Introduction to FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

MSDN Live Meeting - Introduction to FAST Search Server for SharePoint Server 2010

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Windows Phone 7 training resources for developers

If you are new to Windows Phone 7 development – there are tons of resources out there – here’s just a small list to get you started (it did for me …)

• Windows Phone Programming in C# – 8 different sections with labs,presentations, etc … about Windows Phone 7 on Faculty Resource.
• Windows Phone 7 in 7 Minutes! (Beta)
• Video recordings for first Windows Phone 7 Jumpstart event
• Series of tutorials and example applications for Windows Phone 7 based on the 31 days of Apps
• TekPub –Windows Phone 7 development videos
• Windows Phone 7 Session Videos and Slides, Organized and Explained (MIX10)

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Windows Phone 7 link collection June 2011

• Leveraging your Android development expertise to build Windows Phone applications
• Connecting to an SSL WCF service with Windows Phone 7 Emulator
• Sketchflow for Windows Phone 7
• Windows Phone developer certification exam on the way
• HTML 5 Host Application Framework for WP7 Mango
• Windows Phone Marketplace heading to web in Mango
• Windows Phone 7.1 Beta Developers Tools available
• Mango feature list
• Even more Mango features hidden in the developer tools emulator
• Windows Phone 7 online services availability matrix for Mango
• WP7 Mango teaser video previews new features 
• Alle Windows Phone 7 sessies van DevDays 2011
• Mango will provide “more” access to your contacts
• Windows Phone 7 development for absolute beginners
• Windows Phone Developer resources on App Hub
• Changes to the App Hub developer portal
• Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7
• Windows Phone 7 Social Viewer Application Template released

Technorati Tags: windows+phone,wp7,development,microsoft,mango,azure,community

MSDN Forum Assistant available for download

You can now check out MSDN Forums and receive updates directly on your desktop with the MSDN Forum Assistant. Features include Ask a Question, Latest Post, Thread Updates, Priority Support, and Forum Q&A. You can download the MSDN Forum Assistant here: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=822a3787-89e8-4c6d-8fc4-a413437d86e9

You can find more information here:

MSDN Forum Assistant Web Site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-sg/gg650455

Video Overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYrNemrjQc8

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Claim Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010 for Community Day 2011 on slideshare

Claim Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010 for Community Day 2011

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About collaboration, innovation and organizational success

Next are a collection of links which I came across during my little stroll on the web when going through my RSS subscriptions which were tagged as interesting reads. Lots of with background information on collaboration, social software, organizational success … and off course SharePoint.

• The facets of collaboration Part 1 – Meet robot barbie
• The facets of collaboration Part 2 – Enter the matrix!
• The facets of collaboration Part 3 – The feature jigsaw
• The facets of collaboration Part 4 – It’s all Gen-Y fault or is it?
• Ten rules for modern collaboration – Edward Boches
• Social networking creates a collaboration Culture – Kim Nash
• It’s not what you see, it’s what you get!
• Gamers will save our economy
• The social intranet becomes reality
• Barriers to Knowledge Sharing: The Biggest one isn’t systems
• Doing a SharePoint assessment
• First look at Data from the SharePoint Maturity Model
• Collaboration vs social media = internal collaboration vs external engagement
• Focus on the process – the why and not the what for social software
• Can I get 5 minutes?
• So what about Business Users
• Ceilings, carpets & middle managers

Technorati Tags: SharePoint,social+computing,organizational+success,collaboration,social+intranet,knowledge+management,knowledge+sharing

Cleaning up a rogue SharePoint 2010 Shared Service Application

A couple of weeks ago I run into problems with a SharePoint 2010 Search SSA which apparently did not work anymore. Nothing helped to get it working again so we decided to delete it. Unfortunately doing this through the UI did not work nor did using Powershell. So we decided to just delete the associated SQL database. Afterwards I needed to remove the reference in the SSA administration screen. Luckily there is a stsadm command to do this:

Stsadm -o deleteconfigurationobject -id “GUID identifying the Search SSA”

To get at the GUID for the Search SSA – you can use the Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication Powershell command.

This is probably not the recommended way of doing this but if nothing else helps you can still revert to this method.

