Showing posts with label fast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fast. Show all posts
Thursday, November 26, 2015

Gotcha’s when you move a FAST Search based solution to SharePoint 2013, running in 2010 mode

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We’re running around like rabbits in my project these days migrating 2010 solution en-masse over to SharePoint 2013. Some are upgraded to th...
Monday, November 16, 2015

Inconvenient SharePoint 2010 search center in 2013 (Hey Waldek :)

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I’m currently working on moving some 2010 farms over to a 2013 farm, and when doing so we decided to keep the 2010 UI for some of the custom...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Why more people should blog (or My bad day hunting down an error with FS4SP)

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Today has been one of those days where you feel you haven’t done anything productive, thinking you have tried all tricks in the book to fix ...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

Taking promotions/demotions one step further in FAST Search for SharePoint

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I am not sure how many times I have read the documentation on promotions and demotions in Microsoft documentation, but I can say it is numer...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Document Thumbnails and PowerPoint Preview for your search results without installing FAST for SharePoint

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Microsoft offers three different flavors of search for SharePoint 2010: Foundation, Standard and Enterprise. For each level upwards you get ...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Working with crawled and managed properties via code

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I was teaching a FAST for SharePoint Workshop today and we were doing labs on creating and mapping crawled properties to managed properties ...
Monday, May 2, 2011

Three Main Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to FAST for SharePoint

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I was fortunate to be one of three finalists in SharePoint Magazine’s Aspiring Author Contest. Today the article went live and I’m quite hap...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Remember to give your SharePoint 2010 Information Worker Virtual Machine a fresh certificate

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As I wrote in January , the default self signed certificate for FAST for SharePoint is valid for one year. Some days ago this certificate ...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Why you still should prefer PowerShell over UI to create Search Scopes in FAST for SharePoint

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When SharePoint 2010 came out the only way to create a search scope was to do it by PowerShell. Well, you could create the scope name itself...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Presentation at Norwegian SharePoint Community

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I did a presentation at the Norwegian SharePoint Community (#NSPUG) meet-up yesterday. The presentation and code samples can be downloaded a...
Friday, January 28, 2011

Using the SharePoint Search “Best Bet” feature to redirect to a landing page

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As described on TechNet: Best Bets are recommended results. Best Bets can link to recommended Web sites, data stores, and documents. When ...
Monday, January 17, 2011

How to “spy” the data in a custom pipeline extensibility stage with FS4SP

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In the old FAST a much used stage during development is the “Spy” stage. What this stage does is dump out a log file of all current attribut...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

How To: Debug and log FAST Search for SharePoint pipeline extensibility stages with Visual Studio

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One of the most powerful features with FAST Search for SharePoint is the ability to do work on the indexed data before it’s made searchable....
Monday, October 25, 2010

Know your SharePoint version

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This post is not so technical, but relates to the business side of SharePoint. I’m doing a project with a customer with FAST Search for Shar...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

SharePoint 2010: Search-Driven Portals

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  On April 7th, 2010 (1pm Pacific Time) I will be presenting at a Microsoft TechNet webcast together with a colleague. The topic at hand ...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Blazing fast IPC in .Net 4: WCF vs. Signaling and Shared Memory

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[Update 2011-02-02: Did a test against NamedPipeServerStream and NamedPipeClientStream which i mention in a comment at the end] An MSDN ...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Filling an array with a default value

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After following the discussion on Stackoverflow about how to initialize a byte array with a value I decided to do some benchmarking for fun...
Sunday, February 1, 2009

Going unsafe in managed code – give me speed!

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After doing the array comparison article my mind has been working subconsciously on another matter I’ve thought about for several years.What...
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Fast byte array comparison in C#

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I got into a discussion with a colleague the other day about string comparison in .Net and whether to use variable.Equals( "mystring...