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Lately, I have really put a lot of thought into this concept I think of as Personal Governance . I am trying to set an informal policy for myself on where I put my documents. This includes all types of documents such as things I am working...
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I’m excited to be back in Boston next week for SPTechCon Boston 2013. It’s been more than two years since I have presented at an SPTechCon and I am really looking forward to this year more than ever! This year I am speaking on two search related...
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I had the pleasure of presenting a new search talk at SQL Saturday Baton Rouge. For a SQL event, this one always brings a fair number of SharePoint users. Attendees got to hear about how to improve their search experience thought implementation...
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When it comes to SharePoint search, managed properties have always had a special place in my heart. After all they are what lets you do all of the cool stuff in SharePoint search when it comes to querying, refining, and displaying information. ...
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Quite some time ago, I wrote about how to set default column values using C#. However, I find it useful to work with them using PowerShell quite often. The reason being, I often use this as a utility to work set default column values on document...
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For SharePoint 2010, I wrote a post that covered some typical service accounts that you might need along with suggested names. I wanted to update the list for SharePoint 2013 as I get asked these questions a lot by people new to installing things...
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I’ve suffered through my share of SharePoint upgrade / migration projects now and I have really changed the way I look at them. Often when you get exposed to a new system, the lack of governance has led to a total mess with site sprawl as far as...
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We just had a requirement come up on my current project where they wanted to restrict the number of sublayouts of a certain type on a specific page. They are using the unified page editor, so the thought was that when the "Select a Rendering"...
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For those that know me, I am a die hard supporter of my Surface RT. Back in February, I wrote a post about why I chose it over a Surface Pro. The device wasn’t perfect and there were a number of issues that people had with it. With Window...
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If you’re like me, you like complete code samples. I don’t like having to infer the code I am supposed to right when I see a reference in the API. I don’t program much any more, so I admit I am lazy and want to see a complete example that...
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One less publicized change in the April 2013 CU for SharePoint 2013 is the ability to change the maximum number of characters indexed of a given file. By default, SharePoint indexes 512 KB of the body of a document. Anything after that isn...
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I got bit by a small gotchya while setting up a fresh Sitecore 7 install to use SOLR today. In SOLR, I left the core named the default "collection1" instead of renaming it to "itembuckets" as is recommended in the documentation. Well...
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Result Sources in SharePoint 2013 are quite powerful. However to make use of them in your queries, you have to know the Id which you pass to the SourceId parameter of a query. For out-of-the-box result sources, the Ids are static. When...
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I’ve had yet another fun week up here in Canada. I gave a brand new talk about the new ways to query search in SharePoint 2013. I had a room full of developers that asked a lot of great questions. As promised, my slide deck is below...
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I wanted to create an autocomplete textbox in a SharePoint app recently by using terms from the term store. Since retrieving items from the term store can be a bit involved I wanted to show you the steps involved. This solution make use of...