Slides for SharePoint Saturday Belgium SharePoint leans heavily on partner opportunities, we all know that. But that doesn’t mean you have to cough up a lot of dough to get it working properly. In the light of the economical situation and the given metric that IT departments are receiving less money but are required to give more service, this is something that is growing in importance. In this session we are looking at real-life situations and how free tools and add-ons can make a huge difference in how you work with SharePoint with minimal effort. This is not a sales session, but a real-life case based session on how to score quick wins in your company.

1. Quick wins for your SharePoint
platform with free add-ons and
tools
#spsbe #spsbe07
Marijn somers
@marijnsomers

2. Thanks to our
Sponsors
Platinum
Gold
Silver

3. About me
• @marijnsomers
• Balestra (www.balestra.be)
• Business oriented - Focus on
Governance
• VP SPEDUC
• Fencing - Golf
• 4HB – Quantified self

4. Trends
• IT budget going down
• Long approval for software
• Education / Government

5. Contents Developer
End-user Infrastructure
Business &
Governance

6. ViewRescue
• Lists / libraries
• Add a webpart
• Lose the view / ribbon tabs
• www.pentalogic.net/sharepoint-
products/free-stuff

7. Html
Calculated
column
• add your own html to a list
• Kpi’s
• Bar charts
• Custom links
• www.pentalogic.net/sharepoint-
products/free-stuff

8. SPRello
www.pentalogic.net/sharepoint-products/free-stuff

9. Codeplex
filtered
lookup
Cross-site lookup (all sites within same site collection)
Filter retrieved data using list views or dynamic/ad-hoc CAML
queries
Supports MultiLookup with filtered data
Same look and feel as default SharePoint Lookup and
MultiLookup (i.e. in list forms)
filteredlookup.codeplex.com

10. Batch edit
• Ribbon button
• Allows you to edit # items
• Vase demo
• Orbit One & TamTam
• sp2010batchedit.codeplex.com

11. Charts
• All kinds of charts
• Sum / count / avg
• Background color
• Chart color
www.amrein.com/sharepoint

12. ULS Viewer
• Log viewer
• A lot of versions
• archive.msdn.microsoft.com/UL
SViewer

13. Other CamlDesigner
Web Essentials 2012 (VS Extension)
SPFastDeploy (VS Extension)
Developer Dashboard Visualizer
SPS Solution deployer

14. jQuery • Javascript library
• Code that runs on your pc (not on server)
• Used for creating dynamic/interactive websites
• Write less, do more
• Cross-browser
• Open source
• First release: 2006
• 117 000 000 google results

15. jQuery
advantages
• EASY
• Minimum development skills
• FAST
• “No” Test / Acceptance /
Production stage
• Don’t have to deploy solutions in
visual studio
• VERSION INDEPENDEND

16. jQuery
examples
Hide fields
Modify values and attributes
Translations
Set – get values
Querystring
Events
Validation
http://www.balestra.be/start-to-jquery

17. SPServices • jQuery library
• Abstracts SharePoint web services ->
easier to use
• Cascaded dropdowns
• GetCurrentUser
• Filter dropdown
• Add item to lookup value
• Arrange choices

18. SpServer
Name
Shirin Parsee
codeplex
• > 1 front end server ?
• What front end are you using?
1. custom headers configured in IIS, and then use Fiddler to get info out
2. wrap “System.Environment.MachineName” in the masterpage
3. turn off the front end server one by one and see if the user can still see
the site
4. develop a webpart that shows the information
5. use the codeplex solution SPServerName
for admins
Users: ?showserver=1

19. Fiddler Web debugger
Allows you to see all http traffic & requests
http headers
Warning: you get to see a lot of information !!!

20. Project site
www.brightwork.com

21. User adoption
& intranet
ideas
Intranet launch videos and teasers
Not all are SharePoint
Gives great insight on end user communication
Can give you new ideas on building an intranet
http://www.scoop.it/t/intranet-launch-videos-and-teasers
www.scoop.it/t/intranet-launch-videos-and-teasers

22. Governance:
Axceler
PinPoint
info.axceler.com/axceler-pinpoint-download/download-pinpoint-here/

23. Harmon.ie
harmon.ie/integrate-sharepoint-outlook

24. What your
users will
think of you

25. What your
manager will
say

26. Resources for
free tools
Biwug downloads page
Codeplex
Amrein
Pentalogic
List.ly developer tools

27. THANK YOU
Marijn Somers
Marijn.somers@balestra.be
www.balestra.be
@marijnsomers