Microsoft decided to deprecate Meeting Workspaces in Sharepoint 2013. These handy site templates are still widely used in SharePoint 2010 (SP2010). In this post I’m going to describe an alternative. According to Microsoft, there are enough alternatives for Meeting Workspaces, they mention Lync meetings, OneNote, SP team sites or the My Site. I have looked
By default, in SharePoint 2013, Workflow Manager Service is not configured. Workflow Manager Service has to be downloaded, installed and configured manually before it can be used in SP 2013. Here is a step by step walk-through. Step 1: Open Microsoft Web Platform Installer My version of WPI is 4.5 Step 2: Search for Workflow.
In this article, I would like to make a step by step walk through of creating Content Type Hub in SharePoint 2013. Topics I would like to cover in this blog are: What is a Content Type? What Content Type takes with/includes in it? What is Content Type Syndication? What is Content Type Hub? How
Customization of Site Definition & what is the best way to do that? You can do customization on each of the sites created from the site definition OR you can customize the out of the box site definition itself. However, a SharePoint service pack upgrade would break any customization to out of box site definition. Then
The scenario is as follows: You are administering a central SQL Server, which hosts SharePoint databases for many DEV/QA test farms. Those farms come and go as VMs with broken SharePoints are removed and new are set up. If your team is sloppy, this can happen even a few times per month (depending on the
This article assumes that SharePoint has already been established as the technology of choice. If your project includes evaluating whether or not SharePoint is the right technology for your solution, this article may only partially apply. There is a lot of room for interpretation on what a “SharePoint Business Analyst” actually is. For this article,
In the Simple SharePoint Invoicing (Part 1) we’ve created document library to manage invoices. We can share some date between SharePoint and Word document. However there is still issue with “Total” field – we neither can calculate sum not insert it’s value into invoice. To fix this issue we now remove it and recreate it as simple
If you have a situation to move a SharePoint Designer workflow from DEV to Test or to PROD, there is no easy way unless you have a migration tool (DocAve, ControlPoint, Quest , etc..), my present client I’ve no option for those, I know if we can backup/restore site collection then its all easy OOTB
If you ever need to send email from a custom SharePoint application, you probably want to utilize the capabilities already provided by SharePoint. By doing this, you keep your email settings consistent and easy to manage. Make sure your outgoing mail settings are configured. First you will need to be sure that outgoing mail settings
A few weeks ago I was totally vexed with a problem with a workflow on one of my SharePoint document libraries that didn’t work as I expected. I set it to start on document creation and the workflow needs the metadata of the document to do it’s thing. When I added a document and set
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