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

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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 

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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

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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.

 

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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>

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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.

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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.

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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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BIWUG Presentations september 2010 online

The presentations from the BIWUG session in september 2010 are available on www.biwug.be in the meeting presentations document library :

• Upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010
• Administrating SharePoint with Quest

I would like to thank the people from Quest for providing the excellent location as well as our two speakers – Fouad and Karine.

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SharePoint Server 2010 “System.ServiceModel.EndPointNotFoundException” in OWSTimer.exe

If you get this error on your SharePoint Server 2010 development machine – ""System.ServiceModel.EndPointNotFoundException” in OWSTimer.exe – then you probably need to manually start the ForeFront Identity Manager Service – it did the trick for me …

SharePoint Stef provided the solution (and additional explanation) in his blogpost – SP2010 “System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotfoundException”.

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