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Webservices and Incremental Crawls using the If-Modified-Since

If you are working with the Enterprise Search Service application or FAST on SharePoint 2010 (or SharePoint 2013 for that matter) you will end up wanting to use incremental crawls. Incremental crawls are great if it comes to time saving indexing. An incremental crawl will only index changes since the last crawl (incremental or full). ...

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Checked-out page shows as record

Having a notification that your page has been declared as a record can be a bit misleading as some other blog posts have been pointing out, since the message not always is expected. As has been suggested in this page about the issue appearing in SharePoint 2013 or this one on SharePoint 2010 the solution is fairly simple; make sure the page is checked in. ...

Noteboard to send e-mails to author

The noteboard WebPart that is introduced in SharePoint 2010 is pretty cool since it allows you to share comments and thoughts on any given pag, enabling more social interaction on your site. Yet there are two different versions (or implementations) of the WebPart: The one on the MySite The one you can add to pages yourself The version on the MySite is a bit different configured as the one you can add yourself. ...

Inconvienient SiteActions menu and hidding Publishing Actions

Hiding out of the box SharePoint parts has been made a whole lot easier in SharePoint 2010 with the introduction of the HideCustomAction element. So whenever you need or want to hide something in the Ribbon or the SiteActions menu you should look into that, instead of just deleting the controls from the masterpage (something you can only do for the SiteActions menu, and I strongly discourage you do to so and run back to the HideCustomAction). ...

Confusing access denied on the defaultpage of a PublishingWeb

Working on a new breadcrumb solution for SharePoint 2010 I encountered a nice error, and as it turned out sometimes you just ‘forget’ what you should already know. In this case whenever a user with read permissions hit a page my breadcrumb would throw an access denied error (it was of course nicely logged to the ULS), while everyone who had contribute rights didn’t have any troubles seeing the breadcrumb. ...

Managed Metadata Service unavailable first request after IISReset

Last week I encountered an environment at a client that had some problems on their build automation scripts. Each night they would run a de-install and install of certain solutions, and for some reason it would always fail while installing. It looked like if the Managed Metadata Service was unavailable every first request after an IISReset, since the error shown was pretty straight forward: ...

ItemDeleting events get fired when deleting a Content Type

Recently I have been working with ItemEventreceivers to do some more complex tasks like extending the default approval flow. It included using almost all events that where available and it all worked pretty need. However at some point while checking the ULS logs I found out that my event receivers got fired even though I didn’t expect them to. ...

Reusing SharePoint Designer Workflow templates within Visual Studio

Just a few quickies in case you want to export a SharePoint Designer Workflow straight into Visual Studio there are a few things that might save you quite some time. In this blog I try to cover the things I encounter. First of all, if you want to import your globally reusable workflow using the Import Reusable Workflow you need to make sure it is published. ...

Start crawling with PowerShell part 2

A while ago I blogged about starting a new crawl with PowerShell in this post, but today I got a bit further, each rollout I do on my dev machine a whole new site collection gets created using PowerShell, after that there is some test content provisioned (also using PowerShell), and finally the search settings are added. ...