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Seven useful tips and tools for Windows Phone 7 developers

• In order to develop a Windows Phone 7 app you need to understand some design tips – definitely download the UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone 7 – before you start building you can also mock up the screens with Photoshop using the Design templates for Windows Phone 7
• To easily make screenshots of your Windows Phone 7 application you can download this nifty Windows Phone Screenshot tool from Cory Smith.
• You don’t want to build all of the controls for your Windows Phone 7 app from scratch – definitely with looking at the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit (Latest version is the February 2011 edition) – an interesting article to read about it is written in Microsoft .Net magazine (Dutch only) Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 Toolkit – maakt het bouwen van applicaties een stuk eenvoudiger)
• Build an app which is going to use geo data is a little bit more tricky if you are just using the emulator – there is a work around though – check out Simulate Geo Location in Windows Phone 7 emulator
• Must see episode of Silverlight TV: Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Performance Tips
• Releasing a successful app is not only about having great programming skills – broaden your horizon and check out these articles – 5 Pitfalls to avoid when developing a successful mobile app as well as  5 musts for Mobile App Marketing, 4 legal considerations for building a mobile app, What makes a WP7 app successful – there is probably more non-techie stuff you should know – leave a link if you think something is worthwhile knowing.
• Don’t forget to look at the code samples on MSDN – check out Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango release) code samples on MSDN (pre release version) or  download the Windows Phone 7.0 documentation

If you think I left something out – do not hesitate to leave a comment.

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Windows Phone 7 and the LongListSelector

If you are using a Windows Phone 7 you have probably seen the elegant way that you can navigate across all of your contacts in the People Hub by using a jump list with the first letters of the names. If you are not using WP7 take a look at this YouTube video explaining the concept:

If you want to use something similar yourself in your own Windows Phone 7 apps, you should take a look the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit – one of the tools you will find in there is the LongListSelector – this control allows you to build a grouped list of items (basically you are grouping by first letter of the first name or last name).

Here are some links to get you started:

• Using the LongListSelector without LINQ
• WP7 LongListSelector in Depth Part 1: Visual structure and API
• WP7 LongListSelector in depth Part 2: Data binding scenarios
• Using the LongListSelector control on Windows Phone 7
• LongListSelector and animating touch/click

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Passing information across pages in Windows Phone 7 apps

Probably the first thing I struggled with when building my first Windows Phone 7 app – how can I pass information from one page to another – here are some links which got me started:

• Windows Phone 7 – Passing arguments between pages and Input scope
• Windows Phone 7: How to store data and pass data between pages
• Page Navigation and passing, sharing and retaining data in Windows Phone 7

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Recommended blogs for FAST Search 2010 for SharePoint

If you want to learn something about Fast Search Server 2010 for SharePoint - these are the blogs I recommend to follow:

• FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Newly Published Content
• Federated FAST
• Keenan Newton
• Knut Brandrud's blog
• Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
• Neil on SharePoint
• On The Search
• Search Unleashed
• Sezai's - SharePoint Server 2010 - FAST Search for SharePoint - MOSS 2007 Blog
• FAST Search Experts Blog
• SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search and FS4SP
• Tech and me

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Having problems with FAST and the Microsoft Information Worker virtual image , try creating a new certificate …

If you want to try out FAST and SharePoint without having to do a complete install yourself you can  use the 2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (RTM) image – which also includes FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. Don’t forget to update the certificate though because this image uses a self signed certificate which has expired – for a detailed description how to do this correctly check out remember to give your SharePoint 2010 Information Worker Virtual Machine a fresh certificate

Tags van Technorati: FAST,FS4SP,SharePoint,SharePoint+2010,SPS2010,Microsoft

Community Day 2011 registrations are open ….

Registrations are open for Community Day 2011  - do not hesitate to register for this whole day of technical sessions – free of charge. Registrations will be handled on a first come first serve basis – so don’t wait. There are 2 SharePoint related sessions on the agenda as well …

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Using the default property extractors in FAST and how it works with the search refinements

Property extraction in Fast Search 2010 for SharePoint is a process that extracts information from the textual content of an item which is crawled and then adds this information into a number of crawled properties. Afterwards you map these crawled properties to SharePoint managed properties and use it in your search – within the search refiners, within the search results and even as input for sorting of your search results.

