A Static State

Thanks for the overview on the fast search

2012-02-08T04:12:20.167-08:00

Thanks for the overview on the fast search

Max - Sorry I am probably not going to be able to ...

2012-01-19T14:49:53.231-08:00

Max - Sorry I am probably not going to be able to get you an answer in a timely fashion. This is my blog and not an official Microsoft support mechanism.

Jason

Being the good Microsoft chap you are, is there so...

2012-01-16T16:47:10.490-08:00

Being the good Microsoft chap you are, is there someone on the product team you can point me in the right direction?

Max, That helps. I am not on the product team, I...

2012-01-13T22:43:20.984-08:00

Max,

That helps. I am not on the product team, I am field sales so I cannot give an exact reason why the way it unfortunately. However your question does get to the spirit of why I even made this post. Reason why I had to go down the entire path was because I could not get access to the table generated ID in the workflow when I performed both an insert and update in the same workflow instance. But when I performed the insert in one workflow instances, and then chained it to another workflow instance, I could get the update to work on the generated database key id.

Now I am rambling because it is late at night :-)

I did not think you have access to the BDC Identity in that way. Now as I am typing, and it months after I have written this blog, I would have investigated generating a GUID (or some other unique value) that can be pushed into the table on insert and then later used to perform subsequent updates.

Sorry I do not have a good answer on the BDC Identity.

Jason

Jason - Quite simply, is there a way to get the BD...

2012-01-13T16:26:15.379-08:00

Jason - Quite simply, is there a way to get the BDC Identity value from an external list into the origin SQL table of that list? Doing so with a workflow seems the most natural way, by copying the BDC Identity value to an adjacent text column in the same external list that then populates the SQL table of origin with the BDC Identity value.

Max - I am not sure I completely understand your q...

2012-01-13T05:37:37.306-08:00

Max - I am not sure I completely understand your question and what you want to achieve exactly.

Jason

Jason, Your post raises my hopes in getting the B...

2012-01-12T13:36:20.032-08:00

Jason,

Your post raises my hopes in getting the BDC Identity value into a SQL table, but I must be missing something. I have one of those cases where the BDC Identity value is needed for a SharePoint reporting services web part that opens the display form of an item in an External List item through the ID= value in a URL. Without Visio Premium 2010, I am limited to working with SPD 2010 and a Site Workflow. Is that even possible?

Amal, Thanks for the feedback. SharePoint 2010 S...

2011-12-23T05:48:39.291-08:00

Amal,

Thanks for the feedback. SharePoint 2010 Search out of the box made significant strides.

Jason

Great post on SharePoint 2010 scaling.

2011-12-22T21:07:49.381-08:00

Great post on SharePoint 2010 scaling.

Hi I'm trying to use your example, but on the...

2011-12-07T03:30:25.284-08:00

Hi

I'm trying to use your example, but on the GetUser method ServiceContext.User it's always null or currentUser.Identity.IsAuthenticated = false.

Any Idea?

Myke, Not sure if your understand what you are ta...

2011-12-05T20:23:00.301-08:00

Myke,

Not sure if your understand what you are talking about. I have not looked at this code for some time. I know it worked 100% fine when I deployed. I say take a second look.

Jason

Andi - I have not dug into that yet. Not going to...

2011-12-05T20:20:01.407-08:00

Andi - I have not dug into that yet. Not going to be able to research right now. Sorry.

Is this the same scenario for SharePoint 2010?

2011-12-05T07:38:43.086-08:00

Is this the same scenario for SharePoint 2010?

Hi... I need some help with this. I am getting an ...

2011-11-29T15:30:39.695-08:00

Hi... I need some help with this. I am getting an error when calling the webservice:

The query cannot be run for the following DataObject: UploadInfoPathAttachment
InfoPath cannot run the specified query.
The SOAP response indicates that an error occurred on the server:

Server was unable to process request. ---> Error saving attachment >> There is no Web named "/idivauth".

my site is https://sitename.com/sites/idivauth

so i set "siteURL = https://sitename.com" and "webUrl = idivauth" from the InfoPath rule.

Thanks for added info.

2011-11-08T12:28:30.094-08:00

Thanks for added info.

Thanks a lot for this. It worked like a charm. I (...

2011-11-08T11:51:54.977-08:00

Thanks a lot for this. It worked like a charm. I (re)installed WIF 6.1 and restarted the FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 services. After that, the QRProxy service was showing as running.

-PlateSpinner

PS: Let me just paste the event details to so it will boost the Google hits for this:
======================
Log Name: Application
Source: QRServerProxy
Date: 11/8/2011 2:41:19 PM
Event ID: 0
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: MyServerName
Description:
Service cannot be started. System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
File name: 'Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Extended.QRServer.QRServerService.Start(Boolean isService)
at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase.ServiceQueuedMainCallback(Object state)

WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.
To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.
Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging.
To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog].

Many of the services are load balanced between the...

2011-11-03T17:04:00.156-07:00

Many of the services are load balanced between the app servers. So when you turn them on all the servers, you get that HA you are looking for.

Jason, thanks for the additional link, I have my ...

2011-11-02T09:59:07.045-07:00

Jason,

thanks for the additional link, I have my SQL backend components already in a HA configuration.. SQL cluster with a witness server..

what I would like to be able to do is have MMS, UPA, Web Ana, Secure Store in a HA configuration.. to where if one of the servers that host the application service goes offline it "fails" over or picked up by a load balanced service URL... is this possible ? if so could you point me in a direction to find the information ?

Thanks in advance
Gerald

Gerald, One last comment on HA. I tell lots of c...

2011-11-02T06:18:35.599-07:00

Gerald,

One last comment on HA. I tell lots of clients that SharePoint is sometimes only as good as the SQL Server configuration. Her is something to look into as well - http://www.astaticstate.com/2010/12/sharepoint-2010-high-availability-with.html

Jason

Jason, Yes, awesome post.. in part it's what ...

2011-11-02T04:36:01.792-07:00

Jason,

Yes, awesome post.. in part it's what got me to inquire on how to get the other 4 services in HA

Thanks in advance
Gerald

Gerald, Thanks for the feedback. For High Availa...

2011-11-01T19:52:14.169-07:00

Gerald,

Thanks for the feedback. For High Availability for SharePoint Search - did you read my three part blog series on SharePoint 2010 Search - http://www.astaticstate.com/2010/12/sharepoint-2010-search-architecture.html

Jason

Jason, Thanks for a wonderful overview, it has he...

2011-11-01T17:11:14.215-07:00

Jason,

Thanks for a wonderful overview, it has helped allot... I'm in the proces of building a cross farm service enviorment, I would like to build in HA for the service applications MMS, UPA, Web Ana, Secure Store and Search...

While I understand how to build in some HA into search service, I'm not sure how to build it into the other four can you point me to guides or examples on how to get the services into a HA

Thank in advance
Gerald

Edgard, THANKS for the feedback. I may be confus...

2011-10-26T10:52:02.571-07:00

Edgard,

THANKS for the feedback.

I may be confused on your last comment but this solution is deployable through the Sandbox!

Jason

Great write up! I find it challenging that most o...

2011-10-25T08:59:58.129-07:00

Great write up! I find it challenging that most of the write ups for custom master pages involve one time deployment but ,to date, I've yet to find a resource about handling updates to components within a feature (images, masterpages,etc) through sandbox solutions.

Excellent Synopsis - Thanks for your time!

2011-10-12T12:53:20.055-07:00

Excellent Synopsis - Thanks for your time!