Office Server 2007 Ramblings

Kerberos & Sharepoint

2008-02-28T12:16:00Z

Some useful links that help guide a configuration of SharePoint when using Kerberos... How to configure a Windows SharePoint Services virtual server to use Kerberos authentication and how to switch from Kerberos authentication back to NTLM authentication How to use SPNs when you configure Web applications that are hosted on IIS 6.0 How to configure SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services to use Kerberos authentication...(read more)

InfoPath Popup Windows

2008-02-15T12:54:00Z

As yet I have not tested this, but it sounds good. especially useful for large lookups, which in standard InfoPath are pretty painfully slow due to the massive amount of code that is produced by InfoPath Forms Services. This method would mean that you could write your own code which is much more efficient. Although to be honest if I was faced with this kind of thing I would be more likely to use ASP.NET forms instead of InfoPath. see: Serve's Sharepoint blog post...(read more)

MOSS Faceted Search

2008-01-25T10:18:00Z

Looking at Mark Harrison's blog , he points out that version 2 of the MOSS faceted search is available. Not having seen this tool before I thought I would have a look. It seems pretty useful, but probably I need to test a lot more with many documents before I can really tell. But it seems to add an element of guided discovery/findability to MOSS search which is quite neat; especially as it is open source on codeplex. The link to MOSS Faceted Search is here and a demo is here . The faceted search...(read more)

Search & Indexing - .MSG Outlook messages & Attachments

2008-01-24T17:30:00Z

There seem to be some people in the big world of blogging that have posted that the correct way to get Outlook messages to be correctly crawled and made searchable within Sharepoint is to edit the registry. They are now out of date, as Microsoft have released a Filter Pack that provides this functionality, albeit undocumented. The 3 blogs I have found are as follows : Gavin Adams Tom Vandaale Lirliron If you follow their advise you will firstly be taking a risk by altering your registry (always back...(read more)

Customising Search Results via XSLT

2008-01-17T15:47:00Z

Recently I have been customising MOSS search results pages using XSLT and am quite pleased with the results ;-). However, one requirement from our customer was to break up the document url into it's component parts and provide links to site and library and folder separately. In essence this is quite easy to do using Javascript splits and slices etc.... However once I click on the link for the folder, it does successfully take me to the folder but with one rather annoying problem..... as follows.......(read more)