Starting July 1st, Microsoft will be adding SQL Server 2014 to the list of license grants for Team Foundation Server 2013. SQL Server 2014 is supported by TFS 2013 with the caveat that it has increased hardware requirements compared with previous versions. Microsoft also has a KB Article titled “Performance decreases in TFS 2013 Update […]
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SharePoint 2013 Maintenance Window Notifications
October 14, 2013 
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In case you missed it, SharePoint 2013 introduced a new class named SPMaintenanceWindow. This class makes it super easy to notify your users of upcoming maintenance to your SharePoint Farm at the Content Database level. I read a blog post by Joe Rodgers a Microsoft SharePoint PFE who demonstrated what can be done with this […]
Continue readingUsing CloudShare TeamLabs for Dev/Test with TFService
October 14, 2013 0 Comments
UPDATE:: Corrected length of trial for CloudShare TeamLabs from 30 days to 14 days. I have been using CloudShare for over two years now and thought a blog post was past due. In the not so distant past I used either Hyper-V or VMware Workstation for all of my various SharePoint development environments and client […]
Continue reading What do you mean you haven’t installed SharePoint 2013 yet ;)
November 24, 2012 2 Comments
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 […]
Continue reading Web Testing SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP 3
October 28, 2012 0 Comments
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 […]
Continue reading 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 […]
Continue readingFailed 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 […]
Continue readingAdd 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 […]
Continue readingSharePoint 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
Continue readingProcess 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) […]
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