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Niklas Goude -Expert in Residence You can change a Web site’s locale setting using Windows PowerShell. Simply replace the value of the locale property by using an object of the type System.Globalization.CultureInfo. The example below shows how to set the locale to Swedish: PS > $culture = [ System.Globalization.CultureInfo ] :: CreateSpecificCulture ( “ sv - SE ” ) PS > $spWeb = Get-SPWeb http : // SP01.powershell.nu PS >...

Categorizing content helps users effectively find documents within the site. This can be done via SharePoint through the use of custom columns or meta data. Create these columns at the global level of the site collection and add them to the required content types. The document libraries or lists associated with these content types will then inherit these custom columns. These custom columns can also be set as required fields. For example, you may...

SharePoint 2010 offers over 500 new cmdlets that we can use to automate the SharePoint 2010 environment through Windows PowerShell. The cmdlets go as deep as SPWeb, everything beyond SPWeb requires additional scripting, such as adding fields, views and items. Here’s an example showing how to add an item to the Announcements list in SharePoint 2010: $spWeb = Get-SPWeb -identity http : // SP $spList = $spWeb . GetList ( “ Lists / Announcements...

SOS Member Eric Gregorich I have completed several projects using SharePoint Timer Jobs and for each project I am reminded how Timer Jobs can be a pain to implement and test. Yet they are often necessary to meet the requirements of the application. Here is what I have learned regarding Timer Jobs. Make them stupid! Rather than creating timer jobs that DO things, create Timer Jobs that simply tell something else to do the work. Imagine that you use...

SOS Member JWalsh Easy, efficient ways to access SharePoint (MOSS 2007) content from Outlook: 1) Set up RSS Feeds for lists or blogs . This way when someone adds to a list or blog, you don't have to get the email alerts to fill up your inbox. You will just see that there is a new item in a folder in Outlook and can preview it in there! You can set this up for a particular view in a list too. How : In SharePoint go to the list you want to monitor...

Mattias Karlsson -Expert in Residence In SharePoint 2010, you are able to create simple rules to validate the data inserted by the end users before saving a new item. These Validation Rules are created on a per-list basis and are using the same type of formulas to validate the data as when you created calculated columns. A simple example would look like this: =[Discount]<[Cost] which would send an alert to the end user if the column Cost is less...

Kenneth Lo -Expert in Residence It is time to bust out my PMP (Project Management Professional) hat. Many people have a love-hate relationship with MS Project. This great product indeed packs many neat features. However, this long list of options may also intimidate some end-users who merely need to make simple updates. We all know SharePoint is awesome, and it of course has a solution for us! You can easily create a Project Task List, which is essentially...

Mattias Karlsson -Expert in Residence You will sometimes want to reuse a customized Web Part at different sites. An example of this could be the Content Query Web Part that you could customize to show aggregate content from different sites. If this customized Web Part could be useful in different sites, or at different locations, it can be exported and then stored in the Web Part Gallery. This is how to do this. (Note, not all Web Parts can be exported...