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I’ve been doing quite a few new SharePoint farm installations lately and I have ran into this error twice in a row now so I thought I would share it. When running the perquisites installer for SharePoint 2010, the following error message is received...
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I recently had a guest post on the MVP Award Program Blog . The post covers simple debugging techniques that you can make use of when developing SharePoint Online applications. Check it out. Debugging Techniques for SharePoint Online Applications...
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When deploying a multiple server FAST Search for SharePoint farm, sometimes you can run into a Configuration Failed error. The SDK has some guidance on this but I wanted to walk you through the troubleshooting steps I used to determine what the...
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In the FAST Search for SharePoint configuration process, getting your certificates configured correctly is probably the most important part of the process. Without the certificates configured correctly, FAST simply will not work. When running...
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In a multiple server SharePoint farm, you often find yourself modifying the Search Service Application topology at some point in the initial configuration process. The scenario is that you typically go into your Search Service Application, add query...
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Everyone has their own take on what service accounts should exist on a given SharePoint farm. From the official documentation, you pretty much have to patch together bits of pieces of things to come up with a concrete list. The purpose of...
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My team and I have come to rely on SharePoint Workspace for our current project on a daily basis. Most of us never even open a web browser even and browse project documents solely by using SharePoint Workspace. It’s a great tool and allows...
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Sorry, I’ve been slacking. I’m a full week behind on posting my slides from SharePoint Saturday Houston 2011 . This SharePoint Saturday was certainly unforgettable and I had a great time both attending and speaking. I presented my Beginning...
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I’m absolutely excited to be speaking again at SharePoint Saturday Houston this year on May 7, 2011. This event put on by the great people at H-SPUG is one of the most well executed community events in the country. Props go to @Victor_Chat...
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Two good friends of mine recently made a big splash at Mix this year and I thought I would mention them here. Nik (@nikmd23) and Anthony (@anthony_vdh) both work for Infusion decided to start a project in their own time that is a debugging tool for ASP...
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Whenever you use the Blank Site template for a site collection, a lot of supporting features that you may want are not activated. One of these is the feature for Managed Metadata site columns. When you pick one, you might see the following...
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I had been told from the beginning that you can create “simple” public facing websites with SharePoint Online / Office 365. However, I had never seen the setting a place to create the public web site in the beta until recently. If you go to...
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I’ve been living under a rock and I didn’t hear the news that Red Gate was discontinuing the free version of .NET Reflector until the last week or so. I’ve used a Red Gate product or two in the past and enjoyed them. ANTS Performance Profiler has saved...
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To date, I’ve written a few posts on issues that may occur when you are looking to create a search center. Sometimes the site template isn’t present or you receive an error . I recently encountered another issue with the FAST Search Center...
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It’s generally pretty easy to create a Search Center or FAST Search Center site. However, on a new installation, there are a few features you need to activate (especially if you are using blank site) that are easy to forget. I’ve talked about...