How to Copy Permissions to Other Users in SharePoint
Introduction Permission Management is one of the key tasks of SharePoint. Current permission management in SharePoint requires you to grant permissions for each user on different sites, lists and folders. If the users’ permissions become too complex, then granting permissions becomes cumbersome and the efficiency of granting permission will be cut down dramatically. Suppose one […]
Configuring the User Profile Service (UPS) in SharePoint 2010
Introduction User profiles provide detailed information about individuals in your organization. A user profile organizes and displays all the properties as well as documents and other items that are related to each user. In order to effectively use User Profile Services in SharePoint 2010, it should be properly configured. Solution To configure the User Profile […]
Using Content Deployment to Copy One Site Collection to Another in SharePoint 2010
In simple terms, Content Deployment in SharePoint 2010 is used to deploy the content from one site to another site. We can set the content deployment jobs (incoming and outgoing) using SharePoint Central Administration 2010. The two-farm topology is a standard Internet site topology and is typical of topologies that are used to publish an […]
How to Create Mysite in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint My Sites should be thought of as a collaboration of dashboards – it’s a user’s window into all things SharePoint and all things both inside and outside the organization. It’s an aggregated view of activities, relationships, conversations, and communications. Using Facebook as the model of a personalized portal to the web… I can receive […]
How to get Site Directory back in SharePoint 2010
If you are working with SharePoint 2010 Enterprise features, you probably know that the Site Directory template is missing. Looking around in Central Administration, I noticed that we still have the Site Directory configuration settings. It looked just like 2007. So, how do we get the Site Directory back? Firstly, browse to the following path […]
How to Configure PerformancePoint Services
Introduction PerformancePoint Services(PPS) has one major mission in life: to enable you to create rich, context-driven dashboards that aggregate data and content to provide a complete view of how your business is performing at all levels. PerformancePoint used to be an independent product with the earlier version of SharePoint. In SharePoint 2010, it has been […]
Permissions in SharePoint 2010
Farm Administrators Farm Administrators group is a group that is managed centrally via SharePoint Central Administration web-site: Farm Administrators include by default SharePoint Farm -account, SharePoint installation account and BUILTIN\Administrators group. Farm Administrators have basically “all rights” in SharePoint Farm. You can give Farm Administration rights to groups and users: