By Ricardo Neill, on April 1st, 2011%
Findability is one of the most important factors in the success of a SharePoint site. If users cannot find what they are looking they will quickly use alternate methods to get results. Employees that cannot find information are less productive and less likely to use the system in general. Likewise users that cannot find information on . . . → Read More: Sharepoint 2010 :: Top 10 Steps to Improve Findability in Sharepoint 2010
By Ricardo Neill, on March 31st, 2011%
The SharePoint 2010 Health Analyzer is a great way of getting information about the state of your SharePoint farm. It checks things including disk space and database fragmentation and other security, performance and configuration issues. If the health analyzer finds issues you are presented with a message when you browse to the Central Administration site. There . . . → Read More: Sharepoint 2010 Hosting:: Solving the SharePoint Health Analysis Issues
By Bob Anderson, on March 29th, 2011%
Status Indicator is a report type, where it shows and compares the actual performance of particular measure with goal value. Without doing any calculations, you can know the performance of a measure with good status indicator. You can know whether measure results are on target or off target. This post explains how to create a status . . . → Read More: Sharepoint 2010 Hosting :: How To Create Status Indicators in Sharepoint 2010
By Ricardo Neill, on March 21st, 2011%
You can provision managed metadata column into the content type.
You need to add the “Metadata” column into the site columns and content type using element xml file, and also need to connect the field to metadata column in the feature activation.
Here is the solution:
1. You need to add a new field element of the type “TaxonomyFieldType”.
<xml . . . → Read More: Sharepoint 2010 Hosting :: How to program Managed Metadata columns in Sharepoint 2010?
By Ricardo Neill, on November 23rd, 2010%
Planning of backup & restore process becomes very critical when you are handling the large content volume in SharePoint 2010 due to some of the limitations of the content backup and performance issues. Let’s say you have the terabytes of data in your SharePoint 2010 Farm and you create the backup/restore policy.
The following things are important . . . → Read More: Sharepoint Foundation Hosting :: Important Things to Consider Before taking Backup and Restore of your Sharepoint 2010 site
By Ricardo Neill, on November 5th, 2010%
In this tutorial, we will show how to develop Provider and Consumer web parts and connect them through an Interface.
The result will be the ability to have two web parts on a SharePoint 2010 page and filter the contents of the consumer web part on the data from the provider web part. This is almost like a . . . → Read More: SPF 2010 Hosting :: Working with Consumer Web Parts Provider
By Ricardo Neill, on October 28th, 2010%
On some occasion, we can encounter the fact that the Sharepoint Alert that we setup does not work. Even though we have set this up properly on Sharepoint Central Administration, it does not fire the alerts properly. Why can this happen?
This article will discuss the scenario that you may encounter and the solution offered to tackle . . . → Read More: European Sharepoint Hosting :: Alert is not working – How to Solve it?
By Ricardo Neill, on October 22nd, 2010%
A Data Connection Library in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is a library that can contain two kinds of data connections: an Office Data Connection (ODC) file or a Universal Data Connection (UDC) file. Microsoft InfoPath 2010 uses data connections that comply with the Universal Data Connection (UDC) file schema and typically have either a *.udcx or . . . → Read More: Sharepoint 2010 Hosting :: Working with Data Connection Library in Sharepoint 2010
By Ricardo Neill, on October 21st, 2010%
Today when duplicity problem has increased a lot, authentication has become a must. Authentication is the process of determining if someone is who they claim to be. It answers the question “Who is this guy really?” Taking advantage of SharePoint Server 2010 Claims Based Authentication feature may help you curb this duplicity issue. Even if you . . . → Read More: Sharepoint 2010 Hosting :: Working with Claim-based Authentication
By Ricardo Neill, on October 19th, 2010%
While consulting with clients new to SharePoint and how the robust functionality can empower their organization’s collaboration efforts, we are typically asked this question: “What’s the difference between a discussion board and a blog?”
Well, that’s a very good question to ask and sometimes a little difficult to explain. Why? It’s mainly due to the fact that . . . → Read More: Sharepoint 2010 Hosting :: What’s the difference between a Discussion Board and a Blog?