Content by query webpart not performing due to misconfiguration by Bas

Today we were experiencing some major performance issues on some pages on a new website. The pages that were experiencing these performance issues, all made use of the content by query webpart (we didn't have any performance issues before on these...

SharePoint 2010 signout different behaviours based on the number of selected Authentication Types by Bas

While working on our custom ADFS login component and deployed this version to our DTAP street, we saw different behaviours when signing out of a site, under different circumstances. Wen users tried to logout via the page "/_layouts/signout.aspx"...

Customizing ADFS login for SharePoint 2010: how we did it by Bas

In SharePoint 2010 the possibility of claims based authentication was introduced. The out of the box experience of this functionality is often OK, for example in cases of corporate intranets and extranets, but it doesn’t always fulfill the requirements...

WSP Deployment scopes and the development lifecycle in large environments by Bas

At our company, we use sharepoint to host all of our websites. As SharePoint is quite scalable, this is of course no problem and the production farm can handle it easily. These websites need to be developed and be tested, before they can be deployed to...
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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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Upgrading Masterpage and UIVersion from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 without v4.master by Bas

When upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010, several scenarios are possible. When using the database attach method , it's possible to stay in "V3" mode, or execute a visual upgrade too and make use of all SharePoint 2010 love...

GeoSearch with Fast Search for SharePoint 2010 - Part 1 by Bas

This is the first 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 was...

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...

SharePoint Navigation broken after migration from 2007 to 2010 by Bas

When migrating from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010, it might be possible that your navigation is broken. The error I encountered was the following, but it can occur in more functions within the Navigation namespace. Object Reference not set to an...

Fast: Adding managed metadata properties for the use with scopes in SharePoint 2010 by Bas

Lately I was working on a project that required to make use of scopes and some managed metadata properties in those scopes. For some reason, those managed metadata properties didnt show up in my scope selection dropdownlist, but I was sure that this metadata...

Error when deploying WebTemplate: "Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution': Exception from HRESULT: 0x8107026E" by Bas

Recently I was working on a sandboxes solution, which included a WebTemplate ( Vesa "Vesku" Juvonen wrote a really nice post about it), but I couldn't deploy it, the followin error was displayed into Visual Studio 2010: Error occurred in...

Console application new SPSite throws a FileNotFoundException by Bas

A collegue of mine had the following problem: he wanted to write a console application to test some SharePoint code, but whenever he opened a new SPSite, the following File Not Found Exception was thrown: after being triggered about a possible problem...

Upgrading sandbox solutions to full trust solutions by Bas

This blogpost describes the problems that could have come up when upgrading sandbox solutions to fulltrust solutions and how i Tested it. Read the conclusion in the end for the pitfalls that have to be taken care of. At the insurance company that I work...
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