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.
Azure, DevOps and other stuff
Maximilian Melcher is a Cloud Solution Architect working at Microsoft in Munich, Germany. Max is a specialist in Azure cloud technologies focused on Application Development, DevOps and Lift&Shift in an enterprise context. He has led cloud implementations for Dax 30 companies since 2009. Max’ free time is spent on twitter, mostly with a good coffee in his hands - or below real clouds when he flies with his paraglider.
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