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Features in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 contains lots of features. Some of the features list below

à Under Sites

Accessibility:
Use SharePoint more effectively with improved accessibility, including built-in support for keyboard navigation and support for industry-wide accessibility standards.
 
Cross-Browser Support:
Access SharePoint through Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari

Multi-lingual User Interface:
Take advantage of out-of-the-box support for multilingual experiences in SharePoint 2010. Give your people language options in site navigation, menus, the SharePoint Ribbon, and customized list fields.

Out-of-Box Web parts:
Use more than 40 out-of-the-box Web Parts to add functionality anywhere in a site with point-and-click simplicity.

SharePoint Health Analyzer:
Quickly find and fix potential problems across all of the servers in your farm. The SharePoint Health Analyzer monitors farm health and can automatically fix many common configuration and performance problems.

SharePoint Ribbon:
Quickly find and fix potential problems across all of the servers in your farm. The SharePoint Health Analyzer monitors farm health and can automatically fix many common configuration and performance problems.

Streamlined Central Administration:
Manage SharePoint 2010 more efficiently with a streamlined administration experience. Use the SharePoint Ribbon to configure and manage your server farm.

Unattached Content Database Recovery:
Temporarily mount an unattached content database and browse content, back up a site collection, or export sites and lists without a recovery farm.

Visual Upgrade:
Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 but keep the SharePoint 2007 look-and-feel until you are ready to switch. View a site with the SharePoint 2010 user interface before committing to it.

Web parts:
Use Web Parts to add new functionality to SharePoint sites. Add a Web Part to any page and the new functionality will appear when the page is displayed.

Windows PowerShell support:
Achieve greater control and productivity with Windows PowerShell, a command line shell and scripting language. SharePoint 2010 offers a snap-in so you can take advantage of PowerShell for your SharePoint deployments and manage your server farm and automate tasks with out-of-the-box cmdlets.

à Under Communities

Blogs:
Use the new SharePoint Ribbon to format blog text and easily upload images.

Colleague Suggestion:
Keep your colleague network current with an automated service that suggests colleagues based on your reporting structure, communities membership, e-mail distribution lists, Office Communicator contact lists, and analysis of most common Office Outlook e-mail recipients.

My Content:
Centrally store and manage your documents, favorite links, personal blog, and wiki pages on the My Content section of your My Site. Customize your pages and set access and permission levels for any content in the section.

My profile:
Centrally store and manage your documents, favorite links, personal blog, and wiki pages on the My Content section of your My Site. Customize your pages and set access and permission levels for any content in the section.

Organization browser:
Navigate your organizational structure to see managers, peers, and direct reports.

Photos and Presence:
Help people recognize each other with photos. Use presence to email, IM, or call someone with the click of a button.

Rating:
Rate SharePoint pages, lists, libraries, and individual documents with a five-star rating system.

Recent Activities:
Rate SharePoint pages, lists, libraries, and individual documents with a five-star rating system.
Tags:
Rate SharePoint pages, lists, libraries, and individual documents with a five-star rating system.
Wikis:
Create pages that combine the ease of wikis with the functionality of Web Parts.
à Under Content

Compliance Everywhere:
Manage versions, apply retention schedules, declare records, and place legal holds, whether you're dealing with traditional content, Web content, or social content.
Document Sets:
Create a Document Set to manage related content as a single entity, speeding up common processes like RFP responses.
à Under Search

Contextual search:
Tailor different results and refinement options based on the profile of the user or audience.
Metadata-driven Refinement:
Use the new refinement panel in SharePoint 2010 to narrow the results of your search and find the right content faster.
People and Enterprise search:
Search for people by name or by associated terms.
à Under Insights

Business Intelligence Center:
Use the examples in this dedicated SharePoint site template to help you get started with your Business Intelligence projects.
Dashboards:
Create rich dashboards that convey the right information the first time, aggregating content from multiple sources and displaying it in a Web browser in an understandable and collaborate environment. Rich interactivity lets you to analyze up-to-the-minute information and work with the data quickly and easily to identify key opportunities and trends.
Decomposition Tree:
Perform root cause analyses using powerful analytics to examine core data. View only the most pertinent information using the new Decomposition Tree.
Visio Services:
Publish Visio 2010 diagrams to SharePoint 2010 to let your people view and refresh diagrams in a browser without opening Visio. Integrate diagrams into other SharePoint applications and develop rich mash-ups.
à Under Composites

