SharePoint

As SharePoint administrators, you already know that there is some logs generated while crawling your content to show you if everything is ok or if there any issue (content access, file type unknown or not supported…). Unfortunately, there is NO way to access these logs in a pleasant way to work on it (export). Recently, […]

As you may already know, there is 2 different authentication providers in SharePoint 2010: Classic Mode Authentication: the ‘old’ authentication providers. Used for standard Windows (NTLM, Basic or Kerberos) authentication Claims Based Authentication: the ‘new’ one. Used to allow Form Based Authentication When you create a new web application, you have to choose between these

As you already know, AAM (Alternate Access Mapping) allows you to define different URL to reach SharePoint sites. The importance of the AAM is frequently reminded – at least in the context of SharePoint publication for external access. While you still can access to SharePoint sites from these different URL’s while they are not registered

For those who are using Firefox as web browser, you may already have experienced some issue with SharePoint functionalities. One of this issue may be with Office Web Apps. Now, be happy , Microsoft has released a plug in which make Office Web Apps working with Firefox (you need Firefox 3.5 or later) http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27106 You

As you may already know you know promote some link or document as best bet for a search results (Search keyword and Fast Search Keyword. BUT, if your search center (SharePoint or Fast) is independent; meaning located in other web application (search search.hametbenoit.info), managed keyword will not be used for promoting your Best bet. Indeed,

If you are using Audience to manage information displayed on your SharePoint, you may have trouble when you try to find or resolve the audience wanted, even if the audience is correctly set and compiled. The following error message may appears during audience validation “This entry cannot be validated. Exception “Object reference not set to

This is the final answer of a ONE year old problem, appears after the August 2010 CU (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2010/11/30/sharepoint-search-results-not-complete-with-august-cu/, http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2011/01/04/sharepoint-august-cumulative-update-issue-with-anonymous-search/ and http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2011/04/08/sharepoint-office-web-apps-anonymous-access-and-search-results-final-conclusion/) The SharePoint Product Group has finally provided a fix for this problem with the June 2011 CU (to be deployed after the SP1). With this fix, Office document published on SharePoint sites with

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 provides a vast number of capabilities that empower both business users and IT to create solutions quickly. For this reason, many organizations consider implementing SharePoint as a central platform to address a wide array of business solutions. For those organizations, it’s likely that they’ll need a good way to track, manage,