SharePoint

Office 365 – SharePoint service update

The second update for SharePoint Online has started. As part of this update: User provisioning Customers can now provision more than 500 000 user objects. Initially, there was a limit to 20 000 user objects. Recycle bin enhancement Customers can now recover site collection, as well as (off course) document, library or list. The site […]

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Office/SharePoint – Office 15 has reached the Technical Preview step

Today, the Office Product Group has reached an important milestone in the Office 15 development (which includes Office client but also SharePoint products). The Technical Preview program (formerly called beta program) should start soon from now. To know more go to http://blogs.office.com/b/office-exec/archive/2012/01/30/quot-office-15-quot-begins-technical-preview.aspx

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Microsoft Products – Schedule delivery date for incoming products

As you may already know, there is a lot of incoming new product version for the next 12 to 24 months, including the waited Windows 8. Microsoft has published an initial schedule of delivery. Keep in mind this may still change will product groups are still working on many of these products. Windows 8 Anticipated

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InfoPath – InfoPath 2010 form is updating SharePoint data source when moving between SharePoint sites

If you already used InfoPath 2007 to create form using data source hosted on SharePoint (such as SharePoint lists or web services), you may already know that you are obliged to update manually these data sources in case of move between SharePoint sites. With InfoPath 2010, these updates are still mandatory BUT the form publication

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SharePoint – Productivity Hub updated

As you may already know, Microsoft has provided the Productivity Hub hosted by a SharePoint 2010 site collection. For those who don’t know what is Productivity Hub: this is a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP1 site collection that offers training materials for end-users. Until today, the Productivity Hub was not compatible with SharePoint 2010 SP1

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SharePoint 2010 – Send the URL of the current item with a workflow using SharePoint Designer

I know the best practices to develop a workflow is to use Visual Studio and deploy it within a solution. But sometime, it’s better (and simpler) to use SharePoint Designer In this case, I wanted to send an specific formatted email to some users (the item creator and 2 administrators) when an item is created

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SharePoint – A bug with Survey list if using External Data question type

While working on a project, an end user was asking me how to solve an error he had: he just created a survey with only one question but when he tried to open the survey he always had an error. We reproduced the issue: Create a new survey Then define a question and choose External

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SharePoint 2010 – Display the calendar webpart in a calendar view when creating a site definition

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

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SharePoint – Import a complete list of file type exclusion

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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