"Is it Soup Yet?" My last two blog posts on SharePoint and Search Server Federated Locations (Part 1 and Part 2) have been very popular, but some of you have just wanted to download the location definitions without having to read through ...[Read More]

Welcome back! This post will be the conclusion of my Search Federation article. In Part 1, I talked about Federation in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and Microsoft Search Server (MSS/X), and showed you how to create a basic Federated L ...[Read More]

Today I'm going to walk you through setting up a Federated Location in Search Server and post-Infrastructure Update SharePoint. (Twitter fans, pay attention, as that's the service I'm using in these examples...) While that certainly qualifies as ...[Read More]

Over the last few weeks, I have veered a bit "off topic". But now that TechEd is over, it is about time to bring things back on track. So today, I'm getting back down to the business of helping you to understand SharePoint with another & ...[Read More]

In my summary post on TechEd EMEA 2008, IT Pro Week, I mentioned that I felt one of the most significant announcements is the addition of a SharePoint discipline to the Microsoft Certified Master and Certified Architect programs. That is now being ...[Read More]

Here's something worth celebrating: Microsoft Search Server 2008 (MSS) and Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 (MSSX) were announced almost exactly 1 year ago - November 7th, 2007 - and the release candidate of MSSX made available for download. ...[Read More]

As I prepare to head home from TechEd EMEA 2008, my impression is that this has been a good week. As I predicted, most attendees were focused pretty hard on the sessions for the whole conference. The booth got busy in the between times, but otherwis ...[Read More]

After my walk on Monday, I got cleaned up and headed to the Centre Convencions Internacional (CCIB). Other than registration (which I had already done on Sunday), there were two main events for the day. First up was the Keynote speech, given by B ...[Read More]