A "best practice" is a method or process that practitioners recognize (usually through experience and research) as being more effective at getting the job done than other methods (or processes).
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Parralel workflow While Loops
I have 2 questions regarding a custom SharePoint Parallel workflow.
When setting up a While loop (using a while shape), what's the best
practice in terms of placing a wait shape? Basically, I have ...
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Distributed Cache Service Accounts
Recently saw a health warning in my 2013 CA that stated:
The farm account is used for the SharePoint timer
service and the central administration site, it is highly privileged and should
not be ...
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manageable Sequential Workflow code in visual studio
We are developing a new visual studio 2010 sequential workflow having many steps inside.
c# code exceeds 5K lines now.
Can anybody suggest any technique that we can use to make the workflow ...
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“Best Practices” for SharePoint customizations/development to easily migrate to new SharePoint versions
Do you know of any documents that describe “best practices” for SharePoint customizations (especially custom developments) in order for these customizations/code (for example web parts, event ...
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Sharepoint Development Process Best Practices
I would like to ask some simple questions regarding the best practices of Sharepoint 2010 development process.
1) I am supposed to maintain and add new sites to an already installed Sharepoint site. ...
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Best Practice changing usernames for Sharepoint 2010
We are using SharePoint 2010 Enterprise and have a User Profile service set to synchronize against AD DS.
When a user's username changes, because of marriage or mis spelling, there are a set of ...
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Is Calling base.ItemUpdating(properties); necessary?
In an event receiver, is it necessary to call base.ItemAdding(properties);, base.ItemUpdating(properties);, etc. at the beginning of your event handler?
I've seen people arguing that it isn't ...
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Instantiating SPListItems in Event Receivers - Best Practices
In the MSDN article Best Practices with Event Receivers it is clearly stated:
Do not instantiate an SPWeb, SPSite, SPList, or SPListItem object within an event receiver.
The article goes on to ...
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Should this be a sandboxed solution?
My company outsourced the creation of a SharePoint WebPart for connecting to our cloud service.
The WebPart connects to our service by using our REST API. When configuring the WebPart you supply ...
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Customizing social features in 2013
I'm looking at making use of the social features in 2013 but would like to tailor the UX / behaviour in some cases.
I noticed that Microsoft advise against customization - ...
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Best way of getting SPWeb in Event Receiver [Best Practices]
what would be the best way of getting SPWeb and List in context below, specially when list title can be different for different cultural websites,
private bool ...
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Auto-Update Statics On/Off
MS recommends disabling auto-create statistics on SP DBs (ref).
What about auto-update statistics?
Looking at our TFS installation, for the SP DBs, these two options are disabled for you when TFS is ...
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How to run a popup window from code behind in web Part writen in C#
I must run a popup worning when somebady exceeded a something walues. I try a Sharepoint Modal and javascript, but I don't know how to run something from behind code to run javaScript, or Sharepoint ...
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Best practice for public facing website
I am getting lost in the Sharepoint universe and I need someone to point me in the direction of an easy guide to setting up a public facing website collection following best practice.
We have ...
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Dynamically registering JavaScript from within a sandbox web part
I am mid-way through development of a corporate intranet that will be hosted in SharePoint Online. For this reason, we are restricted to using sandbox solutions. One of the last "gotchas" that I need ...
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Add documents to library or assign them to items?
We have a checklist for projects, this list is represented as a project tasklist so we can track to progress.
At the moment we add documents to a document library on the same page, but this way they ...
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Proper way to get all lists of a certain type from an entire site collection regardless of current location
I'm creating a webpart that gives the user a feed of any annoucement list in the entire site collection, so they can aggregate data to a central portal.
I'm currently using the following, but can't ...
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Webapp design for internet, intranet and extranet?
I am a beginner in Sharepoint and I must conceive a Sharepoint solution. I need to have an Intranet for employees as well as an access point for collaborators to a particular site in this intranet. ...
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Use SPQuery.RowLimit also on large lists with small query results?
I frequently read one should use RowLimit on SPQuerys on a large list, especially with more than 2000 items.
Best Practices: Common Coding Issues When Using the SharePoint Object Model:
An ...
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UAT refresh best practices
The scenario is as follows:
SP2010 production farm and UAT farm will have the same setup.
As work items are pulled to production, and users add content and SP Designer changes to production, and at ...
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Reason people don't use SPContext when executing web.Lists[“ListName”].GetItems(query)
I'm building a Site Definition that will be the core of a SharePoint product.
I want to use best practices building the data access architecture.
Since I do not know what the URL of the site will ...
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Setting up sites with lists and custom content types
I am creating a proof of concept at work. It will be creating a web applciation with a site collection in it. The site collection will have 1 or 2 custom content types and a few lists set up. I will ...
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Best Practices for StateMachine Workflow update operations
In our Workflow we have lots of updates to running workflow Document library item and its associated tasks..currently we are using simple approach as
For Document Library :
Public Shared Sub ...
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SharePoint 2010 - Best practices: how to handle assemblies [Discussion]
There is a discussion which has been going on for serveral years when programming for SharePoint.
In Visual Studio you can add a SharePoint solution, which will be converted to a .wsp file to deploy. ...
