• Upgrading Samsung Slate PC to Windows 8 RP

    We have a couple of Samsung Series 7 Slate PC in our Customer Immersion Experience setup.

    With Windows 8 Release Preview out, I decided to upgrade one of the slates to the latest Windows OS.

    Samsung provided a great site that documents down the upgrade process.

    http://www.samsung.com/global/windowspreview/

  • Renew CIE v3.5 FAST Search Certificate

    The FAST Search certificate in the Customer Immersion Experience (CIE) v3.5 expires on June 15th 2012.
    Here's how you can renew the certificate.

     

    In the FAST PowerShell Command Prompt

    Stop all the FAST Search Services

    net stop FASTSearchMonitoring
    net stop FASTSearchService
    cd C:\FASTSearch\installer\scripts
    .\ReplaceDefaultCertificate.ps1 -generateNewCertificate $true
     

    Restart the FAST Search Services

    net start FASTSearchService
    net start FASTSearchMonitoring
     
     

    In the SharePoint PowerShell Command Prompt  
    cd C:\FASTSearch\installer\scripts   
    .\SecureFASTSearchConnector.ps1 –certPath "..\..\data\data_security\cert\FASTSearchCert.pfx" –ssaName "FAST Search Content SSA" –username "contoso\administrator"

    Perform the IIS reset
     iisreset