The Happy Times or Doom and Gloom of Cloud
Cloud this, back up that. You hear it all the time. Everyone says you should just put your information in the cloud, or maybe just back-up to the cloud. It can be great if you need to back-up a few not so important things or be able to get at some items from just about […]
AD Properties can be mapped to user property
SharePoint administrator can add a new user profile property, which can be mapped to an AD attribute. For example, user profile property “First Name” is mapped to “givenName” in AD which is a “string (Single Value)” type: If you want to add a new user profile, go into the Add User Profile Property page by […]
European Office 365 Connect 2014
European Office 365 Connect 2014, a conference brought to you by the people who will be bringing you SharePoint Connections Amsterdam 2013, will bring together Microsoft and independent speakers to demonstrate how Microsoft Office 365 can deliver “the power of social collaboration, email, and unified communication.” Using real-life experiences, speakers will illustrate how “you […]
Branding in SharePoint: Public-facing websites that use SharePoint
In SharePoint you will at some point hear about branding. You can say that there are two types of branding, one for your internal intranet SharePoint that you will use within your organization. The second is branding that will occur for you public facing internet site. Should you brand? For intranet sites, I personally think […]
How to install BoostSolutions Foundation
When you first download and install BoostSolutions products onto your server you must first install BoostSolutions Foundation. This component is essential to managing licenses for BoostSolutions products in a centralized location. Foundation comes prepackaged with BoostSolutions products and will install automatically if you do not already have it on your server. But you also have […]
Oh No, Not Governance again!
If you ask anyone using SharePoint what is governance you can bet that they will all have a different answer for what governance is. But as we are using SharePoint we should consider what Microsoft has to say what governance is. According to Microsoft “governance is the set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that […]
How to Create a Cascading Drop-Down List in SharePoint 2013
Today I am going to show you how to create a cascading drop down list in SharePoint 2013. As we know, SharePoint has provided the capability to implement a cascading drop down list for forms out-of-the–box and it’s just a matter of configuration. You can follow the instructions in the article Implement Cascading Drop Down […]
Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes security vulnerabilities in SharePoint
Microsoft released Security Bulletin MS13-067 on Tuesday to fix ten vulnerabilities in SharePoint, one publicly disclosed and nine privately reported. According to Microsoft this update resolves severe vulnerabilities that could “allow remote code execution in the context of the W3WP service account if an attacker sends specially crafted content to the affected server.” The security […]