MS Office – SharePoint

Excel provides a change tracking tool that makes it easier for groups of people to work together. Change tracking makes sure that the changes made by different people are carefully logged, giving you the power to inspect each person’s changes individually and reverse them if you choose. It’s a little like keeping several versions of the same worksheet in a single spreadsheet file.

Switching On Change Tracking To turn on change tracking, follow these steps:

1. Select Review➝Track Changes➝Highlight Changes. The Highlight Changes dialog box appears.

2. Turn on the “Track changes while editing” checkbox. When you turn on change tracking, you also automatically More >

Firstly you need to understand how to export data of a deleted site to .cmp file from the following article:

http://geekdeck.com/sharepoint-2010-recover-data-of-deleted-site-from-content-database/

Now once you have data in the .cmp file format you just need to import it to a new site so that your old content gets back to life.

Create a new site collection with blank template to restore the data of your deleted site collection

Open the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell by clicking Start > All Programs > Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products > SharePoint 2010 Management Shell. Type in the following and press enter (change the paths with their actual values).

Import-SPWeb -identity More >

First create any site which you would like to be used a template open it in SharePoint designer 2010, make changes accordingly now you just need to save it as a reusable package (.wsp) which is a SharePoint template extension and future sites created would be using this.

The following steps will show you how to create template from a SharePoint site:-

1. In SharePoint Designer 2010, click the SharePoint Designer Lab Site link in the navigation pane to open the Summary View for the site.

2. In the Ribbon, click Save as Template. A new browser window will open and you will More >

Last night I was installing Microsoft Office on my machine after the installation when i tried activating it there was some error with the key i supplied in it was something like that they key has been activated maximum number of times so now I had to change the Product key.

I found number of articles related to this, firstly all of them were targeting to Office 2003, 2007 and other versions but there was nothing about MS Office 2010. Moreover the way around for this was very complex playing around with the Registry etc.

If you face the same problem with More >