I had a great time in New Orleans. Here is my slide deck below. Continue reading
SharePoint Saturday New Orleans Presentation
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Category Archives: SharePoint 2010
San Antonio SPUG Presentation
Another great session at the San Antonio SharePoint User group
SharePoint 2010 Search, Best Bets, and You
Hello all;
After having a conversation with a fellow SharePoint engineer about search it prompted me to gain a further understanding of some of it’s aspects. While I couldn’t possibly hope to explain everything in SharePoint search I did want to focus on the ‘best bets’ functionality in this post.
Best bets essentially allows you to inject your chosen content at the top of search queries for certain keywords. As an example on my test bed site when ever someone types ‘javier’ I want to return three key items at the top. These three items will be: Continue reading
SharePoint 2010 and calculated columns
Hi All;
I had a recent request I wanted to share with everyone. This question centered around how to use calculated columns and SharePoint functions.
I’ll note here that the functions that are available to Excel are similar but not exactly the same as SharePoint’s functions.
A good primer guide to SharePoint functions can be found here:
Microsoft Office/Support/ SharePoint/ Windows SharePoint Services/ User Documentation and Resources Continue reading
SharePoint Create Calendar with a Custom Column
Hi All;
I just had this question on how to create a new calendar with a custom column that I thought would make a good post. I’ll document the process in SharePoint 2010, and note any differences if you are trying to do this in SharePoint 2007.
1) Let us create the calendar. Continue reading
SharePoint PowerShell: Backup and Restore a List or Document Library
Sometimes some of the most simplest things are the easy to forget. I had a situation where I was asked, ‘Hey how can I export a list for safekeeping and restore it later from a script?’ My natural answer is sure that’s easy, but after a few minutes I realized…’duh’. I figured I’d put it out there just in case.
So for our example we have the following list. Continue reading
Mac and SharePoint Series: Excel 2011
Mac and SharePoint Series: Excel 2011
In a twist of fate I work in the information technology field, but do very little work in Excel. In short my experience with Excel stops at about AutoSum. I did at least want to take a look at it, and see what it had to offer in the way of SharePoint 2010.
Working in a new Excel document I noted a few things. If you open a new Excel document you can save it directly to SharePoint (or even SkyDrive). Continue reading
Trial Period for this Product has Expired Error
As you update/add/remove associated pieces of software on a SharePoint server you might run into this error.
It is common for update/add/remove to modify registry settings. Unfortunately, some of these registry settings might be critical to SharePoint. In this case this made SharePoint result in ‘trial period for this product has expired’ error. Oddly, you could open the http://<SITE>/_layout/settings.aspx page, but no other pages.
I ran the following command and rebooted the server:
psconfig.exe -cmd secureresources
This made the needed changes to the system registry keys for SharePoint.
–Javi
Austin SharePoint User Group Presentation
I had a great time in Austin… below is my slide deck
Call Back error with People Picker
If the People picker returns a call back error when searching for accounts in a remote domain take the following steps.
