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Quick Tip: Use % to return all items in the search index (FAST Search for SharePoint and SharePoint Online)

Ever wanted to see what exactly is in your SharePoint search index with a simple query? Sure, you can take a look at the crawl log, but you can’t see that in SharePoint Online. With SharePoint 2010, you can use queries using the ContentSource...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2012 12:55 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint 2010, Office 365, FAST Search, Enterprise Search, Office 365 Grid

How to: Query People Search in SharePoint Online (and other SharePoint platforms too!)

At my Search talk at SPC11, I demoed how to build a Silverlight application that could query search in SharePoint Online . I also built a separate application that could query people search, but I haven’t posted on it yet until today. To query...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2012 10:38 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Office 365, FAST Search, Enterprise Search, Office 365 Grid, SPC11, Silverlight

How to: Use Refiners with the Search Web Service (FAST Search for SharePoint)

Yesterday, I talked about how we can use FQL with the Search Web Service . As promised, I am continuing the series about the search web service to talk about how we can take advantage of refiners. As you may know, FAST Search for SharePoint...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2011 12:50 PM by Dot Net Mafia

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

How to: Query FAST Search for SharePoint with FQL and the Search Web Service

I’ve written many posts on how to query search ( Keyword in 2010 , Keyword in 2007 , QueryManager , Web Service , FQL using Keyword ) and I wanted to keep up the tradition and talk about how easy it is to get started using FQL with the Search Web Service...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2011 8:04 PM by Dot Net Mafia

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

Configuring Site Collection Search Settings with PowerShell

I’m always looking for a way to automate things and configuring the search settings of a site collection is no exception. I’ve talked about the Search Settings page before and how important it is for configuring contextual search and the scope drop...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2011 10:28 AM by Dot Net Mafia

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

Using search to find recently modified files in SharePoint 2010

Last week, I posted about how we can extend CoreResultsWebPart to show documents created by the current user. Using this same technique, we can also use search to find recently modified documents. If you are a long time follower of my blog...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2011 2:15 PM by Dot Net Mafia

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

Using SharePoint Search to display the documents of the current user

I see requests for this in the SharePoint forums a lot and I always figured it was pretty easy to do with a few lines of code. Sometimes users want to display a list of documents that the worked on throughout the farm. The CoreResultsWebPart...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2011 11:43 AM by Dot Net Mafia

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

Dealing with that pesky SharePoint server in another time zone

Working at an International company now, I found that I was often running into issues looking at the time stamps of documents. Our collaboration server was in EST while I was in CST. It could be confusing at times when you were working on...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2011 4:17 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Office 365, Office 365 Grid, End User, MOSS

Slides from my talk at SharePoint Saturday Denver

I had the honor of speaking at SharePoint Saturday Denver this weekend. Clayton Cobb ( @warrtalon ) and the people from Denver did a great job putting together this event. I spoke about how to improve your SharePoint Search experience. ...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2011 9:13 AM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: Presentations, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Online, Office 365, Enterprise Search

How to: search the contents of a document set

I saw this question in the forums the other day, so I decided to see if it is possible to use SharePoint search to query just the contents of a document set. It turns out that you can and it is quite easy. Consider the following document set...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2011 4:03 PM by Dot Net Mafia

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

Excited to be speaking at SharePoint Saturday Denver!

I’m on my way to Denver this week and I’m really excited. I’m speaking at SharePoint Saturday Denver . This year’s event is a two day event (11/11 and 11/12). I’ll be talking about one of my favorite topics SharePoint Search. If...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2011 2:40 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: Presentations, SharePoint Saturday, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Enterprise Search

Building a SharePoint advanced search application with Silverlight 4

At SharePoint Conference 2011, I showed off a great looking advanced search application using Silverlight 4. This application queried the Search web service at /_vti_bin/search.asmx to retrieve results and display them directly inside the application...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2011 2:29 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Online, Office 365, Enterprise Search, Office 365 Grid, Silverlight

SharePoint Workspace: Are you using it? Why not?

Picture it. Your vice president is about to get on a plane. He or she tells you, “I need a list of all of our products and the latest prices. I want to be able to make changes and have them be effective when I am back in the office....

Published Thu, Oct 10 2011 3:11 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Workspace, TechFest

Using SharePoint Online (Office365) for Extranets

This week at SharePoint Conference ( #SPC11 ), I had the pleasure of giving a talk about the benefits of using SharePoint as an Extranet platform. I discuss the benefits and considerations of using SharePoint for an Extranet when it comes to on...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2011 3:39 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Office 365, Office 365 Grid, SPC11, Extranet

PowerPoint Web App Error: The service is temporarily unavailable.

It’s not uncommon to run into an error or two when you first setup Office Web Apps. Here is a common one you might run into with the PowerPoint Web App and it actually has a simple solution. You might encounter the error below when using the...

Published Sat, Oct 10 2011 12:30 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, Error, SharePoint 2010, Office Web Apps

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