Category: SharePoint
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Activating a customized Master Page with a feature using a sandboxed solution in SharePoint 2010
The out-of-the-box look and feel of SharePoint 2010 is a lot nicer than the 2007 version. Be that as it may be, you still might want to customize your site collections. I’ve been looking into a quick and easy way to do this using a feature in a sandboxed solution and I’m happy to say it’s not […]
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How to remove the “I Like It” and “Tags & Notes” buttons from the ribbon in SharePoint 2010
I’ve seen this question pop up on the forums from time to time, and it an understandable business requirement. Not every company want these buttons on their internal (or external) websites. Now my first thought to get rid of these was to use the HideCustomAction functionality, but after digging around for a big I realized […]
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Adding a custom button to the ribbon using a feature in SharePoint 2010
I know a lot of people don’t like the Ribbon, but I personally love it. It’s being put into more and more of Microsoft (and third party!) applications and SharePoint 2010 is no exception. But how do you go about and customize it? I’ve been looking at doing so for the last few days, and […]
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Changing the properties of an existing Web Part using PowerShell
Sometimes you need to change the properties of a Web Part without browsing to the page itself and set it. There could be numerous reasons as to why you would want or need to do this. A while back I created a really simple redirect web part for one of my clients. It had two custom […]
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Troubleshooting SharePoint: Your search cannot be completed because of a service error.
A colleague of mine, lets call him Jereme, came across this and he suggested I post it on my blog, so here goes. One of his clients where having issues with one of their search scopes. Whenever a user would try to do a search with one of the custom scopes, they would receive an error saying […]