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February 2011 - Posts

Sunday, February 27, 2011 4:44 AM

SharePoint Datasheet Mode - “The selected cells are read-only”

If you have worked with datasheet mode in SharePoint you’ll appreciate how easy it is to copy and paste data from Excel into SharePoint lists. One message I often hear users complain about is “the selected cells are read-only”. It seems that all is going
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Friday, February 25, 2011 5:50 AM

Create Team Site under Publishing Site in SharePoint 2010

I’ve been asked this question twice this week so I thought I would document it… You’ve created a new site collection in SharePoint 2010 and chose the Publishing Site template. When you go to Site Actions -> New Site you only see ‘Publishing Site with
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011 4:36 AM

Doing a SharePoint Assessment

I’ve had the opportunity to do several SharePoint assessments over the years and while each customer/scenario was different the assessments often centered around “we don’t know what we don’t know… help!” That is, there was a sense that SharePoint might
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Monday, February 14, 2011 4:47 AM

Copying a SharePoint 2010 List to another Site

With SharePoint 2007, I used the stsadm import/export functionality many times to move an entire site (all content plus security) to another location within its site collection or to another environment. With SharePoint 2010 (including Foundation), this
Posted by Mauro | 6 Comments
Saturday, February 12, 2011 11:42 AM

Feature ‘X’ for list template '101' is not installed in this farm

This is one of those “Here’s what I did to solve a problem; I’m not necessarily suggesting you try the same” posts… We were in the middle of what turned out to be a very complicated and difficult SPS2003 to (hosted) SharePoint Foundation migration. One
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