Below is a formula for a quick and dirty autonumber for lists in SharePoint. There are a variety of ways to generate this field. Some solutions use workflow or external lists, but I prefer this method because of its simplicity.
Note: Because this solution depends on the record's ID column, it generates the autonumber …
Read MoreThe free tool SharePoint Manager 2010 is super useful. Imagine a centralized place to look at everything on the server level from Content Type usage to running jobs and IIS setting. Check it:
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Read MoreI recently wrote a PowerShell script which copied documents from a filter to my local hard drive. I chose PowerShell for this task because it was one of the few programs actually allowed on my ultra locked-down workstation (and 'cuz I love it.)
Because I only wanted specific types of files, I gathered the list of …
Read More- There's a bit of a debate on how best to update your DNS resolver on Mac OS X when connecting to an OpenVPN Server. For whatever reason, even if use DHCP on the VPN server, OS X won't use the assigned DNS server(s). It's been recommended to use scutil, but the scripts are crazy long and I've read the resolver order …
Read More This is a bit more complex than it should be; I was hoping networksetup would make this easier but, alas. Using netstat -nr appears to be the best way to find your gateway from the command line:
netstat -nr | grep '^default' | awk '{ print $2 }'
If you haven't played around with networksetup, I recommend checking out …
Read More- Brandon had this in some of his maintenance plan code and I found myself using it a bit so I thought I'd blog about it. Here is a simple script that reads a file (C:\scripts\maintenanceplans\$sqlversion\template.dtsx), replaces certain placeholders (in this case, [SERVERNAME] and [BACKUPPATH]), then writes a new file …
Read More - Someone awesome sent me the code to an iPhone app that he created for RealCajunRecipes.com. I unzipped the file, and opened the project in XCode 4.2. I immediately noticed the upper left hand drop down (what's that called anyway?) said "Base SDK Missing." So I went to all the usual places to change the SDK, I …
Read More Here is a script that will batch import Models, create associated ECT's, and set permissions for users and admins. Please modify the variables as needed.
# script from netnerds.net # Make sure the namespace is the same as the namespace in your exported bdcm files # My $siteURL happens to be the same as my $namespace. …
Read More- In order to invest as little effort as possible creating and recreating and recreating my External Content Types on my development server, I exported the ECT's then deleted External Content Types, External Systems, and BDC Models. I saved them all in a directory on the SharePoint server, then I placed …
Read More - Today has been miserable. All I wanted to do was import a SharePoint 2007 calendar into SharePoint 2010 to use as sample data for a prototype site. I was caaarraaazzy enough to believe it would be a simple import/export, but no. There's no such thing. Maybe I could use Outlook calendaring or idq files as a medium? No. …
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