Unique Permissions are No longer works after Migrating SharePoint 2010 Web Application to 2013

It is well known that SharePoint 2013 by default uses Claims mode for Authentication and Whenever we create a Web Application it creates with Claims Auth. SharePoint 2010 also had Claims but was optional for us to choose whether we want to have Claims based or Classic. If you had a Classic Mode Web Application in SharePoint 2010 and then it migrated to SharePoint 2013, you also need to Migrate Users specifically from Classic to Claims because you can no longer user Classic mode in 2013.

I had a scenario where an Intranet Site was Hosted in SP2010 and Migrated to 2013 which had hundreds of Libraries and Folders inside them with Unique Permissions. After the Migration from 2010 to 2013 using DB attached method, everything worked well until users start complaining that they are unable to see any records with unique permissions.

Checked the permissions using “Check Permissions” Option and something seemed to be wrong as all the users are not having their relevant set of permissions in the new Destination. It just the Read permissions granted through “All Users” Group which is NT All Authenticated Users.

Migrating Users from Classic to Claims using below PowerShell Script Rectified the issue and everyone was able to access their relevant records as expected. checked the permissions again and it appeared all set of permissions which is looked like everything back to normal. We also need to ask every individual to check their content and functions to verify this.

You can run this in any Server in the Farm and once it’s done, cannot be reverted back so better test it out first in a POC Setup. this will completely switch your all users from Classic mode to Claims.

 

   1: Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.powershell -EA 0

   2: $webapp = Get-SPWebApplication -identity "http://intranet-poc.abc.local"

   3: $webapp.MigrateUsers($true)

Bottom Line: Claims Based Authentication is an Essential Component in order to enable SharePoint 2013 with Advanced functionalities. If you had a Classic mode Web Application in SharePoint 2010 and you are planning to Migrate it to SharePoint 2013, Migration of Users is a Critical part of the SharePoint Migration. It is important to test the same in a Test Environment prior to the Production.

Notes: There are lot more details and scenarios when it comes to Claims Authentication. will put it over here as an detailed article soon.

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SharePoint Granular Backup Failed and Site Went Inaccessible (Locked)

So you was thinking that site backup has no Interruption to the running (live) system ? Yes it is. I ran in to an issue where an Granular backup was executed through SharePoint Management shell while users were accessing the portal in SharePoint 2010 production farm.

Backup was terminated due to lack of space in destination drive and users are prompted with "Error: Access Denied Massage" which was in an extremely critical peak hour.

There were multiple set of backup jobs running parallel in SharePoint Shell and few of them were unable to complete due to lack of space. The person who was handling this closed all the SharePoint Shells and sites suddenly prompted this error to all users. Sites which are successfully backed up had no issues.

Checked the Content DBs of particular Web Applications and they looks green as Database Read-only mode is "No".

When Looking out for a possible reason, the "Lock" word came up to my mind and checked the "Quotas and Locks" in Central Administration (Application Management –> Site Collections –> Configure Quotas and Locks)

And Here we Go !. It was in the Read only Mode. Changing the status to the "Not Locked" Mode bought everything back to normal.

It has put the site in to maintenance mode during the backup and since it was not properly completed, the status yet remains in Read-Only mode. So a good point to think before you execute any backups in SharePoint. Plan for a drive with enough space and off-peak hour.

This is the command line resolution for the same

stsadm -o setsitelock -url http://sitename -lock readonly

stsadm -o setsitelock -url http://sitename -lock none

Here are some good facts in terms of Backup and Restore Planning in SharePoint From Microsoft – https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg266384.aspx

SPSite Restore Fails with “InvalidData” Error (Restore-SPSite PowerShell Fails)

One of my friend came up with the Error on PowerShell during a Restoration of SharePoint Granular Backup to another Farm.

————————————————————————————————————————————————————-

Restore-SPSite : <nativehr>0x80070003</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>

At line:1 char:1

+ Restore-SPSite http://Source-Site -Path C:\bkp\SourceSite.bak

-HostHeade …

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~~~

+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (Microsoft.Share…dletRestoreSite: SPCmdletRestoreSite) [Restore-SPSite], DirectoryNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletRestoreSite

————————————————————————————————————————————————————-

After Checking all the Event Logs and Destination Databases etc.… realized that this cannot be an issue of the Destination Farm. Tried to backup the same Site Collection from source Farm via Central Admin Thrown an Failure at the end of the Backup job.

