SharePoint Tips & Tricks by Namwar Rizvi
SharePoint projects are some what special in the way they use assemblies and some time it is very difficult to setup your TFS build process for continuous integration. Today, SharePoint Developer Team has published an excellent step-by-step process to properly setup your TFS Build Process for SharePoint Projects. You can read the article here This article guides … Read more
If you are trying to create external data type list and get the error “Access Denied by Business Data Connectivity” then the most common reason for that can be the incorrect permissions for your target External Content Type. To fix the issue, please perform the following steps: Open your SharePoint 2010 Central Administration Page Under … Read more
If you are trying to add a Managed Metadata type column and getting “The Taxonomy feature (Feature ID “73EF14B1-13A9-416b-A9B5-ECECA2B0604C”) has not been activated” error then here is the quickest way to enable the required feature by using following PowerShell cmdlet: Enable-SPFeature -id “73EF14B1-13A9-416b-A9B5-ECECA2B0604C” -url “YourSiteUrl”
Today Microsoft has released the much awaited Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010 along with Office 2010. Along with many bug fixes and minor updates, here is a quick list of new functionality which SP1 will add in your SharePoint environment: For video display, you will now be able to select a frame as … Read more
There are some special pages in SharePoint 2010 which do not use any master page. You should be aware of these pages to avoid bad user experience while branding your site. Following is the list of those pages: AccessDenied.aspx : Displays, if user does not have permission to perform respective action. Confirmation.aspx : Displays, to … Read more
Here is a quick and simple way to find duplicates for SharePoint documents.
This article demystifies SHAREPOINT\System. It describes what it is and how it is used.
Here is the link to download the SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit 2010 V1. It enables you to better manage User Profiles Data, reduce security vulnerabilities, CMIS connection, Load Test SharePoint Foundation from Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2008
Here is the quick Powershell script to enable Sandbox solution on Domain Controller
Here is the way to edit source in Content Editor Web Part CEWP in SharePoint 2010