FAST has a number of standard extractors shipped with the product – all of these use a generic dictionary to recognize the different terms within a crawled document:

• Companies – activated by default and present in the search refiners on the search result page
• Locations – activated by default but not present in the  search refiners on the search result page
• Person names  - this one is not activated by default. You will need to modify OptionalProcessing.xml which you can find in FASTSearch\etc\config_data\DocumentProcessor\ . Switch <processor name=”personnameextraction” active=”no”/> to <processor name=”personnameextraction” active=”yes”/>. Afterwards you will need to reset the processorserver using the FAST command line – psctrl –reset (For reference take a look at psctrl.exe reference on Technet). Afterwards you will need to do a full crawl.

Although these extractors use a generic dictionary you still have some control over the way that they work – by defining include and exclude lists of items within the FAST search administration screens – this is nicely explained in this article - Manage property extraction. You can off course also use PowerShell – to fill these include/exclude lists as explained in this blog post -  Property extraction in FS4SP.

If you want to use information from the person names and locations extractors in the search refinemens you will need to modify them and add the following.

For the people refiner:

<Category Title="People" Description="Use this filter to restrict results by people" Type="Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.ManagedPropertyFilterGenerator" MetadataThreshold="1" NumberOfFiltersToDisplay="4" MaxNumberOfFilters="200" ShowMoreLink="True" MappedProperty="personnames" MoreLinkText="show more" LessLinkText="show fewer" ShowCounts="Count" />

For the location refiner:

<Category Title="Location" Description="Use this filter to restrict results by location" Type="Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.ManagedPropertyFilterGenerator" MetadataThreshold="1" NumberOfFiltersToDisplay="4" MaxNumberOfFilters="20" ShowMoreLink="True" MappedProperty="locations" MoreLinkText="show more" LessLinkText="show fewer" ShowCounts="Count" />

Tags van Technorati: FAST+search+2010,FS4SP,FAST,SharePoint+2010,SharePoint,Microsoft,enterprise+search

Introductory information about FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

I will be presenting a MSDN live meeting on Tuesday the 24th of May about FAST Search Server 2010 from a development perspective. For those of you who want to attend – it might be useful to take a look at these links beforehand – since they present an overview of what FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint allows you to build as a developer:

• FAST Search for SharePoint demo video
• Building search driven applications with FAST
• Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Enterprise Search Evaluation Guide

If there are more must read articles or videos that you would recommended, just leave a link.

Technorati Tags: FAST,search,FAST+Search+Server,FS4SP,SharePoint,development,SPS2010,microsoft

BIWUG on Community Day 2011

This year’s Microsoft Day will take place on Thursday 23th of June in Utopolis, Mechelen. Community Day is a joint effort of the 14 Belgian Microsoft user groups and brings a whole day of sessions about Microsoft technology … for free.

This year BIWUG (Belux Information Worker User Group) will bring two different sessions:

• Claim Based Authentication in SharePoint Server 2010 Demystified. In this session we will explore how claim based authentication allows for new ways authentication, authorization and how it enables service oriented architecture in a heterogenous identity environment. This session targets both developers and IT pros and will explain the benefits as well as the caveats around claim based authentication. We will take a look at external identity providers (Windows Live), custom identity providers as well as how ADFS fits into the whole picture.  Speaker: Joris Poelmans
• SharePoint Governance - Stop thinking about features features features when talking about governance. When designing governance for a SharePoint implementation, a lot (not to say all) energy and words go out to technical stuff, SLA's and not to the things that define the business value. And the business value is not only a perfect technically tuned and performant SharePoint farm(if that even exists) – Speaker: Patrick Sledz

Keep an eye open for the Community Day site - http://www.communityday.be – registration will open soon.

Technorati Tags: sharepoint,sharepoint+server+2010,governance,claim+based+authentication,biwug,community,microsoft

The difference between introvert and extrovert IT person?

Heard on Wednesday on a seminar: What is the difference between an extrovert and an introvert IT person?

The extrovert IT person will be staring at your shoes instead of his own when talking to you….

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MSDN Live Meeting - FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint: a developers walkthrough

I will be presenting a MSDN live meeting on the 24th of May around at 14:00 (GMT+1) around FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint from a developers perspective.

Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint extends the SharePoint search functionality and provides an exceptional search experience by incorporating features such as an extensible content processing pipeline, contextual search, extensible
relevance models and an advanced query language.