Access Services:
Publish Visio 2010 diagrams to SharePoint 2010 to let your people view and refresh diagrams in a browser without opening Visio. Integrate diagrams into other SharePoint applications and develop rich mash-ups.
Browser-based Customizations:
Customize pages and Web Parts to create Web sites that meet your specific business needs.
Business Connectivity Services:
Work with external data, whether online or offline, in SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 applications using Business Connectivity Services (BCS, formerly named the Business Data Catalog).
Sandboxed Solutions:
Maintain security and manage system performance with Sandbox Solutions. Sandbox Solutions separate code from other processes, improving the security and helping you control resources and prevent performance problems.
SharePoint Designer:
Deliver no-code customizations with the new tools in SharePoint Designer, including List and Content Type editors, reusable workflows, XSLT templates, and external content types.
Silverlight Web Part:
Upload Silverlight XAP applications to a document library and use them immediately with the built-in Silverlight Web Part.

How to add the Facebook Social plugins to your website

There are 3 steps to adding the Facebook Social Plugins to your website.

1.Getting an Application ID
     - This is needed so you can use 100% of the Social Plugin functionality.
2.Adding the Facebook SDK to the header of your website

- or at least the header of the pages you want to add the Social Plugins too.

3.Adding the code for each Social Plugin you wish to use

. The most common mistake I've seen is people not getting their own Application ID. The Like button Social Plugin for example is easily added to your website, however if you don't have your own Application ID, the number of "likes" isn't kept after you leave your website and come back. The same applies with the Comments Social Plugin, and some of the other Social Plugins flat out will not work without your own Application ID.

Step 1 - Get an Application ID

Before you can use 100% of all of the Facebook Social Plugin functionality, and almost the entire functionality of the Comments Facebook Social Plugin, you must first get yourself a Facebook Application ID. This is a very simple process, just follow the instructions below:
  1. Go to: http://developers.facebook.com/setup/, enter your facebook account info if prompted.
  2. Enter the name of the website, for example "Gareth Hooper's Blog", as well as the Site URL (garethhooper.com/ for example, and don't forget the / on the end), and select the correct locale. Then click Create Application.
  3. Enter the security check, and click Submit.
  4. Make a note of the App ID and APP Secret. You will definitely need the App ID for Step 2. Please bear in mind that it may take as long as 20 minutes for the App ID to propagate out, so if you literally try to use it immediately after getting the ID, it may not work correctly.
Step 2 - Add the Facebook SDK

You need to add the Facebook SDK (think of it of more as a library that the Social Plugins need to access) to your website as a whole, or at least to the pages where you intend have Social Plugins.

To do this, you will need to add the following code to the header of at least every page you intend to have a Social Plugin. If you are using Wordpress or Joomla like I am, you should just try to the SDK code as close to the top of the page as possible. It just needs to load in the visitor’s web browser before the Social Plugin code does.

DON'T FORGET TO REPLACE THE APP ID IN THE CODE WITH THE APP ID YOU GOT IN STEP 1 ABOVE.
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>
window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
FB.init({appId: 'your app id', status: true, cookie: true,
xfbml: true});
};
(function() {
var e = document.createElement('script'); e.async = true;
e.src = document.location.protocol +
'//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js';
document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e);
}());
</script>

Step 3 - Adding the Social PluginsNow that the Facebook SDK (with your own Application ID) has been added, the rest is easy, just add the Social Plugin code. People who use Wordpress and Joomla, you do need to be conscious of the fact that the Facebook SDK needs to load BEFORE the Social Plugin, so if you experience any problems, move the Social Plugin to the bottom of the page (so it is one of the last things to load) and see if you fixes the problem. It may not be a permanent fix, but at least you would have identified the problem. The permanent fix of course would be to move the Facebook SDK closer to the top of the page.

