Driving Through Flyover Country 2008 should theoretically have been a boring year for SharePoint. The current version (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007) was released in 2006. The next version wouldn’t be out until 2009, if not later. The software equivale ...[Read More]

"When it Absolutely, Positively, has to be Found." One of the key features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), and Microsoft Search Server 2008 (MSS) - including Express (MSSX), is Enterprise Search. What you may not ...[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]

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]

If you have a web site, you need usage reports. You need to know how often people are visiting, what they're looking at, and where they're coming from. While this information is a kind of buried treasure in and of itself, I'll also show you how to ...[Read More]

This is the conclusion of a two-part article about customizing the SharePoint (MOSS), and Search Server, Advanced Search Web Part. In Part 1, you learned about the basic settings of the Web Part - which search options are shown, and how they are l ...[Read More]

If you have been using MOSS Search or Search Server, you have probably noticed that the Advanced Search page gives you lots of options to restrict results. From different word filters, to particular languages, to document types - even specific doc ...[Read More]