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SharePoint 2010: Forms Based Authentication using Active Directory
This post is a close mirror to my other post SharePoint 2010: Claims Based Authentication using .Net SQL Membership Provider, just tweaked to use AD instead of SQL. In this post I want to use Active...
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SharePoint: Defaulting external links to open in a new window
Within SharePoint, you can have links to other resources outside of SharePoint. These could go to other internal systems, or external websites. Also, if you’re using Enterprise Search and index...
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Country List for Field Defs in SharePoint
Below is a country list for use in a field definition for SharePoint. Enjoy! <CHOICES> <CHOICE>Afghanistan</CHOICE> <CHOICE>Algeria</CHOICE>...
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Color code your SharePoint calendar
A nice new feature in SharePoint 2010 is the ability to roll up multiple calendars into one, and color code them. In previous versions of SharePoint, this was something that was only doable with...
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How Can I Help?
Thanks for visiting my blog. Over the years, I’ve come to love the SharePoint community. The people are great, and I depend upon the vast resources available to help me get the job done. Now I want to...
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SharePoint Metadata: Filter Page Web Parts
On my list of awesome SharePoint ideas that I want to try and do, was giving users the ability to filter a page based on selected metadata. I decided to hurry up and do it thanks to a question on MSDN...
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Customize the SharePoint Calendar Colors
I shared a post a while ago on how to create a color coded calendar in SharePoint. This is a no code (for real!) solution, and I’ve received some great feedback from it. One area I want to focus on are...
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Creating an item detail dashboard view of your joined lists in SharePoint 2010
Thanks to Stan for suggesting the idea for this post, by leaving a comment here. Our goal here is to take your joined lists and display them on a single page, so you can effectively review an item and...
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Accessing the Secure Store from a Timer Job, more than once.
A neat feature within SharePoint is the Secure Store Service. It gives us the opportunity to store account credentials for external systems without having to worry about encryption, where to store it...
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Calendar Overlays: Keeping events in the same window.
Previously, I shared about how to create a color coded calendar, and then taking that calendar a little further and jazzing it up with some color. One issue that has been identified with this method,...
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Adding a lookup field to your SharePoint solution: declaratively or...
Big thanks to Chris Barbin on pointing me in the right direction for this one! Including a lookup in your project can be tricky, and I find that most developers revert to doing it programmatically...
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We all know what IsDlg does… wait, what the…??
Here’s a little nugget I came across, on SharePoint 2010 and 2013 (including O365), and was exceptionally frustrated with. There’s a difference between IsDlg and isdlg. See it? Case sensitivity. Come...
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An awesome feature with SharePoint is the ability to use another authentication store for your users. This is especially helpful when you want to extend your site to an extranet or internet zone and...
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Often when a company wants to extend their SharePoint site to the extranet or internet, they'll need to accommodate new users who are currently not in their company's Active Directory. For instance,...
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This post is a close mirror to my other post SharePoint 2010: Claims Based Authentication using .Net SQL Membership Provider, just tweaked to use AD instead of SQL. In this post I want to use Active...
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Within SharePoint, you can have links to other resources outside of SharePoint. These could go to other internal systems, or external websites. Also, if you're using Enterprise Search and index...
View ArticleWe all know what IsDlg does… wait, what the…??
Here's a little nugget I came across, on SharePoint 2010 and 2013 (including O365), and was exceptionally frustrated with. There's a difference between IsDlg and isdlg. See it? Case sensitivity. Come...
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