When SharePoint 2010 first released, there was a lot of excitement about the ability to perform Phonetic and Nickname searches. One of the most common English names in the UK is Michael, which obviously has many variants and nicknames associated with it. Luckily with People search in SharePoint, searching by variant isn’t an issue… or …
May 16
Shell access to SharePoint.
One of the things that has always annoyed me in SharePoint 2010 is the security in PowerShell when trying to work with SharePoint objects. There I am, logged into my freshly created development box, drop into PowerShell and can’t access anything, despite running as administrator. The missing ingredients, yes Database permissions, so duly into SQL, …
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 …
Mar 21
Hear me roar!
So I finally got around to it and plucked up the courage to join the speaking circuit. Let me tell you, I now have even more respect for those colleagues of mine in the User group domain that regularly stand up in front of a large audience of their peers voluntarily to share their knowledge. …
Jan 06
XML in SharePoint Search Pt.1
This post is part of a series of notes that I’m putting together regarding XML within SharePoint. I’m afraid a bit of time has passed since Part 1 and 2 went up, so you might want to refresh yourself on those first, I know I had to! Intro and History of XML XML in SharePoint …
Dec 07
Usergroup Sessions
After a long period of self doubt and a lot of persuasion from other speakers on the SUGUK circuit, I’ve booked my first SUGUK Speaker sessions! I’ll be talking about using Search to answer some basic issues with regards to Cross-Site navigation, data aggregation, collaboration and People Search from an intranet perspective in a session …
Nov 02
SUGUK East Anglia, Cambridge 2nd Nov
I went to my second East Anglian chapter event of the SUGUK this evening over in Cambridge. As usual, very capably organised by Peter and Randy with some great food and drink sponsored by Peter’s company ISC Software Solutions. Microsoft User Group Services sponsored the cost of the room, and Wrox publishing provided two SharePoint …
Oct 12
New look to the blog
I realised that the old style I was using for my blog was quite unreadable under certain conditions. I’ve therefore picked up a new wordpress theme which I hope makes things a lot easier to read. I’ll be customising it slowly as I find things I’m not happy with, but in the meantime I hope …