SharePoint 2010

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Posted by on August 2, 2014 at 9:10 am

First, an introduction to the Productivity Hub for SharePoint 2010: Microsoft has developed the Productivity Hub to help support your ongoing end user training efforts. The Hub is a SharePoint Server site collection that serves as a learning community and is fully customizable. It provides a central place for your training efforts, and includes training […]

Assign Default Values to your People Picker Control in SharePoint 2010

Posted by on July 10, 2014 at 8:53 am

What would it be like if you had power in your hands but still were not able to use it… Yes it happens almost every day in the lives of us SharePoint People. Today we are going to talk about one such situation: the people picker control. You cannot set a default value for the […]

“Email A Link” Ribbon button for a List!!!

Posted by on June 17, 2014 at 2:41 pm

Today we are going to talk about a piece of functionality that would make you feel….Oh i have to have it!.  I am talking about the “Email a Link” functionality for an individual list item. You may think this is already available so what’s the commotion all about? Yes!!  This functionality is available in SharePoint document […]

SharePoint Prompts for Credentials Three Times Followed by a Blank White Page

Posted by on May 15, 2014 at 3:16 pm

Several of my users have encountered the problem of three failed login attempts to SharePoint resulting in a blank white screen.  This can happen when a user’s  login credentials (username and password) are incorrect.  Unfortunately, this can also happen when they put in their correct information.  This second scenario can be bedeviling so I’ll go over […]

Redirect a SharePoint site

Posted by on April 1, 2014 at 4:50 pm

Recently, we needed to redirect users from a site in SharePoint to another site.  First, we set the old site to Read-Only. How? Navigate to {Central Administration Site |Application Management | Configure Quotas and Locks} and select one of the options under “Site Lock Information“. We then copied all of the content, and sent out a message […]

Adjust / Modify a Column Width in a List

Posted by on February 2, 2014 at 2:31 pm

Today I implemented an Issue Tracking list in SharePoint 2010 for a project.  As the users started using it, I noticed that the Title column was narrow, hence the longer titles were wrapping to several lines.  This does not look good at all. So I went to Google and set out to modify the column […]

Unable to Create a New Document Library or List on a site

Posted by on September 9, 2013 at 1:27 pm

Today a site owner wanted to create a document library on his site that had been migrated from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010.  He attempted to create the doc library several ways, none of which worked: Site Actions, New Document Library Site Actions, More Actions Libaries, Create The problem turned out to be a Site […]

Display Name will not Update

Posted by on August 26, 2013 at 1:34 pm

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 […]

Two Types of SharePoint Developers

Posted by on August 20, 2013 at 11:42 am

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 […]

Uploaded files to Document Library show as Checked Out

Posted by on August 19, 2013 at 5:11 pm

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 […]