When you want to move things around in SharePoint sometimes it isn’t as obvious as it should be. SharePoint is full of lists. A list does this, a list does that, and we see each of those list differently. For our example we will use a Task list. The task list is just that a list with column names that make sense for tasks. Some of these columns are:
This was such a great piece of complied work I wanted to post it here for informational purposes. All credit goes to Richard Harbridge at Richard Harbridge: Insights. The original link is: SharePoint 2007 vs SharePoint 2010. Continue reading
An odd issue happened when I tried to configure SharePoint 2010 Excel services with the new MySites. I uploaded a test Excel workbook and tried to open it, but I kept on getting the following error.
An error, which I might add, was very non-descript
“The workbook cannot be opened.” Continue reading
Part of being an administrator in SharePoint is you have to able to navigate solutions packages. While I won’t get into all the details of what a solutions package is and does for SharePoint, suffice to say that they will add functionality to your SharePoint site.
In our example I’ll use the Codplex MiniCalendar Web Part.
When you download this solution package you will see that it will come as a <FILE>.wsp format. So the question becomes: how do I go from this WSP file to a deployed and usable solution? Continue reading