Social Sites Demo on next Shoptalk: June 27th, 2011

Social Sites for SharePoint 2010
presented by: Rich Blank from News Gator

By integrating Social Sites directly into your SharePoint 2010 collaboration deployment, you can focus on delivering value to your users and unifying your technology infrastructure while fully leveraging your SharePoint social network - instead of building custom applications or learning and supporting additional technologies. Increase adoption among stakeholders, streamline communication, improve employee recruiting and retention, and boost overall productivity with Social Sites 2010.
Speaker Bio
For over 15 years, Rich Blank has worked with hundreds of organizations evangelizing, architecting and delivering social computing, collaboration & content management solutions. His passion is helping organizations change the way people connect, share information, and manage knowledge and his expertise includes information & systems architecture, end user adoption, governance, business process improvements, and technology strategy. Rich is a featured MS SharePoint expert and regular blogger on AIIM.org (Association of Information & Image Management) writing about collaboration, ECM, and social business. He's also has been invited as a guest speaker at the 2008 IT & Business Alignment Conference, 2010 SharePoint Summit, and regional SharePoint User Groups. He currently works as a Solutions Engineer for Newsgator and has held past senior technology and management consulting roles at EMC and IBM. Rich obtained his MBA from Babson College and BBA from the University of Michigan, and is a certified PMP and Six Sigma Green Belt. You can read some more of his insights on his personal blog: www.pmpinsights.com, follow him on Twitter: @pmpinsights, or connect with him on LinkedIn: www.richblank.com

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SharePoint ShopTalk is a live, dynamic, discussion held weekly amongst SharePoint Professionals.  It is an excellent source for users who need to discuss challenges or are looking for answers to pressing contemporary SharePoint questions. All are welcome to take advantage of this forum that features leading experts in the field.
You may register today and join the SharePoint ShopTalk Group on LinkedIn to submit questions prior to the event. You may also tweet your questions to @spshoptalk as well as ask questions live! We encourage participants to send questions in advance so our panel of experts may answer at their highest capacity.
For this event, you may also tweet your questions to pmpinsights & NewsGator.

Enjoy

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Error installing FAST Search for SharePoint 2010

I’ve ran into a lot of installation errors in my experience, but this one definitely deserves a separate blog post. During the installation I’ve got the following error

06/13/2011 11:25:23 AM Warning Utility.Execute - "D:\FASTSearch\bin\ResourceStoreInstaller.exe" StdError - resourcestoreinstaller.exe - C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe SET config "ResourceStore" /section:requestFiltering /verbs.allowUnlisted:false /commit:apphost - ERROR ( message:Unknown attribute "verbs.allowUnlisted". Replace with -? for help. )

06/13/2011 11:25:23 AM Warning Utility.Execute - Return code for binary "D:\FASTSearch\bin\ResourceStoreInstaller.exe" is not 0. This may indicate that binary didn't execute successfully

And the FAST failed to install.

Let me step back a little bit, the installation was fairly simple, just 2 servers. And knowing the FAST hungry for resources reputation we usually recommend to beef up the servers as much as possible. The 2 servers were actually physical machines very powerful with about 16 CPU cores registered. That was the problem!

Christian Holslin shared his experience here, otherwise I’d be chasing the problem for hours. http://www.thesharepointblog.net/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=815f255a%2Dd0ef%2D4258%2Dbe2a%2D28487dc9975c&ID=48

Too many CPU cores, or logical CPUs can produce the failure for the installation as the CPUs compete for access to the web.config file.

TO resolve this problem do the following:

Before you attempt to run the configuration wizard, from the command line, run Mdconfig command:

1. Go to advanced tab

2. Under advanced go to “boot”

3. Select 4 processors

4. Restart the machine. Repeat this process for all servers in the FAST farm.

Once the installation process is done, revert your changes for the number of registered CPUs back to the original amount of registered Cores following the steps above.

You will be all set

Enjoy

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SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search isn’t just for SharePoint 2010–presentation is available

Most of us have heard about the enhancements and power offered by SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search, but many do not realize they can take advantage of it without upgrading their 2007/MOSS environment. In this session we will cover how to leverage Search for SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search for SharePoint today, demonstrate the seamless integration of SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint Search 2010 from the end-user perspective and discuss the many benefits “Search First” offers to an organization and their users.

