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

Bas — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:21:00 GMT

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...(read more)

SharePoint 2007 to 2010 migration error when changing the UIVersion and masterpages

Bas — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:15:00 GMT

I am with my team currently busy on a migration of our intranet from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. Part of this migration, is updating the masterpages, so that we can benefit from every new SharePoint 2010 feature. The Problem Recently, two of our...(read more)

Upgrading Masterpage and UIVersion from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 without v4.master

Bas — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:21:00 GMT

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...(read more)

GeoSearch with Fast Search for SharePoint 2010 - Part 2: Custom pipeline extensions

Bas — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:47:00 GMT

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...(read more)

GeoSearch with Fast Search for SharePoint 2010 - Part 1

Bas — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:51:00 GMT

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...(read more)

I'm in the MXP for Architects!

Bas — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:55:00 GMT

"the what for Architects?!", you might ask yourself? MXP stands for Microsoft eXcellence Program, and is a unique collaboration between my employer (Achmea) and Microsoft, with the aim to train people, who will operate as (technical) leaders...(read more)

Fast Search for SharePoint caveat: Apply a sortformula with managed properties of type decimals

Bas — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:53:00 GMT

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...(read more)

How to branch with the SharePoint scenario framework

Bas — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:56:00 GMT

Waldek Mastykarz posted a superb post about one of those hidden SharePoint gems: the SharePoint scenario framework for multi-page forms. As Waldek showed off, this framework enables us to create some flows, but I was wondering if branched flows (for example...(read more)

Fast Search for SharePoint problems - simplified architecture diagram

Bas — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:54:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Bas — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:08:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Fast Search for SharePoint gotcha - query suggestions

Bas — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:07:00 GMT

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...(read more)

SharePoint Navigation broken after migration from 2007 to 2010

Bas — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:02:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Bas — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:17:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Fast for SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Crawler is Dead

Bas — Thu, 19 May 2011 08:30:00 GMT

Lately, I installed Fast locally on my machine for development purposes, and it was working as intended. Crawled a lot of local (and external) content, but suddenly, my Enterprise crawler was not working. nctrl status showed me that the Enterprise crawler...(read more)

My SharePoint 2010 & Fast session is online!

Bas — Thu, 19 May 2011 08:23:00 GMT

On the Dutch Microsoft DevDays (or Techdays, as they were called), I had a session about SharePoint 2010 and Fast. It was recorded and is now published on Channel 9. It's pretty weird to see and hear yourself presenting. If you are interested in:...(read more)