Microsoft Store: Stuck in Pending
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”)
Starting from today melcher.it has a new look. My new template is metro-styled and its based on this codeplex template.
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).
Yesterday the SharePoint 2013 SDK (Preview) was released and that made me thinking: What are my wishes for SharePoint 2013 FAST for SharePoint as Service Application That’s my top wish. Easier provisioning of FAST and easier (cheaper :)) licensing, e.g. coupled with ECALs, would help FS4SP to cover more ground. The same applies to Reporting Services with SQL 2012 (Denali) so I think my wish could come true. jQuery Integration (no silverlight anymore!
I installed a new SharePoint demo and developing environment on my notebook and started with the slip-streamed installation of SharePoint with SP1 included. After configuring everything I tried to upload some Pictures to the UserProfiles I created in my Active Directory (synchronization did work!!!) but I got faced with this nice error: Method not found: ‘System.String Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileGlobal.GetImportPhotoFolderName(System.Globalization.CultureInfo)’. I really love the User Profile Service I did some research and found out that the SharePoint 2010 Cumulative Update December 2012 should fix some problems of the User Profile Service (still wondering why this could pass the quality control…).
Ever wondered what FAST for SharePoint (FS4SP) version is currently installed? Ever checked if every server in the search cluster has the same version? Check the version! The best approach is - open “Program and Features” and check the version there: With “View installed updates” you can even see if Cumulative Updates have been installed. Please be aware that not all files are updated after a patch so the versions in other files or tools can be different.
If you do SharePoint 2010 development and you haven’t used this plugin for Visual Studio you have really missed a jewel:
CKSDev - Community Kit for SharePoint: Development Tools Edition
When accessing Central Administration with Google Chrome you will get the following: “This webpage is unavailable” with the description: Error 312 (net::ERR_UNSAFE_PORT): Unknown error. In order to fix that edit the Properties of the Chrome link and append the following to the “target” value: –explicitly-allowed-ports=42 where 42 is the port for your Central Administration. You can add more ports if you want, in total it should like this: C:\Users\mmelcher\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe –explicitly-allowed-ports=42,84,87 Still dont like it - ports are not unsafe by default - but at least there is an option to allow it.
If you ever had problems running the datasheet view with one of the following reasons: A datasheet component that is compatible with Windows SharePoint Services is not installed. A Microsoft Office 2003 Professional edition is not installed on the computer. The Web browser does not support ActiveX controls. Support for ActiveX controls is disabled. Try installing the old Office components: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7554F536-8C28-4598-9B72-EF94E038C891&displaylang=en
