Life as a SharePoint Consultant https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/feed.xml This is my blog on the SharePoint and Office 365 related work I do for Microsoft Services NL Wed, 17 Apr 2019 03:21:57 GMT en-US hourly 1 Federated Search - Twitter https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/federated-search-twitter Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:42:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/2011/11/29/federated-search-twitter/ Wanted to share this little sample federated search location with you. Twitter has a search site where you can search for tweets:

https://search.twitter.com

It also has a atom feed for results:

https://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q={searchTerms}

SharePoint supports OpenSearch and with this Atom feed by Twitter we can create a OpenSearch reference as a Federated Search Location in SharePoint. With this and a piece of xsl (more xsl is in the osdx below) we can format the tweets ( search results) fairly easy:  

  1: <div style="float:left;width:50px;" xmlns="">

  2:   <a id="{concat($CurrentId, '_Title')}p" href="{ddwrt:EnsureAllowedProtocol(string($authorlink))}" title="{$author}" class="externallink" xmlns="">

  3:     <img src="{$authorimage}" alt="{$author}" border="0" title="{$author}" xmlns=""/>

  4:   </a>

  5: </div>

  6: <div style="margin-left:53px" class="tweet" xmlns="">

  7:   <a id="{concat($CurrentId, '_Title')}" href="{ddwrt:EnsureAllowedProtocol(string($link))}" class="externallink" xmlns="">tweeted</a>:

  8:   <xsl:value-of select="$content" disable-output-escaping="yes" />

  9: </div>

You can create a twitter federated search location for SharePoint 2010:

image

Download the sample twitter.osdx.

Instructions on how to add a Federated Search Location can be found here.

And others have similar posts available too.

]]> October 2011 CU for SharePoint 2010 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/october-2011-cu-for-sharepoint-2010 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:35:34 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/2011/11/02/october-2011-cu-for-sharepoint-2010/ Short version of it:

Want to know more?

As of now the latest CU for Fast 4 SharePoint is still the August 2011 CU

]]> Office 365 and Exchange 2010 On-premises https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/office-365-and-exchange-2010-on-premises Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:16:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/2011/07/09/office-365-and-exchange-2010-on-premises/ One very cool feature for Office 365 has to be the co-existance support with your Exchange 2010 on-premises.

There is now a tool available to help you set this up!

]]> New SharePoint 2010 Storage recommendations https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/new-sharepoint-2010-storage-recommendations Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:13:37 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/2011/07/09/new-sharepoint-2010-storage-recommendations/ We have updated our Software boundaries and limits for SharePoint 2010 with SP1 !

View the anouncement on the product group blog:

"If this new guidance is followed SharePoint can support up to 4 TB of data in
all usage scenarios and has no imposed size limit for document archive
scenarios.  The details are in the TechNet document SharePoint Server 2010
capacity management: Software boundaries and limits and the primary changes
are:

  1. For a SharePoint content database up to 200 GB there are no special
    requirements and this limit is included for consistency.
  2. For a SharePoint content database up to 4 TB you need to additionally
    plan for the following two requirements:
    • Requires disk sub-system
      performance of 0.25 IOPS per GB, 2 IOPS per GB is recommended for optimal
      performance.
    • Requires the customer to have
      plans for high availability, disaster recovery, future capacity, and performance
      testing.
    • And you need to review additional
      considerations in the TechNet Boundaries and Limits
      article.
  3. For a SharePoint content database over 4TB specifically for a
    Document Archive scenario you are required to additionally plan for the
    following:
    • SharePoint sites must be based on Document Center or Records
      Center       site templates and must be an archive scenario where less than 5% of
      content is actively read from each month and less than 1% of content is actively
      written to.
    • Do not use alerts, workflows, link fix-ups, or item level security on any
      SharePoint objects in the content database. Note: document archive content
      databases can be the recipient of documents as a result of Content Routing
      workflow.
  4. Other specific limits changes being made at the same time:
    • A new limit of 60million items in any one SharePoint content database
    • The specific 5 TB limit per SQL Server instance has been removed.  Instead
      you should work with a SQL Server professional to plan for database storage."
]]> SharePoint 2010 SP1 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/sharepoint-2010-sp1 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 07:19:27 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/2011/07/04/sharepoint-2010-sp1/ So we have released the first Service Pack for SharePoint 2010, both Foundation and Server.

You can find all of the details listed here <-- must read this first !!!

Update Foundation first:
SharePoint Foundation 2010 Service Pack 1
Service Pack 1 for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Language Pack
June 2011 CU for SharePoint Foundation 2010

Then SharePoint Server:
SharePoint Server 2010 Service Pack 1
Service Pack 1 for Server Language Pack 2010
June 2011 CU for SharePoint Server 2010

OfficeWeb Apps SP1 (if applicable)

FAST SP1 (if applicable)

Before updating: good read over at harbar.net: https://www.harbar.net/archive/2011/06/30/327.aspx

 

]]> Driving SharePoint Adoption https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/driving-sharepoint-adoption Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:50:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/2011/06/22/driving-sharepoint-adoption/ Help is underway for those of us driving adoption of SharePoint.

A new site launched: https://iusesharepoint.com/

And with it a SharePoint Adoption Kit

"Ah, driving adoption. We know it can be tough to get a team to change its ways. But you don't have to resort to wearing disguises like our SharePoint champion. Use this handy kit to send the message: life is easier with SharePoint 2010." 

