SharePoint 2010 can be installed as a Farm installation or as Standalone one. Standalone installations means that all the components are on the same machine (SharePoint, SharePoint services and built-in database) and this type of installation is not extensible.
Generic handlers have an extension .ASHX. It's a good solution to render documents or images for user on server-side after user requests, not web page. Generic Handlers solution (.ashx files) are not directly supported by Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint projects. But there's a little trick for this.
In SharePoint timer job history I have noticed that there's the error in starting User Profile synchronization:
Could not connect to http://spsrv:5725/ResourceManagementService/MEX. TCP error code 10061: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it <ip-adress:port>. (read more...)
Simple console application, which get data from SharePoint list and displays it. It's very good solution if SharePoint is used as a storage of rates, catalogs, libraries etc.
To use SharePoint Client model you should add references to Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll and Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll in your solution. (read more...)
It’s a very useful code. Sometimes after activating features, installing solutions or anything else you need to make iisreset on all the application servers of your SharePoint farm.
Not so long ago I had to add 2 hundred users to SharePoint group. First I wanted to add them partially, but I understood that to do it via PowerShell is faster. (read more...)
There’s a table in SharePoint content database where all the events are written in case if audit is turned on. But SharePoint doesn’t display real-time statistic about users on site, it gives you statistic only on the next day. (read more...)
The task – create SharePoint list so that users could only add list items but couldn’t see any items, even created by them, and, of course, couldn’t edit or delete them. May be there are some ways to do it, but I found this solution to create new permission set - user can add view site pages, view modal pages, add list items but cannot read and delete any list items. (read more...)
In SharePoint site you can see usually a lot of groups. Sometimes administrator gets a task to add user to several groups. If it’s 3-5 groups you can do it manually, but if you need to add user to 30 groups? I’m too lazy to do it manually and too smart not do it at all. (read more...)
While migration system and its data to SharePoint application there was a task to save logs of change from old system data. Some authors of changes have already retired - some of them are disabled in Active Directory, others – deleted at all. (read more...)