This session will introduce the FAST search platform from a developer's perspective and will explore the different functionalities as well as talk about common developer tasks around Fast Search 2010 for SharePoint 2010 such as:
-     Configuration and extension of the FAST search webparts
-     Extending the content processing pipeline
-     Building search applications using the SharePoint object model combined with the capabilities of the FAST Query Language (FQL).

Click here to register for this MSDN Live Meeting.

Technorati Tags: SharePoint,SPS2010,SharePoint+Server+2010,Search,FAST+Search+Server,FAST,MSDN,development

ECM Maturity Model and SharePoint

If you don’t know the ECM Maturity Model – definitely take a look at http://ecm3.org/about/ – they are currently at version 2.0. The ECM Maturity Model provides a framework for creating a roadmap in the context of an overall ECM strategy. It categorizes an organization across 13 maturity dimensions into one of the 5 levels of ECM maturity:

• Unmanaged
• Incipient
• Formative
• Operational
• Pro-active

I’m wondering if anyone has already applied this model to a typical SharePoint implementation. Please leave a comment if you have.

Technorati Tags: sharepoint,sharepoint+2010,ECM,maturity+model,roadmap

Windows Phone Developer Tools January 2011 Update

Just finished installing the Windows Phone Developer Tools January 2011 update. Now off to finalize my WP7 app. Expect more news about this in the coming weeks.

Technorati Tags: windows+phone+7,wp7dev,visualstudio2010,development,microsoft

How to get SharePoint 2010 people search to work together with FAST Search 2010

If you install FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint you will notice that you get some extra service applications – a FAST Query Search Service Application and a FAST Content Search Service Application. The people search is actually handled by the FAST Query Search Service Application – so this is where you need to do some extra configurations:

• Go to Central Admin and click Manage Service Applications > Select the FAST Query Search Service App and click Manage in the Ribbon)
• Create a new crawl rule:
• Path http://[servername];sps3://[servername]
• Crawl configuration : Include all items in this path - crawl SharePoint content as http pages
• Specify authentication: Use the default content access account
• Content sources - Make sure that both http://[servername] and sps3://[servername] are listed in the content source listing.
• Configure security on the User Profile Service Application. Go to Central Admin and click Manage Service Applications > Select the User Profile Service Application and click Administrators in the ribbon. Make sure that you add the default content access account in this screen and give it at least permission to "Retrieve People Data for Search Crawlers".

Tags van Technorati: sharepoint+2010,sharepoint,fast,fast+search+2010,search,microsoft

Excel 2010 and SharePoint 2010 on a single box demo environment–the Excel file is corrupt using edit in Excel

A typical SharePoint 2010 demo environment has everything installed on a single machine (Office 2010, SharePoint, etc…). Unfortunately this has some side effects – one of the things you might encounter is the fact that it seems that Excel integration does not work correctly anymore. Every time I uploaded an Excel document to SharePoint 2010 and tried opening it using the Edit in Excel option – I got an error stating that the file was corrupt.

Luckily I knew this had something to do with theTrust Center settings. Go to File Options > Trust Center. Next click the Trust Center Settings button. On the new screen which popups – go to Protected View and unselect all the three protected view options displayed on the top of this settings page.

Close Excel and try the “Edit in Excel” option again …

Related post: Getting Office 2010 to work on a single box SharePoint 2010 demo environment

Tags van Technorati: office+2010,excel,sharepoint+2010,sharepoint,office,sps2010,microsoft,trust+center

Installing client side TFS certificate on Windows 7

Apparently with Windows 7 you can’t simply use the wizard to import the client certificates for Team Foundation Server connections. You will need to do this manually.

Open Internet Explorer and go to Internet Options. Select Content and next the Certificates tab. Select Trusted Root Certification authorities when importing the certificate.

Tags van Technorati: windows+7,development,microsoft,visual+studio,TFS,team+foundation+server

Search suggestions in SharePoint 2010

One of the new features for end users with SharePoint 2010 is that suggestions are provided while you are typing a search query - for a complete list of enhancements - check out – What’s new in Enterprise search(SharePoint Server 2010) . Now if you want to force these suggestions for demo scenario’s you can use some powershell scripts – the next code sample is meant to be used in a setup with Fast Search 2010:

$SearchApp = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication "FAST Query SSA"
New-SPEnterpriseSearchLanguageResourcePhrase -SearchApplication $SearchApp -Language En-Us -Type QuerySuggestionAlwaysSuggest -Name "SharePoint"
New-SPEnterpriseSearchLanguageResourcePhrase -SearchApplication $SearchApp -Language En-Us -Type QuerySuggestionAlwaysSuggest -Name "SharePoint Server 2010"
Start-SPTimerJob -Identity "Prepare Query Suggestions"

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Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Management NextGen and digital marketing

One of my predictions for 2011 is that we will finally witness the boom or bust of social media apps within the enterprise for the Belux market. Here’s some background info that might get you thinking

• Second wave smart working : what role HRM?
• Collaboration by Design
• Knowledge management is not just information delivery and just in time is not enough
• Social Media is dead – Long live common sense 
• Social media in product management

This is one of my pet peeves  about which I have written a couple of blog posts:

• Enterprise 2.0 and organizational culture
• Knowledge and talent in a people ready business
• Knowledge is power! So why share your knowledge?
• SharePoint and Web 2.0
• The value in social networks
• Colleagues, Social Distance & Relevance in People Search, and other Social Networking tools in SharePoint

Technorati Tags: knowledge+management,enterprise2.0,social+apps,digital+marketing

Web Content Management in SharePoint 2010 – some random links

Mental reminder – check out this collection of links about Web Content Management in SharePoint 2010

• Introducing web content management in SharePoint 2010
• Introducing web analytics in SharePoint 2010
• Accessibility and SharePoint 2010 
• Web Authoring in SharePoint 2010
• How to apply corporate branding (themes) to all SharePoint 2010 team sites
• Web Analytics in SharePoint 2010 – Insights into reports 
• View changes makes in-browser content localization easier
• What’s new with the content query web part 

Technorati Tags: sharepoint+2010,sps2010,sharepoint,wcm,development

Porting oAuth with Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 to RTM version

Recently I stumbled upon this interesting blog post Windows Phone 7 with Twitter which showed how to use oAuth on Windows Phone 7 but it was unfortunately built with the beta versions of Windows Phone 7. As an exercise I decided to upgrade the code to get it to work with the RTM release.

Some things which needed fixing or which bugged me during the upgrade

You will need to remove references to Microsoft.Phone.Controls, Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Navigation, Microsoft.Phone.Controls.WebBrowser, Microsoft.Controls.WebBrowser.interop. Don’t forget to to change the namespace declarations in the XAML files as well.

Add a reference to Microsoft.Phone assembly – all the previous dll’s have been combined into one dll.

Be carefull about some changes in the APIs - WebBrowser is now a sealed class. You cannot inherit from it. IsScriptEnabled, Source, and Base are now dependency properties. NavigatedEventArgs change to NavigationEventArgs.

Changes have been made to WMAppManifest.xml - http://10rem.net/blog/2010/09/16/announcing-the-windows-phone-7-release-wp7-silverlight-toolkit-and-xna-40 – you can find this xml underneath the properties folder in your project

This will probably get you going … have fun

Technorati Tags: windows+phone+7,wp7dev,microsoft,development,visualstudio2010

Tips to get the Social sample for SharePoint 2010 to work

There’s an interesting code sample that you can download from MSDN called SharePoint to LinkedIn Connector which is part of the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 SDK. Here’s a number of extra steps that I took to get it to work on my SharePoint 2010 dev box.

Some tips:

• I needed to add a reference to Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages.dll assembly – you can find it underneath C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\CONFIG\ADMINBIN.
• It has a hard coded reference to http://mysite in the feature activated event receiver – don’t forget to change that.
• During deployment I got an error stating - “No User Profile Application available to service the request. Contact your farm administrator.” – thankfully Steve to the rescue – “No User Profile Application Available Mystery” in SharePoint 2010

After that everything worked smoothly.

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Code profiler for Windows Phone 7

EQATEC  has recently release comes a code-profiler that can profile your WP7 Silverlight app on real phone hardware, as well as on the emulator. The profiler is free for single-assembly applications. You can download it now from www.eqatec.com.

For more info check out Channel 9 – World’s first profiler for Windows Phone 7 or the Eqatec  profiler website.