Getting the Code for each Social Plugin

To get the code for the Like Button, go to the Facebook Developers page for the Like Button, customize it as you like, and then click the Get Code button to get the code to add to your website.

To get the code for the Like Box, go to the Facebook Developers page for the Like Box, customize it as you like, and then click the Get Code button to get the code to add to your website.

To get the code for the Comments plugin, go to the Facebook Developers page for the Comments plugin, customize it as you like, and then click the Get Code button to get the code to add to your website.

To get the code for the Recommendations plugin, go to the Facebook Developers page for the Recommendations plugin, customize it as you like, and then click the Get Code button to get the code to add to your website.

To get the code for the Activity Feed plugin, go to the Facebook Developers page for the Activity Feed plugin, customize it as you like, and then click the Get Code button to get the code to add to your website.

To get the code for the Live Stream plugin, go to the Facebook Developers page for the Live Stream plugin, customize it as you like, and then click the Get Code button to get the code to add to your website.

To get the code for the Login with Faces plugin, go to the Facebook Developers page for the Login with Faces plugin, customize it as you like, and then click the Get Code button to get the code to add to your website.

To get the code for the Facepile plugin, go to the Facebook Developers page for the Facepile plugin, customize it as you like, and then click the Get Code button to get the code to add to your website.

Reset the content index in SharePoint Server 2010

  1. Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is a service application administrator for your FAST Search Content Search Service Application.
  2. In Central Administration, in the Application Management section, click Manage service applications.
  3. On the Service Applications page, in the list of service applications, click your FAST Search Content SSA.
  4. On the Search Administration page, under Crawling, click Index Reset.
  5. On the Search Service Application: Index Reset page, click Reset Now.
  6. A confirmation dialog box appears; click OK to confirm the content index reset. The Search Service Application: Search Administration page opens and the System Status is displayed.
Before you start any new crawls, you must manually clear the content from the content collection your FAST Search Content Search Service Application was feeding to. The default collection name is sp. Note that clearing the content collection is irreversible.
To clear a FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint content collection, log onto the server that hosts FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint and follow this procedure.

Clear the content collection

  1. Verify that you meet the following minimum requirements: You are a member of the FASTSearchAdministrators local group on the computer where FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint is installed.
  2. On the Start menu, click All Programs.
  3. Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.
  4. Click the Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint shell.
  5. At the Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint shell command prompt, type the following command:
  6. Clear-FASTSearchContentCollection -Name <collection name>
Where:
<collection name> is the content collection you are about to clear.
  • Wait for the command to finish. This may take some time.
  • How to setup google analytics for your site


    Google analytics is a tool to track visits on your site. It gives the site owner an idea about the usage of the site, how the site is used, most commonly used pages, frequent visitors, how they arrived , how do the users navigate on the site, all time visitor count and numerous other features.

    Steps to get Analytic file to your site

    1. Browse to google analytics home page.
    2. Create your free google analytics account. If you already have gmail account you can use that to sign in.
    3.After you login in , you will have to open Admin tab. Then click on New Account.
    4.Enter you website name, this will be referred as title. Enter actual url of the site.
    Other settings are optional. Click on Get Tracking ID button and accept the License Agreement.
    5. After this you will see a small code snippet which says -"This is your tracking code. Copy and paste it into the code of every page you want to track.". Embed this code in your website pages to start tracking visits on your site.
    6. You will see that there is a tracking id specified starting with
    UA- <unique number set for you> - <serial number>.
    This entire combination of characters specifies that this tracking number is utilized uniquely for your site.
    7.By this step, you will see Reporting tab. This opens audience overview page. It give reports for "% of visits". However data is not populated immediately for a freshly created site.
    8. In order to verify if your site is setup properly, click on Real time in left navigation and open overview page. Then browse your site in another tab. Switch to google analytics tab keeping you site open. You should be able to see the active visitors count increasing in Right now section.

