(Mahesh Sabnis) When you develop a SharePoint 2010 portal for an Organization, your portal may need to connect to an external software system for e.g. an already available accounting software system. To establish such communications in SharePoint 2010, we can use the Business Data Connectivity Web S
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SharePoint 2010 implementation success rides on strong governance
(Jonathan Gourlay) As the collaborative workplace becomes more complex, SharePoint can be a boon to enterprises of all sizes, enabling users to set up blogs, personal or team sites and a variety of other online venues for business unit and interdepartmental collaboration. But for all of SharePoint’s
Why you should use a SQL Alias with SharePoint
(Neil King) Recently I was asked to take a look at a SharePoint 2007 system that was having a few problems after an IP readdressing project.
Using Powershell to…query the User Profile Service in SharePoint 2010
(Craig Pilkenton) You’ve probably heard the horror stories of UPS making grown men cry or run off to become hermits. While it is an ‘experience opportunity’ working with the UPS, it is a very powerful storage engine of employee-to-employee discoverability.
Getting to the Share(Tipping)Point
(Ed Deiss) Getting to the Share (Tipping) Point involves users seeing demonstrable evidence that leveraging SharePoint capability results in increased productivity and effectiveness.
SharePoint 2010 UI Tip: non-obtrusive progress messages
(Waldek Mastykarz) SharePoint 2010 ships with a new User Interface framework that allows you to easily create rich user experiences. While developing custom solutions one of the challenges is to communicate long-running operations with the user: after all there is nothing more annoying than a non-re
SharePoint Governance Part – 2
(Pramod Attarde) It is a good practice for organizations to include branding in their governance policy. Using branding policies will ensure the consistent use of enterprise imagery, fonts, themes, and other design elements.
FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Item-Level Security Using FAST Search JDBC Database Connector
(Carlos Valcarcel) When setting up an enterprise search service, it is necessary to apply specific access restrictions different parts of the crawled content. When crawling database content into FAST Search for SharePoint 2010, using the BDC framework is the preferred method for implementing item-le
Getting the most out of the SharePoint Community Calendar Part 1
(Raymond Mitchell) For those of you that didn’t already know – the SharePoint community is incredibly active. This week alone there are 25 events going on that I know of! Even more amazing is that many of these events are freely available User Groups, SharePoint Saturdays, and webcasts.
SharePoint List From SQL Server Table (External Content Type with SharePoint Designer)
(priyankasrivas) Many time we need to show custom data in a SharePoint list and you do not have an option to store data in SharePoint list .In most of the cases your data source can be used in some other legacy system and you have centralized data in SQL server table. Now challenge is to integrate