sharepoint

howto://bulk check-in files in SharePoint

2011-06-07

Since I get asked about checked out files once a week, and can never quite remember how to check them in, here’s a quick article on how to bulk check-in files that you have checked out, whether it’s because you copied them up using the WebDAV path, or because that’s the default behaviour for your document library.

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howto://map a drive to sharepoint

2011-05-10

If you have ever needed to move a lot of files up to a document library on a SharePoint server, or diff a library to a network directory to make sure everything was transferred, or post things to SharePoint using a script, then you probably wanted to map the SharePoint site as a drive. Having [...]

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howto://open a pdf in your browser from SharePoint

2011-01-26

How to get PDFs to just open in your browser when clicking on them in SharePoint 2010.

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howto://install the SharePoint 2010 SLK

2010-11-22

The SharePoint Learning Kit is a framework for using SharePoint as a training tool. The latest version has been released as a beta, but the instructions for installing leave a little bit to be desired. This post should help with that.

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howto://grant full permissions to all mysites in SharePoint.

2010-11-17

Pinky-“What are we going to tonight, Brain?”      The Brain-“The same thing we do every night, try to take over the mysites.” Pinky-“Narf!” Okay, not the most inspired opening I have ever penned, but the need to do actually do what this post covers has me feeling a little less like The Brain, and a [...]

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howto://prevent SharePoint giving users the cooties

2010-11-01

If you are running a SharePoint site, your users are constantly uploading and downloading files from the site. You need to make sure it doesn’t become a vector for spreading malware through your environment. Forefront Protection 2010 is what you want, and this post will tell you how to get it set up and running.

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The trial period for this product has expired. Trial Period? WTH?

2010-10-25

You go to log onto your SharePoint site only to be told that the trial period has expired. The only real problem with that is you didn’t install a trial, you licensed the thing! Here is how to get past that.

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howto://upload large files to sharepoint 2010

2010-07-23

You’ve installed SharePoint, added the BLOB service, and think everything is shiny…only to get spanked with a 404 when you try to upload larger files…here is what you are missing.

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Nice picture of a blizzard, but dude, where’s my site?

2010-04-09

  Have you ever tried to access a perfectly good SharePoint site using the browser on the SharePoint server itself, only to encounter a completely blank page? I have, and it is no fun, let me tell you. While this can be considered a by design behaviour, and is intended to improve security, there are [...]

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