I’m sure we all have our own stories about how we “fell” into the SharePoint-verse. Perhaps your employer decided to make the switch and your job title suddenly expanded to include “SharePoint Administrator/Architect/Developer”; you were considered “computer savvy” and you were recruited by your company to help with the SharePoint transition; or your role was

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I Needed a Job so I Learned SharePoint: or Why I Went Over to the Dark Side

Here is a Powershell Script to that deploys a WSP and activates a SharePoint feature $solutionName=”solutionname.wsp” $featureName=”featurename” $SolutionPath=”C:\wsp\”+$solutionName if($args[0] -eq ‘DEV’) { $webAppName=”http://url” } elseif ($args[0] -eq ‘QA’) { $webAppName=”http://url” } elseif ($args[0] -eq ‘PROD’) { $webAppName=”http://url” } else { Write-Host “$(Get-Date -Format o) Environment not specified – please pass appropriate environment to deploy -”

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How to deploy a WSP and activate a SharePoint Feature with Powershell

The PowerShell cmdlet Export-SPWeb allows to export SharePoint sites, lists and libraries to a disk location. The -Path attribute allows to specify disk location and filename of the backup file. The stsadm.exe application can be used basically for the same purpose with the syntax: stsadm -o export In this case, the -filename attribute determines the disk location

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“There is not enough space on the disk” while exporting sites in Sharepoint

Sometimes, there’s the need to include Sharepoint web pages in external web applications without showing elements derived from the master page (i.e. ribbon, navigation bars, title bar, etc.). The CSS snippet below is an easy way to hide unwanted elements by using CSS only, without changing the ASPX code. 1: Create a CSS file named (for example) zero.css

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How to remove the SharePoint header, footer and menus with CSS

Dashboards display just-in-time data – at a glance you can see how fast your process is moving and whether resource shifting is required. SharePoint makes dashboards easy and you can create them in many different ways. But, there’s a gap in the out-of-box story for displaying InfoPath data: you can only promote fields that are

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InfoPath Dashboards – Displaying Repeating Data in SharePoint Libraries