The Ultimate SharePoint Discussion Board Customization

The Ultimate SharePoint Discussion Board Customization

Problem: User wants to be able to receive email notifications from SharePoint Discussion Board. User should be able to start & reply threads via email, using his Outlook or mobile phone. Ideally, replies should go into the Correct Topic Folder and new threads should create a New Topic Folder in SharePoint Discussion Board. At first, I thought "Dude, this is Microsoft. They must have think about this functionality". So I accomplished Problem Number 1 using SharePoint Alert feature. For Problem Number 2, I used the Incoming Email feature in List Settings. Done? No. You see, if you use the Alert...

SharePoint for Public-facing Internet Site Performance Tips

SharePoint for Public-facing Internet Site Performance Tips

My MVP Lead has been asking for this, but somehow in the battlefield of consulting work, I forgot. Then a SharePoint consultant based in Singapore messaged me via Twitter asking for the same thing, and so I forced my lazy Friday into writing this, in the hope that the next Google search with the above title will yield this post as #1   :) So here goes my story about building NBAD.com , a public website of the biggest bank in United Arab Emirates, running on SharePoint 2010. Note that I cannot share specifics due to client's Intellectual Property, however...