Also check out the Quick Reference Cards ( now 45 QRC available ! )

]]> Technet Content on SharePoint 2010 "Best Practices" https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/technet-content-on-sharepoint-2010-best-practices Mon, 20 Jun 2011 05:51:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/2011/06/20/technet-content-on-sharepoint-2010-best-practices/ Head over to TechNet on some great content on SharePoint 2010 Operational Excellence:

And check at the Best Practices Resouce Center for SharePoint 2010:

 

 

 

 

]]> MOSS 2007 and ADFS https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/moss-2007-and-adfs Wed, 18 May 2011 00:10:35 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/2011/05/18/moss-2007-and-adfs/ Found this today, might be usefull for people who are "stuck" on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 but want to use ADFS2 or Federation.

Microsoft Federation Extensions for SharePoint 3.0 Release to Web

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8E7B6D99-991E-44FC-A74E-9ADB152DDC37

Federated Document Collaboration Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and AD FS 2.0

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ca9efab1-aa5d-49f5-a8da-819f6cc50a41

]]> Sample code for a Sandboxed Solution for Office 365 using search.asmx with jQuery https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/sample-code-for-a-sandboxed-solution-for-office-365-using-search-asmx-with-jquery Fri, 06 May 2011 05:17:10 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/2011/05/06/sample-code-for-a-sandboxed-solution-for-office-365-using-search-asmx-with-jquery/ Wanted to create a sample that:

  • Runs on SharePoint 2010
  • Uses the Search.asmx webservice
  • Can run inside the sandbox
  • Uses jQuery
  • Can run on Office 365

What to create? A webpart that shows all site collections you have access to!

Here is the output of the webpart actually running on Office 365:

image

The webpart itself is quite simple:

/// <summary>
/// Render the required javascript links and html
/// </summary>
/// <param name="writer"></param>
protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer) {
	base.Render(writer);
	StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder();

	output.Append("<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"/Style%20Library/WebParts/jquery-1.5.2.min.js\"></script>\r\n");
	output.Append("<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"/Style%20Library/WebParts/myteamsites.js\"></script>\r\n");

	// you shoud be able to edit the All Sites scope setting
	output.Append("<div class=\"myteamsites\" scope=\"All Sites\" delay=\"500\">\r\n</div>\r\n");
	writer.Write(output.ToString());
}

Using the search.asmx with jquery is not that hard:

query = "SELECT Title, Description, Path, Size, Rank, Write,WebId FROM SCOPE() WHERE ( ( \"IsDocument\" = 0 ) and (\"Size\" > 0 ) )";

    var queryXML = "<QueryPacket xmlns='urn:Microsoft.Search.Query' Revision='1000'>";
    queryXML += "<Query domain='QDomain'>";
    queryXML += "<SupportedFormats><Format>urn:Microsoft.Search.Response.Document.Document</Format></SupportedFormats>";
    queryXML += "<Context>";
    queryXML += "<QueryText language='en-US' type='MSSQLFT'><![CDATA[ " + query + " ]]></QueryText>";
    queryXML += "</Context>";
    queryXML += "<SortByProperties>";
    queryXML += "<SortByProperty name='" + orderbyfield + "' />";
    queryXML += "</SortByProperties>";
    queryXML += "<Range><StartAt>" + startat + "</StartAt><Count>" + pagesize + "</Count></Range>";
    queryXML += "<EnableStemming>false</EnableStemming>";
    queryXML += "<TrimDuplicates>true</TrimDuplicates>";
    queryXML += "<IgnoreAllNoiseQuery>true</IgnoreAllNoiseQuery>";
    queryXML += "<ImplicitAndBehavior>true</ImplicitAndBehavior>";
    queryXML += "<IncludeRelevanceResults>true</IncludeRelevanceResults>";
    queryXML += "<IncludeSpecialTermResults>true</IncludeSpecialTermResults>";
    queryXML += "<IncludeHighConfidenceResults>true</IncludeHighConfidenceResults>";
    queryXML += "</Query></QueryPacket>";

    var soapEnv =
            "<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi='https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:xsd='https://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' xmlns:soap='https://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'> \
              <soap:Body> \
                <Query xmlns='urn:Microsoft.Search'> \
                  <queryXml>" + escapeHTML(queryXML) + "</queryXml> \
                </Query> \
              </soap:Body> \
            </soap:Envelope>";

$.ajax({ 
        url: "/_vti_bin/search.asmx", 
        type: "POST", 
        dataType: "xml", 
        data: soapEnv, 
        complete: parseresultsfunction, 
        contentType: "text/xml; charset=\"utf-8\"" 
    });

There is a gotcha: not all managed properties avaiable in a OnPremise default SharePoint 2010 installation are available in office 365. So I had to do some extra filtering in the javascript code (managed property webid should have a value).

The code is available here: WebParts.zip

The Sandboxed Solution here: WebParts.wsp

]]> Office 365 Developer Training Kit online https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/office-365-developer-training-kit-online Mon, 02 May 2011 08:38:15 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/life_of_a_sharepoint_consultant/2011/05/02/office-365-developer-training-kit-online/ Just saw this over at the SharePoint Online Developer Resource Center:

Office 365 Developer Training Kit
Use this online or downloadable training course to help you get started building cloud-based communication and collaboration solutions for Office 365, including SharePoint Online. Includes 7 modules, with over 10 hours of video and 17 hands-on-labs.

Have a look at:

Developing for SharePoint Online with Sandbox Solutions

Sandboxed Solutions are the development paradigm for SharePoint Online. In this session, you’ll learn about sandboxed solutions including how to develop, debug and deploy solutions. You’ll also learn the breadth of solutions that can be developed in the sandbox and strategies for developing common scenarios that are not enabled in the sandbox.

Developing SharePoint Online Solutions with the Client Object Model

The SharePoint Client Object Model provides libraries for programmatically accessing SharePoint Online via Silverlight and JavaScript. In this session, we’ll go deep into the Client Object Model and show you how to develop solutions using both Silverlight and JavaScript.

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