• SharePoint document convertor

    by  • December 20, 2011 • 0 Comments

    SharePoint Document Converter solution gives a start on how we can leverage the Word automation Service to convert documents to formats that word can support. This project convert documents of type “DOCX” or “DOC” to any possible file type that word support like to PDF, XPS, DOCX, DOCM, DOC, DOTX, DOTM, DOT, XML, RTF, MHT. [...]

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    Christmas Time – Snow in Home Page

    by  • December 8, 2011 • 3 Comments

    Its Christmas time and time for some fun with our SharePoint site. Here is a quick trick to show snow fall in your SharePoint page (May be your Intranet Home Page). It will take you just few minutes to setup. 1. Go to this site and download Snowstorm.js file and upload it to some Document [...]

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    Error with DataForm web part in SharePoint 2010

    by  • December 7, 2011 • 0 Comments

    I had recently seen in forums where people have issues with DataForm web parts in SharePoint 2010, one way or the other. So I thought its time to make it a post. Error Scenarios: These are the possible errors that can occur: 1. SharePoint Designer popping up correlation ID with detailed error something like this [...]

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    SharePoint Workflow history list never gets deleted

    by  • November 21, 2011 • 0 Comments

    This post will help to understand the different issues and solutions with workflow history stored in MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010. There are organizations were numerous workflows are created that are developed using, either out of the box features or SharePoint Designer or Visual Studio developed or even third party tools like Nintex or K2. [...]

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    CAML Viewer Web Part

    by  • November 20, 2011 • 0 Comments

    One of the easier ways of creating CAML query is by creating the required view and then creating Query from it. CAML Viewer makes it even more simpler. CAML Viewer lets you view CAML query for Views and it also shows internal names for all fields. I developed this using SharePoint client object model and [...]

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    Recycle Bin Search WebPart for Sharepoint

    by  • November 4, 2011 • 4 Comments

    In this article we will see how we can develop a simple Visual WebPart which can be used to search Recycle Bin in Sites and Sub Sites using SPRecycleBinItemCollection and SPRecycleBinQuery.  1. Fire up Visual Studio and create a new Visual WebPart project. 2. Add a TextBox (txtTitle), Button (btnGo) and Div (results) to show our [...]

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    Back up and Restore of Site collections into different farms

    by  • October 29, 2011 • 0 Comments

    This post would describe how conventionally a SharePoint site is backed up from one farm and restored into another farm where the SharePoint farm versions could be different. I was having a difficult situation when my site collection restore gave me this error. It basically describes that the backup of the web application that I took [...]

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    Hybrid SharePoint Environments with Office 365 [White Paper]

    by  • October 25, 2011 • 0 Comments

    Confused about whether to choose Office 365  or not? Confused whether on-premise or ‘on the cloud’ is your better choice? This paper provides information, advice and guidance to help organizations determine whether a hybrid approach is beneficial.  In addition, it highlights how best to approach a hybrid solution and how to best plan for distributed [...]

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    Custom Signout Page in SharePoint 2010

    by  • June 13, 2011 • 4 Comments

    In this Article we will see how we can set a custom Sign out page for your SharePoint 2010 Web Application. This does not involve dirty tricks like replacing signout.aspx. We will be using Visual Studio to design our sign out page and PowerShell to set our custom page as default sign out page. At [...]

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