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If you're like me, challenges are what make being a developer fun. Sometimes, however, these challenges can be daunting. With piecemeal information at one's fingertips, it can be aggravating to say the least to try to solve a vexing problem.

Of course Magenic provides many services and products for many different businesses. As an example, Steve Hughes, Business Intelligence Project Lead for Magenic, took some time to share some elements of a recent project.

When Dakota County needed a solution to make their Criminal Justice Integrated Information Network (CJIIN) move to the next level, they looked to Magenic for help.

It’s important to properly manage how site collections are placed into content databases within a SharePoint Farm. This is because a content database size can negatively affect performance, especially when it grows to hundreds of gigabytes or even terabytes of data.

A very commonly misunderstood concept in SharePoint is the notion of page customization and uncustomization. While this topic has been hashed and re-hashed, it seems that every time I revisit it, I gain new insight. This post will try to sort out some of the spaghetti to bring more clarity and also try to point out a different perspective on a familiar concept.

One aspect of FAST Search for SharePoint that needs to be considered is how to effectively “tune” the search engine to increase recall and relevancy. Out of the box, FAST includes a default configuration that while handling most situations, is not meant to be left in its default state. Since each business scenario carries a different set of requirements, it is most useful to configure the engine to produce results that are of high value to one’s organization.

Imagine that you are creating a content type for a publishing page or a document and you want to have a field in that content type that is a managed metadata field (a.k.a. a taxonomy field). This allows users to select a term from one of the termsets that you have in your Managed Metadata Service’s termstore. There are many steps to do this.

Hello everybody, and welcome back to the second post in our blog series about SharePoint Enterprise Application Development. Our topic this time around is Build Engineering.

With all the knowledge the consultants at Magenic possess, it’s too bad they don’t try and spread that with others. Wait a minute…they do! In fact, many of them keep their own blogs in order to do so. We like to keep track of their writing and highlight some of the great posts that these Magenicons have put together. The following are some of the latest and greatest.

Hello and welcome to the first in a new series of blog posts from the members of the SharePoint practice at Magenic. Magenic has a wide range of SharePoint and application lifecycle management expertise to serve you when you are engaging enterprise development within SharePoint.  One of the key challenges with a team of developers and enterprise development on SharePoint is how to enable the team to effectively work together.  We’ve seen this done well and we’ve also experienced instances that we would love to forget.