Sharepoint – Page 4 – Various and Sundry

Sharepoint 2010 Backup and Cleanup Scripts with Notifications

October 10, 2012 mmwheeler

Simple scripts that you can automate with the Task Scheduler to backup/cleanup your Sharepoint 2010 farm with email notifications. Backup Script try { $today = (Get-Date -Format dd-MM-yyyy) #Location of the Backup Folder [IO.Directory]::CreateDirectory(“E:BackupDailyFarmBackUp$today”) # This will actually initiate the SPFarm backup. Backup-SPFarm -Directory E:BackupFullFarmBackup$today -BackupMethod full # Backup-SPFarm -Directory […]

Sharepoint 2010 VM Clone Wars

September 16, 2012 mmwheeler

I have a Sharepoint 2010 standalone farm consisting of a WFE VM and a SQL Server 2008 with SSRS, SSAS on another VM. This farm lives in DataCenter1. Because of network issues and proximity to a data warehouse; I needed to move these VMs to DataCenter2. Once the VMs were […]

Sharepoint 2010 Personalization Site and Global Navigation Audience Targeting

July 3, 2012 mmwheeler

For whatever reason; the Global Navigation in a Personalization Site template does not support Dynamic FlyOut menus OR Audience Targeting. I had added several custom links in my top navigation bar and audience targeted them according to specific user roles. All users, however, could see every link regardless of the […]

Populating Notes field from Cascading Dropdown Selections

April 30, 2012 mmwheeler

This was a solution I figured out for populating a notes field from cascading drop-downs. I’ve had some folks e-mail me asking for the actual implementation. In my scenario, I was creating a Sharepoint form front-end that would create an Incident Ticket in BMC Remedy. […]

Dynamically Resize Sharepoint 2010 Report Viewer Web Part

April 26, 2012 mmwheeler

Came across this blog which shows how to dynamically resize a Reporting Services Viewer Web Part to fit the height of the content/report using JQuery. Here’s the code for completeness. For my execution, I placed this on an HTML page and call it through a Content Editor Web Part. <script […]

Selection is not a valid PerformancePoint content HotFix

April 18, 2012 mmwheeler

There is now a hotfix which addresses my previous post regarding PerformancePoint not setting the location on the web parts without user intervention in manually typing the correct location. The problem was a regression in the June 2011 CU that caused the asset picker to stop functioning properly http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2597936

Sharepoint 2010 Document Library Tree View Web Part

February 7, 2012 mmwheeler

Here’s the Visual Studio 2010 source and .wsp for a web part that will allow you to view a document library as a tree view.

Point to Point Bing Map from Sharepoint List

January 18, 2012 mmwheeler

Another project I’m working on is to plot Point to Point data on a map. Using Andrew Whitten’s blog post, I was able to create a Sharepoint Web Part that calls a List with location data and plot that on a Bing Map. My list has Point A Latitude, Point […]

Interactive Google Map Web Part for Sharepoint 2010

December 20, 2011 mmwheeler

I needed a way to display an interactive Google Map against a Sharepoint list over SSL. I did a slight modification to Mazin’s great Google Map Web Part on Codeplex. In MapWebPart.cs – Look for ResolveAddress function and add the following line at the top of function. ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = delegate […]

Simple Google Map from Sharepoint List using JQUERY

December 16, 2011 mmwheeler

I created a simply JQUERY script to allow you to query location data from a basic Sharepoint list and then plot that data on a static Google Map. Adjust where applicable and paste onto your page. My Sharepoint list had two columns: City, State // Call in the JQUERY Library […]