SharePoint Sites and Databases
| This post describes the sites and databases that SharePoint create during installation. SharePoint creates at least creates three IIS Web Sites, one site is for SharePoint Central Administration, another site is to use SharePoint’s lists, Sub Sites and libraries and third website is to support webservices, such as Business Data Connectivity, Security Token Service and Topology. |  |
You will have the below three IIS websites available on the SharePoint Server
SharePoint WebSites
Central Administration V4
This site or web application is used to control the configuration and administration of all servers on the server farm. Unique port is setup for the site and it is not standard HTTP port. The standalone SharePoint installation choose a random port or it allows you to choose a port between 1023 and 32767. In Server Farm installation you can specify a port or you can use the one it suggested.
Related Posts:
No commentsUsing PowerPivot for SharePoint 2010
PowerPivot applications are created using Excel 2010 using PowerPivot add-in, You can read my post on configuring PowerPivot in SharePoint 2010 here. After creating a PowerPivot application then you need to upload it to SharePoint 2010 PowerPivot gallery so that it can share across organization.
You should be able to preview the PowerPivot applications once you upload them to PowerPivot gallery and it is more user engaging. Silverlight needs to be installed to use PowerPivot gallery. You can get three different presentations in PowerPivot Gallery
- Gallery View
- Carousel View
- Theater View
Related Posts:
No commentsExtending the Ribbon in SharePoint 2010
|
Presentation Layer point of view Ribbon is a big change in SharePoint 2010, which provides the consistent user experience between SharePoint and Microsoft Office products. Ribbon is defined in the form of XML and Javascript is used to provide client side functionality. The client side script is located in the following path %SharePointRootpath%\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\CUI.js Configuration of Ribbon is stored in XML file in %SharePointRootPath%\TEMPLATE\GLOBAL\XML\CMDUI.XML. |
Related Posts:
No commentsGhosting and Unghosting in SharePoint 2010
| Two main page types in SharePoint are Application Pages and Content Pages. Application Pages are rendered from the file system and Content Pages are usually rendered from content database. Site Pages are often loaded from content database. Master Pages or Page Templates are actually being loaded from the local file system. | |
Pages that are loaded from the file system are known as Ghosted Pages. When pages are being customized using SharePoint 2010 designer the changed page content is stored in the content database, These customized pages are known as Unghosted pages.
Unghosted pages some times gets the content from database and file-system.
Related Posts:
No commentsWhat is SharePoint Solution Package?
|
What is SharePoint Solution Package? SharePoint has a system which bundles all the components of a SharePoint Foundation extension in to a single file which is called a Solution Package. The Solution Package file has the extension .wsp. |
|
The contents of solutions package are
- Assemblies
- Web Parts
- Site Definition files - Site definition is a unique type of SharePoint website. It contains (onet.xml, webtemp*.xml, and default.aspx)
- Application Pages - these can be .aspx pages
- Resource files and resources- Resource files (can be *.doc or *.xls ) and Resources are (*.resx)
Related Posts:
No commentsConfiguring Custom Master Page in SharePoint 2010
This post discusses about configuring custom master page in SharePoint 2010 website. You might have use custom images, custom style sheets to create new master page in SharePoint. Follow the below steps to apply custom master page in SharePoint 2010.
1. Place your custom style sheets in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\template\layouts\1033\STYLES this is the default SharePoint Point path where it stores it’s css files.
2.Place your custom images in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\template\layouts\1033\IMAGES
3.Place your custom master page in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\GLOBAL
4. Navigate to your SharePoint Web site, Click Site Actions and click Site Settings from the menu
Related Posts:
No commentsSharePoint Built-in List Types–Announcement List
| Lists provide an easiest way to store information in SharePoint. SharePoint provides different ways to keep your information in predefined lists. SharePoint stores most of its content information in lists. This post discusses about SharePoint Predefined Announcement List. Lists translates themselves and stores it information in SQL Server database. | |
Built-in SharePoint List Types-Announcement List
Content & Data Lists
Content & Data list facilitates the collection and display of information on site. View All Site Content is an example of Content & Data Lists. You can get this list by either clicking on Site Actions button or by clicking list in Quick Access menu which appears on left of your page.
Related Posts:
No commentsAccess Denied error message for SharePoint Visitor group members
It is likely that your SharePoint 2010 site returns Access Denied error when user in Visitor group accesses the page in site.
First reason for the error message:
The page which user trying to access might not have been published to major version.
For example: If your page has image which got minor version and page got published with (Major Version) then server would deny the access to page and ask for credentials.
Solution: At least one major version of the page should exist on your site. Make sure all resources(Images, Documents) are on the page published with Major Version.
You can use “draft check” button on page tab of your page’s ribbon to check the unpublished resource on the page that being used.
Share this post :
Related Posts:
No commentsCreating Parallel Workflow in SharePoint 2010
This post explains how to create parallel tasks in SharePoint 2010 workflow. The idea is we are going to assign the tasks to people and they can complete them in any order without having a dependency on one another. In this example we create a custom SharePoint list which contains a vacation request details looks as below
The Request contains a title field which represents the type of request and then two people(Team Lead and Department Head) who requires to approve this request.
Related Posts:
1 commentDisplaying Custom HTML message in SharePoint 2010
This post explains about displaying a custom HTML message in Visio Web access web part on a SharePoint web part page. We are using two web parts content editor webpart and Visio Web access webpart as shown below
