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SharePoint Daily Alerts – 6

Shantha Kumar — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 01:18:39 +0000

Themes in SharePoint Server 2010 have been redesigned to simplify the process of generating themes. Themes created in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 are not compatible with SharePoint Server 2010. If you are upgrading from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010, you can use Visual Upgrade to continue to use sites in the old user interface. However, Microsoft recommend that you use the new user interface in SharePoint Server 2010 to create themes and apply them to your sites.

SharePoint Daily Alerts – 5

Shantha Kumar — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:58:23 +0000

SharePoint 2010 provides a three new Client API’s for interacting with SharePoint.

.Net Managed Application
Silverlight Application
ECMA Script

These API’s are much easier to use than already exsiting WebServices.
The recomended Client API was .Net Managed Application than WebServices.

What’s New in SharePoint 2010 – 3 (14 Hive)

Shantha Kumar — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:44:24 +0000

When we compared to the SharePoint hive folder with previous editions, some additional folders are available.

In SharePoint 2010, the physical path leads to C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions14 instead of folder 12.

New folders available in SharePoint Hive folder are,

Policy
UserCode
WebClients
WebServices

What’s New in SharePoint 2010 – 2 (SharePoint Management Shell)

Shantha Kumar — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:50:51 +0000

Another interesting SharePoint new feature. SharePoint 2010 now coming with a new management console called, “SharePoint Management Shell”. Which contains the Powershell cmdlets for SharePoint, by using this we control and manage the SharePoint operations like we done in STSADM command.
To know more information on SharePoint Management Console and basic cmdlet operation, Zach Rosenfield blog was the starting point for that. Using this tool, Now I am going to show a SharePoint cmdlet to install and activate the feature.

To Install feature,

PS> Install -SPFeature

To activate the feature for the site,

PS> Enable -SPFeature -Url http://server/subsite

Cheers, Stay tuned for the next “What’s New Feature“….

What’s New in SharePoint 2010 – 1 (SPAlert)

Shantha Kumar — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:32:18 +0000

Now i am starting a new series which focused on the new features available in upcoming SharePoint 2010.

In previous versions; by out of the box, alerts are send only through e-mails, but in SP2010 we can able to send an alerts to mobile devices as SMS Message. For that, we have a new property under SPAlert, that indicates whether the alert is delivered as E-mail or as an SMS Message.

By default alerts can be send only through e-mail. But we can change that default setting by using the new DeliveryChannels Property of SPAlert class. This DeliveryChannels property, specifies the delivery method of the alert.

The following snippet used to set the SMS delivery method to the Alert.

oAlert.DeliveryChannels = SPAlertDeliveryChannels.Sms;

SPAlertDeliveryChannels is the enumerated member, which specifies the method of delivering alerts.

Member Name	Description
Email	Delivery as E-mail
Sms	Delivery as SMS Message

The following example code used to update the sms delivery method to all the alerts for every user available in Current website.

SPWeb oWebsite = SPContext.Current.Web;
SPUserCollection collUsers = oWebsite.Users;

    foreach (SPUser oUser in collUsers)
    {
        SPAlertCollection collAlerts = oUser.Alerts;

         foreach (SPAlert oAlert in collAlerts)
         {
             oAlert.DeliveryChannels = SPAlertDeliveryChannels.Sms;
             oAlert.Update();
         }
     }

That’s all for now!! By soon I’ll be back with the post on new feature in SharePoint 2010.