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// November 2013

SharePoint 2013 Search Preview for Documents hosted in SharePoint 2010

Max Melcher

6 minute read

Recently I talked to some clients because of a “Search-First” SharePoint 2013 migration (more about this topic will follow). During a training this week I got aware of a serious issue with the “Search-first” approach, especially with the really nice Office Web Apps 2013 Search Previews you get for free (read only!). Problem Some clients want to start their migration with setting up a new SharePoint 2013 farm. This new farm then crawls the old SharePoint 2010 farm.

Converting a Hyper-V VHD to VHDX – and shrink it

Max Melcher

2 minute read

Yesterday I thought its time to convert my SharePoint 2010 development environment Hyper-V vhd to a new vhdx. Why bother? I used my environment hosted on my lovely Lenovo W520 to develop a migration tool to convert a SP2007 environment to a SP2010 environment. Therefore I needed ~300GB free space – easy with Hyper-V. Just extend your virtual drive and you are good to go. Afterwards you can easily shrink the disk back again – at least I thought so.