 

Technorati Tags: Development,visualstudio2010,vs2010,c#,windows+phone+7,wp7,wp7dev,microsoft

Crop the webbrowser control in a Windows Phone 7 app

When building my Windows Phone 7 app – I needed to login into LinkedIn – unfortunately the login page of LinkedIn does not seem to scale as well as the Twitter login page so I decided to only show a specific part of the page within the WebBrowser control for Windows Phone. I kind of got it working by using the Clip property (for reference see How to: Crop an object (Silverlight))

<phone:WebBrowser HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" 
Name="webBrowser1" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" Height="466" Width="480" 
IsScriptEnabled="True"  Visibility="Collapsed">
 <phone:WebBrowser.Clip>
        <RectangleGeometry Rect="0,0,400,300" />
   </phone:WebBrowser.Clip>            
 </phone:WebBrowser>

Technorati Tags: wp7,wp7dev,windows+phone+7,development,vs2010,silverlight,visualstudio2010

Windows Phone 7–Solving the missing dll issue in Training Kit Lab–Using Pivot and Panorama controls

The lab Using Pivot And Panorama Controls seems to be missing file that supports the reference to the Syndication namespace - System.ServiceModel.Syndication.dll . You can copy that one over from the install directory of the Silverlight 3.0 SDK (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v3.0\Libraries\Client).  You can ignore the warning message when adding the dll – everything will work correctly.

Technorati Tags: windows+phone+7,wp7,wp7dev,silverlight

Slidedecks BIWUG on SPS2010 WCM and FAST Search 2010 available

Thanks to the people who showed up on the december 2th BIWUG session despite 600 km of traffic jams  - the slide decks are now available only:

• Building a public website with SharePoint Server 2010 – the VIB case
• Introduction to FAST Search Server 2010

Also thanks to Sven and Pieter for delivering their presentation.

Technorati Tags: sharepoint,sps+2010,biwug,community,microsoft,sharepoint+server+2010

Which business books influenced you?

A while ago I tagged – 36 best business books that influenced Microsoft leaders – here are the ones I read and definitely liked together with some extra books (the ones in bold come from the original list):

• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.)
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t
• Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
• Founders at work : Stories of startup’s early days
• The singularity is near: when humans transcend biology
• The Black Swan : The impact of the Highly improbable
• The conversation manager
• The Long Tail: Why the future of business is selling more of less
• The world is flat: A brief history of the twenty-first century
• The wisdom of crowds
• My organisation is a jungle
• Bill Gates – Business at the speed of thought
• Who moved my cheese
• Giant Killers: thirty four cutting edge management strategies from the worlds leading tech companies
• Complexity: life at the edge of chaos
• Naked conversations: How blogs are changing the way business talk with customers

So which business books influenced you?

SharePoint Server 2010 Capacity Management– talking about software boundaries and limits

Some interesting stuff about software boundaries and limits in SharePoint Server 2010 – take a look at the table below. You should make a distinction between hard limits (which you simply should not exceed) and soft limits – which are a sort of recommendation.

Soft limits
	2007	2010
Content DB Size	100 GB	200 GB
File Size	2 GB	2 GB
DB’s per web app	100	300
Site collection size	100 GB	100 GB
List items per view	2000	5000
Application Pools	8 per web server	10 per web server
Managed Paths	20 per web app	20 per web app
Documents in a library		30 million with nesting. Depends heavily on usage and size of the documents
Indexed items in search	50 million	100 million

There is also a Technet article – SharePoint Server 2010 Capacity Management: Software Boundaries and limits – which provides some additional guidance – this also puts the numbers listed above a little more in perspective.

Content database sizes up to 1 terabyte are supported only for large, single-site repositories and archives with non-collaborative I/O and usage patterns, such as Records Centers. Larger database sizes are supported for these scenarios because their I/O patterns and typical data structure formats have been designed for, and tested at, larger scales.

For a full overview of the different white papers  - check out SharePoint Server 2010 performance and capacity test results and recommendations.

In general the new scale targets for 2010 go above and beyond the ones set in 2007 but design is still important although it becomes more difficult to bring a farm down by just putting millions of docs in one library – check out It looks like you’re building a large library. Would you like help? as well as Working with large lists in SharePoint 2010 – List Throttling .

