By Irvin Gomez   As a software engineer, more often than not I find myself writing code in C#, and things tend to be pretty neat inside Visual Studio. However, when we need to deploy our new application to the servers where the application will be hosted, the number of Remote Desktop sessions we require can be overwhelming. Here is where PowerShell Remoting comes to the rescue. Basically it allows a client machine to connect to another machine and then you can run PowerShell commands and scripts typing from the client. Think of Telnet on Unix machines. Remoting is a feature introduced on PowerShell v2.0 and basically will let you run any PowerShell command or script (like deployment...

A data view web part is very useful when comes to SharePoint display forms customization. You can add this web part by using the SharePoint designer tool. 1.       Insert a data view web part onto the page you want to display in the list by selecting Data View > Insert Data View from the main menu. 2.       Using the Data Source Library Task Pane in SharePoint designer select ‘Connect to another library‘ and browse to the site that contains the list you wish to display. 3.       Expand the new site in the Data Source Library Task Pane and select the list or library that contains the information you wish to display. From the drop down select ‘Show Data‘ to populate the Data Pre...

An employee information management is a crucial part of any business and a valuable investment. The daily work and contributions of your team members play a major role in the success of your company, and it is important that you manage them accordingly. Many businesses are now considering the use of an employee information system to help manage the needs of the human resources department and utilize all of their employees to the highest ability level.  When this type of management system is used successfully within an organization, HR operations will run more efficiently and a significant costs savings can be seen. Digital employee data management is generally run through an easy to use ...

An Employee self service portal based on SharePoint is a technology available as a web based application that allows team members to gain access to their human resources files such as personal records. The self service portal has a variety of benefits and each individual application is designed to increase the productivity and efficiency of the business. These virtual tools are becoming more popular with companies as employees become more comfortable using web based applications and businesses look for improved ways to easily manage their human resources needs with new technology. The efficiency of these web applications allow companies to move away from the storage of unnecessary files...

By Sieena Inc. Are you looking for a way to fasten repetitive processes and greatly reduce the amount of paperwork you generate on a daily basis? The solution is 365Kin SharePoint solution, a web based human resources system developed to meet the needs of your HR department. This user friendly technology will allow your company to automate timely repetitive processes and reduce your daily paperwork load by providing a variety of helpful web based applications. By using 365Kin, you will find immediate solutions to your personnel management challenges and develop more efficient internal processes for your company. There are many benefits to using 365Kin SharePoint in your business. Firs...

 By Edith C. For complex InfoPath forms, which include: data connections, embedded code, etc. the Publishing Wizard is not quite recommended. Instead, you can deploy your forms via the Central Administration. These quick steps will guide you to efficiently publish your InfoPath form templates using the Administrator-deployment method. 1.       Start your SharePoint Central Administration. 2.       On the Central Administration page, click the Application Management tab. 3.       On the Application Management page, in the InfoPath Forms Services section, click Manage data connection files and click Upload. 4.       Browse and choose your xml file and double click it. 5.       To en...

By Edith C.   Sometimes, when you install, add or activate features on your SharePoint farm, something goes wrong, and suddenly you can’t just go back and “delete” or uninstall your feature.   To avoid that, you can use these tools:   WssAnalyzeFeatures is a very useful tool, which can help you find the errors on the installation of the feature, and tells you what to do, in order to remove it or fix it. After you run this tool, just check the ContentDeploymentFeatures.txt file, to find the logged errors.   Then, if you need to delete the feature, use the WssRemoveFeatureFromSite tool, to remove unwanted features easily and with no complications. Just use the desired featureID...

By Brenda V. Even after … years of being created, I still bump with people who don’t even know what LinkedIn is; for all those who seek to answer the question about this I can tell you that LinkedIn is a social network dedicated mainly to help connect people on their professional side; something like connecting with the people you work with but also with former colleagues or service providers. It’s not only that, LinkedIn has evolved into a much more elaborate and complicated tool where you can join groups of people with the same professional interest than you, ask questions related to your work activities or even put adds completely focused to the targeted markets. Now, why would Li...

By Carina C. Terms used in Reporting Services: ·         Data Source ·         Data Set: query related to a data source ·         Data Region: object that displays data Types of Data Regions: ·         Table: Tabular report ·         Matrix ·         List: free form enlisted data ·         Graphics Creating Reports in Reporting Services Reporting Services offers the following ways to create a Report: ·         Add New Report Wizard (Templates) ·         Add/Add New Item. Creates a blank report ·         Import Reports. It allows the importation of reports from an Access database Report using Tables Data View 1.       Select <New Dataset…> 2.       Assign a na...

By Gabriel Palma   The situation A customer asked recently for a quick daily report of about-to-expire items, he wanted something simple that could be sent via email to the people already registered in the database. Acquiring the information was very simple (as simple as writing a query). The problem was getting those results inside an email and sending it automatically every day. We came up with a scheduled SQL Server job running daily, getting and shipping the results without passing through .Net code.   The steps Step 1. Write the query to retrieve the raw data.   I used AdventureWorks database for the following example. Here I’ll get a report of work orders with due date ...