The SharePoint Conference is over and I thought my head was going to explode! This conference was packed full of information and details about the 2013 releases of SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premise (I know on-premise is not a real word). 274 sessions if I recall correctly My first day of the conference I decided […]
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Web Testing SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP 3
October 28, 2012 
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UPDATE: 10/29/2012 – Updated link text for Update 1 from CTP 3 to Update 1 CTP 4 Final I am certain this has been a long standing request from Visual Studio by the community, myself included. If you’ve attempted this in the past with previous versions of Visual Studio you would have realized quickly that […]
Read more FAST Search for SharePoint: Cannot start service FASTSearchMonitoring on computer ‘.’
October 22, 2012 0 Comments
We recently had a scenario where we applied some Windows Updates to our servers. When our FAST Server for SharePoint Servers were rebooted after applying the updates the following FAST services were listed as “Dead”: QRProxy Service qrproxy SAM Admin samadmin SAM Worker samworker It should also be noted that these FAST Servers are NOT […]
Read moreFailed to initialize session with document engine: Unable to resolve Contentdistributor
June 22, 2012 1 Comment
If you start seeing this error (below) being logged in the Application Log on the SharePoint Server that hosts the FAST Search Content SSA. Log Name: Application Source: Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Server Search Date: 22/06/2012 10:23:01 AM Event ID: 2567 Task Category: Content Plugin Level: Error Keywords: User: like10\_fs_cssaa Computer: SPAPP-01.like10.local Description: Failed to connect to […]
Read moreAdd or remove an index column with or without re-crawling
May 2, 2012 0 Comments
The Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Cumulative Update for December 2011 introduces a new procedure that enables you to add or remove an index column with minimal search downtime. You can download the hotfix at the following KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2597067 The FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Cumulative Update for December 2011 […]
Read moreSharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services Presentation
April 24, 2012 0 Comments
Here is the PowerPoint slide deck for the BCS presentation I did tonight at the Microsoft Federal SharePoint User Group at the Microsoft Office in Ottawa, Canada. https://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidPowerPointEmbed?p1=1&p2=1&p3=SD25108A9ADA96C9D7!11299&p4=&ak=!ALN0So_2-HeBdk8&kip=1
Read moreProcess samworker terminated shortly after starting
March 12, 2012 0 Comments
FAST Search Service fails to start after applying a Cumulative Update If you apply a Cumulative Update to FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint don’t forget that you will have to execute a PowerShell script to apply the updates to your FAST Search deployment. Install a software update (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint) […]
Read moreThe converter framework returned the following error: CE_BACKENDUNAVAILABLE
November 1, 2011 0 Comments
Actually the exact error message was the following: Errors: The attempt to create a page from that document failed with the following error: Converting the document to a page failed. The converter framework returned the following error: CE_BACKENDUNAVAILABLE Need to publish a word document as web page? SharePoint 2010 can do this out of […]
Read moreSharePoint 2010: Message: A security problem occurred.
October 31, 2011 0 Comments
Message: A security problem occurred. Line: 2: Char: 12311 Code: 0 URI: http://hostname/_layouts/sp.ui.dialog.js?rev=XXX. If the script is debugged in the browser the javascript line that throws the error is a=b.getAttribute(“href”). This error occurred on a client site we support and tracking down the issue was extremely frustrating. It only happened with clients using IE7 […]
Read moreSharePoint 2010: The user does not exist or is not unique.
October 26, 2011 1 Comment
If you are seeing the error message above, chances are you set an incorrect value or values configuring the object cache user accounts for one of your web applications. If you want to reset them back to their default values you can run the following STSADM commands or use the PowerShell script below. Note: %1 […]
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Welcome to the New Age | SCOM 2012 SP1 and TFS 2010/2012 (DevOps)
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What do you mean you haven’t installed SharePoint 2013 yet ;)
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Web Testing SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP 3
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FAST Search for SharePoint: Cannot start service FASTSearchMonitoring on computer ‘.’
