I uploaded my first video to youtube today:
Apparently the captions were lost during the upload, next time I will explain a bit more 
Maybe next weekend I add some code examples and further details.
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!
You can download the slides with all the tools – for your convenience I added the links to all tools:
I would love your addition in the comments – please share them!
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 $site.Features.Add("5EAC763D-FBF5-4d6f-A76B-EDED7DD7B0A5")
Starting from today melcher.it has a new look. My new template is metro-styled and its based on this codeplex template.
Recently I read a blog post how to customize the core result webpart – thats the webpart showing the results after you do a search with SharePoint 2010. The the output was modified so that you can click on a link to open the library/folder containing the document you searched – quite handy in my eyes.
The solution for SharePoint search is quite easy, just add
<xsl:if test="isdocument = 'True'"> <a> <xsl:attribute name="href"> <xsl:value-of select="sitename"/> </xsl:attribute> View Folder </a> </xsl:if>
and you are good to go (more details in the mentioned blog post).
If you are doing the same thing with FAST for SharePoint (FS4SP) it does not work. The propertysitename is not filled with the location of the document, the FAST crawler extracts, what it should – the sitename.
So I started up Visual Studio, copied the xslt and the search result xml and created a little xslt function to extract the path to a document and to show a link:
<!-- changes for Open Library-->
<div class="{$docPreviewStyle} srch-Metadata2" style="margin-bottom:20px;">
<xsl:if test="isdocument = 'True'">
<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:call-template name="build-location-link">
<xsl:with-param name="list" select="path" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:attribute>
View Location
</a>
</xsl:if>
</div>
In the xstl search for the comment “<!– END Additional links –>” – add my code after the closing </div>, thats arround row number 655.
Then add the template “build-location-link” close to the end of the xslt. I added mine right before the comment “<!– End of Stylesheet –>”. That should be line number 968.
<xsl:template name="build-location-link"> <xsl:param name="list" /> <xsl:variable name="first" select="substring-before($list, '/')" /> <xsl:variable name="remaining" select="substring-after($list, '/')" /> <xsl:value-of select="$first" />/<xsl:if test="substring-after($remaining, '/')"> <xsl:call-template name="build-location-link"> <xsl:with-param name="list" select="$remaining" /> </xsl:call-template> </xsl:if> </xsl:template>
The result should look like this:
In my eyes the xslt is not the most elegant solution (any way to remove the recursion with xslt?) – but – I tested it in several installations now – the users loves it!
If you have trouble copy/paste all out of this file: FAST Open Library XSLT.
So how did you modify the search results – any modifications worth to share?
Yesterday the SharePoint 2013 SDK (Preview) was released and that made me thinking:
) licensing, e.g. coupled with ECALs, would help FS4SP to cover more ground.
I think that’s a good start, I will update the post with more wishes over time.
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 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…).
So after 3 times downloading the 1.1gb uber-patch (it includes the SharePoint Foundation updates and the languages packs) I started the updated and … waited. I really dont know how long it took to update, after 30 Minutes of no progress I decided to go to bed – this morning I saw the update was successfully installed. After that I rebooted.
Remember: After the update you have to run
psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait
or the SharePoint Configuration Wizard to update the Content-DBs and get every other bit updated.
Read the KB first. Only download and install the CU after carefully testing it on a TEST system:
KB: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;2597014
Download: http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=2597014&kbln=en-us
Please feel free to share it in the comments, would love it!
Ever wondered what FAST for SharePoint (FS4SP) version is currently installed? Ever checked if every server in the search cluster has the same 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 stumble accross the\etc\version.xml (e.g. C:\FASTSearch\etc\version.xml) file you can see the version number – but its not updated even if you install SP1.
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 14.0.4763.1000 | FAST for SharePoint RTM |
| 14.0.6029.1000 | FAST for SharePoint Service Pack 1 |
| 14.0.6029.1000 | FAST for SharePoint Service Pack 1 with CU June 2011 |
As you can see there is no version difference between SP1 and CU June 2011.
As mentioned by Dan in the comments its better to directly check Programs and Features. I updated the post, thanks Dan!
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. Dont you think?