Where to host your SharePoint Test Environment?

Where to host your SharePoint Test Environment?To test the UI of a new or existing SharePoint application you are going to need somewhere with the latest build on it. By ‘build’ we mean the code that your developers have written and compiled into something that can be installed, or deployed into SharePoint. Let’s assume you have […]

How to set default column values on a document in SharePoint

How to set default column values on a document in SharePointIf you haven’t heard about ‘Location-based metadata defaults’ or ‘Column default value settings’ then I hope to explain it simply. Try to think of it as a rather cool way to apply default values for your documents metadata (columns) based on which document library folder […]

How to Create a SharePoint User Group

How to Create a SharePoint User GroupDocRead for SharePoint is the only policy management software that integrates straight into SharePoint and allows compliance professionals to distribute and track their policies and procedures. When speaking with customers, I often need to supply them with quick “how to” guides that help remind them how to do some of the […]

How to use the SharePoint Collect Signatures Workflow

How to use the SharePoint Collect Signatures Workflow The SharePoint Collect signatures Workflow allows you to insert signatures into Office documents, specifically Word, Excel and InfoPath and pass the document to a series of individuals so that more signatures can be collected and tasks completed. Depending on the nature of your organisation, approximately half of your […]

How to send an email when a SharePoint site or web is deleted

How to send an email when a SharePoint site or web is deletedFor various governance reasons you may want to email the site owner when a SharePoint site is deleted. A list of the possible reasons could be : The site was deleted in error and the earlier you notify the owners – the better. […]

SharePoint Lessons Learned – Clearly Define a Deployment Baseline (Part 2)

SharePoint Lessons Learned – Clearly Define a Deployment Baseline (Part 2)In part 1 of this post I talked about the principles behind the creation of a Deployment Baseline during the development of SharePoint based applications. In this post I’m going to talk about how we, at Collaboris. normally group and categorise the different artefacts to […]

Building an MSI in Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010

Building an MSI in Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010Here’s my rig: I am running a Windows 2008 Enterprise Server with SharePoint 2007 64 bit and Visual Studio 2008. I have been trying to create an MSI (using VS), that installs Action Server on a SharePoint 64 bit platform. My main problem arrives when the installer attempts to […]

SharePoint Account Permissions and Security Settings

SharePoint Account Permissions and Security SettingsIf you ever need to understand what the WSS_WPG or WSS_ADMIN_WPG groups can and can’t do in SharePoint – look no further! The articles linked below outline their rights in great detail. It not only details what groups the various service accounts in SharePoint belong to, but also what permissions those […]

How to find out who has completed a SharePoint Survey

How to find out who has completed a SharePoint Survey If you would like to find out who has completed a survey you created with either SharePoint Survey or by using DocSurvey for SharePoint, then hopefully the instructions below will help you: Firstly, ensure you check the box as shown below when you create the survey. […]

How to utilise audience targeting in SharePoint

How to utilise audience targeting in SharePointThis article will explain how to setup and configure audience targeting in SharePoint 2010. Before I get started with the guide, I’d like to mention that an Audience is a part of the User Profile Service Application. To manage a SharePoint Audience you will need to open Central Administration website Application Management—–> Manage […]