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A while back I whipped together some web parts for assisting in troubleshooting and managing some elements in SharePoint 2007 which wasn't easy to do then. I've since converted them to SharePoint 2010. They're available for download on http://sp2010adminpack.codeplex.com. Workflow ManagerThe Workflow Manager web part allows an admin to view all active and attached workflows in... Continue Reading →
One of the biggest headaches I've heard from SharePoint users and administrators is the ability to manage users, or rather the lack thereof. It is a large task to fully understand it all, and I hope to clarify some of it now. Quality user management is by far the most lacking area within SharePoint. There... Continue Reading →
As you create and manage service applications in your farm, you may decide to create additional services for different web applications. In my case, it was rather simple. I wanted a web application that didn't use FAST, just the basic search functionality. This was on my development workstation and I wanted to keep some of... Continue Reading →
My first CodePlex project! WOO HOO. I saw some references online about being able to search as you type in the search box in SharePoint. I thought cool and continued searching and came across a few people who have done it. I compiled and took the stuff I liked from Jan Tielens' post introducing the... Continue Reading →
A new feature provided with SQL Server R2 is the ability to save your BLOBs (binary large objects)(the files you upload into SharePoint) to be stored outside of the content database and in the server's file system. This functionality is called Remote BLOB Storage (RBS). I've had a few of customers ask for this on... Continue Reading →
If I may, I would like to take a few minutes away from SharePoint (it won't be long) and talk to the techno-savvy-geeks out there who want more from the cloud. As I move more and more into the cloud, I am more and more hesitant, and I'm curious to see if you share in... Continue Reading →
After reading the article Google+ and the Enterprise, and the experience I've had, I tend to agree with the statement "if Google+ can create an effective toolset for businesses internally – marrying email, with news streams, with video conferencing, with screensharing, with whiteboarding – it could be a huge win" I just came off a... Continue Reading →
Within SharePoint, you can have links to other resources outside of SharePoint. These could go to other internal systems, or external websites. Also, if you're using Enterprise Search and index websites which are not within SharePoint the search results will include links to outside of SharePoint. The issue with linking to external sites and resources... Continue Reading →
It's true! It's possible to send your SharePoint emails through the cloud, or even to your internal email server using authentication or a different port. The trick is to use a local IIS SMTP service to relay the email for you. You can configure the SMTP service to relay email to a specific host and... Continue Reading →
David Lozzi 