Archive for the ‘SharePoint’ Category

Live@edu is a service that Microsoft offers for students. As a student you can direct your IT administrator to this site. He can register your school, so you can take advantage of the services that Microsoft offers like: Exchange Online (10GB) Sky Drive (25 GB) Office Live Workspaces But now Microsoft is announcing the addition [...]

original source here The article starts great: SharePoint is Awesome – Whether it be Hosted or In House

Setting up security for SSRS in SharePoint integrated mode can be a bit tricky, particularly if you want to set up some of your users to only be able to run reports, but not to be able to modify or change them. I found a great post explaining how to create a Reporting group in [...]

This morning I read an interesting blog article from Hans Blauw. He spoke about a software company named Webstate. They put together some nice software to access your SharePoint environment with your iPhone. You might think why this is so important to talk about, you could already access your SharePoint environment. iSharepone (the name of [...]

I’ve been struggling for quite a long time with Excel Web Access in combination with a SQL Analysis Server and SharePoint. The problem is that I am able to display an excel file (which is in a SharePoint web part), but whenever I choose to refresh the connection I get the following error: Unable to [...]

As I blogged earlier, there was a problem with SP2 of Sharepoint. This is now fixed. You can find the KB including the installation instructions and download links for x86 and x64 here (translate the article to English, to get access to the download packages). You can apply the package before or after the installation [...]

To create a view on a calendar in SharePoint which will display the 5 upcoming events, proceed as described below: Add a column to your Calendar, name it “Begin”. This will be a calculated column. The formula used will be: “= [Start Time]” (without qoutes, but with [ and ] ). The data type returned [...]

Today I have been fighting with enabling SharePoint to receive email. Due to a misconfiguration of our farm it took me quite some longer than it should have done. Anyhow, here are the steps. First of all I created an OU in our Active Directory. This OU will hold all the email addresses (contacts) from [...]

In SharePoint you can choose whether a document has to be checked out before you can edit it, or you can edit a document without checking it out. When you check out a document, a checked out icon appears next to the document icon. This means nobody can make changes to the document except the [...]