    Windows Shotcut Keys

    Windows system key combinations

    F1: Help
    CTRL+ESC: Open Start menu
    ALT+TAB: Switch between open programs
    ALT+F4: Quit program
    SHIFT+DELETE: Delete item permanently
    Windows Logo+L: Lock the computer (without using CTRL+ALT+DELETE)

    Windows program key combinations

    CTRL+C: Copy
    CTRL+X: Cut
    CTRL+V: Paste
    CTRL+Z: Undo
    CTRL+B: Bold
    CTRL+U: Underline
    CTRL+I: Italic

    Mouse click/keyboard modifier combinations for shell objects

    SHIFT+right click: Displays a shortcut menu containing alternative commands
    SHIFT+double click: Runs the alternate default command (the second item on the menu)
    ALT+double click: Displays properties
    SHIFT+DELETE: Deletes an item immediately without placing it in the Recycle Bin

    General keyboard-only commands

    F1: Starts Windows Help
    F10: Activates menu bar options
    SHIFT+F10 Opens a shortcut menu for the selected item (this is the same as right-clicking an object
    CTRL+ESC: Opens the Start menu (use the ARROW keys to select an item)
    CTRL+ESC or ESC: Selects the Start button (press TAB to select the taskbar, or press SHIFT+F10 for a context menu)
    CTRL+SHIFT+ESC: Opens Windows Task Manager
    ALT+DOWN ARROW: Opens a drop-down list box
    ALT+TAB: Switch to another running program (hold down the ALT key and then press the TAB key to view the task-switching window)
    SHIFT: Press and hold down the SHIFT key while you insert a CD-ROM to bypass the automatic-run feature
    ALT+SPACE: Displays the main window's System menu (from the System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the window)
    ALT+- (ALT+hyphen): Displays the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) child window's System menu (from the MDI child window's System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the child window)
    CTRL+TAB: Switch to the next child window of a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) program
    ALT+underlined letter in menu: Opens the menu
    ALT+F4: Closes the current window
    CTRL+F4: Closes the current Multiple Document Interface (MDI) window
    ALT+F6: Switch between multiple windows in the same program (for example, when the Notepad Find dialog box is displayed, ALT+F6 switches between the Find dialog box and the main Notepad window)

    Shell objects and general folder/Windows Explorer shortcuts

    For a selected object:
    F2: Rename object
    F3: Find all files
    CTRL+X: Cut
    CTRL+C: Copy
    CTRL+V: Paste
    SHIFT+DELETE: Delete selection immediately, without moving the item to the Recycle Bin
    ALT+ENTER: Open the properties for the selected object

    To copy a file

    Press and hold down the CTRL key while you drag the file to another folder.

    To create a shortcut

    Press and hold down CTRL+SHIFT while you drag a file to the desktop or a folder.

    General folder/shortcut control

    F4: Selects the Go To A Different Folder box and moves down the entries in the box (if the toolbar is active in Windows Explorer)
    F5: Refreshes the current window.
    F6: Moves among panes in Windows Explorer
    CTRL+G: Opens the Go To Folder tool (in Windows 95 Windows Explorer only)
    CTRL+Z: Undo the last command
    CTRL+A: Select all the items in the current window
    BACKSPACE: Switch to the parent folder
    SHIFT+click+Close button: For folders, close the current folder plus all parent folders

    Windows Explorer tree control

    Numeric Keypad *: Expands everything under the current selection
    Numeric Keypad +: Expands the current selection
    Numeric Keypad -: Collapses the current selection.
    RIGHT ARROW: Expands the current selection if it is not expanded, otherwise goes to the first child
    LEFT ARROW: Collapses the current selection if it is expanded, otherwise goes to the parent

    Properties control

    CTRL+TAB/CTRL+SHIFT+TAB: Move through the property tabs

    Accessibility shortcuts

    Press SHIFT five times: Toggles StickyKeys on and off
    Press down and hold the right SHIFT key for eight seconds: Toggles FilterKeys on and off
    Press down and hold the NUM LOCK key for five seconds: Toggles ToggleKeys on and off
    Left ALT+left SHIFT+NUM LOCK: Toggles MouseKeys on and off
    Left ALT+left SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN: Toggles high contrast on and off