Here is a link to the presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/natalyvo/share-pointesug-searchfirst61011

Enjoy

Technorati Tags: Fast Search For SharePoint 2010,Enterprise search,SharePoint 2010,SharePoint Search,SharePoint 2007

Opportunity for Senior SharePoint Consultants

Arcovis is seeking Senior SharePoint Consultants to join its team of SharePoint and Enterprise Search experts. This position offers the opportunity to work with leading minds in the industry, exposure and access to Microsoft account and technical teams, C-level executives at fortune 100 companies, as well as broad industry exposure. This is an excellent opportunity to learn new technologies, latest trends in the industry, and develop influential relationships. For more information see the full job description.

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SharePoint FEST, Denver–May 19th session: Integration of the SharePoint Search 2010 and FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 with SharePoint 2007 portal

I’m speaking at the SharePoint Fest in Denver on May 19th. I’ll be presenting on one of my favorite topics, here is the session topic and the abstract:

Integration of the SharePoint Search 2010 and FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 with SharePoint 2007 portal

With the release of the SharePoint 2010, Microsoft had release the true enterprise search solution, FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 (FS4SP). But what about companies who have invested heavily in 2007 implementations and while planning to upgrade in the future want to take advantage of FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 now. This session covers the integration of SharePoint 2007 and FAST search for SharePoint 2010 and benefits from the business and end-user perspective that Search 2010 brings into the 2007 portal solution.

The session is going to be informative to everyone and not just IT Pros and Devs, it will also include demos.

Come and say Hi. I’ll see you there

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FAST Search: the infamous “Failed to initialize session with document engine: Unable to resolve Content distributor”

In the numerous FAST configurations the error above is the most common and one that I wanted to share my experiences with. There is a number of issues that might be causing this error and renders FAST Search unable to crawl. This issue can be from the initial configuration of FAST, but can also be introduced later on if you modify the deployment.XML and reconfigure FAST.

Here is the list of the most common ways of resolution and is in the order of :

1. Secure the connector by running

.\SecureFASTSearchConnector.ps1 -certPath "path of the certificate\certificatename.pfx" -ssaName "name of your content SSA" -username "domain\username"

replacing the necessary parameters with the values for your environment. Here are the detailed instructions http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff381261.aspx

2. Check if the domain and user name is reflecting the details of the user running the SharePoint Server Search 14 (OSearch14) service. The user account running Server Search 14 service should be the same as the user name used to secure the connector.

3. Make sure that the content distributor URL is the same as in the Install_Info file located within your FASTSearch folder or the same as in the fastsearch\etc\contentdistributor.cfg  file – sometime that might be the issue is the value in the install_info file is not the same as the cfg file, use the URL from the CFG file.

Hope it helps.

Enjoy

Technorati Tags: FAST Search Crawl,FAST Search for SharePoint 2010

New York Enterprise Search User Group celebrates its Two Year Anniversary

The New York Enterprise Search User Group celebrates its Two Year Anniversary by welcoming back the speaker who started it all, Nathan Treloar!
We hope that you will join the festivities, bring a friend as we end the year on high note and a look into the future of Enterprise Search! 

DECEMBER MEETING - Wednesday, December 14th 5:30PM

REGISTER TODAY

SUBJECT
Video Search and the Rise of Time-coded Metadata
Searching video certainly isn’t a new thing. Youtube has been with us for years now, after all. But when it comes to emerging trends in video search, both on the Web and in the enterprise, there are signs that we are entering a new age. The time-coded nature of video and the ability (or lack thereof) to search and navigate *inside* video content represent a new frontier for search that is only just now coming to light.
In this interactive, demo-rich presentation, Nate Treloar, VP of Strategic Markets for RAMP, will walk through the latest trends in video search and show how the rise of time-coded metadata is changing how people discover and engage with online video.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nathan Treloar, is VP of Technology for Strategic Alliances at RAMP where he is responsible for expanding RAMP’s industry leading Content Optimization solutions into new markets. Prior to RAMP, Nate was the Principal Search Technology Evangelist in the Microsoft Enterprise Search Group and held responsibility for the group’s technology innovation and evangelism programs.
Nate came to Microsoft through the acquisition of FAST, where he was Senior Vice President of Technology and a member of the leadership team that took FAST from an entry level player to a leader in the enterprise search market. In a career spanning more than two decades, Nate has held key executive positions for search, text mining, publishing, and knowledge management software and solutions. He has advised hundreds of world’s largest companies and government agencies on applications of search and search related technologies.
ADDRESS
1290 Avenue of the Americas, Sixth Floor NY, NY 10104