Microsoft has just released SharePoint Guidance for November 2008.  This guidance helps architects and developers build SharePoint intranet applications. A reference implementation (RI) demonstrates solutions to common architectural, development and lifecycle management challenges. This guidance discusses the following: Architectural decisions a ...[Read More]

If you are not one of the 2000+ visitors that visit SharePoint Buzz daily, then you should be! Why? I am constantly reading the latest rss feed items from my collection of 250+ SharePoint RSS feeds (majority from SharePoint bloggers) and sharing the ones that are very well written, useful.  I do this to help myself and hopefully you to see what i ...[Read More]

Just some video viewing for those learning SharePoint 2007.  The Visual How To's are a great resource from Microsoft.  Here are two new Visual How To's: Displaying Search Results in a Grid View in SharePoint Server 2007 (direct link to video) Summary: Learn how you can bind search engine results to an SPGridView control to display the results in a ...[Read More]

Ramon Scott just posted on his blog on how to perform wildcard people search on MOSS 2007.  His script example, shows how to search for First Name and Last Name.  After reading some of the comments, many were wondering how to implement search on additional search fields. That's when I remembered, I had a similiar solution for a client last year; ...[Read More]

SharePoint 2007 brought enterprise class features into an integrated user experience. Yesterday, Microsoft released a free version of its beloved enterprise search product dubbed Search Server 2008 Express. This release will allow any IT department to deploy and have a usable search product within 30 minutes. They will also be offering a paid ...[Read More]

The upcoming Microsoft Search Appliance (picture above) will help enterprise customers enable Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 search capabilities without requiring any complicated set-up. SCAN Technologies have partnered with us to use their expertise and our technology to build on MOSS 07 and deliver a very simple to install, configure ...[Read More]

Recommended reading, have not had time to blog lately, trying to wrap up work with a client. For those that wanted some links, check out the following reading material for Tuesday. Capacity Planning Key Info - A number of new articles around performance have been published rounding out some great content on capacity planning, so rather than up ...[Read More]

Did you know that MOSS 2007 gives you the ability to search across all your content sources, network shares, internet searches, etc and put them all together into one search interface. Well how about we go one step further and you can learn how to create a reseller dashboard that is reachable through your search results. That's exactly what Gunt ...[Read More]

Customizing MOSS Search – written by Ian Morrish, SharePoint Insider; provides a walkthrough of how to add Microsoft Live Search results to the SharePoint Search page Custom list/document property values to the search results summary. Mobile browsers and devices that are supported in WSS 3.0 and in MOSS 2007 – Microsoft KB article that a ...[Read More]

Ton S. goes through his post on how to import and export a site by using the SharePoint object model.  With the Sharepoint object model  you can export several types of content to disk. You can do this by setting up a number of SPExportObject objects. These can be added to a SPExportSettings object.  The last step is to create a SPExport object an ...[Read More]