SharePoint Foundation is the platform for all products in the SharePoint family. It contains all of the core functionality and architecture drawn on by the commercial versions of the package, but is free to download
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What order to apply SharePoint 2010 Enterprise SP1 and June 2011 CU?
It's September 2011. We just installed SharePoint 2010 Enterprise RTM. Want to install SharePoint 2010 SP1. Do we need to install SharePoint Foundation SP1 first? And should we install June update ...
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Books Recommended for Beginner SharePoint architect
I am a recent graduate and got a job as a junior SharePoint developer few months ago. For the last few months, I have been working on SharePoint development, e.g. webparts, .Net Forms, K2, Lists, ...
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Is SharePoint right technology for our project?
We are currently building a new public (extranet) client document portal. This should be system very similar to box.com where we can exchange documents with our clients. We will also allow the client ...
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How to localize webpart title, description, group, quickadd group in Sandbox solution
I've seen other similar questions (like this one), checked Microsoft documentation (like all the ones stemming from and related to the page Localization of Sandboxed Solutions in SharePoint 2010), ...
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What exactly is SharePoint?
What is SharePoint anyway? What's the difference between SharePoint and Dropbox or SkyDrive for example?
They all share files.
Why should anyone use SharePoint instead of SkyDrive or Dropbox?
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“View exceeds list view threshold” even when it doesn't
I have a document library in SharePoint Foundation 2010 which contains over 10,000 items, arranged in folders such that no folder contains more than 2000 items. I've created a public view called ...
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How do we activate auditing in SharePoint Foundation 2010?
We are trying to set up SharePoint auditing to audit reading of list items and are having problems finding how to turn it on.
Is this supported in the Foundation version? If so how do we activate it?
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How to hide quick launch navigation link for visitors in sharepoint foundation 2010?
i want to hide few quick launch navigation links for visitors but it should be visible to members and owners in SharePoint foundation 2010.
Thanks.
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How to Send Mail to a SharePoint library using hMailServer?
How can i send mail from hmailSserver to a SharePoint library ?
I work on Windows Server 2008. When an email is sent from Outlook I can't find it in the library..
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To code or not to code?
I'm very new to SharePoint 2010. I just reviewed some resources. There's two general ways to deliver a sharepoint solution:
setup a sharepoint site collection, sites, lists, libraries,
workflows,... ...
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Protect wsp file from Reverse Engineering
How to protect wsp file so no one can read my source code. When we change wsp file extension from wsp to zip, it gives all dll file and this dll can be extracted from .net reflector and get all source ...
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From .NET developer to SharePoint developer - Can it happen?
I am a .NET developer who builds web apps and I’m thinking of learning SharePoint 2010 and change my career to SharPOint development. Why? Because web development is widely focused and I never seem to ...
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What are the licensing requirements to implement SharePoint Foundation in an extranet environment?
If we implement SharePoint Foundation, what are the licensing requirements and implications to have it setup as an Extranet environment?
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Pros and cons of code vs. no code in SharePoint development?
Here's my situation: I work in a user area and have been tasked with creating usable SharePoint sites for different areas. Some are doc management, some are collaborative work spaces, some are task ...
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sharepoint caml is fast - how?
We all know that Caml is faster than using linq, since linq internally gets translated to caml.
But can anyone explain how caml is best to do sharepoint queries or how it is fast or what makes it ...
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Using Third Party editor in sharepoint 2010
Sharepoint 2010 content editor is better than sharepoint2007 but it's lacking lots of functionality.
Is it possible to "substitute" standard rich text editor with something like Telerik Rad editor?
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Remove extra sign-in step after enabling Forms Based Authentication
Now that I have enabled Forms Based Authentication (FBA) on my sharepoint site, there is an extra Sign-In page where I have to select what type of authentication I wish to use. I pretty much want ...
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Choice Column - Enfore Unique Values For a Subset of the Choices
I have a list defined with a column called "Priority". The Priority column is a choice column where the list of choices is defined as: 1,2,3,4,5 and None. This effectively defines a list item as being ...
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SPF2010 Theme not getting applied for anonymous users
Working on a public facing SharePoint Foundation 2010 site with anonymous access enabled. Anonymous/authenticated access to content works as expected without problems so far.
Recently I went into ...
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What update I have to install in Foundation 2010 to run a backup that asks for version 4.1.13.0?
I'm trying to run a backup from a Sharepoint Server 2010 that runs a version 14.0.6101.5008:
The version of my local Sharepoint Foundation 2010 server is 14.0.6114.5000:
When I run the backup ...
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Can i build solutions for SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server on the same development machine?
My question is regarding the different SharePoint 2010 editions. Say I am running SharePoint Server on my development machine, since most of my solutions are made for SharePoint Server. If I should ...
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Migrate dokuwiki to SharePoint
We have a dokuwiki site that I want to migrate to SharePoint. I know I can go through and copy and paste, but I have hundreds of pages to copy over.
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How to move items between folders Document List?
Is it possible to move documents between different folders in Document List?
EDIT: I mean possible for a sharepoint standard user, not an admin.
For example, suppose that my Document Library has two ...
