Sharepoint 2010: Document Sets - Adding or Displaying More Custom Properties or Column to the Welcome Page of the Document Set

By default, Sharepoint does not display any custom column/fields OOTB on the Welcome Page of a Document Set. Adding or displaying more custom properties or columns is not an easy process. However, it is often needed. It involves creating Site Column, Content Type and etc. Fortunately, I found a good article describing this process step by step : http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/sharepoint-2010/archive/2010/10/15/sharepoint-2010-cookbook-customize-document-set-content-type.aspx

This is the result of adding more columns on the Welcome Page.

FAST Phonetic Searching for Names is Not Working or Return No Result

According to Microsoft documentation, Phonetic Search is one of the main functionalities in Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. Users can search for a person in the organization by name without knowing the exact spelling of the name. For example, the search query "John Steal" could yield "John Steele" in the search results. However, there is a weird/funny/unexplainable scenario here. When I was using Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) to do phonetic searching, there is always no results returned. When I changed to Mozilla Firefox, IE7 or Chrome, it just works! This is a very special case where a functionality of a Microsoft Product does not work on Internet Explorer. I could not find any solutions to this. So if you want the Phonetic Search to work, just use another browser.

Take a look at the illustration below:

When the search is being done in Firefox:

SharePoint 2010: User Profiles - You receive an error - "An unexpected error has occurred." when you try to browse to the page to Manage a User Profile

In Sharepoint 2010, User Profile Service Application is a new service that replaced the SSP. I encountered ""An unexpected error has occurred." error when I selected a user and click on Edit, and also when I wanted to edit  User Profile Properties. The page was working correctly without any problems previously. Due to some unknown reasons, the user profile service application failed and was throwing me this error page.

This is an expected behaviour if the User Profile Synchronization Service is started on the SharePoint server hosting Central Administration. To fix this issue, simply perform a recycle of IIS Central Administration Application pool is required to get this working.