I didn’t originally set out to write a series of posts on Column Validation in SharePoint 2010, but I keep thinking of new challenges each time I do. I have no idea how long this series may go (in fact, this may be the last one), but this is the third in the series. Here [...]

Yesterday I showed you how to use Column Validation to validate Social Security Numbers, Phone Numbers, Employee Numbers, Part Numbers, and other things with strict formatting. Today I’m going to expand on that idea by showing you something more complex—we’re going to validate that an acceptable email address has been entered.

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We often need to ensure that users enter text information in a specific way. For example, perhaps our company uses part numbers such as TL-1400 and RW-1555. Every part number begins with two letters, followed by a dash, followed by four digits. Or perhaps we use Social Security Numbers in SharePoint (if you do, I’m [...]

Formulas for Calculated Fields: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb862071.aspx

Managed Metadata Limitations: https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/eusp/Pages/Managed-Metadata-Column-Limitations.aspx

How to configure Kerberos for SharePoint 2010 (Yes, all 136 pages of it!): http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=23176

SharePoint 2010 Permissions Matrix Spreadsheet bu Rob Finney and Mark Arend (via Karen) http://blogs.msdn.com/b/uksharepoint/archive/2010/10/20/updated-permissions-permissions-spreadsheet-for-sharepoint-2010.aspx

I just finished upgrading a three-server SharePoint 2010 farm (1 Web Front End (WFE01), 1 Application Server (APP01), and a separate Database Server; almost exactly as described in Jeff’s post How to Scale Out a SharePoint 2010 Farm from Two-Tier to Three-Tier By Adding a Dedicated Application Server) to Service Pack 1 and [...]

One of the SharePoint Designer workflow activities I use most in SharePoint 2007 is Build Dynamic String. It is a very convenient way to create a customized string of dynamic text [...]