Installing the SharePoint 2010 CMIS Connector
Microsoft has released a CMIS connector for SharePoint 2010. In this post I will show you how to install this connector and show some of its functionalities. In another blogpost I will demonstrate the...
View ArticleMulti language SharePoint site
Within SharePoint you have multiple types of multi language. One of them is the MUI (Multilanguage User Interface) which will translate the interfaces into different languages based on the user...
View ArticleCreating a plugin for BCS in Outlook
In this post I will describe the BCSPackagingTool and BCSArtifactGenerator tools from Microsoft. These tools can create artifacts for building a outlook plugin. This plugin will use the Business...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 BCS Office Item Types Properties
I was searching for a list of the properties that you can map in the external content type to office items. Since I couldn't find this list I created a excel sheet with all the possible fields you can...
View ArticleTranslate the SharePoint UI
In a previous post I showed the possibility to set another language for the UI and how to export the names of list, content types, etc to translate these to a target language. If we want to translate...
View ArticleOpen items in dimmed layer from CQWP
When you query list items with the Content Query Web Part you sometimes want to open it in a dimmed layer instead of a new full page. This is much more user friendly. I found out it is really easy to...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 search suggestions and managed metadata
One of the functions in SharePoint 2010 I really like are the search suggestions, when a search result is clicked 6 times (within a year) it will be added as a type-ahead search suggestion like...
View ArticleStatus alerts in SharePoint
Sometimes you want to inform your users, maybe about a network error, planned updates or so. So why not use the out of the box status function from SharePoint for this purpose? See the image for an...
View ArticleFile share analysis with DriveSight
As consultants we often get the question to migrate file shares to SharePoint. This blog will describe the functionalities of a free tool to analyze the file share before migrating. This tool, called...
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