    Microsoft Natural Keyboard keys

    Windows Logo: Start menu
    Windows Logo+R: Run dialog box
    Windows Logo+M: Minimize all
    SHIFT+Windows Logo+M: Undo minimize all
    Windows Logo+F1: Help
    Windows Logo+E: Windows Explorer
    Windows Logo+F: Find files or folders
    Windows Logo+D: Minimizes all open windows and displays the desktop
    CTRL+Windows Logo+F: Find computer
    CTRL+Windows Logo+TAB: Moves focus from Start, to the Quick Launch toolbar, to the system tray (use RIGHT ARROW or LEFT ARROW to move focus to items on the Quick Launch toolbar and the system tray)
    Windows Logo+TAB: Cycle through taskbar buttons
    Windows Logo+Break: System Properties dialog box
    Application key: Displays a shortcut menu for the selected item

    Microsoft Natural Keyboard with IntelliType software installed

    Windows Logo+L: Log off Windows
    Windows Logo+P: Starts Print Manager
    Windows Logo+C: Opens Control Panel
    Windows Logo+V: Starts Clipboard
    Windows Logo+K: Opens Keyboard Properties dialog box
    Windows Logo+I: Opens Mouse Properties dialog box
    Windows Logo+A: Starts Accessibility Options (if installed)
    Windows Logo+SPACEBAR: Displays the list of Microsoft IntelliType shortcut keys
    Windows Logo+S: Toggles CAPS LOCK on and off

    Dialog box keyboard commands

    TAB: Move to the next control in the dialog box
    SHIFT+TAB: Move to the previous control in the dialog box
    SPACEBAR: If the current control is a button, this clicks the button. If the current control is a check box, this toggles the check box. If the current control is an option, this selects the option.
    ENTER: Equivalent to clicking the selected button (the button with the outline)
    ESC: Equivalent to clicking the Cancel button
    ALT+underlined letter in dialog box item: Move to the corresponding item

    Adding a robots.txt to SharePoint 2010

    I manage a number of SharePoint farms some of which are web facing and configured to allow Anonymous access. However, business requirements dictate that one of the environments, should not be indexed by any of the search engines.

    How do you prevent you web facing farm from being indexed? Well, if you want to block search engines from indexing your site you need to create a robots.txt file and place it in the root of your root site.

    What is a Robots.txt

    Robots.txt is a text (not html) file placed in the root of your site to tell search robots which pages should and should not be visited/indexed. It is not mandatory for search engines to adhere to the instructions found in the robots.txt but generally search engines obey what they are asked not to do.

    It is important to note that a robots.txt does not completely prevent search engines from crawling your site (i.e. it is not a firewall) and the fact that you may have a robots.txt file on your site is something like putting a note "Please, do not enter"
    on your unlocked front door. Put simply, it will not prevent thieves from coming in but the good guys will not open to door and enter.

    It goes without saying therefore, if you have sensitive data, you cannot rely 100% on a robots.txt to protect it from being indexed and displayed in search results.

    The location of robots.txt is very important. It must be in the main directory because otherwise user agents (search engines) will not be able to find it. They do not search the whole site for a file named robots.txt. Instead, they look first in the main directory (i.e. http://www.sitename.com/robots.txt) and if they don't find it there, they simply assume that this site does not have a robots.txt file and therefore they index everything they find along the way. So, if you don't put robots.txt in the right place, don't be surprised that search engines index your whole site.

    Creating a Robots.txt
    Launch Notepad
    Put the following in your robots.txt file:

    User-agent: *

    Disallow: /
    Save the file as: robots.txt
    Adding a robots.txt file to the root of your public anonymous SharePoint site.
    Open up your root site in SharePoint Designer.
    Double Click the folder All Files
    Drag and drop the newly created robots.txt to the All Files folder.
    Exit SharePoint Designer.
    Alternatively you can create the robots.txt from within SharePoint Designer itself.

    To ensure the file is accessible to search engines go to your site URL and append "/robots.txt". Example: http://www.sitename.com/robots.txt