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The Big Dummies Guide to Building a SharePoint Internet Site by Bil Simser

I'm about to embark on a new project, building a SharePoint based Internet site. This is new for me as all the SharePoint work I've done has been Intranet facing and I know there are some challenges with SharePoint and outward facing sites. So I called...
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Adding Ratings and Comments to SharePoint Publishing Pages by Bil Simser

One of the cool features that was introduced in SharePoint 2010 was ratings. Ratings allows you, with a simple configuration option, to provide the ability for users to rate individual list items. This includes pages and documents because, after all,...
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Opening Files in the Browser with SharePoint by Bil Simser

A change in SharePoint 2010 is how it handles browser file permissions which results in how files are opened when they’re selected. A common problem is clicking on a PDF file and seeing the browser Save dialog instead of launching the Adobe reader. There...
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jQuery, SharePoint Picture Libraries, and automatic thumbnails by Bil Simser

Picture Libraries are an interesting beast in SharePoint. When you upload a picture to a picture library you get not one but three images! Whenever you upload an image to a Picture Library, SharePoint automatically creates two additional images for you...

Live SharePoint Data Out Of The Box by Bil Simser

I posed a question this morning about how many people knew about the live data feature in SharePoint views. The what? Yeah, you can configure a view to do live updates. It's a new feature in SharePoint 2010 but one that removes the need for additonal...
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Custom SharePoint Ribbons and Current List Item in JavaScript by Bil Simser

I recently had to build a custom ribbon item displayed when a user viewed a list item. The ribbon button would whisk the user away to a view on another list, passing the current list item ID to the view to use as a query string filter. The secondary list...

SharePoint Server 2010 Windows Phone 7 Mobile Edition by Bil Simser

It’s wonderful to end the week with two of my favorite passions, SharePoint and Windows Phone 7. The last few months I’ve been working on a special project that you can install on your Windows Phone 7 starting today. SharePoint Server 2010 running on...

SharePoint Content Type Cheat Sheet by Bil Simser

Principle Any application or solution built in SharePoint must use a custom content type over adding columns to lists. The only exception to this is one-off solutions that have no life-cycle, proof-of-concepts, etc. Creating Content Types Web UI. Not...

Applying Quotas Across all My Sites by Bil Simser

Just a quick snippet this morning. If you need to apply a new quota template to all users My Sites here's a quick script to do it. Changing an existing quota is fine but if you're migrating users from another system or you just want to up everyone's storage...

SharePoint Document Libraries and Horrors Oh My by Bil Simser

I thought I would capture a few ideas around document libraries and share with the rest of the class. These are not “best practices” as I don’t want to sound too preachy so let’s call them “pretty good practices that you might want to consider if you...
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