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A good day for automation lovers! @avishnyakov (http://spdevlab.com/) contributed 5 SharePoint packages to my ChocolateySharePointPackages repository. See his blog post here. Added packages! Today I pushed them to the chocolatey gallery and you can install them with 1 line of PowerShell. cinst PowerGUIVSX Installs the PowerGui Visual Studio Extension cint SP2013PreReqs Installs all SharePoint 2013 PreRequisites cinst SPSF Installs the SharePoint Software Factory cinst SPCAF Installs the SharePoint Code Analysis Framework Want more?

SharePoint is such a great product that there is always something I have not heard yet (or already forgot) and my day has only 24 hours. I try to read a lot on SharePoint Stack Exchange / Twitter / Technet– but that’s only possible if I am close to a PC. Because of that and because cleaning up the house or washing dishes without SharePoint is boring I listen to quite a lot podcasts.

The refiner count is a very useful indicator in the Search Center whether the click on the refinement is worth it or nor – and the implementation is so intuitive that even end-users understands it. But: It is disabled by default in SharePoint 2013. This post shows you how to enable the Refiner Count for SharePoint 2013 - manually and with PowerShell. Refiner Count in SharePoint 2010 The refiner count was introduced in SharePoint 2010 and is a FAST for SharePoint feature.

Preview of Office Documents (this includes PDF) is a huge benefit when you are searching for information – you can quickly identify if the document is the one you are looking for or skimming/scanning a document efficiently. To get the preview up and running you have to install Office Web Apps 2013 – PDF preview was added in March Public Update 2013 – that’s great, many clients have asked me why there is no support in the 2010 stack.

Previously I had a little console app to efficiently empty large SharePoint lists. Today I converted it to powershell. SharePoint Online? Read this: Efficiently empty a large Sharepoint Online List Compared to the simple item by item delete with item.Delete() its 30 times faster; on my dev machine it deletes ~30 items per second. It works for SharePoint 2010 and should for 2013 (not tested, yet). Script param($weburl,$listname) if ($weburl -eq $null -or $listname -eq $null) { write-host -foregroundcolor red "

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”

I mentioned Chocolatey and Powershell quite often in the last time, today I created two little helpers and uploaded them to the chocolatey gallery. The two super-awesome (and simple) packages called SharePoint.HiveShortcut.Desktop and SharePoint.HiveShortCut.Explorer - and the name indicates it, they create shortcuts to the hive folder. I could just upload the two lines of powershell on this blog, but I totally like the Chocolatey approach - makes it easy for everyone.

Today a new webcast on the SharePoint Toolbox was released. It’s about the very cool AutoSPSourcebuilder powershell script. Summary The webcast shows you how to create SharePoint 2013 installer package with bundled Prerequisites (so you can install SharePoint without Internet-Connection) and includes the SharePoint 2013 Cumulative Update December 2012. Language packs or even Service packs could be added, too. Its available in English and German. Feedback, questions or tool suggestions much appreciated.