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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 Part 3: Search Part 4: Authentication Introduction...
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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 pages). The content by query webpart that we were...
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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" users sometimes where redirected back to the...
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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 of internet facing websites which require...
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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 the production farm. This process is nothing special...
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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 about was on how to search for locations, sort on...
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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 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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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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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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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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Update: some changes to my original post. Thanks to William van Strien for pointing extra things out that I missed. We’ve been participating in the Rapid Deployment Program (RDP) and Duet Enterprise (DuetE) seems to be GA so I can talk about it a bit more. First of all there is loads of marketing...
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After viewing the usual conference sessions I was pretty enthusiastic about the possibilities of BCS. Seems to be nice at first, but when starting to design something real in the field I was thrown back to reality. BCS does give “free” things on your external data without too much coding...