I Always Prefer PowerShell for SharePoint Administration because that’s the ultimate tool to get almost anything done when we stuck on UI. before finding the root cause for this failure through UI, made it to PowerShell since the Destination restoration was a urgent thing to do. If You face the same, Use Below Shell Line to Execute a Granular Site Collection Backup.

Backup-SPSite http://SourceSiteURL -Path "C:\site.bak"

This Ran very well and realized the size of the .bak file is pretty large than the one came out with errors through UI.

Used the New backup file to Restore and it went like a Charm. Making sure on the success result at the end of a backup job will save your day…

Extract Farm Solutions from SharePoint

Seems you are directed to here from a Search Engine!

Yes you can simply use PowerShell to extract your Farm solutions a bulk. there were some .exe s also does the same but for me it was more easy to use this smart little Shell Script. Every SharePoint Guy one day will face an Migration, this little guy is a very useful and reliable one.

Run PowerShell ISE as Admin and run below Lines. use first three Lines to Extract from the source Farm and last few lines are for Destination Farm use.

   1: #Extract Solutions from Source farm 

   2: Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell

   3: $farm = Get-SPFarm

   4: $farm.Solutions | ForEach-Object{$_.SolutionFile.SaveAs("c:\export\" + $_.SolutionFile.name)}</p>

   5:  

   6: #Add Solution to Another Farm 

   7: <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell

   8: $files = Get-ChildItem "c:\install\"

   9: ForEach ($file in $files) {Add-SPSolution $file.FullName}

Sample (Change the ‘Save as’ Folder as you wish)

Configuring Outgoing Email for Various SharePoint Environments

Configuring Outgoing email for a SharePoint Farm is one of the core thing to be done after the initial SharePoint Deployment and Configurations. You can use an Internal Mail Server or simply relay to an external Services such as Hotmail or Gmail. We will go through both ways in this Article. No purpose of referring to an External Service if you got a Mail Server in premise (e.g. – Exchange Server). Developers always prefer to use free Services like Gmail or Hotmail since having a Mail Server set up as a virtual is something consumes resources.

Scenarios

• Using External Services (Mostly Used for Testing Purposes by Developers)
• Using In Premise Mail Server
• Standalone and Multi Server Farms

Initial Common Steps (Ignore if you have SMTP and IIS 6.0 Roles and features Installed and go directly to Scenarios below)

To Install SMTP Services in SharePoint Server, Open Server Manager and go to Add Roles and Features. My server in this scenario is 2012, if yours is 2008 or earlier you may do the same from Control Panel –> Programs and Features.

Go to Add Roles and Features.

Click Next until you get the ‘Select Features’ tab. Select the SMTP Server There. Choose Telnet Client too, you will need it to test the connectivity to SMTP Services Later.

Below Tab will be prompted. Simply click ‘Add’ to it. SMTP Server is usually managed from IIS 6 Interface so let it install all the required components there. Click next after the selection and it will be completed in a minutes.

Once Installation is done, Go to Start menu and type IIS, find the old IIS Icon which comes as second item in results. Click and it will launch the IIS 6.0 Manager.

Meanwhile Let’s go to Services of SharePoint Server (Open Run and type ‘services.msc’ and Enter) and find SMTP Service then make the Startup mode to ‘Automatic’ from ‘Manual’.

Above Steps are the common ones for any scenario.

Scenario A – Configuring Outgoing Email for SharePoint with External Service

Once you launched the IIS 6.0 it will load below Snap in.

Right click on the Virtual Server Name [SMTP Virtual Server #1] and get the Properties of it.

General Tab – Nothing to do here

Access Tab. Under Authentication, Enable Anonymous and Click OK.

Connection: Choose All except list below under connection. You can also specify the Server here by choosing the first option so that would be more secure.

Relay: here also the second option for me. You can specify the server too.

Massage Tab – Nothing to do here for now. You can simply customize by defining limits based on the requirements.

Delivery Tab – Set the Outbound Security here. Choose ‘Basic Authentication’ and define the Account details which will be used to connect to particular SMTP Server (External). Enable TLS encryption and click OK to save.

