SharePoint

Office 365 – Manage your SharePoint site collection (and others settings)

As it seems a little bit confused on how you can manage your SharePoint on Office 365, here is an how to First, connect to the Office 365 portal and click on the Admin link shown at the top From this page, you have some links to manage Exchange, SharePoint or Lync (as well some […]

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Office 365 – Enable multilingual interface on SharePoint sites

Office 365 is available in multiple language, so it means that SharePoint is also available in these available languages. Ok, but when you create a SharePoint site collection, you choose ONLY one language for the interface. How can you allow your users to change (or let SharePoint automatically set) the language? Logon to the SharePoint

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Office 365 – Invite external people to access to your SharePoint site

With Office 365, it is possible to invite external people to access your private SharePoint collections. However, this feature is not enable by default. So, to enable this feature, there are few actions to do. First, connect to the SharePoint Administration portal (https://yourdomain-admin.sharepoint.com) and go to the Site Collection Management Select the site collection on

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SharePoint – Office Web Apps, anonymous access and search results (final conclusion)

This post is the conclusion of the issue I discovered after installing SharePoint 2010 August 2010 Cumulative Updates (http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2011/01/04/sharepoint-august-cumulative-update-issue-with-anonymous-search/ and http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2010/12/4/sharepoint-august-cumulative-update-and-search-results-from-anonymous-web-site/). To remind you, after installing the August CU, all search results from Internet facing web site (anonymous access) where not completed; there were no Office documents shown. As I thought it was a regression

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SharePoint/Visio – Create organizational chart based on a SharePoint list

With the 2010 version, SharePoint and Visio can interoperate. In this post, I will show you how to use Visio to generate an organization chart based on SharePoint contact list. To do that, you need SharePoint 2010 (at least Foundation Server) and Visio 2010. Create the source contact list Connect to your SharePoint site and

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SharePoint – Want to use a SharePoint development environment from everywhere for free?

If you need a SharePoint environment available from everywhere, and for free, go to http://www.cloudshare.com/Products/CloudShare-Pro/CloudShare-Pro-overview.aspx   This fee offer is providing 3 VM’s for server and 1 for workstation. Enjoy

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SCOM / FAST – QRProxy component shown in a critical state

If you are monitoring your Fast Servers you may have the QRProxy shown in a critical state while search query are working fine (ie returning results) and/or no events are logged on the Fast event log neiher on the SCOM console. You may have an error event on the Fast event log which is saying

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SharePoint – Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 is resetting some settings

On a previous blog post I explained how to solve some warning events logged on the SharePoint server application logs (http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2010/11/27/sharepoint-2010-user-profile-event-id-1004-and-1001/) Unfortunately, it appears that the SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 is resetting the NTFS security settings to default one. So, don’t forget to reapply the steps I provided after applying the SP1 for

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