Sharepoint Shared Services Search Provider Property Creation

Project License Changed

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:55:40 GMT

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RELEASED: 1.1.1.1 prod (Nov 08, 2007)

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:56:08 GMT

The source for this release has been uploaded some time ago, this is just a build for convenience.

All known bugs should have been fixed ... ;-)

It's now possible to export/import all search related SSP settings with no manual labour (though you might want to change the content source start addresses).

Items handled: Content Sources, Search Scopes, Managed Properties and Crawled properties. All can be both exported and imported.

UPDATED RELEASE: 1.1.1.1 prod (Nov 08, 2007)

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:56:08 GMT

Source code checked in

SoerenNielsen — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:06:25 GMT

Fixed a bug in crawled properties import. Tested crawled properties import and removed the "experimental" label. Updated assembly version to 1.1.1.1 /S�ren

Source code checked in

SoerenNielsen — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:49:04 GMT

This is a brand new version, which is NOT backwards compatible. Version number is now 1.1.1.0. Many many changes have been applied, so it is now possible to both import/export: content sources, Search Scopes, Crawled Properties and Managed Properties. Note: Import of crawled properties is to be considered experimental. As a consequence the XML files have now changed structure (there are now 4 kinds) and are not compatible with the earlier form anymore. Addition details can be found at: http://soerennielsen.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/tool-for-deployment-of-ssp-search-settings/ Summary: It's now possible to copy all search related settings from one ssp to another with no manual labour (you might want to change content source start addresses though...). Hope you find the additions useful! Kind regards S�ren

CLOSED TASK: Upload the builds

SoerenNielsen — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:23:36 GMT

Sahil - can you please upload the builds into Release 1.0 (http://www.codeplex.com/SSSPPC/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1591)
Comments: Fixed for v1.1.1.0

COMMENTED TASK: Upload the builds

SoerenNielsen — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:23:14 GMT

Sahil - can you please upload the builds into Release 1.0 (http://www.codeplex.com/SSSPPC/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1591)
Comments: ** Comment from web user: SoerenNielsen **

Done.

Or: I uploaded binaries into release 1.1.1.0, didn't change the old one. Hope that is sufficient.

UPDATED RELEASE: 1.1.1.0 Beta (jul 22, 2007)

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:21:48 GMT

Beta of new major release.

Many changes applied.

It's now possible to export/import all search related SSP settings with no manual labour (though you might want to change the content source start addresses).

Items handled: Content Sources, Search Scopes, Managed Properties and Crawled properties. All can be both exported and imported. Crawled property import is experimental, use at own risk.

CREATED RELEASE: 1.1.1.0 Beta (jul 22, 2007)

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:18:15 GMT

Patch Applied

SoerenNielsen — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:13:29 GMT

SoerenNielsen has applied patch #154.

Comment:
I verified it. No other code changes have been applied, while I worked on this.

Patch Uploaded

SoerenNielsen — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:12:14 GMT

SoerenNielsen has uploaded a patch.

Description:
This is a brand new version, which is NOT backwards compatible.

Version number is now 1.1.1.0.

Many many changes have been applied, so it is now possible to both import/export: content sources, Search Scopes, Crawled Properties and Managed Properties. Note: Import of crawled properties is to be considered experimental.
As a consequence the XML files have now changed structure (there are now 4 kinds) and are not compatible with the earlier form anymore.

Addition details can be found at: http://soerennielsen.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/tool-for-deployment-of-ssp-search-settings/

Summary: It's now possible to copy all search related settings from one ssp to another with no manual labour (you might want to change content source start addresses though...).

Hope you find the additions useful!