Happy SharePoint-ing

 

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BIWUG Session on SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search Server 2010 on December 1th

Agenda

18:00-18:30 Welcome with sandwich lunch

18:30-19:30 Building a public website with SharePoint Server 2010 – a practical case – www.vib.eu

19:30-19:45 Break

19:45-20:45 Introduction to FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010

Location: RealDolmen, Industriezone Zenneveld, Vaucampslaan 42, 1654 Huizingen, Belgium

Registration is now opened on the BIWUG site www.biwug.be

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SharePoint 2010–Training videos overview

SharePoint 2010 on Chopsticks Belux

• The SharePoint Client Object Model – Part 1 (Serge Luca, MSDN Chopsticks)
• The SharePoint Client Object Model – Part 2 (Serge Luca, MSDN Chopsticks)

SharePoint 2010 Connections event

• KEYNOTE: The Evolution of SharePoint from Two Pet Projects to a Multi-Company Ecosystem – Mike FitzMaurice
• MSC02: Overview of the SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform – Steve Fox
• MSC03: Social Computing Overview – Daniel McPherson, Robin Meure, Mark van Lunenburg
• MSC04: Web Content Management in SharePoint 2010 – Donald Hessing
• MSC05: Silverlight and SharePoint 2010 Better Together – Jan Tielens
• MSC06: Client Side Technologies in SharePoint 2010 – Jan Tielens
• MSC08: Server Free Solutions: Sandboxed and Client-Only Solutions for SharePoint 2010 – Daniel McPherson
• MSC09: FAST Search for SharePoint: Capabilities Deep Dive – Sam Hassani
• MSC11: SharePoint 2010 Search – Richard Taylor
• MSC16: SharePoint BI Overview – Mike Fitzmaurice
• MSC17: Upgrading Your 2007 Solution to 2010 – Mirjan van Olst, Serge van den Oever
• MSC18: Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010: Top 5 Great Things to Know! – Asif Rehmani
• MSC19: Overview: Creating Workflows with SharePoint Designer 2010, Infopath and Visio – Asif Rehmani
• MSC20: Creating Data-Centric Composite Applications Using SharePoint Designer 2010 – Asif Rehmani
• MSC21: What’s New in Office 2010? – Bart Wessels
• MSC24: Managing and Sharing Rich Media in SharePoint 2010 – Donald Hessing
• MSC26: Pex – Unit Testing of SharePoint Services that Rocks! – Peli de Halleux
• MSC27: Claims-Based Identity in SharePoint 2010 – Spencer Harbar
• MSC28: SharePoint 2010 Overview and What’s new for End Users – Matthijs Hoekstra
• MSC30: Advanced Web Part Development – Jan Tielens
• MSC31: SharePoint UI Customization – Marianne van Wanrooij
• MSC35: Integrating Workflows into Backend Systems using External Data Exchange Services – Wouter van Vugt
• MSC36: Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Tools Extensibility – Wouter van Vugt
• Creating Code-Free Mashups with InfoPath and SharePoint Web Parts

SharePoint 2010 Advanced developer training

• SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform
• SharePoint 2010 UI Features
• Visual Studio & SharePoint Tools Oveview 
• Business Connectivity Services
• REST and LINQ | SharePoint 2010

TechEd 2009 Videos

• SharePoint Admins, the Reluctant DBAs. Todd Klindt of Solanite Consulting and Shane Young of SharePoint 911 discuss SQL Server for SharePoint admins.
• Following Best Practices and Avoiding Common Errors with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Development. Eric Shupps, president of BinaryWave, presents proven methodologies and common API mistakes in SharePoint Server 2007 projects.
• Building High Performance Features and Solutions on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Andrew Connell of Critical Path Training demonstrates proven publishing strategies for SharePoint developers.

• Top Five Ways to Make Your End Users Heroes with Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007. Asif Rehmani of SharePoint-eLearning.com shows how to instill best practices for your company and users with SharePoint Designer 2007.

• Go Beyond with the Business Data Catalog. Todd Baginski, enterprise solution strategist at Advaiya Inc., provides a series of demos using BDC runtime APIs and custom Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services in Silverlight applications.

• Social Networking and User Profiles for Business. Matthew McDermott, MVP with Catapult Systems Inc., explains social networking profile integration in SharePoint.

• Saving the World, One Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Deployment at a Time: Backup and Disaster Recovery. Todd Klindt of Solanite Consulting, and Shane Young of SharePoint 911 discuss data protection and recoverability in SharePoint Server 2007.

• Automate Business Processes Using InfoPath Forms with Integrated SharePoint Designer Workflows... All without Coding! Asif Rehmani, of SharePoint-eLearning.com, provides a deep dive into Office SharePoint Designer workflows, which let ordinary business users build and validate complex data-driven forms in InfoPath.

