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Speaking in Austin

The great thing about living in Texas is that there is three SharePoint users groups less than three hours away from me. I’m excited to have the opportunity to be speaking in Austin twice in the next couple weeks. The first talk is tomorrow...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2013 11:35 AM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: Presentations, SharePoint Saturday, SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 11, SharePoint 2013, Apps

How to: Perform a SharePoint 2013 site collection upgrade with PowerShell

At SPC12 , I gave a talk about PowerShell in SharePoint 2013. In that talk I upgraded a SharePoint 2010 site collection to SharePoint 2013. I wanted to follow-up with a blog post showing the steps involved. To begin the process, I have...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2013 5:11 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, PowerShell, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Upgrade, SharePoint 2013

How to: Seed Search Suggestions in SharePoint 2013 Preview

I was digging through some new PowerShell cmdlets for one of my talks coming up at SharePoint Conference 2012 (SPC12), and I stumbled upon the new cmdlet Import-SPEnterpriseSearchPopularQueries . I found this cmdlet to be interesting since it can...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2012 3:17 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: PowerShell, SharePoint 2010, Enterprise Search, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2013 Preview

A look at Windows 8 Hyper-V for SharePoint People

Windows 8 recently hit RTM and became generally available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers in the last couple of weeks. If you run Windows 8 Enterprise, one new feature you gain is the ability to use Hyper-V. I personally was excited to try...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2012 2:38 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, Hyper-V

Slides and Video from my Lync and Learn Session on SharePoint Online Development

Thanks to everyone who attended my Office 365 Lync and Learn session last week. I enjoyed the opportunity to show everyone how they can use Visual Studio 2012 RC to get started with SharePoint Online development. I’ve attached a link to my...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2012 3:36 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Office 365, Office 365 Grid, Visual Studio 11

What you need to know about copying workflows with Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint

I was recently doing a SharePoint migration project and one of the tasks I was trying to do was copy SharePoint designer workflows (plus history) to a new SharePoint server. We weren’t doing a database attach in this case because we were significantly...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2012 7:39 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Workflow, Metalogix Migration Manager

TechEd Readiness Checklist

TechEd North America ( #msteched ) is just next week in Orlando, FL. This is my first TechEd and I’m excited to see what’s in store. With any conference, it’s always best to be prepared. You want to make sure you bring the right things...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2012 12:28 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: Presentations, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Office 365, Office 365 Grid, TechEd

A TechEd Guide for SharePoint People

It’s true. I admit it. I have a sickness. I am a SharePoint person and proud of it. I’m attending Microsoft TechEd in Orlando next week (and in Amsterdam at the end of the month) for the first time. Although I am a noob to...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2012 11:30 AM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: Presentations, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, TechEd

Everything you need to know about SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 11

I’ve been writing a series of posts about SharePoint development using Visual Studio 11 Beta for a while. Since I have written quite a few posts now, I thought it would be useful to compile all of them here in a list if you want to review what’s...

Published Wed, May 05 2012 9:56 AM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 11

How to: Create a Site Definition using Visual Studio 11

I’ve posted a number of articles about Visual Studio 11 to date and today’s article talks about the new SharePoint Project Item, Site Definition. This is a new SPI available in Visual Studio 11. Previously, you had to create site definitions...

Published Tue, May 05 2012 11:44 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 11

Adding and Deploying Sandboxed Solutions Using PowerShell

One of my most popular posts on DotNetMafia.com is my post on using PowerShell to add and deploy SharePoint solution packages (.wsp files). However, in that post, I never went in detail in deploying sandboxed solutions. Today, I want to talk...

Published Mon, May 05 2012 9:09 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, PowerShell, SharePoint 2010, Sandboxed Solution

How to: Make Windows 7 PowerShell look like the SharePoint Management Shell

I love me some PowerShell. I use it a lot in the context of SharePoint 2010, but I use it just as much on my own laptop. If you have been administering and configuring SharePoint enough, you have become accustomed to the shape and size of...

Published Mon, May 05 2012 3:54 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, PowerShell, SharePoint 2010, Windows 7

Error: Update-SPProfilePhotoStore : Object reference not set to an instance of an object

I like blogging about errors and their resolutions. Sometimes the answer is simple, but I think there is a lot of value in posting the details of an error so that users can find answers in the search engines. After doing a My Sites upgrade...

Published Wed, May 05 2012 5:48 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: Error, PowerShell, SharePoint 2010

Slides from my Visual Studio 11 talk at SharePoint Saturday Houston

I survived another SharePoint Saturday in Houston this weekend and had a great time. It was fun seeing old friends and making some new ones as well. As promised, here is a link to my slide deck posted on SlideShare. Thanks again to Victor...

Published Sun, Apr 04 2012 10:47 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: Presentations, SharePoint Saturday, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 11

FAST Search for SharePoint document previews don’t work with Claims Based Authentication

Recently, I became aware of this troublesome issue in regards to document previews with FAST Search for SharePoint. It was on a new installation of SharePoint. I had everything indexing great and my search results looked good. However...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2012 11:15 PM by Dot Net Mafia

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

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