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Category Archives: SharePoint 2010
a collection of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 resources
How to: add properties to custom web parts
You can easily add custom properties to your custom web parts so that you can pass in values to them…
How to: Rename a Web Application in SharePoint 2010
Today, I opened up my Central Admin on my test environment, only to be greeted by numerous web applications that…
How to: Troubleshoot “Server Error in ‘/’ Application.” error after SP2010 SP1 update
In case you just installed SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1, or one of the new August/September 2011 updates is giving…
How to: Troubleshoot “Error: Access Denied” SharePoint message
Say one of your users sends you a screenshot proving that they do not have access to a web site…
How to: Define which fields to appear in a SharePoint RSS Feed
In SharePoint 2007: 1. Navigate to the list/library that you want to get an RSS feed for 2. Navigate to…
How to: Get the name of a SharePoint feature from its GUID
There’s a really easy way to get the name of a feature that SharePoint requests from its provided GUID. For…
How to: Create a SP2010 view filtered by Group
We all know that it is easy to create a view that only displays list items to specific users. You…
Quick tip: Publish an InfoPath 2010 form template for use with SharePoint (or, how to troubleshoot a malfunctioning web form)
I tried to publish an InfoPath template the other day and ran into an issue: my form was only being…
Quick tip: Add new property in SP2010 site collection property bag
The property bag of a site collection is a hashtable keeping key-value pairs. You can add as many as you…