Target Audience: Site Administrators

During testing, you may be frequently required to log in and out of a SharePoint site. All the clicking could wear you out. Although Firefox does not offer the full SharePoint experience, I sometimes use a Firefox browser to minimize the repetitiveness. However, Firefox does not automatically handle single sign-on with Windows Integrated authentication. Below is a [...]

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Target Audience: Site Administrators

It is a good practice to employ a dedicated content database for each site collection. When you create a new site collection in SharePoint 2010, there is however no easy way to indicate which content database to use. There are at least two approaches: Central Administration and the almighty Powershell. Let’s [...]

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Target Audience: End Users

As everyone in your organization starts adopting document collaboration using SharePoint 2010 instead of email attachments, the ability to quickly and accurately search for the right information has become even more critical.

The search box in the upper right corner of SharePoint 2010 requires little explanation. Let’s, however, further streamline our lives by enabling document [...]

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Target Audience: Site Administrators

Assuming you already have Active Directory & Profile Database Synchronization working and your own My Site is flawlessly functioning, you may still get the User Not Found error while trying to assess your esteemed colleagues’ sites. The steps below saved my afternoon (and hopefully yours as well), and I still had daylight [...]

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Target Audience: Site Administrators & End Users

Certain applications, including Microsoft Visual Studio, require the files to be saved to a disk drive. How delighted would you be if I revealed how to use SharePoint document libraries as mapped drives? Let’s find out!

Open Windows Explorer Right-click on My Computer Click on Map network drive Pick [...]

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