So I had this recent problem with search. I was trying to crawl an external website and it was not returning the results I was expecting. I needed to troubleshoot SharePoint search at a deeper level by using a proxy.
The first place I looked at was the search service search administration page. As you would expect in the crawl history and it shows you general information about what was going on in the crawl. Continue reading
Hey everyone! First a big thanks to everyone who came to my SharePoint Saturday Austin session in Austin #SPSAusTX
I had a great time in Austin and was asked if there would be a way to get the slide deck. I decided to take it a step further and make the presentation available with the slide deck. Let me know what you think! Continue reading
Let’s take a look on how to add a newly installed feature to an established feature pack.
An example of this would be a multi-tenant farm that leverages feature packs, where we just installed a new web part.
When the web part is installed the features is part of the farm, but not part of any our site collections. This happens because the new feature is not associated with any feature packs that are used in the multi-tenant scenario.
The first let’s take a look to see what exact features I have assigned to our site subscription Continue reading
Thanks to everyone that came out to my session. If you have deeper questions please let me know. I’ll be happy to help.
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Oh my. Oh my. I’m running out of space. This seems to be a common problem with SharePoint. My latest adventure was more than your typical content database or SQL log files issues. This one is actually focused around SharePoint_config database.
So let’s take a look at SharePoint search scopes. You might be asking yourself what scopes are and why should you care. Actually, scopes is one of those search features that you can live without and be fine, but once you find about them you will see the light.
Hi Everyone;
I have a great time in Dever meeting, and talking, to people. As promised here is presentation deck. If you have any questions let me know.
Well I am back. I’ve been out of this and many other personal projects for what, to me, seems way to long. I took on a large project that consumed most of my time and energy. Now that it has smoothed out I feel my feet coming back under me. The project has been a whirlwind of pain, frustration, accomplishment, and learning.
As with most projects of any consequence it is large and/or complex. Complexity is a curious thing when we talk about SharePoint. Does a sheer size a farm make it complex? Adding in Project? OWA make it complex? Deploying SharePoint Application farms? In SharePoint the answer can be: yes and no. In my latest project it was all of those pieces that have to be juggled to keep SharePoint alive and happy. From the complicating factors I believe that the size posed the greatest problem to this particular project.
As time goes on, and I get a chance to process what I’ve done, I’ll write it up to hopefully help you.
So in the end this all translates to… I’m back and lets talk some SharePoint.
Hi Everyone,
thanks to everyone who came out. As promised this here is my links and slidedeck below. This is for my SharePointFest Chicago search presentation.
Microsoft: Hosting Environments for SharePoint 2010 Products http://goo.gl/aJRGY
Rational Guide to Multi Tenancy with SharePoint 2010 http://goo.gl/mFCpo
SharePoint manager http://spm.codeplex.com
ULS Viewer, for SharePoint 2010 Troubleshooting http://goo.gl/6Lu36
Hi Everyone,
thanks to everyone who came out. As promised this here is my links and slidedeck below. This is for my SharePointFest Chicago search presentation.
Getting Started with Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010 Products
http://goo.gl/FsXFg
URL Decoder/Encoder
http://goo.gl/wtjUz
Configuring Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010
http://goo.gl/qKcy8
Searching External Data in SharePoint 2010 Using Business Connectivity Services
http://goo.gl/stQQL
Book: Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration
http://goo.gl/Q4vBd
SharePoint 2010 Search, Best Bets, and You http://goo.gl/ZqBDk
SharePoint 2010 – Configuring Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms
http://goo.gl/cOhNK