Harness SharePoint Library and Folder Default Views to build more appealing solutions

Article Index 1. Introduction Why use different default views based on navigation hierarchy? What are the different levels that a default view can be set? Caution: Per-location view defaults 2. Library default views 3. Folder default views 4. Custom Folder default views 5. Document Set (and Custom Document Set) default views 1. Introduction This article... Continue Reading →

SharePoint PowerShell How To: Create SharePoint Test Documents in Library Folders for Load/Performance Testing

SharePoint PowerShell How To Series - Foreword I often find myself scratching around the local drive of my development machines for remnants of PowerShell scripts to generate list & libraries in SharePoint with all sorts of different folder hierarchies to test the performance of code I’m working on to ensure it scales well once the folder... Continue Reading →

SharePoint PowerShell How To: Create SharePoint Document Sets for Load/Performance Testing

SharePoint PowerShell How To Series - Foreword I often find myself scratching around the local drive of my development machines for remnants of PowerShell scripts to generate list & libraries in SharePoint with all sorts of different folder hierarchies to test the performance of code I’m working on to ensure it scales well once the folder... Continue Reading →

Detect if New Folders are allowed in SharePoint List/Library using Lists web service from remote application (works across SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013)

Today I found myself tasked with finding a common method for detecting if a SharePoint list/library had been configured to allow new folders from a remote client application. The method also had to work across all versions of SharePoint (well at least 2007, 2010, 2013 on-premise and in the cloud). This ruled out using client... Continue Reading →

SharePoint PowerShell How To: Create SharePoint Library Folders for Load/Performance Testing

SharePoint PowerShell How To Series - Foreword I often find myself scratching around the local drive of my development machines for remnants of PowerShell scripts to generate list & libraries in SharePoint with all sorts of different folder hierarchies to test the performance of code I’m working on to ensure it scales well once the folder... Continue Reading →

How to find the Version, Culture and PublicKeyToken of an Assembly (DLL) using PowerShell

In response to a question on my article How to install a DLL to the GAC on Windows Server 2012 using only PowerShell (without having to install SDK or Visual Studio) here’s how you can find the PublicKeyToken for a DLL using only PowerShell. The output of this PowerShell statement will provide the Version, Culture... Continue Reading →

Integrating Outlook Web Access (OWA) and SharePoint 2013

SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 had a series of Web Parts dedicated to surfacing and interacting with an Exchange mail account directly from a page in SharePoint. Overview of the Outlook Web Access Web Parts (for SharePoint 2007 and 2010) If you are not familiar with the functionality here’s a quick overview (this info is... Continue Reading →

Making the most of the Top 50 SharePoint Blog Sites

  Dynamics 101 recently compiled a list of the top 50 SharePoint Blog sites.I’m very honoured that my blog site made the list, and humbled that the community feels that my site contains such useful SharePoint information. Thanks for the recognition. This list got me thinking… how can people best utilize these resource sites? I’m... Continue Reading →

OnePlaceMail 6.5 – The integration between Outlook and SharePoint that Microsoft should have built

OnePlaceMail 6.5 went into public release last week and represents the biggest user experience overhaul we have ever done to the product. This is no light statement, given that OnePlaceMail is already known in the market for it’s seamless, intuitive, and slick user interface. We heard your pains in deploying SharePoint in your organization; Getting... Continue Reading →

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