Outbound Connection: I have No changes here. The default Port is 25 and you have to adjust based on the Port Number used by your External SMTP Service (‘I’m Using Gmail for testing)

Advanced: Define the FQDN of your SharePoint Server (Local Server which runs SMTP Service) and check DNS to validate the name. Set the name of your external SMTP Service under the ‘Smart Host’ field. (Gmail – smtp.gmail.com | Hotmail – smtp.live.com etc…)

You can leave rest of the things such as ‘LDAP Routing’, ‘Security’ with Defaults and enable as and when requires.

Let’s Open up IIS Manager which hosts our SharePoint Web Applications (IIS 7/8). Point to Relevant Web application which we will be using Outgoing Email in SharePoint. Click on the ‘SMTP E-Mail’ Feature.

Define it to use ‘Local Host’ and Save.

That’s it from IIS 6.0 Panel. Let’s Open up SharePoint Central Administration to do the last thing. Point to ‘System Settings’ –> Configure Outgoing Email Settings’ under Email and Test Category.

Define the

• Outbound SMTP Server (Local SharePoint Server which we enabled SMTP Services)
• From and Reply to Addresses
• Character Set with Defaults

That’s all on Configurations. Do a IIS Reset before we test the functionality.

Testing of Functionality.

You can either Set an Alert to a Library and if it’s sent we are good.

Login using an Account which has an Valid Email address. Create a test Library and go to Library Settings and ‘Set Alert on This library’.

It will prompt below snap in. it shows the Email address of the particular user. Click OK to save with default settings. Default settings will send an alert immediately based on any change you are doing to this library.

It will create the initial Alert right after the enabling. This Proves that Outgoing Email is now Functioning Well !

Or else the other way is to Create a Simple Workflow to fire a Mail based on a Record (or something). This is a nice way to test it out. Would be robust than the alert.

Open SharePoint Designer and create a Two Step Simple Workflow like below to test.

Upload a sample Item and Start the Workflow.

This will trigger the mail immediately.

Scenario B – Configuring Outgoing Email for SharePoint with In Premise Mail Server.

In This scenario, SharePoint Server will relay all the outbound mail traffic to Organization’s Mail Server which may be Exchange Server.

Nothing much but only below few changes you should do after the common Configurations done.

In SMTP Server ‘Delivery’ Tab. Enable ‘Anonymous Access’ under ‘Outbound Security’

Also the Internal Mail Server Name in the ‘Advanced’ Settings

Scenario C: Deal With Standalone and Server Farms

Standalone: In The Central Administration, You can point to Local SharePoint Server in the Single Server Scenarios. Do not point to the Smart Host from Central Admin.

Server Farm: having SMTP Service installed and configured in one of the Frontend Server would do. Make it available in all WFE Servers if you have multiple with Load balanced so that SMTP Service will still work even if any WFE goes down in case.

Point in to the Smart Host in Server Farm Scenarios. Do not point to the Local Server

Important Troubleshooting Steps

1. If you are not getting any mails yet, Check the Junk Folder too, sometimes it goes there under the untrusted category

2. Keep Monitoring the Queue Folder (C:\inetpub\Mailroot\Queue) if the mails are queuing here, you got a point to check.

3. Sometimes External Service vendors may have changed the port for SMTP for security purposes. Check the connectivity using Telnet. This is why we install Telnet service too when we installed SMTP. Open PowerShell as Admin and run below lines (customize with Name and Port)

If it connects Like below, we are Cool here. Otherwise you got a point to check, may be the port number of Firewalls you have.

Notes:

1. All Above Configurations are Identical for both SharePoint 2010 and 2013.
2. Also There’s No single Edition wise Difference (Foundation, Standard, Enterprise). all the steps are common for all Editions of SharePoint.

Discover and Leverage SharePoint Foundation

Foundation Edition is still the Grand Child of SharePoint Product Family. It is the Super Man of Small Level Organization’s Collaboration Arena !

