Based on the same technology as the SharePoint 2007 Search, you too can have Microsoft Search for FREE! As part of the newly released Microsoft Search Server 2008 product line, you can have Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express for FREE! I would like to point out the differences in the following hierarchy of products from… Continue reading Microsoft Search now available for FREE!
Get your head in the Cloud with Microsoft Online Services
For those of you that don’t know, the Cloud is really just a metaphor for the Internet. There are many universities and companies (Google, IBM, Microsoft, etc.) that have large scale cloud computing projects. Some applications that live in the cloud you may even use frequently, such as Twitter, FaceBook, MySpace, YouTube, StumleUpon, Digg, del.icio.us,… Continue reading Get your head in the Cloud with Microsoft Online Services
SharePoint 2007 Search Analytics Overview
I think that one of the most useful features of the included reports that are provided with the new MOSS SharePoint 2007 Analytics and Reports are the Search Analytics. While there are a host of improved analytical tools with this new version of SharePoint, such as the SharePoint 2007 Site Collection Usage Reports and the… Continue reading SharePoint 2007 Search Analytics Overview
Free SharePoint 2007 Add-on for quickly seeing all documents in all document libraries
Normally I don’t link to third party tools, but this one is quite handy and quite free! Atidan Explorer for SharePoint is a tree-view control that displays your SharePoint site’s document library structure and content in the familiar explorer type view. This allows users to quickly scan for all documents on the SharePoint 2007 site… Continue reading Free SharePoint 2007 Add-on for quickly seeing all documents in all document libraries
SharePoint 2007 Licensing Part III: FAQ
In Part III in this mini-series on SharePoint 2007 licensing, I’m merely answering some of the questions that I’ve been emailed over the past couple of months. As I’ve stated in previous posts, you absolutely should work with either a Microsoft Licensing Specialist or with your VAR (Dell, CDW, etc.) to ensure that you are… Continue reading SharePoint 2007 Licensing Part III: FAQ
SharePoint 2007 Licensing Part II: Scenarios
For Part II in the SharePoint Licensing Update series, I have put together eight different licensing scenarios and detailed the requisite licensing for each. Again, I’ve updated an old posting that I did shortly after the product first came out. As you may or may not know, the product originally did not allow an internal… Continue reading SharePoint 2007 Licensing Part II: Scenarios
SharePoint 2007 Licensing Part I: Products
Licensing is a huge topic. So huge, in fact, that Microsoft has licensing specialists. VARs have licensing specialists. Consulting companies have licensing specialists. In Part I of this multi-post blog entry, I will describe the SharePoint products that are available. I am not listing prices with these products for several reasons, the most obvious one… Continue reading SharePoint 2007 Licensing Part I: Products
Search within a search, or Faceted Search, or Search Refinements
Thanks to Roberto D’Angelo and Mark Harrison for pointing out http://www.codeplex.com/FacetedSearch. Pulled directly from the CodePlex Faceted Search landing page… MOSS Faceted Search is a set of web parts that provide intuitive way to refine search results by category (facet). The facets are implemented using SharePoint API and stored within native SharePoint METADATA store. The… Continue reading Search within a search, or Faceted Search, or Search Refinements
Microsoft Case Study: SusQtech – Maximize ROI and Build a Better Solution with SharePoint
Companies around the world are discovering Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies. At the same time, many of them—particularly the small and midsize companies—are discovering that they don’t know how to realize the benefits that they know SharePoint products and technologies can offer. That’s where Susquehanna Technologies comes in. Susquehanna Technologies has parlayed its expertise in… Continue reading Microsoft Case Study: SusQtech – Maximize ROI and Build a Better Solution with SharePoint
Identify CSS Classes used within SharePoint (MOSS)
Anyone that has had the pleasure of styling a SharePoint site, whether WSS 2, WSS 3, SPS 2003, or MOSS 2007 has found the utter joy of working through a lengthy CSS implentation. In fact, one of the designers that I have worked with for years absolutely adores the naming convention and sheer number of… Continue reading Identify CSS Classes used within SharePoint (MOSS)