Kind regards
Søren

Project License Changed

Thu, 31 May 2007 23:38:24 GMT

Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL) This license governs use of the accompanying software. If you use the software, you accept this license. If you do not accept the license, do not use the software. 1. Definitions The terms "reproduce," "reproduction," "derivative works," and "distribution" have the same meaning here as under U.S. copyright law. A "contribution" is the original software, or any additions or changes to the software. A "contributor" is any person that distributes its contribution under this license. "Licensed patents" are a contributor's patent claims that read directly on its contribution. 2. Grant of Rights (A) Copyright Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to reproduce its contribution, prepare derivative works of its contribution, and distribute its contribution or any derivative works that you create. (B) Patent Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license under its licensed patents to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, and/or otherwise dispose of its contribution in the software or derivative works of the contribution in the software. 3. Conditions and Limitations (A) No Trademark License- This license does not grant you rights to use any contributors' name, logo, or trademarks. (B) If you bring a patent claim against any contributor over patents that you claim are infringed by the software, your patent license from such contributor to the software ends automatically. (C) If you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present in the software. (D) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, you may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of this license with your distribution. If you distribute any portion of the software in compiled or object code form, you may only do so under a license that complies with this license. (E) The software is licensed "as-is." You bear the risk of using it. The contributors give no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws which this license cannot change. To the extent permitted under your local laws, the contributors exclude the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

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alogan — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:59:37 GMT

A neat little command utility that lets you do four things when moving a DB from development to production. -Accept relevant inputs from the user -Export Managed Properties -Export Crawl Properties and relevant categories -Import Managed properties and map relevant crawl properties

Background
Recently, Angus Logan from Microsoft Australia pinged me with a rather interesting SharePoint 2007 related problem that Tourism Western Australia (www.westernaustralia.com) was running into. See, they have SharePoint 2007 on their intranet.

In their SharePoint 2007 installation, they had search configured to search the Australian Tourism Data warehouse – a HUGE database using BDC (Business Data Catalog) (read more). So far so good – until of course they need to create an Extranet, and now they need to move all the Managed properties and Crawl properties over the Extranet SSP (Shared Service Provider).

This scenario is actually fairly common. Say for instance, you have a serious BDC catalog – configured on a development server. And now you wish to move it over to a production server. You’d probably run into the same situation. While you could backup/restore your DB, you know that approach suffers from the “copy way more than required” syndrome.

Now if you’ve been using SharePoint 2007 a bit, you’d notice that moving all this stuff over manually is a royal pain in the behind. So with the help of Angus, I wrote a neat little command line utility that lets you do four things.

Accept relevant inputs from the user
Export Managed Properties
Export Crawl Properties and relevant categories
Import Managed properties and map relevant crawl properties.

More Information
Check out Sahil Malik's blog entry: http://blah.winsmarts.com/2006-11-Solving_an_interesting_deployment_scenario_in_SharePoint_2007.aspx

Want the code?
Get it from http://www.codeplex.com/SSSPPC/SourceControl/ListDownloadableCommits.aspx

Want the build?
Get it from http://www.codeplex.com/SSSPPC/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx

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alogan — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:58:58 GMT

Accept relevant inputs from the user
Export Managed Properties
Export Crawl Properties and relevant categories
Import Managed properties and map relevant crawl properties.

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alogan — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:58:34 GMT

Accept relevant inputs from the user
Export Managed Properties
Export Crawl Properties and relevant categories
Import Managed properties and map relevant crawl properties.

Source code checked in

MichielLankamp — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:15:46 GMT

Changed the open xml-document to support read-only files

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alogan — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:10:00 GMT

Accept relevant inputs from the user
Export Managed Properties
Export Crawl Properties and relevant categories
Import Managed properties and map relevant crawl properties.

CREATED TASK: Upload the builds

alogan — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:07:49 GMT

Sahil - can you please upload the builds into Release 1.0 (http://www.codeplex.com/SSSPPC/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1591)

CREATED RELEASE: 1.0.0.0 Production

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:05:21 GMT

First build.

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alogan — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:04:31 GMT

Accept relevant inputs from the user
Export Managed Properties
Export Crawl Properties and relevant categories
Import Managed properties and map relevant crawl properties.