SharePoint Foundation is the greatest free Platform i have ever experienced. Microsoft has already built it up to a very good level where bunch of out of the box features and functionalities are bundled. when you installed it and open up the Central Administration for First time, You wont see any single difference in UI Level but some of the advance Services and Service Applications aren’t There.

at 2007 when SharePoint was named as Office SharePoint Server 2007, Foundation was there as WSS 3.0 which is Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Many Small and Medium Size Organizations started playing with WSS 3.0 where they wanted to explore what SharePoint is all about. WSS was a Really good kick-off in the SharePoint product history. it made a big noise in the both Technical and end user arenas. When SharePoint 2010 Introduced, SharePoint Foundation 2010 came to the scene as a improved little hero and now with 2013 i can see that it’s getting armed with more OOTB Features (e.g. Search Services are bundled in !).

So What is SharePoint Foundation  all about ?

SharePoint Foundation is the entry level Platform of SharePoint Product Family. with the growth of product through several version releases, Foundation edition also has improved with same UI and core functionalities such as below.

   – Web Applications
   – Site Collections | sites (with number of OOTB Templates)
   – Lists and Libraries (with number of OOTB Templates)
   – Blogs
   – Wikis and about 50 more core (Major) features

Where it suits and to whom ?

for Small and Mid Size organizations who are interested of starting with Web Based Secure Collaboration. and i believe that any developer who is interested to start with SharePoint, he/she should start with Foundation edition so that he/she can simply understand with edition level variations.

Backend Database Practices

Except the Services and Service Applications, SharePoint Foundation doesn’t have many barriers on features (meaning here for startups) but if you look for totally free solution with SQL Server Express (Free) backend there’s a obvious Barrier on Backend when your solution grows up. For an instance SQL Server Express supports only limited size of Hardware Resources (Processors | Cores | Memory) and Limitation of DB size and Instance Size would be a challenge specially when the solution grows up.

When it comes to Small-Mid Size production environments with SharePoint Foundation, it would be better to have SQL Server Standard or Enterprise (Based on the Requirements)

What You don’t get in Foundation ?

Standard
    – Audience Targeting 
    – Document Sets
    – OOTB Workflow Templates (Signature Approval etc..)
    – Ratings
    – and about 40 + More Features than Foundation
Enterprise
    – Access Services
    – Dashboards
    – Excel Services and Power pivot for SharePoint (combined with SQL Server Enterprise)
    – Visio Services
    – InfoPath Forms Services (one of the most useful massive capability)
    – Calculated KPIs

How we can Leverage ?
as i was saying, SharePoint Foundation is the core Platform of the entire product range. it is extremely open for you to extend with your own solutions and customizations and that’s where we got to love it.

These tools and Resources are doing outstanding job to make you armed with custom solutions.

    1. SharePoint Designer (Customizations)
    2. Visual Studio (Developments)
    3. Community (e.g. – Codeplex) – Codeplex community doing an exceptional work that contains bunch of free SharePoint Foundation suitable solutions. 
    4. Search Server Express 2010 for SharePoint 2010 (Enterprise Level Search Solutions can be     implemented with this solid add-on) – See my Article here which explains step by step how  you can leverage your Foundation setup with Search Server Express 2010 which is also free of cost.

    5. Office Web Apps – and Yes ! this is one of the most evolving and interesting this across the collaboration arena. with office web apps you can simply open/edit Microsoft Office documents through the browser which came out with SharePoint 2010. it is also capable to integrate with Foundation (this isn’t free by the way).

Below are some free stuff from Codeplex makes your foundation environment more capable of going beyond the limits. i have tested some of these and i would highly recommend codeplex solutions when it comes to reliability and quality.

* Have a look at this filtered result of Codeplex solutions specifically for SharePoint Foundation – http://www.codeplex.com/site/search?query=SharePoint%20Foundation&ac=4

Below are some of them.

1. SharePoint Foundation 2013 Publishing Infrastructure – They have recently released an awesome add-on     for Foundation 2013 which is an lightweight Publishing Infrastructure for SharePoint Foundation     2013. this is a really good news for techies out there.

2. SharePoint Foundation Synchronization – This Solution enables SharePoint Foundation administrators     to synchronize Active Directory data with the User Information List.

3. ReportViewer for SharePoint Foundation – It’s Allows setting report parameters by SharePoint HTML     Forms (IWebPartParameter), SharePoint Lists (IWebPartRow) and by other linked reports

4. User Profile Synchronization for SharePoint Foundation – This guy is an SharePoint 2010 Foundation     Timer Job to Synchronize AD Properties (something cool as Foundation edition havent got a User     Profile Service Application)

What About Hosting ?

