Corey Roth

I’ve written many posts on how to query search (Keyword in 2010, Keyword in 2007, QueryManager, Web Service, FQL using Keyword) and I wanted to keep up the tradition and talk about how easy it is to get started using FQL with the Search Web Service.  Our same techniques apply from my previous web service article with only some slight changes.  It may seem simple at first, but it’s the first building block that we need for a series of posts I am starting.  For today’s example, I am going to build off of the Silverlight 4 application I used at SPC.  I’m using Silverlight, but you could just as well write a console application or call this web service from some other ASP.NET application.  We still want to start by creating a service reference to /_vti_bin/search.asmx. We then create an instance of the web service so that we can use it.  We also bind an event handling ... (more)

Error: Update-SPProfilePhotoStore : Object reference not set to an instance of an object

I like blogging about errors and their resolutions.  Sometimes the answer is simple, but I think there is a lot of value in posting the details of an error so that users can find answers in the search engines.  After doing a My Sites upgrade from SharePoint 2007, you will have a whole heap of user photos that you need to beat into submission.  This command goes through all of the existing user photos and creates thumbnails.  This is often useful when a user has uploaded a giant image of themselves and you need to fix it.  To do this, you may be familiar with the PowerShell comman... (more)

Excited to be speaking at TechEd this year

I am excited to say that I’ll be speaking at both TechEd North America and TechEd Europe.  This is my first time to even attend a TechEd so I am looking forward to see what is in store.  Both events are sure to be exciting but I am particularly excited to be going to Amsterdam for TechEd Europe since I haven’t been in 10+ years.  If you’re at either event, be sure and check out my session on Making the most of Search with SharePoint Online.  There you will learn some great tricks on how to get more out of your search experience in the cloud.  Links to my sessions are below. Tech... (more)

What are your options for a test environment with SharePoint Online (Office 365)?

I’ve seen this conversation come up a few times.  Deploying code to SharePoint Online is not like deploying code to your test and production environments back on-premises. I thought I would give my thoughts on it and that will help you make a better decision.  Office 365 is not like Azure in the fact that you can simply spin up another web role for testing.  Nor do we have the ability to deploy code to one role and then swap it into production like we can with Azure either.  That means we have to get more creative.  Sure, you can develop code locally on a local SharePoint 2010 ... (more)

Watch your version numbers with Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint

I was working with a client recently who had purchased Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint and I came across an issue that confused me for a minute.  I installed the Metalogix SharePoint Extensions Web Services on a few farms.  However, in the middle of this process a new version of the tool came out and I didn’t realize that some of the farms were running one version while the other farms were running a new version.  I could connect to one farm just fine.  However, when trying to connecting to the other farm (that had the newer version), I received a 404 error.  In my ro... (more)