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Recently, I became aware of this troublesome issue in regards to document previews with FAST Search for SharePoint. It was on a new installation of SharePoint. I had everything indexing great and my search results looked good. However...
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Recently, a client of mine acquired some KWizCom web parts. I installed them and they seemed to work fine. However, during the configuration, we ended up building a new web application or two. On these web applications, I started to...
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A while back, I wrote about opening Sitecore’s media library browser from a button in the Content Editor ribbon. Recently, I decided it would be really useful to do something similar with the Field Editor dialog – only this time, from the Page Editor...
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I am excited to say that I’ll be speaking at both TechEd North America and TechEd Europe . This is my first time to even attend a TechEd so I am looking forward to see what is in store. Both events are sure to be exciting but I am particularly...
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As I have made my transition from an iPhone 4 to a Nokia Lumia 900 running Windows Phone 7, it has got me thinking about the state of the app market. Keep in mind before you start hating, that I have carried an iOS device for the past four years...
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I’ve seen this conversation come up a few times. Deploying code to SharePoint Online is not like deploying code to your test and production environments back on-premises. I thought I would give my thoughts on it and that will help you make a better...
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It’s been a busy month for speaking (among other things). Last month, I spoke about getting started with SharePoint Online development at SharePoint Saturday New Orleans. The New Orleans crew (Cherie, Beth, and Tiffany) did a great job putting...
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I’m excited to be speaking at a number of events over the next few weeks. The first event is SharePoint Saturday New Orleans this weekend on 3/24. There, I’ll be speaking about developing solutions for SharePoint Online (Office 365). ...
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When I am booted into Windows 8, I often find myself wanting to run some of my existing virtual machines that I created in Oracle Virtualbox of VMWare Workstation. These products do run under Windows 8 but there are a few things you need to know...
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If you have used Excel Web App (part of Office Web Apps), you are familiar with the fact that there is no “Save” button. The changes you make are immediately saved back to SharePoint and you even have multiple people editing the spreadsheet at the...
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I was working with a client recently who had purchased Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint and I came across an issue that confused me for a minute. I installed the Metalogix SharePoint Extensions Web Services on a few farms. However...
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I’m excited to be speaking at the first Office 365 Saturday in Redmond on 2/25. This new event will be an exciting display of all things Office 365. I’ll be talking about all of the cool things you can do with Search in SharePoint Online. ...
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For those of you familiar with SharePoint 2010, the content type hub is nothing new to you. However, in SharePoint Online, the content type hub works a little differently. The first thing to know is that a content type hub has been set up...
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During configuration of FAST Search for SharePoint, you will need to use PowerShell to finalize your configuration. One common error you might receive is the one below. This error occurs when you execute any PowerShell command for FS4SP. Failed...
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A lot of times we have a need to activate a feature on multiple site collections. This could be a custom feature to do branding or you may simply be activating publishing on multiple site collections. PowerShell makes tasks like these easy...