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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 teammembers got the following error message after...
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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. Whenever custom masterpages have been created for...
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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 was on how to search for locations, sort on distances...
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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 on how to search for locations, sort on distances...
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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 the diwug (Dutch Information Worker User Group) last...
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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, an easy yes/no) were possible. And it seems...
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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 problems. These problems varied from not able...
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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 overview, to enable the “SharePoint Server...
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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 one generic way of developing, one platform to...
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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 instance of an object. Stacktrace: at Microsoft.SharePoint...
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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 property was available in my Fast Managed...
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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 was Dead but WHY it was dead? I had no idea at...
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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: Fast Architecture Fast OOTB capabilities Fast configuration...
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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 deployment step 'Add Solution': Exception...
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Today I was working with some collegues on some xsl within SharePoint, and we wanted to know where the following template came from: < xsl:apply-template select = " . " mode = " RenderView " > After some digging through the xsl templates in the SharePoint root, we found %SharePointRoot...