(Suneet) Microsoft completed the acquisition of an enterprise search company, FAST Search & Transfer. For those who used MOSS 2007, FAST Enterprise Search Platform (ESP) could be integrated as a separate server product, via various web parts. But as an important result of this acquisition,
Tag: SharePoint / BI
SharePoint Designer Workflow Failed on Start (Retrying) issue
(Boris Gomiunik) Recently I’ve stumbled on a strange error in SharePoint. In the entire site collection I couldn’t start any workflow (nobody could). If workflows were set to start automatically, they would fail immediately with the message Failed on Start (Retrying)
SharePoint Online in a hybrid environment
(Andre Kieft) Recently I got into a discussion on how to implement SharePoint Online in a hybrid environment with SharePoint 2010 on-premise. How does this exactly work and how should we implement it?
Retrieving Passwords from Managed Accounts in SharePoint 2010 for C#
(Damon Armstrong) I was looking for a way to retrieve a password from a managed account when I ran into a post titled How to: Get Your Managed Account Passwords When They are Changed Automatically by SharePoint 2010 by Jason Himmelstein.
SharePoint 2010 And Excel Services when switching to Claims Based Authentication.
(Andy Bonner) Doing some work for a customer on SharePoint 2010 where I hadn’t setup the initial environment & came across an interesting situation which had me pulling what little hair I have out, so thought I’d create a quick blog post in case anyone else stumbles upon this situation in the future
Anonymous Client Access to SharePoint 2010
(Bob German) I recently embarked on a minor quest to get the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model working on an anonymous SharePoint site, with mixed results. Along the way, I learned a lot about how the Client Object Model works, and eventually found a work-around for most of what I wanted to accomp
Access All of Your Content Through SharePoint, Yes. Keep All of it There, No.
(Dave Martin) If I’ve learned anything in the 10 or so years I have been faithfully patronizing SharePoint it’s that it is all about the experience. It really has been one of the best solutions ever devised to connect people with content. So much so that companies have been connecting more people
Changing SharePoint 2010’s Service Account Passwords
(Todd O. Klindt) We’ve all seen it, it happens every day. A coworker gets mad, throws a burrito at the boss and the next thing you know they’re getting escorted out by security. If that person know your SharePoint service account passwords, and the burrito was big enough, your boss might want you to
Customizing SharePoint Online with SharePoint Designer 2010
(Asif Rehmani) Learn how to use SharePoint Designer 2010 to customize and build solutions for SharePoint Online, a service of Office 365.
SharePoint: Performance problems Using Data Form Web Parts on Publishing pages
Consider the following scenario: Using SharePoint Designer you customize a list view web part and convert it to data form web part You export the final customized web part as a .webpart file