Publishing by search: what about video in HTML field?

I think the title it's someway self-explaing: we know that when you add a video to a HTML field, SharePoint doesn't use HTML5 video tag, but it installs a web part which show the video itself using a player. A video, in SharePoint, it's not simply a file, but a folder which...

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Strategy: catalog connection with managed metadata multivalue field

Everybody knows about SharePoint catalog connection... maybe What if you have a pre-existing catalog connection and your customer asks you to switch from a single value field (generally ItemCategory) to a multivalue field? In a ideal world you should quote this and say "don't...

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Deleting a host named site collection... for real

A simple problem: you have to delete a host named site collection in order to recreate it. When you try to recreate it, you get an error: SharePoint says the site collection already exists... if you restart the machine you'll be able to recreate it. What if you cannot restart...

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