March 2011 - SharePoint Tips

Mattias Karlsson -Expert in Residence Metadata navigation is a new feature in SharePoint 2010 that allows you to quickly find and filter content in large document libraries. End users will get a new navigation pane in the left-hand side navigation of the document library when they enable the Metadata navigation. The entries displayed in the pane are the columns that are specified in the Metadata Navigation settings. Clicking on any of the items in...

Mattias Karlsson -Expert in Residence Some SharePoint lists could be useful to reuse at other locations in your SharePoint environment. Customized SharePoint lists can easily be created as templates so the customized list will be available when other users are creating new lists. You can browse the List, select the List tab in the Ribbon, and click List settings to create a template of a list in SharePoint 2010. ,. Under Permissions and Management...

Mattias Karlsson -Expert in Residence When creating a new content database in SharePoint 2010 the default value for maximum amount of sites is set to 15,000. A quite ridiculous figure since the soft recommendation from Microsoft for a content database is 200 GB. You should always create Site quotas and then calculate how many sites you can have in each content database to control storage in you content database. But even if the soft recommendation...

Mattias Karlsson -Expert in Residence The business connectivity Service (formerly known as the Business Data Catalogue) is a set of services and features that enable you to both read and write information to external Line of Business applications. Using SharePoint designer 2010, you can now create a connection to databases and publish the connection to SharePoint so that end users are able to view, create, and modify the information. These connections...

Niklas Goude -Expert in Residence You can add a User to a Site in SharePoint with the New-SPUser cmdlet. In the example below, the user: “powershell\User2” is added to the site http://SP01. PS > New-SPUser -UserAlias "powershell\user2" -Web http : // sp01 UserLogin DisplayName --------- ----------- POWERSHELL\user2 User2 ReTweet this Tip!

Anjali Sharma -Expert in Residence In order to get user feedback or comment posted on a SharePoint site, add a note board web part to any page layout or a web part page to allow users to easily post comments. This web part can also be used to create a message board for any site or for users to post feedback to blogs and wiki articles. ReTweet this Tip!

Mattias Karlsson -Expert in Residence With Audiences (Target audiences in SharePoint 2007), you are able to create groups that can be shown specific information that is only relevant to that audience. For example, you can create an Audience for each office location within the company. You can then select the specific Audience to receive company announcements that are relevant to them, filtering the information for the other offices. Audiences in SharePoint...

Niklas Goude -Expert in Residence You can return a list showing all SharePoint Users that are member of a specific group by using the Get-SPUser cmdlet. The example below shows how to list all SharePoint Users that are member of the “Viewers” group in the Site http://sp01.You can return a list showing all SharePoint Users that are member of a specific group by using the Get-SPUser cmdlet. The example below shows how to list all SharePoint...