Tag: SharePoint 2010

  • SharePoint Evolution 2013 – #COM716 Slides

    Last week was another excellent conference – SharePoint Evolution is one of these environments where you will see a bunch of other speakers attending sessions and taking notes, learning from each other’s real world experience. In particular AC’s (Andrew Connell) session on Single Page Applications using a host of open source JavaScript libraries to build…

  • SharePoint Saturday UK 8th December

    I’m really excited to be speaking at SharePoint Saturday UK next weekend, this time about SharePoint & Business Intelligence – based around SQL 2012 improvements but something for everybody (even SharePoint Foundation users!). SharePoint Saturday in the UK is by far the biggest free to attend SharePoint event in the UK – it’s sold out…

  • CRM 2011 & SharePoint 2010 Actions Dropdown Missing

    The Problem You have configured CRM 2011 (online or on-premises) to store documents in SharePoint (online/Office365 or on-premises). Maybe you followed this excellent guide (SharePoint online) or this guide (SharePoint on-premises). Whichever way, you will have downloaded & deployed the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 List Component for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. However, you find that,…

  • Collaboration is the key to successful business

    For anybody lucky enough to be flying  wonderful Blue Islands in the near future (no credit card fees, free name/ticket changes, free baggage!) you get a bonus if you pick up the Blue Islands in-flight magazine as you get to read about the wonderful world of SharePoint and how it can positively affect your business!…

  • International SharePoint Conference Slides

    A great three days at the International SharePoint Conference in London – lots of great content and good to see a lot of the usual faces, always love meeting more of the SharePoint Community. Serious props to Steve & Zoe and the rest of the Combined Knowledge crew for such a well organised conference. Here…

  • Office 365: The server block is not well formed

    A curious error occurred on Office365 the other day… nobody was able to access a document library on SharePoint Online – the helpful error message was “The server block is not well formed”… Without access to the server logs I raised a service request and after trying loads of things that didn’t help I was…

  • Excel Services Web Access on Cloudshare

    Firstly, if you are involved in any kind of software development, whether a lone ranger or a team effort, seriously consider using Cloudshare for your dev environments. It saves me and my team (local and remote) a lot of time! I have a number of environments shared across the team, mostly SharePoint 2010, some with…

  • Channel Islands SharePoint User Group

    It’s been about 6 months since I moved to Jersey to immerse myself in SharePoint at C5 Alliance – I am loving the work and the challenges so far. I also inherited a LinkedIn Channel Islands SharePoint User Group (open to all – do join if you have any interest!) which had stagnated a bit;…

  • Create Thousands of Folders in SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell

    I was recently trying to figure out a MOSS 2007 AND SharePoint 2003 backwards-compatible way of detecting whether a folder exists in a document library with thousands of items, from a remote location, using Out Of The Box web services… don’t ask why…! Unless I’ve missed something, it’s not possible (apart from the slightly hacky…

  • SharePoint 2010 Intranet Branding for Developers

    Thanks to everybody for coming to a packed session on Intranet Branding for Developers at SharePoint Saturday UK – as promised please find the slides and code below SharePoint Saturday UK – Intranet Branding for Developers View more presentations from gusfraser The code is available here: http://j.mp/spsuk25 You can ping me on twitter for questions…