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Recently I tried to upgrade a TFS 2015 installation for a client to Update 1. Because I did not find a solution in the internet (even with the error code TF401147), it’s time to blog about a solution. Installation of Update 1 - VS402388 / TF401147 The installation of update 1 worked perfectly: In the first place I installed it because we wanted to move TFS to a more performant server and I installed the new server with TFS 2015 Update 1.

In my current project I had the challenge to improve the user experience for some pages without messing too much with the MasterPage (because you shouldn’t, right?). The client explicitly requested components like accordions, responsive tables and more control of the page alignments. So what would be easier to use a mobile first, responsive made by the @twitter guys? Apparently SharePoint Online does not like bootstrap too much - one you add the css files, you will see notable changes.

Yesterday we met at our monthly “Search Stammtisch / Meetup” in Munich in one of the most charming locations. Like every month, the scope of discussion was broad and this led also to a short discussion of Brand. As a result we are rebranding the meeting and giving it a proper and more precise name: Enterprise Productivity & Search Why the name? Because it sounds cool - and because we do not only talk about (SharePoint) search, but we also touch so many topics that boost and affect productivity within an enterprise.

Another day, another quick fix - I hope it helps! Situation Working from home is very productive they said - not in my case, the wonderful script to reindex SharePoint Online UserProfiles from Mikael Svenson worked at work - but throws errors at home. The error “For security reasons DTD is prohibited in this XML document” does not help much… Quick fix Google suggested me to change my DNS entries to 8.

3 times and you have a pattern, right? This is not the first time I write a recap for the past year, (2014, 2013) - and it is always good fun to reflect the last one and plan the next one. The Past aka 2015 2015 was a super busy year for me - both work, community and private life was packed and very intense. Events I attended so many events this year, without my outlook calendar a reflection would not be possible anymore.

Currently I am preparing a session for the next SharePoint Days “Hybrid Worlds” here in Munich. My first presentation topic is “Hybrid Search - everything you need to know!” with focus on the new Cloud Hybrid Search Service Application and here are some of the ideas I will present. Hybrid Options Currently I am aware of 6 feasible hybrid options: One-way Inbound Hybrid You combine SharePoint Online with SharePoint on-premises - when a user queries in the SharePoint Online Search Center, SPO connects to SharePoint on-premises and executes the same or a similar query there to get results.

This will be just a short one - maybe it saves somebody some time and grey hairs. Situation I created a new result source that boosts some properties of people profiles in search results. During staging I forgot to check the very important radio button that the result source is of type “People”. 1 At first I did not notice that I forgot to check it - Search worked perfectly and returned people hits.

This post will be totally SharePoint unrelated but it was so amazing that I will briefly tell you about me last week in Ölüdeniz, Turkey - with lots of pictures! So please read on if you are not afraid of great heights.

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Paragliding

1.5 years ago I started to learn how to use a Paraglider - and I enjoyed every minute in the air since then! It is an awesome, thrilling but still very relaxing sport - and not as dangerous as you might think. But it requires a lot of practicing and lots of technical gimmicks - an ideal sport for me. In order to improve my technique (I am still a beginner) I booked a paragliding tour with my flight school - a so called performance training - with my buddy Sebastian and traveled to Turkey (2.5 hours flight from Munich) - and we had a blast from 10/10/15 to 10/17/15.

I am currently preparing a test dataset for a SharePoint WebPart to see how it scales on a customer SharePoint 2010 environment. The problem I faced here was that the environment is protected by Citrix Netscaler and every CSOM call was ended with a lovely exception. Problem 1: SSL The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel. The client uses https/SSL to secure the channel (good!

Suggestions are a killer feature for search - same applies to Azure Search! Performance for the lookup of the possible options in combination with a large index is a key here - scale scale scale! I released 0.7.0.0 version of the AzureSearchTool today. Suggestion I added all of the possible suggestion options - it’s a different search type so it needed a while to add it to my current implementation. But as the version number indicates, I am close to catching up with the main features.