Author Archives: Marcel

Export WSP’s from the solution store

Sometimes its is necessary to export WSP files from the farm solution store.
The Powershell script below will export all the solutions from the farm solution store (except sandboxed solutions) to a directory (which can be changed in the script): Read more »

SharePoint Downloads 2011

Hereby the SharePoint Downloads for December 2011

FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Add or Remove an Index Column
Microsoft System Center Configuration Pack for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 2
System Center Operations Manager 2012 Release Candidate
Security Update for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (KB2553132)
Active Directory Rights Management Services at Microsoft
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Technical Library in Compiled Help format
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Technical Library in Compiled Help format
Microsoft Search Server 2010 Technical Library in Compiled Help format
Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Technical Library in Compiled Help format
Update for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (KB2596977)

 

Quest FREE Holiday Gift: Server Administrator for SharePoint

Just saw on Twitter: Just in time for the holidays – a FREE SharePoint server analysis tool from Quest!  

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Santa is using SharePoint!

SPSTech.net wishes you a Merry Christmas and a happy 2012!

Best Practices SharePoint 2010

Searching for the best practices for setting up your SharePoint 2010 environment? On TechNet I found the best practices for SharePoint 2010. This page displays a list of best practices collected by Microsoft in the areas of infrastructure and design of SharePoint 2010. This is actually a linkcollection to many other TechNet links, resources and documents that can assist you in setting up a SharePoint environment.

Because there is still much use of SharePoint 2007, I added not only the best practices for SharePoint 2010, but also those of SharePoint 2007

SharePoint Server 2010:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/hh189420 

SharePoint Server 2007:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb736746

Identifying the default templates in MOSS2007

In this old blog of Tom, he identified the default templates, provide a preview of each, list the features included, and suggest practical uses for them.

Here is the complete list. Read more »

SharePoint Access Checker

My customer recently asked me if it’s possible to which access permissions a user has in the MOSS2007 environment. After a notification of a SharePoint colleague I found the following webpart.

The Access Checker Web Part is a Windows Sharepoint Services Web Part, for use within Windows Sharepoint Services v3 and Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007, that displays a tree view showing permissions on objects for a user scoped to a Site hierarchy. It also has a second mode which will show the permission inheritance of objects within a Site hierarchy. Read more »

Configure Mysite only for a specific user group

Just for keeping everything the administrating easy on the backend, first make a list of the authorized users en put them in a usergroup in Active Directory.

  • Go to the Central Administration and open the Shared Service Provider for your web application.
  • Select  “Personalization services permissions”.
  • On the next page you’ll see a list where you could allow or deny certain functionality to certain groups. There you could define who’s allowed to create a MySite and who’s not. In this case you put the created AD group to the autohorized groups and give them the personal site authorisation.

Source: Microsoft MOSS2007

Disabling mobile view in SharePoint

When you access a SharePoint website with your mobile device, you will probably will be redirected to a boring template with some links on it like the picture below.

 

To disable SharePoint from redirecting users to the mobile version, there is a hidden feature you can disable using PowerShell. Read more »

Option Open With Windows Explorer Slow

When you are using the “Open with Windows Explorer” option in SharePoint 2010 and you experience a slow performance, you can use
the following procedure to fix this and increase the performance:

  1. Open Internet Explorer
  2. Go to the Menu Tools > Internet Options then go to the Connections tab
  3. Click on button LAN Settings
  4. Uncheck the box Automatically detect settings
  5. Close and restart all running Internet Explorer processes
  6. Restart the Web Client Service, if needed.
  7. Try it again!