Category: General

Categories and tags are the two default taxonomies that we use at the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Community website. By design, all posts must be filed under at least one category. As you can imagine, ‘General’ is where we can list almost any topics that is not filed under the other subject headings.

However, some subjects are wide and broad in subject and need to be included in our blog, but don’t quite fit under the existing taxonomies. Hence the ‘General Category’. Content covered can vary from a .NET Runtime for AOT to a SharePoint Conference North America Keynote Summary, Pulse Survey or monthly top SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure resources.

Juice up your SharePoint with SharePoint Cool Buttons
Juice up your SharePoint with SharePoint Cool Buttons
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When working with customers one often hears the following complaint: “Wow, this SharePoint is sooo ugly…”. I personally think SharePoint 2010 has very nice nice and professional design, but since customer is always right, from time to time I need to make it look more pretty. For some customers the “fix” is very simple, just add some nice looking buttons on the home page and they will be very happy with this improvement.

Couple of things that your customer needs to be able to do:
Add/Remove buttons easily
Add icons to buttons
Rearrange buttons as web parts
Change layouts i.e. order buttons vertically vs. horizontally

Top 5 Roadblocks to Reaching SharePoint Search Maturity and How to Past Them
Top 5 Roadblocks to Reaching SharePoint Search Maturity and How to Past Them
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SharePoint is designed to evolve with your business, but using SharePoint to its full potential presents plenty of challenges. In this presentation, Sadalit Van Buren, author of The SharePoint Maturity Model and Senior Software Engineer at Blue Metal Architects, spotlights the top 5 barriers to reaching SharePoint search maturity. Drawing from real survey data, Sadalit explains how to get past challenges to findability and implement best practices and improvements to your SharePoint search.

Nothing in the ULS Logs
Nothing in the ULS Logs
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So have you ever heard this “There is Nothing in the ULS Logs” or better (worse) yet you have experienced it. Yea me too, it’s a real bummer and your next step is to typically crank up the ULS logging verbosity and crossing your fingers. Sometimes you get lucky and sometimes you don’t – so where next? I have found myself attaching a debugger and looking at the managed exception messages that trail across the debugger window while I reproduce the problem and sometimes these are enough to either provide a line of investigation or possibly the answer to my issue.

How to Get Business to Take Ownership of SharePoint
How to Get Business to Take Ownership of SharePoint
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For the first time in 5 and a half years, I heard a SharePoint IT Project Manager say that SharePoint should be owned by business. What a refreshing conversation! He is one of the very few IT people that really do get how this platform should be run. His hands are however very tied by legacy management issues that have had long term implications for the platform.

Watch on-demand webcast
Watch on-demand webcast “Top 3 Reasons You Should Upgrade to FAST Search”
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European SharePoint Community are proud to present this webinar recorded by SurfRay with speaker Mikael Svenson, Microsoft SharePoint search MVP, who will present the top 3 reasons you should upgrade your search solution to FAST Search for SharePoint. Mikael will outline some of the key features in FS4SP and give live examples of how they work.

SharePoint Photo
SharePoint Photo
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That frustrating feeling of explaining why SharePoint is better than email attachments to someone who just doesn’t get it!

Branding the Quick Launch in SharePoint 2010 – Part II
Branding the Quick Launch in SharePoint 2010 – Part II
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This post is the last one of two articles about some branding tips and tricks for the Quick launch in SharePoint 2010. In this article I’ll show you a simple way to add rounded corners with help of two background images at the top and bottom. Take a look at the first article here.

Branding the Quick Launch in SharePoint 2010 – Part I
Branding the Quick Launch in SharePoint 2010 – Part I
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This post describes how to customize the standard Quick Launch in SharePoint by using SharePoint Designer 2010.

Branding the Quick Launch with only CSS could be a bit tricky and it takes a little while to become a friend with the markup of this navigation and have it to look the way you want. This first article in a series of two will show you how to create a simple custom look and feel with only CSS code.