SharePoint Foundation also supports hosting Requirements. it’s fully capable of providing Multi-tenancy requirements for Hoster’s and I have tested the same several times. Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Subscription Settings Service is the ultimate actor which provides hosting capabilities and it is there in foundation edition as well.

Check out the capabilities here in this comparison chart –https://manojviduranga.wordpress.com/?s=editions 

Future Growth and Consider on Expansions

and in the other hand, when it comes to Farm | Server level, you are eligible of scaling out your Farm. SharePoint Foundation also can be implemented in three Tier method which goes as Web Tier, Application Tier and Database. you can have multiple number of Web Servers and Application Servers based on the load and Requirements.

Related References:

See my Article here to understand feature comparison in latest SharePoint – https://manojviduranga.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/sharepoint-2013-editions-and-feature-comparison/

Refer here to integrate Search Server | Express for SharePoint Foundation 2010 – https://manojviduranga.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/integrate-search-server-2010-express-with-sharepoint-foundation-2010-get-the-maximum-out-of-foundation-functionalities/

You can also see the Presentation here i did at SharePoint SriLanka User Group April Session under the topic of Leverage SharePoint Foundation as it’s Max. – http://www.slideshare.net/manojviduranga/utilize-sharepoint-foundation-as-its-max

Integrate Office Web Apps with SharePoint Foundation step by step guidance – https://manojviduranga.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/convert-a-virtual-disk-via-hyper-v-2012/ 

Product Updates and Releases ?

Whenever Microsoft Release a Product Version, Cumulative Updates or Service packs for SharePoint Server, it releases for all three editions together (Foundation, Standard, Enterprise) so whichever the edition you use you are up to date with the technology.

Download Resources:

Download SharePoint Foundation 2013 – http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35488 

Download SharePoint Foundation 2010 – http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24983 

Download Office Web Apps Server for SharePoint – http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35489

Download Search Server Express for SharePoint 2010 – http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18914

SharePoint Product Updates – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/sharepoint/jj891062 

 

Cheers With Your SharePoint Journey Folks !!

SharePoint User Group Meet up for April 2014–How to Leverage SharePoint Foundation with Available Free Tools

Another SharePoint User Group Meet up Finished successfully Yesterday At Microsoft Srilanka. my topic was “how to leverage SharePoint Foundation with Available Free tools”. May be you are interested to look at the slide here – http://www.slideshare.net/manojviduranga/utilize-sharepoint-foundation-as-its-max

Failed to create a database. An exception of type System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException was thrown. Additional exception information: Could not find stored procedure ‘sp_dboption’. – Error Occurred when Installing SharePoint 2010 in SQL 2012.

got a new server for my Test environment and started creating a lab of SharePoint 2010 in it with SQL Server 2012 R2. everything went smoothly until I start Configuration Wizard. It came to the 3rd Level and Error Occurred suddenly saying – Failed to create a database. An exception of type System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException was thrown. Additional exception information: Could not find stored procedure ‘sp_dboption’.

After thinking a while realized that my setup was just SharePoint 2010 RTM which is None SP. since my lab is brand new thought of trying on installing SP1. just downloaded and installed the SP1 for SharePoint 2010 and started the wizard again.

Everything Gone perfect after SP1. further when reading understood that it’s must to have SP1/above for SharePoint to install in SQL 2012.

Download SharePoint SP1 here – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2460045

All SharePoint Updates are here – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff800847.aspx

Integrate Search Server 2010 Express with SharePoint Foundation 2010 – Get the Maximum out of Foundation Functionalities

Empowering your SharePoint Foundation farm through an readily available Add-on which will make more worth of continuing is the prime goal of writing this article.

Note : This Testing has been carried out in SharePoint Foundation 2010 with SP2 and Search Server Express 2010 Full version which was functioning as expected. 

