I had a user who got married and submitted her name change to the company.  Active Directory was properly updated.  Her old last name (Smith) does not appear anywhere in her AD record and has been replaced with her new last name (Jones).   We have SharePoint 2010 set to perform an AD sync every […]

There seems to be a fair amount of confusion in the IT world regarding SharePoint Development.  Essentially, the term SharePoint Developer is too vague. I have conversations with recruiters on a frequent basis who want to discuss the three typical roles of SharePoint Architect, SharePoint Administrator, and SharePoint Developer.  We need to discuss this third […]

If you have a document library with required fields, then uploading multiple files at once is going to cause them all to be “checked out” to the person who uploaded them. As you know, if you upload a single file to a document library with required fields you will be prompted to fill out those […]

Actually, the title here is misleading.  Let me explain: when a user clicks the X in the upper right corner of a web part (while editing the page) it does not actually delete the web part.  Rather it is “closed”.  There’s actually a big difference between a deleted and a closed web part. However, if […]

I ran into the problem last week where the Navigation link was missing from Site Actions, Site Settings, Look and Feel.  To resolve this problem: turn on Publishing. 1.  In Site collection features, you’ll want to activate SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure. 2.  You will also want to turn on Publishing at the site level.  In […]

In the previous post, I pointed out that in order to change the view in SharePoint 2010 permissions, you have to go into the List Settings.  You can create or edit the Views there.  However, sometimes the List Settings option is missing.  In this case, the page is there… there’s just not a link for […]

I’ve had a few users reach out to me that they wanted to see additional columns in either of the two views (Detail and List) available to them in Permissions, People and Groups, <PermissionGroup>. We are used to seeing Modify this View in the View dropdown in document libraries.  (Our client has SharePoint 2010 but […]