any issue (content access, file type unknown or not supported…). Unfortunately, there is NO way to access these logs in a pleasant way to work on it (export). Recently,
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Today, the Office 365 Product Group has announced that new features have been introduced on Office Web Applications. Here are few of them: OneNote Web App Ink display Right click menu in Excel … to know more go to http://blogs.office.com/b/officewebapps/archive/2011/09/29/now-announcing-new-features-you-ve-requested.aspx
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As you may already know, there is 2 different authentication providers in SharePoint 2010: Classic Mode Authentication: the ‘old’ authentication providers. Used for standard Windows (NTLM, Basic or Kerberos) authentication Claims Based Authentication: the ‘new’ one. Used to allow Form Based Authentication When you create a new web application, you have to choose between these
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As you already know, AAM (Alternate Access Mapping) allows you to define different URL to reach SharePoint sites. The importance of the AAM is frequently reminded – at least in the context of SharePoint publication for external access. While you still can access to SharePoint sites from these different URL’s while they are not registered
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For those who are using Firefox as web browser, you may already have experienced some issue with SharePoint functionalities. One of this issue may be with Office Web Apps. Now, be happy , Microsoft has released a plug in which make Office Web Apps working with Firefox (you need Firefox 3.5 or later) http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27106 You
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As you may already know you know promote some link or document as best bet for a search results (Search keyword and Fast Search Keyword. BUT, if your search center (SharePoint or Fast) is independent; meaning located in other web application (search search.hametbenoit.info), managed keyword will not be used for promoting your Best bet. Indeed,
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If you are using Audience to manage information displayed on your SharePoint, you may have trouble when you try to find or resolve the audience wanted, even if the audience is correctly set and compiled. The following error message may appears during audience validation “This entry cannot be validated. Exception “Object reference not set to
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