Cool features from FAST search server for SharePoint 2010 to extent your search experience

This 7 minute video will give you a great overview of some really cool features from Microsoft FAST search server for SharePoint 2010. It will help you visualize why FAST search is such a great add-on and value for money.

Enjoy the video,

Video:   FAST Search 2010 on SharePoint 2010: Microsoft.com
Product page:   What Is FAST Search for SharePoint?

A system restart from previous installation or update is pending Restart your computer and run setup to continue

Sometimes when you install a program like Project Server 2010, Exchange 2010 or in my case SharePoint 2010 it’s possible that after you installed the prerequisites and rebooted you get the error below. I never seen it with applications before the 2010 range and the strange thing is that it is not happening every time. But if it happen you are sure to think of a good old fashion swearing word like,……………

Anyways, this is all nice and all but you can restart until you’ve seen Christmas passes twice but nothing will be solved unless you do it yourselves.

Open the registry editor (run >> regedit.exe) and first of all make an export of your current registry. Name it clearly.

Check the value of the following Registry keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\UpdateExeVolatile
– if the value of the UpdateExeVolatile Registry key is anything other than 0
you will see this message.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations – if the PendingFileRenameOperations Registry key has any value you will see this message.

To remove an orphaned UpdateExeVolatile registry key value
Open a registry editor, such as Regedit.exe or Regedt32.exe.
Navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\
In the right navigation pane, double-click the UpdateExeVolatile key.
Configure the key with a value of 0
Close Registry Editor.

To delete the orphaned PendingFileRenameOperations registry key
Open a registry editor, such as Regedit.exe or Regedt32.exe.
Navigate to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\
In the right navigation pane, right-click the PendingFileRenameOperations key and select Delete.
Close Registry Editor.

Content Type Publishing option and Term Store Management are missing

Here’s a nice one I came across,

I just finished creating my Content Publishing Hub and was ready to go and play with some content types as I noticed that under my Top Level Site the options Content Type Publishing (Publiceren van inhoudstype) and Term Store Management (Termenopslag beheren) where missing.

After some Google I found out it got something to do with the TaxonomyFeatureStapler feature which is not included in the _Blank Site Template which was the one I used for building my site collection.

Luckily you can activate this feature manually so you don’t have to rebuild your site collection. Just use the code below to activate;

stsadm -o activatefeature -id 73EF14B1-13A9-416b-A9B5-ECECA2B0604C -url http://toplevelsiteurl

Tip, maybe you don’t notice it at a first look but their are some more problems with some default templates which might give problems later. Wright now I’m using a Team Site template which I stripped and saved as a custom one. Just remember to document that your using a Team Site template you stripped down to a _blank site incase you need to use the template ID fore something else.