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What’s New in SharePoint 2010 -4 (Themes)

Shantha Kumar — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:20:19 +0000

Now, SharePoint 2010 coming with a new gallery for themes. We can view that theme gallery on the following url, http://server/_catalogs/theme/Forms/AllItems.aspx

Now we can upload and store the themes to Themes gallery. The themes in this gallery can be used by this site or any of its sub sites.

To apply the theme for SharePoint site, follow the steps given below,

1. Home –> Site Actions –> Site Settings

2. Under Site Settings page search for the link named and click “Site Themes” under the “Look and Feel Category”

3. Site Theme page list out the themes available in Themes gallery and the styles available in that theme.

4. We can also customize the colors of the theme by modifying the color, those are list out in “Customizing Theme” category.

5. Preview button will be available on this page to view the modified theme. The url for the preview page is,

.thmx”>.thmx”>.thmx”>http://server/SitePages/Home.aspx?ThemeOverride=/_catalogs/theme/ .thmx

*Change the name to Theme Name.

6. Click OK to apply the theme to SharePoint site.

The Predefined themes available on SharePoint 2010 are,

Default (no theme)

Azure

Berry

Bittersweet

Cay

Classic

Construct

Convention

Felt

Graham

Grapello

Laminate

Mission

Modern Rose

Municipal

Pinnate

Ricasso

Summer

Vantage

Viewpoint

Yoshi

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 Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14 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.

SharePoint 2010 Search Databases

Shantha Kumar — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:57:02 +0000

We have two new databases for Search Service in SharePoint Server 2010 when compared to MOSS2007. One for Administration purpose, another for Crawling and other one for storing crawled contents, which is already available in MOSS 2007 .

In MOSS 2007, SSP database contains the search administration settings and Crawler information. But in SharePoint Server 2010, we have the separate databases for storing configuration data, crawler information and for storing metadata or properties. Totally we have three databases for SharePoint Server 2010 Search Service.

They are,

Search Service Admin Database (New)
Search Service Crawl Database (New)
Search Metadata Database

1. Search Service Admin Database (New)

Only one Service Admin Database is allowed for Search Service Application.
Stores the Search Configuration data and ACL’s for the content crawled by crawlers.
During upgrade, Search Administration setting stored in SSP Database in MOSS is moved to this database.
Has one or many Crawl databases and Property databases

2. Search Service Crawl Database (New)

Stores the Crawl history and manages the crawl operations.
Each Crawl database can have one or more crawlers
During upgrade, Crawl history information stored in SSP database on MOSS is moved to this Crawl Database.

3. Search Metadata Database

Stores the properties or metadata for crawled data that are required for querying.
During upgrade, the contents of Search database is moved to new Search Metadata database.