Choose Which Content Database to Create Your Site Collection in
Applies to: SharePoint If you want to choose which Content Database to use when creating a new Site Collection you will have to use Powershell. There are some crazy solutions out there that tell you to...
View ArticleRelative Paths in SharePoint using SPUrlExpressionBuilder ($SPUrl)
Applies To: SharePoint Server (MOSS) When you edit pages and/or master pages in SharePoint either for branding or some other project you will eventually come across the need to link to some resource...
View ArticleBranding Solution Cleanup
Applies To: SharePoint 2010 I followed the Microsoft article, Deploying Branding Solutions for SharePoint 2010 Sites Using Sandboxed Solutions and I was able to quickly get the bones of a Branding...
View ArticleAuto Publish and Approve Your Solution Files
Applies To: SharePoint 2010 By default, every file you deploy using a sandboxed solution is left checked out. This can lead to problems depending on the type of site you are deploying to and/or the...
View ArticleOpen with Explorer Intermittent Failures
Applies To: SharePoint Background: I recently created a new web application that will eventually be used quite a bit, but for now we were only moving one site over. Fortunately, the site collection we...
View ArticleSharePoint Top Link Bar Synchronization
Applies To: SharePoint The Top Link Bar (sometimes called the Tab bar) provides global navigation for a site collection. It’s a great spot to link to subsites, other site collections and more. It’s...
View ArticleTop Link Bar Navigation To XML
Applies To: SharePoint Continuing in my series on SharePoint’s Top Link Bar (sometimes called the Tab Bar) I want to show you how to serialize a site collection’s Global Navigation Nodes to XML using...
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