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Customizing the results of Search Core Results Web Part in SharePoint

Hi,

I was recently assigned a task to customize the Search Core Results Web Part’s search results to include few additional columns for SharePoint 2010 online.

Came across the following helpful links

http://andynoon.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/configuring-and-customising-sharepoint-2010-search/

http://www.sharepointsharon.com/2012/08/displaying-more-properties-in-search-results/

http://www.mindfiresolutions.com/How-to-customize-the-search-results-of-a-search-core-result-web-part-in-SharePoint–1096.php

http://sharepoint-videos.com/sp10-customize-search-results-using-xslt/

Here the first thing we need to do is to create a new Managed Property. After lot of struggle and searching came to know that this is not possible in case of SharePoint 2010 online.

SharePoint 2010 online administration center :-

However the good news was that creating managed property is now supported in case of SharePoint 2013 online.

Check out this article that explains all the differences in detail

http://nikspatel.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/whats-new-in-sharepoint-online-2013-administration-and-how-it-differs-from-spo-2010-version/

Hope it helps!

The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service in SharePoint 2013

Hi,

After installing and configuring the SharePoint 2013 server on my of VM’s, created a new site collection and did some search and got the below error.

Then realized that we need to create the Enterprise Search Service Application first to get the Search Service running.

Open Central Administration à Select Application Management à Service Applications à Manage Service Applications

Create a new Search Service Application

Once created,

Open the application and set up the Content Sources in it and start the crawl.

Once the crawling was complete, the search results showed up properly.

Bye.

ExecuteMultipleRequest and RetrieveMetadataChangesRequest in CRM 2011

Hi,

Check out the following MSDN articles to know how to use these new messages added in SDK.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj863631.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj863599.aspx

Bye.

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Sample code to connect Office 365 users to CRM 2011 online

Sharing a sample code that can be used to connect to CRM 2011 online with Office 365.

// Add refereneces to the following dll
 // microsoft.crm.sdk.proxy
 // microsoft.xrm.sdk
 // system.runtime.serialization
 // system.servicemodel

IServiceManagement&lt;IOrganizationService&gt; orgServiceManagement =
 ServiceConfigurationFactory.CreateManagement&lt;IOrganizationService&gt;(new Uri("https://democrm.api.crm5.dynamics.com/XRMServices/2011/Organization.svc"));

AuthenticationCredentials authCredentials = new AuthenticationCredentials();
authCredentials.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = _userName;
authCredentials.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = _password;
AuthenticationCredentials tokenCredentials = orgServiceManagement.Authenticate(authCredentials);

OrganizationServiceProxy organizationProxy = new OrganizationServiceProxy(orgServiceManagement, tokenCredentials.SecurityTokenResponse);
Guid userid = ((WhoAmIResponse)organizationProxy.Execute(new WhoAmIRequest())).UserId;