Sharad Kumar

In order to setup SharePoint without AD, you need to run following PowerShell command on Management Shell after installing SharePoint on your server, but before running Config Wizard: (we don’t want to run this SP farm in stand-alone mode!)

In continuation of my previous post about using Calendar Overlay with new SharePoint 2010 when you have other Calendar view in any other lists in SharePoint. Now the other option for Overlay we have is with Exchange.

Just like SharePoint 2007, you can create host-header based site collections in SharePoint 2010 as well. It means, that you do not necessarily need to create a site-collection under a managed path like /sites/, you can create multiple root-level site collections on same web-application/port by using host-header site collections. All you need to do is point your domain or sub-domain to your web-application and create a matching site-collection that you want.

One of the most common features I have seen in common use for SharePoint (prior to 2010) in Intranet environments for Team site is Calendar’s. Not only the Calendar list type, but also the ability to add a Calendar view to any list that has the desired columns to construct a Calendar – such as Start, End, Title etc. While this was all great for a single site/calendar, the problem of having to track numerous calendar’s remained. With introduction of Outlook 2007 bi-directional integration with SharePoint, and particularly the ability of Outlook to overlay calendar helped bridge the gap. Now one could connect to number of team sites, and setup Calendar overlays in Outlook using varying colours, to easily identify event source and yet benefit from the plotting of events on single Calendar view. This was all good, but each user in your Enterprise was supposed to setup in a “pull” fashion. This is good for flexibility, not so good when you need to “push” consistency and productivity (re-use).

In continuation of previous series of posts, for exploring options to customize SharePoint 2007 list forms, I am further introducing ways to deal with yet another limitation reminiscent in forms with SharePoint 2007 – Column Data Validations.

With the launch of fabulous Windows 7 (yeah – I am loving it!), I think, we all deserve little fun and celebration of a great OS! I couldn’t organize a party (!), so I got interested in creating a site theme for SharePoint 2007 (or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0) instead; inspired with Windows Live and Windows 7 site.

You probably already know that SharePoint 2010 supports installing on 64-bit Windows 7 and Vista, for developers. I’ll give you a quick walkthrough of how I’m setting up my development machine, in continuation of my new found love for native-boot with VHDs.

First - Many thanks to Windows 7 (and 2008 R2), there has been some very useful enhancements in my “Digital Lifestyle” recently!