SharePoint

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SP24 Submission – The 24 Hour SharePoint Conference

Hi all, I’d like to announce that we applied as speakers at SP24 conference with my colleague Mete Bulutay (codeholio.net). If you want to hear us speaking about “Automated SharePoint Installation & Deployment”, you can vote us up via http://list.ly/i/470213. Here are some facts about SP24: 1.      Free for all attendees. 2.      It’s entirely on-line – so […]

Mask created/modified users in lists/libraries

You might want to hide created by and modified by information from the users. There are three ways to achieve this. First to way is masking the created by and modified by users in lists and libraries. Third one is actually a workaround by creating a new view which doesn’t […]

Disabled ribbon items or missing options in Central Administration

I was encountered a familiar error while installing a Sharepoint 2013 environment. All of the ribbon items in central administration site was disabled. Furthermore some of the important options such as “manage services in the server”, “farm configuration wizard” were missing. I run IE as administrator (or run with the […]

Start & Stop SharePoint 2010 Windows Services

If you are a SharePoint developer, most probably you installed SharePoint Server to your development environment and if you don’t have seperate development server or you’re not rich like me, you ended up with memory shortage. As most of you know SharePoint consumes considerable amount of resources especially memory. So here […]

Hardware Requirements for SharePoint 2013 Development

In SharePoint 2013 Ignite training Kirk Evans talked about the hardware requirements of SharePoint 2013 development environment. You need at least two virtual machines. The recommended or best case scenario is running these VMs on a SLAT supported CPU and at least 32 GB RAM. Actually SLAT is required for Hyper-V visualization. Most of the […]

Best Practices and Naming Conventions for Service Accounts

Recently I found a nice resource on TechNet about the naming conventions for service accounts and best practices for some of these accounts. You can access the whole article on TechNet: SharePoint 2013 Best Practices: Service Accounts (en-US) SQL_Service, for the SQL Server service. SQL_Admin, for the SQL Server administrator. SP_Admin, for […]

Don’t SharePoint While Walking

I’d like to thank Mike Harmon from Harmon.ie for sending me this funny video. You can also check this page to read about the injuries due to SharePointing while walking 🙂 [embedplusvideo height=”418″ width=”695″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/aXFp_F5_krY?fs=1” vars=”ytid=aXFp_F5_krY&width=695&height=418&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep6006″ /] Harmon.ie has made it even easier to access SharePoint by making a mobile […]

Changing Site Collection Administrators using PowerShell

Site collections can have two administrators and you can modify them through SharePoint Central Administration. But if you need to change these admins using PowerShell script you can use the following PowerShell function. I filtered site collections with the url to find the appropriate site collection. You can define a parameter […]

Change Farm Level Property Bag using PowerShell

Property bag is simply thw properties of web site, site collection, web application and farm. So in order to interact with the PropertyBags in PowerShell, just use the related object’s Propeties member. In the following example I used the farm object’s Properties member to edit farm level property bag. So you […]