SharePoint 2010

At this year’s ShareCamp I collected the best SharePoint 2010 tools for IT-Pros and Developers. This year I extended the session with “the best solutions” – we ended with about 40 tools – and had a some fun during the session. Some of them are a really “must-have” - others are “hidden-gems” and special purpose tools - go check them out! Download You can download the slides with all the tools – for your convenience I added the links to all tools:

Ever wondered where the FAST Search Center Template is and why the hack its not there when you create a new site? Start this little powershell and you can create it: $site = Get-SPSite -Identity http://sp2010.demo.com/sites/demo $site.Features.Add(“5EAC763D-FBF5-4d6f-A76B-EDED7DD7B0A5”)

Recently I read a blog post how to customize the core result webpart - thats the webpart showing the results after you do a search with SharePoint 2010. The the output was modified so that you can click on a link to open the library/folder containing the document you searched - quite handy in my eyes. SharePoint Search The solution for SharePoint search is quite easy, just add <xsl:if test="isdocument = 'True'"> <a> <xsl:attribute name="href"> <xsl:value-of select="sitename"/> </xsl:attribute> View Folder </a> </xsl:if> and you are good to go (more details in the mentioned blog post).