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Sharepoint 2010 :: Top 10 Steps to Improve Findability in Sharepoint 2010

 

 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 an internet site will look elsewhere for products and services losing the company revenue. SharePoint 2007 introduced some powerful tools for improving findability but…

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Sharepoint 2010 Hosting:: Solving the SharePoint Health Analysis Issues

 

 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 is also a link to find out details of all problems that were found. One thing to note, however, is that it can take…

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Sharepoint 2010 Hosting :: How To Create Status Indicators in Sharepoint 2010

 

 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 indicator in SharePoint 2010. Status Indicator shows name, results and icon. It provides a quick information, green icon indicates good performance, Red icons flags…

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Exception calling Web Services in SharePoint

 

 After upgrading to .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 on my SharePoint web servers you may get the following Unauthorized exception. Type: WebException, Exception Message: The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized. This error really has nothing to do with SharePoint, and is really just an IIS web services related item.  This problem is due to an added bit of security included in the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1.  Here is the Microsoft KB article explaining the issue…

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MOSS 2007 Hosting :: How to apply a Theme to all sub sites in SharePoint 2007

 

 Apply a Theme to all sub sites: (works for MOSS 2007 only, not WSS 3.0) Change the top site to the theme of your choice using the normal method in Site Actions > Site Settings > Site Theme. Navigate to the top site to see the newly applied theme. View the HTML source of the SharePoint page using the theme you want. Look for a link tag containing the .css file for the applied theme.  It will look something like…

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