SharePoint Development & Administration + InfoPath

The following is a reference to an article which explains a simple solution to hide the Global Navigation settings from the Navigation Settings page on a SharePoint site .  If you need to allow site owners to manage the navigation links on their site, but want to control the global navigation to prevent them from changing or breaking the inheritance you can modify the Navigation Settings page (  AreaNavigationSettings.aspx ) so that the Global Navigation section is not displayed on the page. Example customised Navigation Settings page without the Global Navigation section (from the article). The OOB AreaNavigationSettings.aspx page is customised using inline styles, and by removing the elements used to display the global navigation settings.  Once modified, the global navigation can still be managed from the top level site in the site collection. For details, including step by step instructions on how to implement the solution, please see: Hide SharePoint Globa...

Last night I set up a fresh development environment for SharePoint 2010, but ran into a few issues when I came to install Visual Studio 2010 on the server, and also SharePoint 2010 once Visual Studio was installed, although there were a number of possible causes of SharePoint stopping working during the process.  In this article, I explain the steps taken to resolve issues with the Visual Studio 2010 installation and the SharePoint 2010 environment. Server Configuration The server is configured with Windows Server 2008 Standard as the operating System, which was created from a snapshot taken from the base install some months ago.  In the “base install”, I had installed MS SQL Server 2008, and SharePoint 2010 which were both working fine at the time the snapshot was created. The problems and steps taken to resolve: After creating a new VM from the snapshot and testing SharePoint, I was able to load the root SharePoint site as expected.  No other sites ex...