A SharePoint Wiki Page Library can be used for many things including departmental manuals and documenting procedures. This is mainly because it is quick and easy for groups of people to create pages and link them together. Today I’m creating…
With any public-facing web server these days it is best practice to use SSL to make sure traffic is encrypted. SharePoint is no exception so today I’m going to generate an SSL certificate and attach it to my site. I…
Several people have asked me about SharePoint licensing. Given that SharePoint 2010 is available in three editions (Foundation, Standard and Enterprise), each offering a different set of capabilities to meet different needs, it can be quite difficult to understand what…
There aren’t many themes to choose from in SharePoint but it’s easy to upload custom themes. Just follow these steps: Open your SharePoint site Click Site Actions Click Site Settings In the Look and Feel section, click Site theme At…
In addition to backing up my SharePoint site collection with Symantec BackupExec, I will occasionally use the command line tools to backup to file. This is quite easy to do in just a few steps: Logon to the SharePoint server…
As I use Symantec BackupExec on my network I have purchased the agent for SharePoint. This will allow me to backup the entire server or farm with the ability to perform a granluar restore. To backup the SharePoint server efficiently…
Every time I install SharePoint 2010 I have to remember that by default the time zone and locale are set to American and need to be changed. To change the locale and time zone following these steps: 1. Log in…
In order to prevent unexpected behaviour or performance issues I am going to exclude various files and folders from scanned by my Antivirus software. This process will differ depending on the Antivirus solution in place so instead of providing a…