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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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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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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How may document libraries are recommended for a site?
I have a document imaging solution that will have a document library for each weekday for scanned in documents.
I know that it is recommended not to exceed 2000 items in a document library.
Is ...
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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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Authoring Environment
I have taken a new job and have been introduced to a new SharePoint environment that has been set up. The topology is as follows.
Dev - > Authoring -> Testing -> Production
I am a little confused by ...
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What tool/approach is best to use to document the structure and hierarchy of a SharePoint site collection?
I need to document the structure and hierarchy of a SharePoint site collection. We need to show the Different sub sites, the hierarchy, the lists and libraries in each site, the list columns in case ...
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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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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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How to set permissions for SP2010 Server
I'm new to SharePoint 2010 and am creating numerous Publishing sites with workflows, each for a different department. Each department needs to have a few people assigned to be able to create pages, ...
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Two tier small farm Questions
Currently we have a db server and everything else installed on another server. We now have a third server at our disposal. I was wondering if it was possible to add the other server into the mix.
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how to maintain a SharePoint server?
I am using SharePoint Server 2007 + Windows Server 2008. I want to know whether there are any existing best practices or tools to maintain a SharePoint server, for example how to monitor SharePoint ...
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SPMonitoredScope doesn't work as expected
my code:
using (new SPMonitoredScope("Sleepy Time", 1000)) {
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000);
}
when I enable the Developer Dashboard, I am expecting a red border around it because the code ...
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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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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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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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SharePoint 3 tier Service Application with EF
I'm looking for some best practices on how to setup a three tier application design with a SharePoint Service Applications.
A case example: suppose I have customers, each customer has a set of ...
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How should I programmatically customize the “My Profile” page (person.aspx)?
I am trying to customize the "my profile" page (person.aspx, "my site host" site collection) in SharePoint 2010. For example, I would like to:
Add/delete some webparts
Delete links from top ...
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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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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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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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What is the best practice handling “Save Conflict” SPException? [closed]
What is the best way to work around the SPException thrown when updating an SPListItem recently edited by another process?
Is this a good approach? What can be done to not to lose the update data? ...
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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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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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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 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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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 tips for a SharePoint Server?
I have set up a SharePoint Server as the new Intranet for the company I work for. I have been thinking that it would be good to have an area where everyone can post ideas and tips they think everyone ...
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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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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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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 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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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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How to test content databases without triggering alerts and workflows in test environment
Let's consider the following:
You want to restore and attach SP Content Database in the test farm to test for folllowing scenario(s):
Scenario A - To test if SharePoint 2007 database can be ...
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Branding SharePoint 2010 After the Fact
I am relatively new to SharePoint branding, but have experience in other developing aspects and administration. With SharePoint 2010, am I asking for trouble by getting my site (intranet for a ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Setting SPWeb.AllProperties on WebPart Install
I have a WebPart where I need to set a custom property in SPWeb.AllProperties. How can I on install check to see if a property is set? If it is not set I want to set it. Or is it best just to do this ...
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Content deployment/merge strategies best practices
We have a live site that has a fairly good amount of updates every day, mostly the business users make these changes.
Our development team is also underway making big changes to the code (including ...
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Importing content from a Word document into SharePoint
We have some content in Word documents that we need to convert to web pages (publishing) in SharePoint. I know there are many ways to do this, with advantages and disadvantages. I would really like to ...
