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These days we had some trouble with customized search pages. We created some new results pages for the Enterprise Search template, created our solution, deployed the solution on the development machine...
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These days I had to do some tests with additional features we had to enable when a user creates his own “My Content” site. This means, create a “My Content” site, check, if everything is fine, do some...
View ArticleLanguage Pack for SharePoint Solution
When creating solutions in SharePoint, it often is necessary to deploy the solution for several languages. Because we can use resource files in our solution that is not really a problem. But what...
View ArticleNaming of Managed Properties in SharePoint Search
When administering SharePoint Search in SharePoint Server 2010 (or 2013) you can create Managed Properties, or Metadata Properties, as it’s named in the Quicklaunch of the Search Administration. For a...
View ArticleDisable Sandbox Solutions for Site Collections
When you enable sandboxed code in your farm, this option is available for all site collections. There is no simple switch to disable sandbox solutions for a web application or a site collection. But it...
View ArticleExternal Farm Configuration Analysis
Sometimes we have the task to do some analysis on a SharePoint farm, but we do not have access to any of the servers. To do any kind of analysis in these cases, some of the installations are using...
View ArticleGet current resource measure settings for sandbox solutions
When we are running sandbox solutions in our SharePoint environment (SharePoint 2010/2013/Online), the current usage is measured by the resource measure settings of the user code service. Detailed...
View ArticleRestore MyContent Site in another domain
At the end of the last year our company did the final steps on the migration from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. The guys, who did the migration, told me that also the contents of the MyContent...
View ArticleWith which Version is my SharePoint running?
Sometimes we need to know, with which version a SharePoint environment is running, without any access to the Central Administration. This could be done, when we have access to any site in the...
View ArticleGet the name of the contributor permission level
The last days I got the request, how to get the contributor permission level in a multilingual environment. Under these circumstances, the name of the permission level depends on the language, in which...
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