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Developing custom field type for SharePoint 2010 by sreejukg

The ECM features of SharePoint 2010 are excellent. The best thing is the extendibility of the platform using SharePoint designer and Visual Studio. By default SharePoint includes field types such as Single line text, multi-line text etc. The following...

SharePoint 2010: Missing new and edit options from the Site Menu by sreejukg

Recently one of SharePoint WCM client has reported that they were not able to update the site. All the edit/new/upload menu items were missing from the site. It was fine till the week before and suddenly it happened. I thought of publishing the steps...

Create a List Definition in SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio 2010 by sreejukg

In this demonstration, I am going to create a list definition using Visual Studio 2010. For the demonstration purpose, I am going to create a list definition for storing expenses, once deployed, the list definition can be used to create lists to store...

Developing SharePoint 2010 features using Visual Studio 2010 by sreejukg

Developers can extend SharePoint by creating new features. Using features developers can develop customizations and extensions that can be capable of automated deployment, management, un-installation and upgrading. SharePoint Feature allows developer...

Determine the version of MOSS 2007 installed by sreejukg

Recently I came across with an assignment to upgrade MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010. MOSS 2007 was already installed but no documentation was available. I asked the system administrator and he had no clue as he just joined the company. I need to know the...

Backup and Restore in SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell by sreejukg

It is essential to have proper backup/restore strategy in place for your SharePoint farms. SharePoint 2010 provides three types of tools for backup/restore for your server farm. The tools are Central Administration Windows PowerShell Stsadm.exe You need...

Configure BLOB cache for SharePoint 2010 web applications by sreejukg

SharePoint 2010 supports disk-based BLOB Cache that controls the caching for binary large objects. If you configure BLOB for frequently used images, audio files, video files, java script files, css files etc., the performance will be improved. BLOB cache...

Create a Visual Web Part using Visual Studio 2010 by sreejukg

Create a Visual Web part using Visual Studio 2010 In SharePoint 2010, it is possible to design the web parts using the visual interface, this was a long awaited feature and in SharePoint 2010, it is called visual web part. In this article I am going to...

Change SharePoint authentication from classic mode to claims based by sreejukg

Recently I was in a situation to enable form authentication for a SharePoint web application that was configured using classic mode authentication. So the solution for me is to change the authentication mode to claims based. Caution: Be noted that once...

Retention Policy for document library in SharePoint 2010 by sreejukg

SharePoint is emerging as an enterprise level content management system. Usually enterprises load all the records to the ECM system. Most of the records are not relevant after a few years. These documents need to be removed from the ECM System. Over the...
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