Custom presence in Lync 2010
I enjoyed using custom presence in Communicator 2007, but when our enterprise switched to Lync 2010 a few months ago, my custom presence migrated through until I switched to a new PC, then the old method of enabling custom presence failed. Why? One registry entry… Here’s how to do it: Create a string key in HKCUSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftCommunicator called CustomStateURL and give it a value of the path to an OCS presence XML file, such as file:///c:/program files/Microsoft Office Communicator/OCSPresence.xml Now, also…
SharePoint 2010 Workflow Status filtering
Since MOSS 2007, SharePoint workflow statuses display with a text value such as “Canceled”, “Completed” or “In Progress”, but behind the scenes are stored as a key with an integer value. So in a view when you want to filter based on the workflow status you must use this key value, and not the display text. As an example, here’s what the Filtering section would look like if I were filtering out items where the workflow status were either “Completed”…
Customizing the Request Access page in SharePoint 2010
Our organization, like many others, handles access requests for all applications through our IT Support desk. Additionally, documentation is required and must be approved by the user’s department manager before the access can be granted. After just recently migrating the entire company’s intranet over to SharePoint 2010, I wanted to allow users to request access, so I made sure the Manage Access Requests was selected by default for all resources. However, within a week of moving it over I’m getting…
Remove “Recently Modified” from Quick Launch in SharePoint 2010
While messing around with SharePoint 2010 pages today, I remembered I wanted to find a way to remove the “Recently Modified” section from the Quick Launch area. This was a very easy fix, as explained by John Dandison. Add a Content Editor Web Part to any section of the page and put this in the HTML: <style> .s4-recentchanges { DISPLAY:none; } </style> Now THAT was easy! Sure you can also do this in SPD, but for me this was a…
Hiding status bar messages in SharePoint 2010
Often times, we may need to make changes to master page files in a SharePoint site to customize a layout, add styling, CSS, custom web parts, etc. When the site was created using a default site template and content type, and your changes deviate from this, as you save you’ll be prompted with a warning basically saying “you do realize this is different from the original template, right?”. However, when you open the page in a browser, your users will…