ShareCamp 2013 took place at Microsoft’s office here in Munich last weekend (4/12/2013-4/14/2013) and it was a BLAST. Sharecamp 2013 - before it began. Picture taken by Michael Greth Saturday, 9:00am. 200 SharePointers voting for sessions What I totally like was the open but still professional style of the barcamp – every attendee was allowed to suggest one or more presentation topic. After receiving more than 5 votes from the 200 attendees you got a session slot assigned (room and time).

The Cumulative Update August 2012 for FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010 is out for a while now – seems like nobody has tried this one yet. Or quality control has happened… Updating FAST Search When you install a service pack or a cumulative update for FAST you have to run the setup and then you have to start a FAST powershell and start “psconfig –action p” – otherwise your search won’t work because SAM Worker process is dead.

I installed SharePoint 2013 on a test system yesterday and was faced with the problem that the search, after successfully provisioning it - did not work. Boo! Symptoms There are several noticeable Symptoms The crawl log shows 1 Top Level Error and 1 Error: Crawl log with 1 Top Level Error and 1 Error The Eventlog shows some warnings and an error Eventlog with the error “The gatherer service cannot be initialized”