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How to: Exclude part of a page from being indexed by SharePoint Search

This is something that I have been trying to figure out for quite some time. I’ve seen numerous people ask in the forums and no one seemed to have a conclusive answer (at least the last time I checked). The issue is simple. You want...

Published Wed, Jan 26 2011 12:07 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, FAST Search, Enterprise Search

Adding missing web parts with the PortalLayouts feature after SharePoint 2007 upgrade

One thing I find annoying after attaching a SharePoint 2007 content database is that several of the new cool SharePoint 2010 web parts are simply not present on your upgraded site. This includes the new social web parts such as the Tag Cloud, Organization...

Published Tue, Jan 25 2011 4:36 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, WebPart, SharePoint Upgrade

Why FOSS is Better

You really don't want to read the train of thought that led up to this post. Even if I really remembered it clearly. Let's just something that it's been bubbling around in the back of my head for the past few weeks, and leave it at that. The...

Published Mon, Jan 24 2011 7:59 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: Completely Off Topic, Not Dot Net, theory, open source

Remember to set SQL permissions before doing a database attach upgrade

For some reason, I always forget to set permissions on the database in SQL Server when I am doing a database attach upgrade in SharePoint 2010. I figure if I forget it a lot maybe other people do, so I thought I would post a quick tip on it. ...

Published Tue, Jan 18 2011 6:51 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Upgrade

Free up some resources on your FAST Search Development Environment

If you have ever installed FAST Search, you know memory is a commodity. When you are looking at an environment with Active Directory, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, and FAST installed on top of it, your virtual server is consuming a lot of memory...

Published Fri, Jan 14 2011 2:15 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, FAST Search, Enterprise Search

Slides from my SharePoint Search talk at Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group

In spite of the weather, I still had some people show up to my updated SharePoint Search talk, Getting the most out of SharePoint Search . This talk relates closely to my recent blog post Are you getting the most out of SharePoint Search . ...

Published Tue, Jan 11 2011 2:44 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, FAST Search, Enterprise Search, Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group

Activating and Deactivating Features with PowerShell in SharePoint 2010

I was looking at the analytics of the site the other day and I noticed that my post, Adding and Deploying Solutions with PowerShell , currently has the most traffic on the site. I had always intended to write a follow up post on this, so here it...

Published Tue, Jan 04 2011 3:53 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, PowerShell, SharePoint 2010, Feature

Are you getting the most out of SharePoint Search?

As we start out the new year, I thought I would start out with a post talking about one of my favorite SharePoint topics, Enterprise Search. Over the years, I’ve seen a variety of search configurations. Some companies have great implementations...

Published Mon, Jan 03 2011 1:13 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Enterprise Search, People Search

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