This Thursday I will be speaking at the London SharePoint User Group. My session is the first time I will be talking about Office 365, what it is and what you can do with it from a SharePoint point of view. We’ll also take a quick look at Exchange and an even smaller look at … Continue reading SharePoint User Group London 31st March 2011
SharePoint Search can be used to search multiple different locations and one of these is internet sites. Before deciding whether to crawl an single internet site there are a few things to consider: How much content you want to crawler on that website? Do you want to crawl the whole website? The larger the website … Continue reading Configure SharePoint 2010 Search to crawl internet sites
With SharePoint 2007 and 2010 we can upload slides from our PowerPoint and upload and share them in a SharePoint Slide Library. Here’s how to do it. Create Slide Library Go to Site Actions and select More Options. From the list select Slide Library and click create. Give you slide library a name and click … Continue reading Upload PowerPoint slides into SharePoint 2010 Slide Library
Internet Explorer has always been my personal browser of choice but in recent months I have moved towards Google Chrome mainly because of the speed and how easy it is to search the internet from the address bar. In the last 24 hours Microsoft have released IE9 and even though I played with the first … Continue reading Internet Explorer 9 is Released
SharePoint Search can do so much more than just search your SharePoint sites and one of the features with in SharePoint 2007 and 2010 is the ability to search a file share. Here is how to configure SharePoint to crawl a file server. In my environment I have 2 servers. A domain controller that is … Continue reading Configure SharePoint 2010 Search to crawl file servers
Out of the box with SharePoint 2010 you can have 7 different style/views for you documents Default View Basic Table Document Details Newsletter Newsletter, No Lines Shaded Preview Pane Change your document view and style Navigate to your document library. Click on Library and click Modify View Navigate down the page until you see Style … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 Document Library Views and Styles
There are many ways to search in SharePoint but within the product there is one site template that is called the Search Centre. This site gives you the ability to search anywhere in your environment including other locations that we have configured in the search crawler. When designing your SharePoint environment consider having a separate … Continue reading SharePoint Search for Education: Part 2 Search Centre
During the week of the BETT Show I was demonstrating Office 365 for Education to several schools, colleges and universities. Many questions were asked and I’ve tried to put these down in a list below. Q: Is there still a free offering of Office 365 for Education? A: Yes. If you only want the Exchange … Continue reading Frequently Asked Question for Office 365 for Education
One of my most popular blogs is Adding a Banner to your SharePoint but is for SharePoint 2007. Here is how to do it for SharePoint 2010. Banner Image You need to create a banner at the top of the page. The image by default is replicated so I have created a large wide image … Continue reading Add a banner to SharePoint 2010
While creating a site column which uses metadata you may come across the error ‘The default termstore for this site cannot be identified’. To solve this issue open Central Admin and go to the Manager Service Applications. In the list search for your Managed Metadata Service. Select the Managed Metadata Service Connection and click on … Continue reading The default termstore for this site cannot be identified