Advanced Search was one of the most utilized feature in SharePoint 2010 for me in last few years in my SharePoint Experiences. 70 % of our projects I have used Search Solutions for my clients. however though we have enterprise clients across the world, there are lot of medium and small level clients as well so having SharePoint Enterprise or standard may block their interest of SharePoint in Financial Perspective so still there are considerable number of organizations across the globe which are using SharePoint Foundation/WSS 3.0.

thought of writing this after one of my testing carried out to discover the power of Search Server Express 2010 which can be integrated with SharePoint foundation 2010. the objective is to discover the capabilities of Search Server Express with SharePoint Foundation 2010 which would be helpful for the foundation crowd out there.

as you already know, Foundation edition of SharePoint does not capable of providing customizable searching or it’s interface since there is no Search Application as it is embedded with an windows service so the whole thing is automated (Schedules/Content Sources/File Types etc..). no wonder that this is Foundation but you can keep faith on yet an extremely good news which is Search Server Express 2010.

Search Server Express is an Separate Setup that you can Download here. This is the Full Version. this addition will install not only the Search Services but also Secure Store Service and Web Analytics Services which are really useful and makes SharePoint foundation More shined. many techies still worries about not having these core features in foundation and thinks that they have to pay for Search Server also but not really, Search Server Express totally free with few limitation but yet really useful and almost covered as same as enterprise.

right after this deployment, you will be able to experience below capabilities on your foundation setup.

1. Search Service Application (Create Search Service Application and customize as you want which is same as Enterprise). Manage Content Sources, Define File Types, Search Web Parts Such as Advanced Search Box.

2. Web Analytics Services

3. Secure Store Service

So lets start with the deployment. I have an SharePoint foundation farm back ending SQL Express 2008 R2 which is in a Single Server. this post I will start with the Search Server Deployment.

Normally these are the only service applications you have in SharePoint Foundation 2010. additionally BDC is there which you can create via New –> Service Application

Starting with setup by just click on Install Search Server Express is the first step once you done with the prerequisites. make sure you have the internet on server during the prerequisites installation.

Accept the License Agreement as usual to proceed.

 

Change the Program path if you need it to be installed in another location as the default goes to C: Drive and just hit Install to start.

Give it a moment. this wont take than 5 Minutes if you have proper resources on server.

Config Wizard will automatically pop-up right after the installation. leave the tick box selected to run the wizard (this will make your IIS reset for several time during the process)

Just Click Next

the summary will be here so again “Next” to go.

Leave it for few minutes. not more than 5-6 minutes again.

That’s all and we done the installation and Search Server Express is now integrated to your SharePoint farm.

Let’s check out whether we got it as expected. indeed, direct to Service Applications through Central Administration and you will realize that you have few more Service Applications available for creations. isn’t this the greatest news for foundation crowd ever heard of?

As next let’s go to ‘Services of Server’ through the CA and we are now about to start our New Services (SharePoint Server Search, Web Analytics Service etc.. which are newly embedded through Search Server Express deployment)

Let’s Start the Search Service as same as we do in SharePoint Enterprise. I’m filling Service Credentials, Names of DBs, Schedules of Crawling etc..

Now to Configure Search Service Application which is also identical as same as Enterprise. so far I’m so excited !!. hit OK to create the Search Service Application.

Give it a moment. indeed again this depends on your server’s performance. coming in to mind that you are on an enterprise environment, yes I am.

Alright we done with it as this resulting “Succeeded”

Get in to Service applications and you will see our newly created Search Application is started there.

click on it and get in to the configuration panel. you will see all the capabilities such as File Types, Content Sources, Crawl Log etc.. which are about to shine your Foundation Farm here after.

let me now check the Service Connection mapping of my web application though CA –> Service Connections for Web Application in order to try with searching.

Starting a Crawl for my default content source to check out on searching.

meanwhile I would Enable Site Collection Level Search Features. I’m activating Search Server Web Parts here. this is totally same. more Excited !

And Search Settings from CA –> Site Collection Administration

You would see the familiar Search Settings Page as same as enterprise.

alright, Now the interesting part where we are going to add an Search Web Part to a page. by just editing a newly created web part page –-> Insert –-> Web Part –-> Search Web Parts -–> Advanced Search Box. there will be lot more web parts which are were limited only up on SharePoint Standard such as Advanced Search Box, Refinement Panel, Search Box, Search Statistics, Search Core results, Federated Results etc..

done with adding Advanced Search Box to my web part page as you see below so what are we waiting for ? let me search something as I guess it has completed crawling which I already started in an earlier step.

it is it is … !!! we are now having Advanced search functionality in our Foundation setup.

hope this was a great news and tip for SharePointers out there and will come up with next post soon ..