Colin and I have been talking about list and library limits for a while and I’ve been getting a much better grip on techniques for showing many items in a large list. Here are the facts in SharePoint 2010: Lists and libraries can have up to 60 million items (reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx) However, unless you override [...]
In environments where the publishing features aren’t used (or desired), or available (such as SharePoint Foundation installs, being able to set all webs (Sub sites) in a site collection to a common Master Page using PowerShell is very useful. Here’s how… $site = Get-SPSite http://portal.somewhere.com/ $sites = @(foreach ($web in $site.AllWebs) { $web | Select-Object [...]
I couldn’t get this to work for me (maybe I was having a thick day) so I asked Colin to devise a way that worked in my situation). If you need to whack your SharePoint 2010 on the head with a big bat and make it forget all the customizations that have been perform on [...]
I get asked about this enough that it was worth whipping together a quick diagram to highlight what a small to medium business might want to consider in regards to putting up a SharePoint environment complete with DEV, UAT (Testing) and Production. Obviously every client is different and particularly in the case of Production, every [...]
Thanks to our friend Summer. She summarized a conversation we had a little while back and it was worthy of sharing I think. Combining mastery in Microsoft technologies and a consistent focus on customer services, itgroove professionals deliver straightforward advice and IT solutions to small and mid-sized businesses since 2006. Every new client relationship begins [...]
Meet the itgroove team circa 2012. Top, Left to Right: Wendy, Sean, Louis, Jeremy, Luke, Colin, Darren, Keith and Robert
I’m looking forward to seeing what master Dahl (Jeremy Dahl, our latest addition) will bring to his technology blog. It just came online yesterday, so it may take a moment for him to get past the cosmetics and get down to the nitty and the gritty and flourish with content – but I have no [...]
Oh gawd. The world is running out of IP Addresses and according to some, it happened 2+ years ago. Meh. But, IPv6 is coming and of course, Windows for a long time now has had native support for it. The challenge is, with DNS registrations, quite often you’ll get the IPv6 response from a ping, [...]
We recently inherited a SharePoint implementation that my gut was telling me wasn’t up to the level the customer expected from their previous provider. The first question was, is this farm ready to scale? When you install SharePoint 2010, you get the question of whether you are installing complete or standalone (and even when [...]
Ticket Info: Get Tickets Here It’s tonight. Thanks in advance to my band mates and other musician friends for sparing their evening and to all my friends for their support. And to Jason Lamb and Graham Clark for what will be no doubt, a great night. Crap, I’m turning 40 Hey folks, Sean from itgroove [...]
