I had a recent request to allow supervisors to post “kudos” emails to a Sharepoint site for display on a “dashboard.” They did not want it to be labor intensive by having to logon and copy/paste email content to a list. To achieve this I created an email-enabled discussion list. […]
Simple scripts that you can automate with the Task Scheduler to backup/cleanup your Sharepoint 2010 farm with email notifications. Backup Script try { $today = (Get-Date -Format dd-MM-yyyy) #Location of the Backup Folder [IO.Directory]::CreateDirectory(“E:BackupDailyFarmBackUp$today”) # This will actually initiate the SPFarm backup. Backup-SPFarm -Directory E:BackupFullFarmBackup$today -BackupMethod full # Backup-SPFarm -Directory […]
This is related to my previous post on cloning VMs. I was not able to connect to the Analysis Server and Synchronize (cubes) between databases because of the following error. Errors in the OLE DB provider. The server returned the following, error: (Errors related to feature availability and configuration: The ‘Linking to […]
I have a Sharepoint 2010 standalone farm consisting of a WFE VM and a SQL Server 2008 with SSRS, SSAS on another VM. This farm lives in DataCenter1. Because of network issues and proximity to a data warehouse; I needed to move these VMs to DataCenter2. Once the VMs were […]
For whatever reason; the Global Navigation in a Personalization Site template does not support Dynamic FlyOut menus OR Audience Targeting. I had added several custom links in my top navigation bar and audience targeted them according to specific user roles. All users, however, could see every link regardless of the […]
Had a task to move the default SQL Reporting Services ReportServer and ReportServerTempDB databases to a new SQL cluster which required a rename to avoid any potential conflicts. These instance of the databases are being used in Sharepoint-Integrated Mode. You could do Step 7 below before you do Steps 4 […]
This was a solution I figured out for populating a notes field from cascading drop-downs. I’ve had some folks e-mail me asking for the actual implementation. In my scenario, I was creating a Sharepoint form front-end that would create an Incident Ticket in BMC Remedy. […]
Came across this blog which shows how to dynamically resize a Reporting Services Viewer Web Part to fit the height of the content/report using JQuery. Here’s the code for completeness. For my execution, I placed this on an HTML page and call it through a Content Editor Web Part. <script […]
There is now a hotfix which addresses my previous post regarding PerformancePoint not setting the location on the web parts without user intervention in manually typing the correct location. The problem was a regression in the June 2011 CU that caused the asset picker to stop functioning properly http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2597936
Here’s the Visual Studio 2010 source and .wsp for a web part that will allow you to view a document library as a tree view.
