Wanted to share this little sample federated search location with you. Twitter has a search site where you can search for tweets: http://search.twitter.com It also has a atom feed for results: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q={searchTerms} SharePoint supports OpenSearch and with this Atom feed...

Short version of it: Download SharePoint Foundation 2010 October 2011 CU Download SharePoint Server 2010 October 2011 CU Want to know more? KB 2596508 - SharePoint Foundation 2010 KB 2596505 - SharePoint Server 2010 Updates for SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation...

We have updated our Software boundaries and limits for SharePoint 2010 with SP1 ! View the anouncement on the product group blog : "If this new guidance is followed SharePoint can support up to 4 TB of data in all usage scenarios and has no imposed size limit for document archive scenarios . The...

Help is underway for those of us driving adoption of SharePoint. A new site launched: http://iusesharepoint.com/ And with it a SharePoint Adoption Kit "Ah, driving adoption. We know it can be tough to get a team to change its ways. But you don't have to resort to wearing disguises like our SharePoint...

Head over to TechNet on some great content on SharePoint 2010 Operational Excellence : And check at the Best Practices Resouce Center for SharePoint 2010 :

Wanted to create a sample that: Runs on SharePoint 2010 Uses the Search.asmx webservice Can run inside the sandbox Uses jQuery Can run on Office 365 What to create? A webpart that shows all site collections you have access to! Here is the output of the webpart actually running on Office 365: The webpart...

At Microsoft SharePoint Online, as a part of the validation and verification process, a tool is used: MSOCAF. "MSOCAF analysis executes a set of rules against the custom solutions, prior to submission for deployment approval into the pre-production and production environments. The MSOCAF application...

The SharePoint 2010 Feburary 2011 CU is available. MSF2010: KB2475880 : The full server package for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Download link Technorati Tags: SharePoint , SharePoint 2010 SPS2010: KB2475878 : The full server package for SharePoint Server 2010 and contains also the MSF2010 fixes...

The Visual Studio team have released the first service pack for VS 2010 and TFS 2010. VS 2010 Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 TFS 2010 Team Foundation Server 2010 Service Pack 1 Why it this SP1 so relevant for SharePoint 2010? We now have .Net Framework 3.5 Unit testing. I'll let you figure this one...

Head over here for more details: http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2011/01/03/december-2010-cu-for-sharepoint-2007-and-2010-has-been-released-on-friday.aspx Check the know issues, the server package has 2! Technorati Tags: SharePoint 2010 , SharePoint

This is part three of a Multi Blog post on " writing your own Trusted Identity provider / Claim Provider for SP2010 ". In the first post I covered: Create a Custom Security Token Service with the Windows Identity Framework SDK In the second post I covered: Create a Custom SPClaimProvider Register...

This is part two of a Multi Blog post on " writing your own Trusted Identity provider / Claim Provider for SP2010 ". In the first post I covered: Create a Custom Security Token Service with the Windows Identity Framework SDK In this post I will cover: Create a Custom SPClaimProvider...

With the introduction of the Windows Identity Framework and SharePoint 2010 it is now possible to have multiple authentication providers on a Single URL on a SPWebApplication. Especialy in an Extranet scenario this is very usefull: Employees login with their AD Account Partners, suppliers, customers...

In a recent post I talked about the publishing cache. It turns out this also applies for Classic Authentication WebApplications. (from the original post:) Have a look into your Developer Dashboard to see what is going on; the warning and critical error are: 7362 - Warning Publishing Cache 7363 - Critical...

If you want to use the ListData.svc / Rest service in the SP2010 RTM you might get this error: Could not load type ‘System.Data.Services.Providers.IDataServiceUpdateProvider’ from assembly ‘System.Data.Services, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089′ Then install this...

On the interweb there seems to be some confusion on how to provision publishing resources through features. Here is what works for SharePoint 2010. First you wil need a Feature scoped for Site (SPSite), put your ContenType module here. And a Feature scoped for Web and add the other modules here! 1. Create...

Ran into this on a project when using the "FullTextSqlQuery" object to query against the Enterprise Search Service of SharePoint 2010. Had a query that included an Order By clause on my own Managed property other than the normal RANK. string query = "SELECT Title, ItemContentType, Projectnaam...

So, you have installed SharePoint 2010 on your server, you have setup Office 2010 on you client ( x64 ) and now you want your SP2010 Memberships to show up in your Office Client Applications. You navigate to your new SP2010 MySite and want to set it as your default MySite for your office 2010 applications...

Recently I started to look into some more detail at PowerShell and the SharePoint 2010 Snap-in. As a small exercise I wanted to create something (somewhat) usefull. I came up with a small site structure install script for SP2010. First the source configuration, an xml, with the sites and subsites I wanted...