Category: sharepoint

Kickstarter platform for SharePoint to service good ideas

Kickstarter is a hot new social way to get investors warm for your product idea. It markets itself as a “funding platform for creative projects”. Those creative projects can be food, design, fashion, art, comics, games, technology, music, …  The deal is that you design a Kickstarter page,  stating all cool stuff your product would …


InfoSecurity study shows that two-thirds of SharePoint users have no security policy

In a study conducted by InfoSecurity-magazine and Emedia and sponsored by Boldon James results show that “shocking two-thirds of SharePoint-using companies in a recent survey have admitted to having ‘no active security policy’ in place for the application”. In the study they contacted a wide range of business from -25 users to +5000 users. Half of those …


Infographic of SharePoint Settings by level

The friendly people over at Collaboris shared an infographic on SharePoint settings by level. They released (as a newyears gift I suppose) this really nice chart that shows you all the settings you can make at each level: – farm – web application zone – web application – site collection – site This is crucial if …


An object in the SharePoint administrative framework, “SPSolutionLanguagePack Name=0 Parent=SPSolution Name=yoursolution.wsp”, depends on other objects which do not exist.

At a client, I was trying to add a solution and got this error in both PowerShell as Stsadm: An object in the SharePoint administrative framework, “SPSolutionLanguagePack Name=0 Parent=SPSolution Name=yoursolution.wsp”, depends on other objects which do not exist.  Ensure that all of the objects dependencies are created and retry this operation. yoursolution.wsp: The Solution installation …


SharePoint 2010 Best Practices on Technet

Official: Microsoft acquires Yammer (with infographic)

Governance: when to create a subsite or new site collection diagram

A question customers ask when we do a new SharePoint implementation is when you choose to create a new site collection or a subsite. Here is a good diagram!


Making links open in a different window via jQuery

Want to display a SharePoint list from another site collection? Use these 2 lines of jquery script!

Create a SharePoint Governance Site

When you have SharePoint or any other technology employed as a platform or enabler for your organization, it is important to have governance. This means having a governance board and a governance document. Having this figured out is great, but much more important is communicating about the information you have agreed on. For this purpose , a governance site or site collection could be a great way to both dogfood your platform and inform your employees