This post is the first in a series detailing the creation of SharePoint Site Columns and Content Types via PowerShell. The series has three parts as follows: Part 1: Bulk Creating Site Columns with PowerShell Part 2: Bulk Creating Content Types with PowerShell Part 3: Bulk Adding Site Columns to Content Types with PowerShell Bulk Creating …
Charlotte’s SharePoint Saturday was buzzing with the new technologies surrounding SharePoint 2013, but continued to demonstrate the core challenges when implementing solutions on this platform. With strong regional and some national representation from the speakers, the daylong event offered insights ranging from development techniques to full Cloud based implementations. Within “the Cloud” domain, sessions discussed …
One of the most intriguing features of SharePoint 2013 is Managed Navigation. Per Microsoft, “Managed navigation lets you define and maintain the navigation on a site by using term sets. Managed navigation supplements the existing SharePoint navigation that is based on site structure. You create the managed navigation structure by adding terms to term sets in …
Document Sets provide advanced flexibility and power for managing content. Per Microsoft, Documents Sets “are designed to manage all aspects of work products. They provide a user interface (UI), metadata options, behaviors, and object model elements that fill a gap in the hierarchy of containers between documents and sites.” Source: Microsoft TechNet Document Sets can …
The SharePoint 2013 Preview is here, and with it, a lot of information to consume. The following offers some high-level insights into the Architecture, Features, and Resources for SharePoint 2013. As we dig deeper into this new platform, we will take a hard look at the true value it brings to the Enterprise. Architecture While the …
While testing a Records Library in SharePoint 2010, the records will become locked and undeclaring records one by one (if you have the capability to undeclare records enabled through your Library and Site Records Declaration Settings) can be a tedious task. There may be others times when a content migration could go wrong, the Content Organizer might …
There may be situations in which you need to adjust the default configuration SharePoint 2010 uses to handle resource allocation for workflows, such as the maximum number of new instances. While there is not an out of the box GUI interface to throttle workflows, PowerShell is to the rescue with some straightforward options to both view and …
SharePoint 2010 is a dynamic, yet extensive platform that requires a detailed approach and dedicated resources to properly implement and govern. Fortunately, across the Web are great resources from Microsoft supporting SharePoint 2010. Some are located in obvious places, while others are a little more “fun” to find (akin to an Easter egg hunt). Here is a …
Wave 15 is upon us with a technical preview for “a select group of customers under non-disclosure agreements”. It promises an overhaul of a full range of products from server operating systems, Office, cloud offerings, mobile, Lync… and SharePoint. Here is a link to the announcement: http://blogs.office.com/b/office-exec/archive/2012/01/30/quot-office-15-quot-begins-technical-preview.aspx Speculation includes a SharePoint Apps Marketplace, revamped social …
Backing up your Content Databases is one of the most critical activities that can be undertaken in order to preserve your data/have a strong Disaster Recovery Plan for SharePoint 2010. In this post we will focus on a simple Maintenance Plan with one “gotcha” I came across. SharePoint 2010 and SQL 2008 R2 offer a host of backup/restore …