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How to Restrict SharePoint Designer Access at Site Collection in SharePoint 2010

The following Restrictions for SharePoint Designer usage can be applied to SharePoint 2010 Site.

Allow Site Owners and Designers to use SharePoint Designer in this Site Collection

Allow Site Owners and Designers to Detach Pages from the Site Definition

Allow Site Owners and Designers to Customize Master Pages and Page Layouts

Allow Site Owners and Designers to [...]



Community Kit for SharePoint 2010 Available for Download

That’s pretty quick; CKS for SharePoint 2010 is available for download from.

SharePoint Foundation 2010 then download and install the SharePoint Foundation 2010 versionSharePoint Server 2010 then download and install the SharePoint Server 2010 version

I can’t wait, want to [...]



Download SharePoint Server 2010 Trial

SharePoint 2010 Trial Available from Download, Download here.

There are four versions of SharePoint Server 2010:

SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Client Access License features

For organizations looking to expand their business collaboration platform to enable advanced scenarios. Use the Enterprise capabilities of SharePoint to fully interoperate with external line-of-business applications, Web services, and Microsoft Office client applications; make better [...]



How To: Step by Step Creation of External List in SharePoint 2010

Q: SharePoint Guys talking about External list, BCS, etc., which I never heard till SharePoint 2007, what is it?

BCS (Business Connectivity Services) is the successor of BDC (Business Data Catalog), but we have great features available in BCS. Now the data from External systems can be managed as a List in SharePoint and the data operations [...]



SharePoint 2010 Virtual Machine Download

Download 2010 Information Worker Demonstration Virtual Machine RTM from Microsoft here

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=751fa0d1-356c-4002-9c60-d539896c66ce&displaylang=en

The download contains two hyper-v VM’s.

Virtual machine “a” contains the following pre-configured software:

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Evaluation Edition x64, running as an Active Directory Domain Controller for the “CONTOSO.COM” domain with DNS and WINS
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition with Analysis, Notification, and Reporting [...]



Access Denied by Business Data Connectivity

 

Scenario:

Getting Error “Access Denied by Business Data Connectivity”, while loading the External List.

 

Solution:

Go to Central Administration -> Application Management -> Manage Service Applications -> Business Data Connectivity Service

Select the Store and Click on Set Metadata store permissions.

Select the User and choose appropriate [...]



The Specified user is a local account

Scenario:

While running the SharePoint configuration as standalone server using local accounts, you will receive the error “The specified user is local account. Local accounts should only be used in stand alone mode”

 

Solution:

Use power shell to create configuration database.

Open PowerShell command prompt

Execute the cmdlet : New-SPConfigurationDatabase

and pass your database [...]



How to Find User/Group Permission in List

To verify the User/Group permission in the specific list,

Click “List” in “List Tools” under Ribbon

Now Select “List Permissions”

Select Check Permission.

Enter the User Name or Group Name and click “Check Now”, you can view list of permission for the specific user/group. The same feature can be used at the item [...]



Client Object Model in SharePoint 2010 – Part 1

Client Object Model in SharePoint 2010 is one of the developers dream. It enables developers to
access the SharePoint data from client, the code need not to be deployed in to the server.

Client Object Model can be used in the following three ways.

.Net CLR
Silverlight Object Model
JavaScript

.Net CLR Example:

Create the context to the SharePoint site. No traffic/requests will [...]



WebCast : Client Object Model in SharePoint 2010

I am planning for a webcast with demo in “Client Object Model in SharePoint 2010″ on February 9th 2010.

Register for the [...]