Saturday, December 17, 2011

From Russia with love

Tip:

There are two Russian vendors that offer free SharePoint tools.

RebelSearch Document Preview for SharePoint Search 2010
Install this on your WFE server(s) and you will have a preview option of the search results.
Be aware that it runs under the farm service account, and that is considered a security risk by SharePoint itself.

HarePoint Workflow Scheduler , that allows automatic execution of SharePoint workflows ​by schedule.
HarePoint Workflow Extensions Free Set of Activities, with a lot of String functions (finally available in SPD!).
Together with Virto Workflow Activities Kit that offers a free rollup of activities from Codeplex, these are a very useful extension of the workflow activities in SharePoint Designer.

1 comment:

  1. Document Preview service could be configured to run under any dedicated account (Central Admin -> Security -> Configure service accounts).
    The only reason why it is using FarmAccount is simplicity of the installation process - it is grabbing account from Central Admin as one known to be working for sure.
    Well, point taken. We will make it configurable at some point.

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