The ability to map crawled properties to Managed Properties in SharePoint search has been around for a long time, This enabled you to take those custom fields you created in your content types, and make use of them in your search results XSLT rendering.The big change in SharePoint 2013 is that this can happen automatically …
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Nov 01
Testing SharePoint outbound e-mail
It’s quite easy to test SMTP email from your SharePoint site, in fact from any server using the Telnet client and any of the thousands of SMTP test guides across the net. What isn’t so easy is to test outbound email from SharePoint itself and have complete control over what’s being sent. You can of …
Sep 30
The Wedding Renewal is booked… #ShareWedding
So, there’s this little conference running in the States during November, Called SPC12, Heard of it? No, well head on over to www.mssharepointconference.com and get yourself there before it sells out! And if you’re there, you might want to hang around Vegas till Friday, as I’m getting married again! The conference kind of clashed with …
Sep 28
Critical path training comes to Pluralsight.com
I recently tried out a trial subscription to the online training provider www.pluralsight.com as I was hoping to brush up my HTML 5 and CSS 3 skills. The courses are delivered as online streamed video, with some basic pre and post course testing, coursework and notes for those on the extended subscription. The extended subscription …
Sep 03
SharePoint Saturday UK 2012
The latest edition of SharePoint Saturday UK will be coming to Nottingham on December 8th 2012 thanks to the chaps at Lightning Tools and Intelligent Decisioning. This is the only major Free conference in the UK that covers SharePoint and attracts a host of speakers and professionals to cover the many diverse topics surrounding SharePoint. …
Mar 30
XML in SharePoint Search Pt. 2
Intro and History of XML XML in SharePoint 101 XML in SharePoint Search Pt. 1 XML in SharePoint Search Pt. 2 (This post) Using XSLT with Search Core Results Web part In my last post I talked about how to use the Federated Locations area within the Search Service Application to deliver custom XSLT to …
Sep 20
SUGUK–Cambridge Sept 20 2011
So my first trip to the East Anglian chapter of the SharePoint user group didn’t start quite as well as I’d have liked. Traffic mean’t I turned up with a minute to spare. Luckily Symon Garfield was waiting for a few more, so I was’t the last to arrive by any shakes. Coffee and tea …
Sep 20
Top tips for the MS SharePoint Conference!
One of my SharePoint buddies @MarcyKellar has posted a great top 11 tips guide to the SharePoint Conference on her blog The SharePoint Muse. If you’re attending this, or indeed any IT conference, it’s well worth taking some time out of your day for a quick read. Read the whole article here….. Paul.
Sep 18
I’m off to Anaheim! and I’ll be live blogging too..
So with only 3 weeks to go, I got the nod to say that I could go to Anaheim and attend the biggest and best SharePoint Conference in the world! I’m really pleased about this and excited too, this conference represents the biggest meeting of SharePoint enthusiasts, IT pros, Devs, End Users and all round …