SharePoint 2010 | Tech Growing Pains

Adding Content Sources to SharePoint Search 1

May

2012

SharePoint gives you a great amount of versatility for search that extent beyond SharePoint content. As you might expect SharePoint search does allow you to crawl and index local content, but that ability can be extended to non-SharePoint content. There will be main components that we will look at here: sources and schedules. While I ...

How to Add an Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) 4

May

2012

Hi folks. A common request in SharePoint administration is to add another URL to an existing site. The metaphor I like to use is to add another door to the same house. Regardless of which door you use it is still the same house (or SharePoint site). Pretty fancy huh? Let’s see how the magic ...

The Case of the Missing Blog Site Template

May

2012

(And other missing templates) I had this request from a customer to find out why they couldn’t create a blog subsite. He was trying to create a blog sub-site with the blog template built into SharePoint. I knew it was there somewhere because when we turned the over the SharePoint build to our customer it ...

Austin SharePoint Saturday Slides

Jan

2012

Thanks to everyone that came out to my session. If you have deeper questions please let me know. I’ll be happy to help.

Search Scopes and You

Dec

2011

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.

SharePointFest Multi-Tenant Presentation 2

Jul

2011

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

SharePointFest Search Presentation

Jul

2011

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 ...

SharePoint Saturday Chicago

Jun

2011

thanks to everyone to came out to SharePoint Saturday Chicago! Let me know if you have any questions…

InfoPath Form Submission Error in SharePoint 2010

Apr

2011

I’ve run into the odd problem with a customer SharePoint implementation I couldn’t find anywhere. I hope it helps someone with a similar issue. This is running on SharePoint 2010 Enterprise. When I tried to add an entry into a Document library with the content default set to an InfoPath form I get the following ...

SharePoint Saturday San Antonio Slide Deck

Apr

2011

Thanks for everyone who came to my session. Below is my Slide Deck…