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Disable SharePoint Alerts on a Specific List
Disable SharePoint Alerts on a Specific List
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Here’s the scenario: You have a picture library that stores employee photos. This might be the case if you’re not storing the photos in Active Directory yet perhaps. Now, HR comes to you and says that “we want to be sure that employees can’t set an alert, because then they would know if we remove a picture when an employee is terminated”. Hmmm I never thought about it in that way, you’re right

Use PowerShell to Manipulate the Values of a SharePoint Choice Field
Use PowerShell to Manipulate the Values of a SharePoint Choice Field
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Using PowerShell, we’re going to walk through handling a Choice field in a list. Specifically, this is a calendar list using the Category field. This may come in handy if you want to automate changing the values from another data source that BCS can’t connect to, or is too much work to get it to connect. I always prefer using SharePoint’s features, but sometimes we need to stretch it to make it work.

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

Managing User Access to SharePoint Web Parts
Managing User Access to SharePoint Web Parts
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In SharePoint 2010, providing users have sufficient permissions, they can add various web parts available on the site. In larger organizations, various users have different skill levels and although some categories of users might be allowed to edit the page – you might want to restrict who can add which web parts to the page.