Writing SharePoint 2013 feels very new to me, but I created my first Demo environment and tried to set up search. What needs to be done? 14 steps for a simple Search Topology - 1 powershell can do them all. Create a Service Application Pool for the Search Service Application (15-22) Create a Search Service Application (22-28) Create a Search Service Application Proxy (30-36) Get the current Search Instance (38) Save the current Search Topology for later use (39) Create a new Search Topology (40) Create all the Search Components (Analytics- , Content Processing, Query Processing, Crawler-, Admin Component) (42-46) Remove the Index-Folder and recreate it (50-51) Create a new Index Component (53) Activate the new Topology (56) Call the method synchronize on the old topology - this errors but forces an update on the old topology object (59) The “forced updated” Topology object becomes inactive and can be deleted.

Last day at TechEd – today it will be an asp.net-ish day! First Session: Microsoft ASP.NET and the Realtime Web (Brady Gaster) This gotta be SignalR – hopefully with cool demos. Actually they forgot the SignalR part in the title, the whole thing is about it. Okay, first demo is SignalR with Kinect. Kinect detects a person, takes a picture, the picture is uploaded to azure and the link to the picture is pushed to “subscribed”, open browser.

Third day at TechEd, not getting more sleep here but coffee keeps us going! The delegate party was in the AJAX Amsterdam soccer arena – private public viewing style. First Session: Best Practices for Building Your Website for Scale with Microsoft SharePoint 2012 (Spencer Harbar, @harbars) At first I thought “Why isnt he talking about User Profiles, Sync or something – he is Mr. UserProfiles for me. Key messages: Capacity Planning, Architect Scale, Pilot & Test, Deploy, Monitor & Validate, and repeat.