Peng Zhang on September 26th, 2011

 

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Peng Zhang on September 16th, 2011

Here are the resources that helped me to hide Site Actions menu for those in the visitors and members groups. The main idea is to use the SPSecurityTrimmedControl around the Sharepoint:SiteActions tag, and a carefully chosen Permissions attribute in the SPSecurityTrimmedControl. http://www.sharepointkings.com/2008/11/how-to-remove-site-actions-and-view-all.html http://www.thesug.org/blogs/sharepointunwrapped/archive/2008/6/26/Hide_the_Site_Actions_Menu.aspx.aspx https://sladescross.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/sharepoint-security-breakdown-of-permission-levels/  

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Peng Zhang on September 15th, 2011

Background Our organization needs to provide some annual training/certification for employees. We are using a hosted Learning Management System, but only have purchased licenses for about 7500 users, and yet we need to provide the training to more users on an annual basis. With the current world economic conditions, every organization is looking to save [...]

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Peng Zhang on September 13th, 2011

Issue: I was developing a Sharepoint webpart that will allow an end user to be able to easily insert videos (flv, f4v, mp4, swf) that are hosted elsewhere. And I encountered this weird issue where all the script and code appears to be good, and yet the video will not start to play when the [...]

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Peng Zhang on September 9th, 2011

This morning I found to my horror that Sharepoint Central Administration (CA) is gone, and returns a 404 error. The exact message is like “HTTP/1.1 404 Connection: close Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:27:11 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET MicrosoftSharepointTeamServices:12.0.0.6300″. The solution: we changed the account under which the application pool is running the CA [...]

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Peng Zhang on September 8th, 2011

I remember a few times when I wonder how the heck can I delete an item from a Sharepoint list, because there is no drop-down menu and there is no selection checkboxes. Sometimes people might go off searching for custom solutions or list settings. It turns out that a solution is to modify the view, [...]

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