Dan Barvitsky

Detecting SearchServer (and other services) in SharePoint farm

Jake and I just got into an interesting problem while working on search functions for VizitSP . My code was using types from Microsoft.Office.Server.Search, which is not available if SearchServer is not installed, so trying to access search functions

Joining SharePoint server to a different domain

Once upon a time I had to join a workgroup-based SharePoint test server to a domain. SharePoint wonderland is like 4th dimension – it is full of unexpected and no task is trivial for naive 3D creature. Jake and Dave referred me to a magical “15-step”

Deploying debug assemblies in the GAC

Don’t ask me why, but at some point I ended up with the necessity of having debug assemblies in the GAC. OK, if you still ask, it is about SharePoint remote debugging. After dragging-and-dropping PDBs and DLLs for 651th time I almost started feeling an