• An Introduction to SharePoint Applications using InfoPath 2010
• Building SharePoint Applications with InfoPath 2010
• Form-Driven Mashups using InfoPath and SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 – Visual How to’s

• Visual How To: Creating SharePoint 2010 List Definitions in Visual Studio 2010
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg276355.aspx
• Visual How-to Video: Creating SharePoint 2010 List Definitions in Visual Studio 2010
  http://www.microsoft.com/resources/msdn/en-us/office/media/video/sharepoint.html?uuid=5dc5a521-3451-4445-a829-ad5a9339642c&from=mscomsharepoint
• Visual How-to Sample: Creating SharePoint 2010 List Definitions in Visual Studio 2010
  http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=odcsp14h2&ReleaseId=5007
• Visual How To: Creating SharePoint 2010 Site Definitions in Visual Studio 2010
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg276356.aspx
• Visual How-to Video: Creating SharePoint 2010 Site Definitions in Visual Studio 2010
  http://www.microsoft.com/resources/msdn/en-us/office/media/video/sharepoint.html?uuid=efdb4d4d-1201-4a29-aa31-f63bfa1434b0&from=mscomsharepoint
• Visual How-to Sample: Creating SharePoint 2010 Site Definitions in Visual Studio 2010
  http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/odcsp14h2/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=5008
• Visual How To: Adding SharePoint Project Items to SharePoint 2010 in Visual Studio 2010
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg241249.aspx
• Visual How-To Video: Adding SharePoint Project Items with Visual Studio 2010
  http://www.microsoft.com/resources/msdn/en-us/office/media/video/sharepoint.html?uuid=21665af4-e7fc-4574-b9f3-9d5a08fd22c5&from=mscomsharepoint
• Visual How-To: Creating Custom Extensions for SharePoint 2010 Development Tools in Visual Studio 2010
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg241221.aspx
• Visual How-To Video: Creating Custom Extensions for SharePoint 2010 Development Tools in Visual Studio 2010
  http://www.microsoft.com/resources/msdn/en-us/office/media/video/sharepoint.html?uuid=d8c70185-6fb2-4b64-b696-921a58a575d9&from=mscomsharepoint

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Big Bang Theory and Information Management videos

• Big Bang Theory and Information Management Part 1 – Introduction
• Big Bang Theory and Information Management Part 2 – The Facebook Dilemma
• Big Bang Theory and Information Management Part 3 – The mobile exigency
• Big Bang Theory and Information Management Part 4 – The SharePoint Paradox
• Big Bang Theory and Information Management Part 5 – The shutterfly effect
• Big Bang Theory and Information Management Part 6 – The black swan

MVP for another year

About a month ago I found out that I have been renewed as SharePoint Server MVP. For people who don’t know what a MVP is– here’s Microsoft’s definition:

“This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in SharePoint Services technical communities during the past year.”

I became an MVP in 2005 and have been working with the Belgian SharePoint community ever since – it has been a great experience and I look forward to the next year.

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Rational Guide to Multi tenancy in SharePoint 2010

Spence has an interesting series of articles about multi tenancy in SharePoint 2010 – a must read

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Planning your deployment
• 3. Example scenario and what multi tenancy brings to the party
• 4. Configuring the base infrastructure
• 5. Configuring Partitioned Service Applications
• 6. Provisioning Tenants

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Quick Tip–Accessing guest from host with VMWare Workstation

Most SharePoint 2010 developers probably use VMWare workstation (or Virtualbox). But what if you needed to access your SharePoint 2010 environment running in a VM from your host environment? I actually needed this to write a Windows Phone 7 app for SharePoint Server 2010 and since I can’t install the Windows Phone Developer Tools on Windows Server 2008 – I decided to use the install on my Windows 7 host and access SharePoint 2010 from there.

Quite easy – just change network settings to use VMWare Network Adapter VMNet1 (Host only) - A private network shared with the host - this way you can access the host from on your guest OS.

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Overview of SharePoint 2010 powershell cmdlets

Ever wondered how you can quickly generate an overview of the available Powershell commandlets for SharePoint 2010? Try the next command:

Get-Command –PSSnapin “Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell” | select name, definition | format-list > C:\SP2010_PowerShell_Commands.txt

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