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Despite an excellent GUI for configuring the FAST Search Server for SharePoint, all the topology of your FAST servers exists in the deployment.XML file. This defines the servers and services activated on each server, as well as defines cluster groups...
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Whenever I see "OSSSearchResults.aspx" in my browser's address bar while developing a SharePoint site, I immediately know one of two things: the search requirements have not yet been implemented, or I'm going to get a bug that search...
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The Internet provides us with an ever-increasing amount of information. Despite this fact, most people are still not very good at multi-tasking. Unlike a computer, human context-switching wastes a tremendous amount of time and energy. As a result we have...
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A little while back I had a conversation with one of my coworkers on SharePoint Search… After a few minutes, it became quite clear that (no offense to Microsoft) tracking search features and capabilities between various SharePoint licensed versions...
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One of my recent projects involved creating a custom web part for SharePoint Online (part of the Office 365 suite). Unfortunately, one of the limitations of developing for the cloud is that you’re bound to a sandboxed solution environment. This particular...
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I love selling SharePoint as an application platform. When I'm in client conversations or architectural debates regarding SharePoint development, I usually end up referencing my three "tiers" of SharePoint applications, depicted as follows...
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Our friend the iFilter has always been a tough installation...it requires the installer to jump through hoops having to execute steps in an exact order, change registry settings and other random stuff. You can see my love/hate relationship for iFilter...
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Alright, here’s a quick one for today… For those that have already, or are about to, start working with SharePoint 2010, you may have noticed that our old friend the search scope dropdown has been replaced with a plain-Jane ‘Search...
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This is the third and final post of a three part series, if you missed it, here’s Part 1 and Part 2 . This post will go into the details of consuming the managed properties we configured last time around, and then displaying them in our search results...
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This is the second post of a three part series, if you missed it, here’s Part 1 . This post will go into the details of taking the User Profile Properties we created the last time around, and making sure that they’re available to us in Search...
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One of the niceties (at least for us implementer-folk) of SharePoint’s search is that both the content and display of the result page can be changed with a few tweaks to some the profile sync process, managed properties, search query result web...
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How many times have you searched for something in SharePoint that you KNOW is out there and has been crawled, but it doesn't come up in your search results? Then it hits you like a bolt of lightning...you searched for the singular version of a term...
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No Thanks. I'll take my chances.