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The Enterprise Search Blog has a post about new training material for MOSS search configuration.  It's 17 hours (over 14 modules) of online tutorials.  This is good stuff. The 14 recorded presentations are based on training modules from a three-day, in-person training course ‘Implementing and Deploying an Enterprise Search ...

I get this question every once in a while and the answer is simple... No! Check out this KB article for details... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932743 SYMPTOMS loadTOCNode(1, 'symptoms'); You configure Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to crawl content that resides on a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site or on a ...

I came across a recent article in CIO Magazine entitled ''Nine Mistakes That Turn Your Corporate Intranet into a Ghost Town'' by Martin Amm.  It is a great piece to share with your business sponsors as you start to plan your MOSS-based intranet deployment.  The items are centered around common sense approaches (if you've done this ...

Date : 12/11/2007 Time : 11:30am-1pm Location : Quickstart Irvine - 16815 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 100 Irvine, CA 92606   Agenda : Microsoft has made an significant investment into Search, making many recent announcements including the new Search Server 2008.  Come and see Search Server 2008 in action, as well as hear from ...

I wrote a web part a couple of years ago that would use the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 search QueryProvider class to write a custom employee directory web part.  Recently, I tried to port the same web part to a MOSS 2007 environment, expecting that the functionality would carry through (the metadata I used in '03 seemed to match what was ...

I found a very interesting article on Microsoft TechNet (http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/e96a7f61-4287-40f9-b7c0-2763e1fd93841033.mspx?pf=true) on how search is affected by going from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to MOSS 2007.  It provides details, via a simple table, on how SPS 2003 settings map to MOSS 2007 ...

Thanks to everyone who attended my ''Leveraging Technology to Build Knowledge Sharing Systems'' session at NEECOM (New England Electronic Commerce Users' Group) yesterday.  The link to my sessions slides is below.  Lots of great discussion on the challenges of building a KM system.  My favorite discussion point was on desktop ...

I read on the iFilter Central blog that a new 64-bit PDF iFilter is now available (http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/archive/2007/05/10/long-awaited-64-bit-pdf-ifilter-finally-available.aspx).  Interestingly, it is not from Adobe but from a company called Foxit.  No worries; it works! The blog also mentions the steps for getting things to ...

Here's an interesting user experience that I came across and struggled to explain (until now!)... SharePoint 2007 search results apply security trimming, meaning you only see what you have permissions to access.  In some instances, however, users were reporting that they were seeing results that, once clicked, prompted them for credentials ...

I've been working with the SharePoint 2007 search web service recently... Did you know that you can call the SharePoint search engine from other applications?  Very powerful!  The challenge, as in calling most web services, is getting the input syntax right so you can get your expected results.  In my research, I came across a very ...