Monthly Archives: February 2011

SharePoint FAST Search Server technical features demo

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

If you heard about SharePoint FAST search you probably want to know what’s different between this product and out of the box SharePoint 2010 Enterprise search. This technical demo will go over main features one by one and demonstrate the … Continue reading →

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Adding related searches in SharePoint 2010 search

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Yesterday, we looked at how you can add new suggested keywords to SharePoint 2010 search allowing users to pick the most popular keyword before they execute a search query. You can also suggest for users to search for a new … Continue reading →

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How To Customize Search Refiners In SharePoint 2010

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Yesterday Ron and I had a quick chat on how you can leverage SharePoint 2010 out-of-the-box search refinement capabilities. Here are the details on how to add your own refiner categories Enjoy!

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Adding new keyword suggestions to FAST Search and SharePoint 2010 Search

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

One of the new features in SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search for SharePoint is keyword suggestions when users type their query. By default SharePoint will add new seach suggestion when the search term was searched for and result was clicked on … Continue reading →

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Adding new SharePoint FAST Search User Context properties

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

If you tried working with SharePoint FAST Search you will know that ability to target content to a defined category of users is one of the key advatages of using FAST. It’s sort of like Audience targeting in a web … Continue reading →

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Customizing SharePoint 2010 Search Administrative reports

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In here we’re going to look at how to customize your Search Admin reports. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out what SharePoint 2010 Search Administrative Reports are all about; here is how to get to them: 1. … Continue reading →

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Add SharePoint 2010 quick launch toggle on/off feature

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

In my last article, I quickly went over how you can add a toggle button allowing your users to easily show and hide SharePoint v4.master quick launch to maximize the use of the main content area. That approach assume you … Continue reading →

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SharePoint Branding: add a handy function to allow users show/hide quick launch bar

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Few days ago I was working with SharePoint Project Server 2010, and with the main page of the project site, which is now in SharePoint. One really nice feature in Project Server site is to allow users to collapse and expand quick … Continue reading →

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Limit SharePoint 2010 site templates available to create new site

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

If you’re developer like me – you know that you can limit the available site templates when defining new custom site template. SharePoint stores the list of available site templates in a dynamic property … and, there is a UI … Continue reading →

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