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18
Jul

Published Content Types and Reusable Workflows

Here is a great post on Published Content Types and Workflows by Jennifer Mason.

 

18
Jul

How to create a Custom Theme for SharePoint 2010 in 10 minutes

Here is a great post on a tool called Theme Builder. Lou van der Bijl has done a great job in explaining how the tool works. Check it out!

https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/eusp/Pages/Microsofts-Theme-Builder.aspx

11
Jan

SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach

This year in SPSVB 2011 I spoke on two topics.

- SharePoint 2010 Records Management Capabilites

- SharePoint 2010 Workflows

Below are the links to the slides, please feel free to contact me I always welcome your feedback!

10
Jan

Live Online SharePoint Saturday EMEA

Live Online SharePoint Saturday EMEA is back on January 22nd, 2011. This is the second annual SPSEMEA and promises to be a huge event with over 30 sessions, 4 simultaneous Live Meeting Channels and a public text chatroom open to participants and speakers.
 
Registration for SPSEMEA begins on January 11 and is free to the global SharePoint Community. There are over 30 SharePoint Evangelists, including 10 SharePoint MVPs, from around the world providing content you would normally only see at a paid SharePoint Conference. Tracks are set for SharePoint End Users and Business Managers on topics for “How We Did It: Real World Case Studies“, “No Code/Assembly Solutions“, “SharePoint Interface Branding“, and “SharePoint for Business“. The sessions will be recorded and made available two weeks after the event.
 
I will be talking about Records Management in SharePoint 2010 and hope to see you there and will be ready to answer your questions.
 
We hope you’ll join us for Live Online SharePoint Saturday EMEA. Please register in advance to guarantee yourself free access to some of the best presentations available, all aimed at SharePoint End Users.
 
See you there.
Coskun Cavusoglu
6
Jan

SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach

I’m pretty excited about SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach 2011. Last year around this time I met a lot of great people in this event and this year I look forward meeting all of you who are coming to the event this weekend.  This year I’ll be representing West Monroe Partners and I’ll be speaking on Records Management and Workflows.  Click Here to see the schedule!

29
Dec

Operations started by an earlier run of the Farm Configuration Wizard are still in progress

Did the configuration wizard not complete properly? And now you are getting the following error when you’re running the Farm Configuration Wizard

“Operations started by an earlier run of the Farm Configuration Wizard are still in progress. You must wait for those operations to complete before running the wizard again. You can monitor the status of these operations by looking at the “Farm Configuration Wizard” timer job on the Timer Job Status page in the Monitoring section of Central Administration.”

To get rid of the error message you will need to delete the Job Definition for the Farm Configuration Wizard.

Go to – Central Administration > Monitoring > Job Definitions

Then find Farm Configuration Wizard. Once you click on the job definition you’ll see the Edit Timer Job screen where you will click on Delete

After you delete the job definition for the Farm Configuration Wizard you can now go the wizard page and you should see the following farm configuration wizard.

29
Dec

Load control template file /_controltemplates/TaxonomyPicker.ascx failed

If you get the following error in your App Log  -

Load control template file /_controltemplates/TaxonomyPicker.ascx failed: Could not load type ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.TaxonomyPicker’ from assembly ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c’.

Check out this blog post on how to fix it – http://todd-carter.com/post/2010/05/03/Help-Wanted-Taxonomy-Picker.aspx

23
Dec

Metalogix Publishing Sites Error

You might get an error when you’re trying to move publishing sites to SharePoint 2010.

“Provisioning did not succeed. Details: Failed to provision all permission settings.”

Resolution: When your’re copying the site bring it over as a team site. Once it’s created, then enable the publishing feature. After you enable the feature then copy over the content to avoid this problem.

23
Dec

Metalogix – Error when copying the content of the site collection

I’ve been using Metalogix Migration Manager 2010 for the migration projects that I have been running the past few months. And although I’ve used it many times there some silly things that I keep doing that throws me off.

When using Metalogix, if Metalgix is already open and you delete a site collection from the Central Admin, you will see an error with Metalogix when you’re copying items. Although you’ll see everything and can navigate through things copying does not work.

Resolution: Restart metalogix. Close metalogix after you delete the site collection from central admin and simply open Metalogix again. The error will go away.

21
Dec

How to update the SharePoint 2010 Breadcrumb

If you’re just starting to use SharePoint 2010 you’ll see that the new interface has a different model for breadcrumbs. It’s pretty slick once you get use to it but if you want to help out your end users until they’re fully trained and comfortable with the new SP2010 interface you can have a hybrid breadcrumb approach.

“A hybrid approach to SharePoint 2010 Breadcrumbs”
To have a hybrid approach to breadcrumbs you can simply add the vertical breadcrumb to your v4.master page as show in Neil’s Post.

Where to place it:
If you’re wondering where to place the code that Neil has highlighted I would recommend using the Page Description section, the breadcrumb fits perfectly under the page description.  Once you open the master page in SharePoint Designer 2010, search for  s4-pagedescription and place the breadcrumb code under the content place holder as show in the below figure.

SharePoint 2010 Breadcrumb

SharePoint 2010 Breadcrumb