Help me to easily find out who created a library/list

By Adam Cogan in SharePoint On Premises 0 Comment
Figure: Who made this?

Figure: Who made this?

Currently, to see who is the author of a library/list like the above, we have two options:

  1. Use SharePoint Manager
    sp-manager
  2. Use PowerShell
    powershell

Both of them are not straightforward, and you have to log on to the server to use either of them.
It costs a few mins and many clicks (not countable) to find out…

The info could be simply exposed to the “list Information” page (can be collapsed by default if there are too much info):

Figure: Add "author" info here

Figure: Add “author” info here

In SharePoint 2016 Preview and Office 365, this has not been improved.

Time Zone – Change “All Day Appointment” to be an all day appointment

By Adam Cogan in Outlook 0 Comment

Outlook currenly uses 12 AM to 12 PM for All Day Events. This creates problem when it is for different time zone. A full-day event is a full-day event, no matter what time zone your are in.

It would be useful to use additional time zone feature in outlook to display local time zone without changing time of operating system. Either you can change all day event to local time zone setting.

One best option to handle with this problem is storing all time zone using UTC(Universal Cordinated Time) so that there is no need for any other time settings and appointment can be rendered using local time zone.

Ken Getz says more on this:
Time Zone Disaster – All Outlook Appointments Bite the Dust

Outlook ‘Compact Now’ UI

By Adam Cogan in Outlook 0 Comment

I know I can run ‘Compact Now’ manually. I just did some archiving and ran it now and it took about 12 hours (overnight)… however I should know that I don’t have to.

  1. The UI should explain that this compacting happens in the background. (in the PST’s background idle task).
  2. The UI should so that it is currently running.
    That way you know if the performance problems that you are experiencing are related to compaction.
    Gee Whizzzz?I should not have to ask to show what is going on with my PC?.
    I am just asking for a ‘Polite UI’
  3. The UI should show that this is primarily about space savings, not improving performance.
    After I delete a lot of emails, I should see something different that indicates space can be saved.

    And if the UI is good, after I install Outlook 2007 SP2, and since things changed, (where you allowed the internal free space to grow – for a trade-off to allow for better locality of writes), I would see this in the UI.

    Figure: This UI needs 3 features added

    Figure: This UI needs 3 features added