Service Offering/Request Permissions: To configure which service offerings and request show on the web portal you need to create a catalog group containing all the Service Offerings and Requests that you want a specific group to see. After you have the [...]

Here are a few things to watch out for that I have seen create some major issues when installing Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010. 1. Make sure you have all the Service Pack 1 updates you need When installing [...]

If you have created the SharePoint Search Service Application using the GUI in SharePoint you have probably noticed that it has added some ugly GUIDs on the end of your database names. In this blog post I will show you how to get rid [...]

1. To create the query SSA go to your SharePoint server and open Central admin. In Central admin under Application Management click Manage Service Applications. On the Manage Service Applications page click new in the top left hand corner and select Search [...]

1. On the FAST Admin node open the file located at root of your FASTSearch folder. Inside this file you will find all of the information we need to create Content and Query SSA’s in SharePoint. 2. Now that we have [...]

1. Log onto your FAST non-admin node as your search account. 2. From the start menu right click on the Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Configuration Wizard and select run as administrator. 3. On the welcome page click next.  [...]