Since showing how to embed PDF documents into SharePoint web pages, a few people have been asking how to do the same with Office documents. The answer depends on what version of SharePoint and Office you are using (and licensed for). Here are some of the different methods possible…
Read more »A few years ago, I published an infographic showing the history of SharePoint, to help decypher the different twists, turns and acquisitions that influenced what went into (and out of) SharePoint. (May get round to doing an update on that sometime…)
A related product has also had a few twists and turns of its own – PerformancePoint. The clue is in the name, it’s in the same family of products as SharePoint and originally targeted performance management solutions. Here’s its life story so far…
Read more »SharePoint 2010 has a very flexible architecture enabling individual components to be scaled and given dedicated resources. Microsoft has published a range of technical diagrams including one covering topologies (references at the end of this post). This post is not going to reproduce that content but will try and highlight items for consideration when deciding on your topology.
Read more »Microsoft has a lot of content published about database sizing and performance for SharePoint 2010. But it spans a number of documents and some questions are either not fully answered or have conflicting options. This post aims to provide a single summary, albeit quite a long one. All sizing recommendations are taken from Microsoft guidelines [...]
Read more »SharePoint 2010 is a hefty upgrade from SharePoint 2007 and the hardware and software requirements have also jumped. This is the first in a series of posts looking at the planning guidelines published by Microsoft. All references are at the end of the post. Microsoft has published the following on TechNet, as the minimum required [...]
Read more »This question cropped up a couple of times in the comments to the Adobe PDF Indexing blog post
How do you open a PDF in a web page on SharePoint?
Here is the method I use. There may be prettier and better ways to do it. If you know of one, please add a comment.
The short version:
- Take one Content Editor web part
- Enter <embed> tags containing the PDF fie as the source