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  • Great MOSS Search Training Resource

    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 ...
    Posted to Mauro Cardarelli (Weblog) by Mauro on May 22, 2008
  • Can SPS2003 Crawl WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 Content?

    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 ...
    Posted to Mauro Cardarelli (Weblog) by Mauro on April 17, 2008
  • Nice Article on Intranet Strategy

    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 ...
    Posted to Mauro Cardarelli (Weblog) by Mauro on March 2, 2008
  • Next Socal MOSS User Group Meeting - December 11th @ QuickStart in Orange County.

    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 ...
    Posted to Socal SharePoint User Group (Weblog) by aaron on December 3, 2007
  • Changes to Your Custom SharePoint Search Code

    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 ...
    Posted to Mauro Cardarelli (Weblog) by Mauro on August 8, 2007
  • How search features are affected by a SharePoint upgrade

    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 ...
    Posted to Mauro Cardarelli (Weblog) by Mauro on July 11, 2007
  • Leveraging Technology to Build Knowledge Sharing Systems

    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 ...
    Posted to Mauro Cardarelli (Weblog) by Mauro on May 19, 2007
  • 64-bit PDF iFilter Available

    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 ...
    Posted to Mauro Cardarelli (Weblog) by Mauro on May 15, 2007
  • Interesting Tidbit on SharePoint 2007 Search Keywords

    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 ...
    Posted to Mauro Cardarelli (Weblog) by Mauro on April 24, 2007
  • Working with the SharePoint 2007 Search Web Service

    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 ...
    Posted to Mauro Cardarelli (Weblog) by Mauro on April 21, 2007
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