I think there are probably resources out there somewhere for this by now, but I had a hard time finding them when I went looking for them previously so I thought I'd just post it here. Fortunately my friend Knut B. was good enough to shoot me some PowerShell a while back to help you manage your index...

I had this question come up today and it was a little bit of work to track down so I thought I would share here. In SharePoint 2013 the Search Service Application has something called a Global Search Center Url. In the absence of any other configuration, this is where folks will get redirected...

I found this process to be much more difficult than anticipated, and then much easier than expected once done so I figured I would do a quick post on it. The task at hand was to add a custom claim to a web app policy via PowerShell. It all works simple enough via the central admin UI. Once you get into...

A buddy of mine at Microsoft was good enough to point me to this video on channel 9 that talks about using PowerShell from your C# code without doing the dreaded process and spawn routine we've probably all used before. To begin with, watch the 4 minute video at http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/bruceky...

An issue that has frustrated a lot of folks since SharePoint 2007 and the WebSSO provider, and that continues today in SharePoint 2010 when using claims authentication with something like ADFS v2, is name resolution. Meaning that in most cases you can type in any random value you want into the search...

The question has been coming up more frequently lately about how does one configure multiple web apps that use claims authentication in SharePoint 2010. The primary point of confusion usually comes around the SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer. As I noted in a previous post ( http://blogs.technet.com/speschka...

This is kind of a silly little thing really, but I just stumbled upon it because it's one of those things that when you are trying to do it, you end up pulling your hair out trying to remember how. Just wanted to show a rather inventive and simple method for creating a service application and proxy in...

One of the great new features around Search in SharePoint 2010 is the concept of query suggestions. There are pre-query and post-query suggestions. A pre-query suggestion is a type-ahead feature that appears in the search box on the search page. As you start typing in your query, SharePoint will go find...

For various reasons getting a claims based authentication web application up and working correctly with both an identity claim and a role claim has been troublesome to say the least. So I'm going to share here the steps just around creating the claims and the SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer. 1. Create...

As we all know, sometimes we just get stuck trying to figure out how to get from point A to point B when working through some SharePoint coding scenario. One of the things that comes up more frequently in this regardin in SharePoint 2010 has to do with the PowerShell cmdlets that are used so prevalently...

Hey all, I saw an interesting discussion today about creating new health rules in SharePoint 2010 and thought I would share. All the credit for this one goes to Chris C. who was good enough to share this information. The discussion started because of some confusion about how to add a new health rule...

I’ve done a couple of blogs now about some of the multi-tenant features in SharePoint 2010 ( http://blogs.technet.com/speschka/archive/2009/11/30/enabling-multi-tenant-support-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx and http://blogs.technet.com/speschka/archive/2009/12/30/multi-tenancy-in-sharepoint-2010-part-2.aspx...

In this posting I wanted to come back to the topic of multi tenancy. In a previous post ( http://blogs.technet.com/speschka/archive/2009/11/30/enabling-multi-tenant-support-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx ) I described some of the basic features of multi tenancy and a) how to create the basic service application...

I can take ZERO credit for this, but I saw a very useful email today where Jan described how to create a FAST search scope using PowerShell. So I'm just the messenger here but thought it was worth sharing: New-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryScope -SearchApplication "FAST Query Application" -Name "NewScope...