Hi Guys, In this post I would like to share about how to migrate an existing SharePoint 2010 Search Service application to SharePoint 2013 Search with specific Index location.The requirements for doing so could be – You are doing an as-is migration, in this case migrated sites in SP 2013 looks and behaves same as SP 2010. Some organizations go for this option to quickly move to SP 2013 and then update their’s sites UI to 2013 interface gradually, site by site You want to keep using already created search scopes/content sources/crawl schedules etc in SP 2010 Search Service Application […]
SharePoint Alerts Email Showing Wrong URL
I encountered an interesting issue in a new SharePoint 2010 farm that I built using content databases from an existing farm. The new farm was built because there had been an split of the company and half of the users moved to the new company. So, the scenario was that they would continue to use their same AD credentials but use the new SharePoint farm that had been created with relevant content databases of the old farm. So far so good… A user just forwarded an alert he received from the new farm, because he had subscribed for that alert […]
A Case Study – Visual Studio 2012 with SharePoint 2010
Introduction This Post highlights some of the business problems that was being faced earlier by our team while developing SharePoint based solutions and how various features of Visual Studio 2012 helped resolved those issues. Problem Statement What we have is a customized product based on SharePoint 2010 platform. Initially earlier versions of Visual Studios were used for the customization along with SharePoint Designer 2010 and Browser based changes. Due to these multiple issues used to come during development, testing and deployment. Creation of Data Structures Since normally any development around SharePoint requires some data structures (Lists/Libraries etc.) to be there. It used […]
Composite Applications in SharePoint 2010
Here comes another post on SharePoint 2010… you must have got tired by now browsing stuffs on the same topic… finding new features… seems like it’s going to change the world for MOSS developers… is it really? Lets take a look at the concept of Composite Applications in SharePoint 2010. As claimed by Microsoft (MS), a set of following features are referred as Composites – – Business Connectivity Services – InfoPath Form Services – External Lists – Workflow – SharePoint Designer – Visual Studio – API Enhancements – REST/ATOM/RSS The major thrust here is on easily developing Line of Business […]
Using User Controls and Delegate Controls in MOSS
Hi Folks, You must have seen the search box placed on the master page of the MOSS site master pages. Have you ever tried to find out how that thing has been placed there as we can’t have a web part on a master page? If you try n open that master page in SharePoint designer, you will find out that control is getting generated with just a single line of tag. That is actually a Delegate Control. It is pretty easy to create and deploy the delegate controls. You just need to create a simple .Net User Control and […]