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GeoSearch with Fast Search for SharePoint 2010 - Part 3: how to use the latitude and longitude in your queries by Bas

This is the third and last part of a series of blogposts about GeoSearch with Fast Search for SharePoint. I recently held some presentations about extending the power of Fast (on DIWUG and the Dutch TechDays 2012 ) and one of the subjects that I talked...
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GeoSearch with Fast Search for SharePoint 2010 - Part 2: Custom pipeline extensions by Bas

This is the second part of a series of blogposts about GeoSearch with Fast Search for SharePoint. I recently held some presentations about extending the power of Fast (on DIWUG and the Dutch TechDays 2012 ) and one of the subjects that I talked about...
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Fast Search for SharePoint caveat: Apply a sortformula with managed properties of type decimals by Bas

Fast Search for SharePoint provides four great possibilities to influence the sort order of your resultset that was returned: Sort by Managed property Sort by Rank Sort by Formula Sort in Random order When I was working on my presentaion and demo for...
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Fast Search for SharePoint problems - simplified architecture diagram by Bas

Recently I had a few colleagues (and myself) who tried to install FAST search for SharePoint on their development workstation. Despite the well written installation guidelines on MSDN , they had several problems, and sadly enough, they all faced different...

SharePoint 2010 - Fast Search Center site template not available (bug?!) by Bas

Recently I found out that, my Fast Search Center was not available from the “New Site” menu. Both the english as well the dutch fast search template was not available. As I saw this happen before, I checked out the site collection features...

Fast Search for SharePoint gotcha - query suggestions by Bas

At the company i work for, we do have around 30(?!) different labels and we decided that all websites of those labels, should be hosted on one platform: SharePoint 2010. This consolidation to one platform should really decrease costs, because we now have...
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Bug within the SharePoint Search when using fine-grained permissions by Bas

Recently we accidentally discovered a bug within the SharePoint Search. To aggregate news from certain locations, we use the SharePoint search to query and display items based on user profile settings. This has always worked the right way: both the incremental...
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Customizing MOSS Search - Part 2: Modifying the default Moss Search box, remove the contextual (this site) scope and modify the OSSSearchResults.aspx reference by Bas

When you want to customize the default WSS Search box, this isn't too hard. It ships into the ContentLightUp feature, which contains a feature.xml and a searcharea.xml. In that searcharea.xml a reference to the searcharea.asxc exists. Because SharePoint...
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Customizing MOSS Search - Part 1 by Bas

MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 are using the same search engine. It only differs in the options that are available to each of the products. As expected, MOSS 2007 has a lot more functionality then WSS 3.0. Where WSS 3.0 is only able to use contextual search (as...
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SharePoint Search FullTextSqlQuery not returning not all items by Bas

Today I was breaking my head on some stupid problem within SharePoint Search. We created a site with about 50 dummy pages to test some cross webapp news aggregation webpart that I created. For some reason just 4(!) news items were found, each one existing...
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