Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
Secure Store Service Application in SharePoint Secure store service enables you to securely store credentials required to connect to external systems and associate those credentials to a specific identity or group of identities. Secure Store Service solves the problem of sign-in into many applications and entering different usernames and passwords. This is…
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So you need to determine the best way to manage SharePoint users, Whether to use SharePoint groups or Active Directory groups to manage permissions in SharePoint? Well, Both SharePoint Group and AD Group have their own advantages and disadvantages. Let me list down some of them: Manageability: Any SharePoint site owner/admin can…
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In a SharePoint architect/administrator’s life, It’s quite a common task to takeover existing SharePoint environments during Job/Role switch. From my experience, Here is the checklist to help ease up documentation for SharePoint: SharePoint Infrastructure Farm(s) Topology – List of servers and roles, physical and logical architecture diagrams for production, Staging, and Development…
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Let me document the Frequently Asked Questions on SharePoint Managed Paths during my training sessions: What is Managed Path in SharePoint? A managed path is a location within a web application in which you can have site collections. When you create a web application, there are two managed paths created with it….
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Reference Table for SharePoint List Registration ID: ID Name 100 Generic list 101 Document library 102 Survey 103 Links list 104 Announcements list 105 Contacts list 106 Events list 107 Tasks list 108 Discussion board 109 Picture library 110 Data sources 111 Site template gallery 112 User Information list 113 Web Part…
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There are limits in the number of columns we can create in a SharePoint list. You may Get “Column Limit Exceeded” when You add a new column to a SharePoint List. This is because of the column limitations. Column limits in SharePoint 2003/2007 List: With Windows SharePoint Services, you can create the…
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SharePoint Content Type IDs – Reference: Here is the reference for SharePoint 2010 Parent content type id format: Content Type ID System 0x Item 0×01 Document 0×0101 Event 0×0102 Issue 0×0103 Announcement 0×0104 Link 0×0105 Contact 0×0106 Message 0×0107 Task 0×0108 Workflow History 0×0109 Post 0×0110 Comment 0×0111 East Asia Contact 0×0116…
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When you create SharePoint sites, you’ll be picking a relevant template from a number of available ones. So, SharePoint makes it easier rather than developing everything from the scratch. If you create a SharePoint site/web using PowerShell, You need the template code or id to provision. How to get SharePoint Site/Web Templates…
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Deployment at site collection level (No Web Application-scoped Features or Farm-scoped Features). So, If you have 100 site collections, then you have to deploy the same sandbox solution to 100 site collections. No SPSecurity – Therefore no Elevated Privileges You can’t use SPSite object to get other site collections. (But you can…
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Lots of folks asking me on SharePoint “!New” Indicator. By default, SharePoint 2007/2010 shows “! New” Indicator for 2 days from the creation of a List item/document. It simply indicates its newly added content, such as document or list item. How to Replace New tag in SharePoint 2010? As part of branding,…
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