Category Archives for "SharePoint"

How to send an email when a SharePoint site or web is deleted

How to send an email when a SharePoint site or web is deletedFor various governance reasons you may want to email the site owner when a SharePoint site is deleted. A list of the possible reasons could be : The site was deleted in error and the earlier you notify the owners – the better. […]

SharePoint Lessons Learned – Clearly Define a Deployment Baseline (Part 2)

SharePoint Lessons Learned – Clearly Define a Deployment Baseline (Part 2)In part 1 of this post I talked about the principles behind the creation of a Deployment Baseline during the development of SharePoint based applications. In this post I’m going to talk about how we, at Collaboris. normally group and categorise the different artefacts to […]

Building an MSI in Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010

Building an MSI in Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010Here’s my rig: I am running a Windows 2008 Enterprise Server with SharePoint 2007 64 bit and Visual Studio 2008. I have been trying to create an MSI (using VS), that installs Action Server on a SharePoint 64 bit platform. My main problem arrives when the installer attempts to […]

SharePoint Account Permissions and Security Settings

SharePoint Account Permissions and Security SettingsIf you ever need to understand what the WSS_WPG or WSS_ADMIN_WPG groups can and can’t do in SharePoint – look no further! The articles linked below outline their rights in great detail. It not only details what groups the various service accounts in SharePoint belong to, but also what permissions those […]

How to find out who has completed a SharePoint Survey

How to find out who has completed a SharePoint Survey If you would like to find out who has completed a survey you created with either SharePoint Survey or by using DocSurvey for SharePoint, then hopefully the instructions below will help you: Firstly, ensure you check the box as shown below when you create the survey. […]

How to utilise audience targeting in SharePoint

How to utilise audience targeting in SharePointThis article will explain how to setup and configure audience targeting in SharePoint 2010. Before I get started with the guide, I’d like to mention that an Audience is a part of the User Profile Service Application. To manage a SharePoint Audience you will need to open Central Administration website Application Management—–> Manage […]

Policy and Procedures : Using SharePoint Search to find policies quickly

Policy and Procedures : Using SharePoint Search to find policies quicklyThis post is part of a series illustrating how SharePoint can help manage the life-cycle of a policy. In this post we explain how SharePoint search can meet the requirement below: “It should be possible to find a policy in seconds“. To view all of […]

How to add a web part to every users MySite in 5 minutes

How to add a web part to every users MySite in 5 minutesThis post will outline how to add a web part to every users MySite. The web part we are going to add is the standard DocRead Reading Tasks web part, but this process can be applied to any web part in SharePoint.MySite host […]

How to delete a SharePoint Survey in 4 steps

How to delete a SharePoint Survey in 4 stepsThis blog post will explain the steps needed to remove/delete a survey from SharePoint. It does not matter whether the survey was created in SharePoint or with DocSurvey, the steps required to remove it are the same. 1) Navigate to the site containing the survey and then […]

Code Sample : How to programmatically get an SPFile in SharePoint

Code Sample : How to programmatically get an SPFile in SharePointThis example illustrates how to develop a helper method to return an SPFile based on a Web, folder and filename.