In a video tutorial titled Create External Content Types using SharePoint Designer 2010, Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT demonstrates how to use SharePoint Designer 2010 to work with External Content Type Site Objects in SharePoint 2010. This video tutorial is intended for an audience of SharePoint Administrators, developers, designers and architects. In an article […]
Changing the Theme of a Team Site in SharePoint 2010
Changing the theme of a team site in SharePoint 2010 is easily accomplished with a few clicks by a SharePoint administrator or site collection administrator. Asif Rehmani points out that out of the box SharePoint 2010 includes 20 themes in a video tutorial titled Changing the Theme of a Site. To change the theme of […]
Creating Managed Accounts for SharePoint Server 2010
Any web applications or service applications running on SharePoint server 2010 require a managed account. The SharePoint server will allocate services to the managed accounts assigned to these processes. SharePoint administrators can save time by creating these accounts and configuring them before they are required. In a video tutorial titled Configure Managed Accounts, we demonstrate […]
Using Lookup Columns in SharePoint 2010 to Access Information Related to Specific Data
This is a concluding blog post on a video tutorial for SharePoint 2010, Configuring Lookup Columns authored by Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT. By configuring the “Customer Name” column to “Allow multiple values” it is possible, as Asif Rehmani demonstrates in this video tutorial, to display one customer along with a purchase history. The […]
Using the Lookup Column Feature of SharePoint to Add Information From One List to Another in SharePoint 2010
A lookup column can be successfully used to automatically add information from one list to another in a SharePoint Server 2010 computing environment. We demonstrate the techniques required to populate a contact list with information retrieved from a customer list in a video tutorial titled Configuring Lookup Columns. The first step is to click on […]
Setting Up a Portal Site Collection, SharePoint Server 2010
Private cloud computing is a viable option for enterprise business in 2013. SharePoint Server 2010 offers a portal site capability. Many organizations in the market for a private cloud may want to consider SharePoint Server 2010 as the foundation for a solution. When site collections are connected via a top level portal site collection, the […]
Working with SharePoint Server 2010 Security Groups
When new site collections are created in SharePoint Server 2010, as Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP and MCT, notes in a video tutorial titled: Working with SharePoint Security Groups, ” . . . only [the site collection administrator] has permissions on [the] site”. Users must be assigned permissions by the site collection administrator in order to […]
Some User Dissatisfaction with SharePoint 2010 Search can be Remedied by Adding File Types and Content Filters
This is the second post in our series on a new set of high level specialized video training content for SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2010: Search. A truly useful search service is, of course, a key component of an overall offering of SharePoint 2010 that successfully delivers high percentages of user adoption. In 2013, search is […]
Automating Forms Production With InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010 will Deliver Lots of Value for Communities of Users
Rehmani Consulting, Inc. offers a comprehensive set of video training courses on InfoPath 2010. This training course provides the user with most, if not all of the techniques required to build a regular production system for business forms and, necessarily, some of the data required for business intelligence gathering. We think it makes a lot […]
Use SharePoint Designer 2010 to Ensure that List and Site Column Data is Included for All Lists
As noted on Microsoft® MSDN in a library entry, “Introduction to [SharePoint] Columns”, site and list columns are defined as ” represent[ing] an attribute, or piece of metadata, that the user wants to manage for the items in the list or content type to which they added the column.” This library entry goes on to […]