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Correct way to store and retrieve +2000 List items Sharepojnt 2007
So I've read all the whitepapers, and I know that you can store up to 5 million list items in a list as long as you use folders.
What I'm after, is, has anyone written some nice recursion that gets a ...
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SP 2010 - to BLOB or not to BLOB?
Here is my situation:
We are working on a scan-to-SP solution for our remote locations. The scanning will take place throughout the day/night. Our current estimated Total Daily Scans will number ...
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What are some best practices when using jquery for Autocomplete with ashx?
After doing some research I saw some examples using jquery's .ajax function and webmethods for autocomplete with ashx in Sharepoint.
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Kerberos and applicationhost.config
One of our WebApplications is using Kerberos. Our devloper has said that we need to edit the application.config and change:
<windowsAuthentication enabled="true" useKernelMode="false">
to
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What to do on feature deletion/deactivation
as I am trying to wrap my head around silverlight and sharepoint there's one thing I find most irritating: Provisioned xap-Files and/or web-Parts remain fully active upon deactivation/uninstallation ...
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Completely remove a WSP from SharePoint
What is the best way to completely remove a WSP from SharePoint? SO when you reinstall it again from scatch it thinks it is a clean install?
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Using SharePoint for an appraisal/360 process
We are thinking of using SharePoint 2010 for an appraisal/360 process. The workflow is simple.
HR Create appraisal for users
User fills it in
Manager fills it in
User accepts appraisal
Manager ...
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Best practices of custom field types in SharePoint 2010 [closed]
From your experience, what are some of the best practices around custom field types, their creation, deployment and maintenance. I am finding little on this topic online.
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WebPart where to store a connection string
I have a webpart that connects to an external DB. I need somewhere to store the connection string. It is possible for this data source to change but would always be the same for the site collection ...
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Working with large external lists using BCS
I have a database that I want to display the content in SharePoint 2010. I am not displaying the content in a list but am using a custom WebPart.
The database is not updated any more as it is ...
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What are the top SharePoint list best practices?
I am looking for specific best practices around naming conventions and cross site list querying (site collection & subsite). I am not finding a lot of resources on these topics and assume this ...
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Create Display form that reads the current language of its parent
Im working in sharepoint server 2010, with Arabic language pack installed
my current structure for the sharepoint site like the following:
one SiteCollection:
--------> one English ...
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How should I set up my database instances for multiple SP2010 installs?
I'm setting up three SharePoint instances. We have a single database instance (DB\SP2010) that will hold all the databases for these three SP instances. Will this be overly confusing? Is there some ...
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Best way to Impersonate in SharePoint
So far, I am aware of below 3 ways of performing impersonation in a SharePoint web part or page :
Using Win32 API
[DllImport("advapi32.dll", SetLastError=true)]
public static extern bool ...
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Search Crawling Frequency
For Search, How often should you perform an incremental crawl? I was thinking of doing it every two hours? Is that too often? Are there any best practices in terms of frequency of searching?
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Migrate Web Applications or migrate Site Collection from Development to Live
I have a Web Application in development with 7 site collections. I need to get them all into my production environment. No Web Application exists in production. Is it best to backup and restore the ...
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Migrating site collections from developemnt to live
I have several site collections that have been created in development. I now need to move them to live. In the live environment these site collections do not exists. What is the best way to migrate ...
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Best Practice to handle items modification in SharePoint 2007
From my understanding, there is no checkout function inside a SharePoint 2007 List.
So, what is the best practice that SharePoint Professionals and Expert do to make sure that a item of a SharePoint ...
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Best practices when creating Site to use as a template
I'm creating a site that I'll eventually use as a template to create other sites from it. The site will contain lists, workflows, user groups, content types etc etc.
I want to make lots of clones ...
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Sharepoint 2010 - Related fields in dropdowns. How to?
In my UI I have a dropdown which contains some values: A, B, C. There is also another dropdown in the page whose values depend on the selected value in the first combo.
If I select A in the first ...
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How should I check if SharePoint site is loaded on a desktop or on a mobile device?
I'm taking my chances and only using 1 web application and 1 masterpage for my SharePoint site, which I'm now also optimizing for mobile devices.
I'm currently in the progress of developing a ...
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Sharepoint backups - Development image
I'm looking into creating an image of a SP 2010 development environment.
I would like to avoid operations like restoring the image of the virtual machine (the environment is on a virtual PC) and opt ...
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Most appropriate value for MinimumBlobStorageSize?
I've set up RBS on my SharePoint 2010 server and I'm down to the very last step of deciding just how big a file needs to be before it's set in the Blob Store. There are tons of articles and blog ...
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Things to “get right” to succesfully develop Sharepoint solutions
Lets face it, SharePoint 2010 is a big ecosystem. You need to know the GUI, the administration options, the data model, have programming skills, know the API, know how it works internally etc etc.
I, ...
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Best practices for updating list template schema files in SharePoint
I have a requirement to update the schema files of a list template which modifies the options available to the fields.
But, when I am updating the schema file the options for the already defined ...
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What is the typical IT support team structure and their general areas of knowledge?
The place I work has purchased SharePoint 2010 Enterprise, for many reasons, but firstly for document management.
However they are keen to get to most out of the 'rest of it'. But us developers ...
