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SharePoint 2013 and Windows 8 apps - better together Part 2: Platform choice, using the right API and data access

Bas — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:19:00 GMT

This is the second post as part of a blog series about the integration of using SharePoint 2013 as a datasource for windows 8 apps.Find the index at SharePoint 2013 and Windows 8 apps - better together Part 1: Introduction, background and considerations...(read more)

SharePoint 2013 and Windows 8 apps - better together Part 1: Introduction, background and considerations

Bas — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:09:00 GMT

This is the first post as part of a blog series about the integration of using SharePoint 2013 as a datasource for windows 8 apps. Part 1: Introduction, Background and Considerations (this post) Part 2: Platform choice, using the right API and data access...(read more)

Techdays 2013 - our sessions

Bas — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:37:00 GMT

On 7 and 8 March, the yearly returning TechDays event was held in the Netherlands. This was already the 4th year in a row that I was visiting the event as a speaker, with a total of 6 sessions. I wasn't the only speaker of Achmea ; some colleague's...(read more)

Content by query webpart not performing due to misconfiguration

Bas — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:27:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Bas — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:56:00 GMT

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"...(read more)

Customizing ADFS login for SharePoint 2010: how we did it

Bas — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:33:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Fast Search for SharePoint: crawler process blocked due to memory capacity limit

Bas — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:42:00 GMT

This week I encountered the problem that the indexation of content didn’t seem to end. After 5 hours of crawling, my 1000 html pages of content still weren't indexed by the Fast crawler. After putting on my Sherlock Holmes outfit, I started...(read more)

Indexing the new Geolocation field in SharePoint 2013 Technical preview is not possible

Bas — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:08:00 GMT

As I was playing around with the new geolocation column of SharePoint 2013, I wanted to try to migrate my geosearch solution for Fast Search for SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. The addition of the geolocation column was opening up some interesting...(read more)

SharePoint 2013 geolocation column: a component is not installed

Bas — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 23:35:00 GMT

Today I was playing with the new geo location column. I added the Bing maps key, created a custom list and added the geo location column via code to that list. Upon submitting a new listitem, I received an error, mentioning that a component was not installed...(read more)

WSP Deployment scopes and the development lifecycle in large environments

Bas — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:13:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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)