Dear All, if you are facing an issue in PDF to download when you click on it just follow the steps then its will open in to client applciation The solution is: 1) go to Central Administration 2) Choose Manage Web Application 3) Select Web Application that has the document library with the PDF files 4) Click on General Settings -> General Settings in the top ribbon that appears when you selected the web application 5) Scroll down until you see Browser File Handling and choose Permissive instead of Strict.  and click OK. Now the PDF files will open in the browser and will not require the user to download them first and manually open. Regards  Rashid Imran Bilgrami  CEO  Best visualization

Dear All,  If you want to call any parent site collection list information in to child list collection look up column then here is a solution for it: Step 1: Open your parent site collection  Step 2: Go to Site Actions > Site Settings Step 3: Under Galleries select Site Columns Step 4: Click Create at the top of the list Step 5: Give the column a title you will reference in your "child" lists Step 6: Select Lookup as the column type Step 7: Select the site's column group to categorize the new column Step 8: Select the list to lookup from the "Get information from" dropdown Step 9: Select the column of the lookup list you want to reference as the key in your "child" lists (I selected "Title (linked to item)" so that you can easily reference the parent item from your child list item) Step 10: Click OK **************** Now come back to your child site collection where you want to use this information and ...

Dear All,  Today i found how to configure Gmail smtp with sharepoint 2013 / sharepoint 2010, Thanks for MOSTAFA SELIM  Orignial Post: http://sqlserver-performance-tuning.net/?p=1797 Here are the steps :  Configuring Outgoing email settings in SharePoint with Gmail SMTP 1. Select SMTP Server in features in Server manager. 2. Go to Start a Administrative Tools a Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 Manager to open IIS 6.0 a right click on SMTP Server a Properties 3. In Access Tab go to Relay Restrictions In Relay Restrictions 1) Check “All except the list below” 2) Check “Allow all computers which successfully authenticate to relay…” 4. Goto message tab and fill in as shown below 5. Go to delivery tab on Outbound Connections, fill in 6. In delivery tab in outbound security Select basic authentication and in Username provide a Gmail account already configured for POP3 Create and setup a Gmail account to use P...

Dear All  When trying to open a PDF file from a mapped drive in SharePoint 2010.  You might see the following error message. The URL you have provided could not be reached. Please verify that the URL is correct and that the network location is reachable. 1. Open the registry. 2. Go to HKLM Local Software\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\\\FeatureLockDown. 3. Create a key called cSharePoint. 4. Create a DWORD value called bDisableSharePointFeatures. 5. Set its value to 1. Regards Rashid Imran Bilgrami CEO Best visualization http://www.bestvisualization.com  

Dear All Here is the way that you can do the site collection backup and restore in to the another server site collection How to take a backup  Use Central Administration to back up a site collection You can use Central Administration to back up a site collection. To back up a site collection by using Central Administration Verify that the user account performing this procedure is a member of the Farm Administrators group. Additionally, verify that the Windows SharePoint Services Timer V4 service has Full Control permissions on the backup folder. In Central Administration, on the Home page, in the Backup and Restore section, click Perform a site collection backup. On the Site collection backup page, select the site collection from the Site Collection list. Type the local path of the backup file in the Filename box. note Note: If you want to reuse a file, select the Overwrite existing file check box. Click Start Backup. You can view the general status of all bac...

INSTALLING SHAREPOINT 2013 WITHOUT A DOMAIN ACCOUNT I’m sure that at one point every person that is working with Sharepoint has cursed upon the impossibility to install SharePoint without a Domain Controler. Of course I’m not speaking of prod environment here. But on your virtual machines of any kind to try new functionality or to install new features. Lately – today actually – I installed SharePoint 2013 on a Windows Server 2008. One of the first step under installation is to choose if you want the standalone install or not. A good word of advice : Never choose the standalone installation as you will certainly regret it later on, and it will be too late. The problem being that when you run the SharePoint configuration wizard you need to specify a login name and password for the installation. If the account is not a domain account the wizard will refuse to take you to the next step with an error stating that the user  must be a valid domain account. You will get an...

Yes have been a while didn't have a post... It is getting harder to create post, because everybody is creating excellent posts on different areas and don't want to repeat info but... I was surprised by the quantity of persons that don't know and asking me how to configure the Document Library to have links, i know this not that hard topic and you already know some posts talking about this, so i will create this guide for this persons that are learning on SharePoint. To start we need to access our Document Library and select the Ribbon option Library Settings if you have the correct permissions. After you access the Library settings you will need to access Advanced Settings. On Advanced Settings you will have the option “content Types” you will need to select the option “Allow management of content types” as “Yes”, this will allow you to add more content types to your Document Library. After you accept this option you can add the Content types, there will be t...