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Access Denied in deploy SharePoint Hosted App
I'm trying to build a sharepoint app with type sharepoint hosted app, i'm following the instructions of msdn site:
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What does ULSxSy:; do in SharePoint JS files?
So I was going through init.js and sp.js and found out that nearly all of the SharePoint OOB JS functions start with the following line: "ULSxSy:;"
For example:
function ctxInitItemState(ctxCur)
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Lync status bullet in UpdatePanel
I'm creating a webpart that shows the employees birthdays. It's a simple web part that when the page is loaded lists all birthdays for the current week (data comes from a SPList). My webpart then ...
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How can i enable Group calender?
I found that the "EnablePeopleSelector" property changes the calender into a group calender.
I am unable to set the value for tat property using csom or webservices..
My webservices snippet is as ...
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URL rewriter and Sharepoint 2010
I have a url that uses https. My client would like to be able to avoid typing https everytime so i was looking in to using URL rewriter 2 to rewrite the URL so that
http://x.com -> https://x.com
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Is it possible to create Site Collection such that URL should not have “/sites” in SharePoint foundation 2010?
I want to create Site Collection such that Site collection should not contain "/sites" in its URL(Except root Site Collection) in SharePoint Foundation 2010.
Is it possible to do it?
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I'm trying to understang how AJAX and Sharepoint play together
I'm about to embark on a project whose goal is to take a Sharepoint wiki of documentation, and add an index as the left nav (right now, there's only search). As users click on an index item, the right ...
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How to restrict user to see only few rows in a list
I have one list
Title Availability Department
-----------------------------------------------------
Microscope Yes Biology
Buret No ...
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Learn Sharepoint
Im newbie and I wanna learn sharepoint 2010 from scratch about doing customized coding. Not learning about the template part.
What book/material can you suggest?
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Why are fields in Datasheet View read only?
I have four metadata columns into which I cannot paste data for a bulk upload. A diaglog box: "The selected cells are read only" appears when I try to paste.
The cells are defined as "multiple lines ...
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SharePoint 2010 Get Content Type Programmatically
I've created several content type that inherit from the document content type in the site content type lists. Please refer to the image below
How do I get these these content type pro-grammatically. ...
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Move SharePoint to new Domain
I have SharePoint Foundation installed on a domain joined machine. It is a single server install (SharePoint and SQL on the same machine). I need to un-join this machine from the domain and install ...
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What is new in SharePoint 2013 ?
The SharePoint 2013 is now released. What is New in SharePoint 2013 ?
What are they added in SharePoint 2013 then SharePoint 2010 ?
What are the new features ?
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Can you disable email notifications for a blog post saved as a draft?
In SP 2010 Foundation, I have a blog setup to allow contributors to post as a draft. However, all of the users that have alerts setup for posts receive an email when these drafts are created. That ...
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WSS_Logging Database Recovery Model
I'm looking for best practice advice when setting the SQL recovery model for the WSS_Logging database in SharePoint Foundation 2010. We currently have this database set to use the "Simple" recovery ...
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Sharepoint 2010 database move from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008, Alias question
I want move my Sharepoint 2010 foundation from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008. Now, from what I read the best practice is to use a SQL alias on the new server pointing to the old server after I attach all the ...
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Is VS 2010 needed to build a SharePoint 2010 project in Powershell?
Can you build a SharePoint Project without Visual Studio 2010/2012 being installed on the machine you are trying build it on using PowerShell?
I have a PowerShell script the is working great. It ...
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Migrating SharePoint Features from WSS 3.0 to SharePoint 2010
I try to Migrate a SharePoint 2003 (WSS 3.0) to SharePoint 2010.
I do it with the detach database method.
After I run the test-spcontentdatabase to the restored contentdatabase. I get some errors ...
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Is it possible to Fire event when Content type added in Shared Documents in sharepoint 2010?
How to fire event when any content type added in shared document library ? How to handle this event ?
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Using SharePoint UserAccountDirectoryPath with SSRS
I've got a SharePoint 2010 Enterprise multi-tenant setup integrated with a new SSRS 2008 R2 instance in SharePoint-Integrated mode and have FINALLY managed to get everything working. However, there ...
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sharepoint user control
We are currently using outlook and exchange to reserve / book rooms and resources at our company. We set up a mail box for the resource and share the calendar so that others can use it. We are looking ...
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How to perform stress test against sharepoint site using threads
I want to analyze the performance (hence its weak points) of a sharepoint site doing stress test activity. What is needed to be done is call some methods exposed via web service that do the following ...
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Hide the “Add new Item” option below the sharepoint 2010 list
I have a sharepoint 2010 list, I want to hide the option "add new item" which resides below the list, any suggestions?
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After retracting webpart solution webparts still showing up
I retract a webpart solution that was deployed via Visual Studio. Then when i edit a page for some reason the Custom category + the webparts are still being listed when i try to insert a webpart. ...
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How to use a vanity URL with Sharepoint 2010
We have a web application at x-x.com and a site collection at /sites/test (https://x-x.com/sites/test/) We have set up two vanity urls in our DNS so that in theory a user can type ...
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Can Sharepoint foundation be used with Sharepoint Standard?
Can Sharepoint foundation version be used to develop apps on and then deploy to Sharepoint 2010 (Standard) version ?
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