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One day when I wasn’t thinking, I encountered the following error when trying to execute a FAST Search for SharePoint PowerShell command such as Get-FASTSearchContentCollection. Get-FASTSearchContentCollection : Failed to communicate with the WCF service...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I’m adding another entry to my series of posts on User Profile Service Application errors in SharePoint 2010.  This particular error occurs after you pick the Active Directory OUs you want when creating a synchronization connection.  Specifically...
We all know that @Harbars wrote the book when it comes to SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization not to mention how to get it working again .  You need to follow the instructions in these guides word for word when setting up UPS  Many...
Recently, when I was trying to configure a User Profile Synchronization Connection in SharePoint 2010, I received the following error message when clicking the Populate Containers button. Method not found: 'Int32 Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration...
For those of you that have been following me on twitter, you know I have terrible luck picking the right product key to use when installing SharePoint 2010.  My last install was no different.  I thought I had the Enterprise key but in fact I...
Office Web Apps is one of my favorite new parts of SharePoint 2010, but there are a number of steps you need to follow to ensure that they actually work.  To start with, be sure and download the Installation guide and run any scripts mentioned in...
When I get an error, I like to blog about it.  Especially when the error gives you no useful information whatsoever.  Now, you can get the above error in a variety of ways, but the one I am going to discuss today is when using SPQuery. ...
If you have tried to build a quick console application using Visual Studio 2010 to work with SharePoint 2010, you might find that you run into the following error. Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The Web application at http://sp2010...
Ah, don’t you love COMExceptions?  Recently, I was adding two new site columns to a list and encountered a whole slew of errors when trying to create new items in the list.  This is the error I got when I was trying to create a custom folder...
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