How to display a SharePoint List from another site using the Data View Web Part
I first introduced the Data View Web Part (DVWP) in one of my articles earlier this year which you can access here and discussed a couple of scenarios in which you can utilise the DVWP. In today’s example I will elaborate on the DVWP and provide you with a step by step scenario in how you can display a SharePoint list from one site to another site. You can utilise the DVWP to connect to SharePoint Lists, Libraries, Database Connections etc within any site in a site collection and in today’s example I will replicate and display a SharePoint Calendar list from one Team Site to another...
Read MoreCreate your own SharePoint “Quote of the Day” Web Part using the CEWP – No Coding required
This question pops up every now and then and that is, how do I create a “quote of the day” web part to place on the front page of my SharePoint Intranet Portal. Quite easily is my response and in today’s post I will demonstrate how you can utilise the Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) to easily achieve this. As way of background, the CEWP is an out of the box SharePoint web part allowing you to add formatted text, tables, hyperlinks and images to a Web Part page. In addition to the above, the CEWP also allows you to add HTML content which we will utilise in the below example to...
Read MoreIntegrating Exchange 2007 Messaging Records Management with SharePoint Document Libraries – Part 2
Welcome back to the final post in this 2 part series, Integrating Exchange 2007 MRM with SharePoint Document Libraries. Today’s post will wrap things up by going through the process of mail enabling an existing SharePoint document library and creating a new managed content setting in Exchange 2007 providing us with the ability to journal a copy of all messages moved into our “Project XYZ” managed folder located in Outlook, into our Shared collaborative Document Library under our Project Team Site. Recall from part 1, that the objective of integrating Exchange MRM with SharePoint is to...
Read MoreIntegrating Exchange 2007 Messaging Records Management with SharePoint Document Libraries – Part 1/2
There are two technologies in my IT Pro life that I am very passionate about, SharePoint and Exchange, so why not incorporate both passions in a single blog post. In this two part series I will be discussing how we can manage email records from our Exchange mailboxes and archive them in SharePoint Document Libraries for compliance or collaboration reasons. Exchange 2007 introduced a great new feature set in the name of “Messaging Records Management” or commonly referred to as MRM. Managed Default Folders is a key component of MRM which will assist us in achieving our archiving...
Read MoreSharePoint, My Site and Managing User Profile Properties – Part 2/2
Welcome to part 2 of My Site & Managing User Profile Properties. In Part 1 we introduced User Profile Properties and how these can be automatically populated via Windows Active Directory (AD). We also went into some detail regarding the Organization Hierarchy Web part. You can access part 1 here if you missed it. In today’s post our focus is around creating additional profile properties either by mapping to existing fields in Active Directory such as Company or creating a field which may not necessarily be mapped to Active Directory but is required to be entered by the user...
Read MoreSharePoint, My Site and Managing User Profile Properties – Part 1/2
A couple of months ago I posted an article introducing My Site and social enterprise networking with SharePoint, and focused the discussion around tracking colleagues via the colleague tracker web part. If you missed that article, you can access it here. I also promised that I would provide future articles discussing other My Site features so here is a two part series on My Site and Managing user profile properties with today’s discussion around populating Windows Active Directory (AD). Some of the common question’s asked are what fields should be populated in AD and how does one...
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