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In MOSS 2007, people often extending the search results experience by using the Faceted Search Web Parts . People really liked these so it looks like Microsoft decided to implement their own version called the RefinementWebPart (also known as the...
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For the last few weeks, I have been working on a project to customize Able Commerce 7.0.4. When I started on this project, I had never seen Able before and certainly had no idea about the right way to go about doing some of these customizations. Over...
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One common thing people have asked for in the MSDN Search Forums a lot (besides the obvious things like wildcard search) is the ability to get results that contain just documents. In this case, people just want documents, no list items or folders...
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You might have seen my last post on People Search and were so excited to try it out only to find that you only have a Basic Search Center template available or the search center you have already created doesn’t have a People tab. By default, on...
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Maybe you hadn’t noticed, but talking about Search is my favorite topic in SharePoint (with ECM closely following it). :) This is why I am so excited about the new features we are seeing in Enterprise Search. Wildcards and built in refinement...
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This is kind of a weird one so I thought it was definitely worth posting. Recently we were doing some integration testing where an external application was linking directly to specific folders. The users would then upload a document in that...
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Ok, so the title may be overly dramatic, but the BCS is really freaking cool now. With SharePoint 2010 just around the corner, now is the time to start learning how you can leverage it. I’ll be talking about the Business Connectivity Services...
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When it comes to SharePoint deployments, I try to automate everything I can. I don’t like manual steps especially when it comes to setting up security. A common task when deploying any sites is setting up security in some manner. Today...
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Mark van Aalst’s EviBlog shared source module takes advantage of the new RSS feed features added to Sitecore in version 6.2, but if you haven’t set that up yet (I hadn’t!) then you may be wondering how to make it work. It’s actually quite simple! In Content...
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Most of my posts here are directed towards developers writing code or building solutions with tools like Visual Studio, Sitecore, or Silverlight. This particular post talks to more of a System Administrator person... I’ve found that sometimes you have...
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For quite a while now, I’ve been wanting a simple video streaming solution that I could recommend to clients for whom progressive video downloads won’t cut it and who don’t want to pay to use a CDN like Edgecast or UVault or Limelight. Clients who don...
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So I've been investigating .NET mocking frameworks to use for unit testing on one of my current projects... A couple of my needs in particular present a special challenge, and I'm looking for any input from experienced mockers out there on what...
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SharePoint is hot in Oklahoma City right now with two new groups forming in the last month. I am excited to be the first speaker at the new Oklahoma City SharePoint User Group on March 29th at 6pm. I’ll be giving an introduction to SharePoint...
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So I keep hearing about this EviBlog module for Sitecore and how it blows away the old blogs module and how I just have to check it out. So, I finally found some time over the weekend to do a fresh Sitecore 6.2 install, downloaded and installed EviBlog...
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I am excited to be serving as Vice President this year for the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group . This looks to be a great year as we hope to grow the group and make it better than ever. We don’t have all the plans laid out yet, but we do hope...