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Excellent news, picked up via From the Field, Adobe have released a proper 64-bit iFilter 9 in response to customer requests, complete with instructions for setup on SharePoint Server 2007, Exchange and SQL Server. You can download the installer...
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I'm part way through the great book on Search Server 2008. Even using Sharepoint and Search every day, it's still interesting to find the things you don't know (or have forgotten ) about the products. Some quick notes that I made while reading...
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I've just completed a migration from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to shiny new Moss 2007 implementation. And whilst looking for some content that had gone missing, I noticed that the search results page sometimes took 30 - 60 seconds to return the...
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The idea of affinity diagrams is by no means new and it gets used in lots of different areas as a way of organising thoughts and ideas during a brainstorming session. All you need is a whiteboard and a whole pile of sticky or Post-it notes, and...
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OK I know that there are already blog posts out there on this subject, but I wanted to put something down in one place for my own clients. Also I find it’s often the case that when I talk to users about this, they aren’t even aware of the existence...
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Here’s a fun article in the Register by Mark Whitehorn. Some wag at Microsoft has apparently used the Term Extraction Transformation in SQL Server Integration Services to analyse words used by Sarah Palin in two different speeches!
Completely...
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The two posts on this blog with the greatest number of hits are the one on configuring a PDF iFilter with WSS 3.0, and using Adobe Reader 9 with SharePoint. Almost every SharePoint implementation I’ve been involved in has required setting...
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I travel by train to the office regularly now. Although this sometimes takes longer than driving, it is more consistent and it gives a couple of hours a day where I can do some reading without interuption (plus I feel I'm doing my bit for the planet...
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In an interview with Steve, MS Live has only 3% of market share of searches. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has declared that he wants the software giant to leap from third to second in search in the $40bn (£22.5bn) global online advertising...
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...you type "modifying" into the Google search field and the third most popular result that appears on the drop-down of query suggestions is "Modifying nerf guns." Read More...
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Quite often you will need to customise the search results and ensure that your custom metadata mappings are displaying correctly. To view the raw results, I undertake the following... a) Edit the results page (results, or people depending on what you...
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Following the previous post on search, this shows how to simply and quickly show a single users profile details on a page. Note, that this intended for MOSS (where we have the profile database) but could be re-worked for WSS to show details from the user...
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I’ve had MS Live search as my default home page for some time and it’s great, pretty much does the same as Google. In the past month, there’s a new feature, which changes the page every day to a new photo. Quite timely it’s the Olympics. This gives a...
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Adobe Reader Version 9 is now available for download, you can get it here. I was hoping that this version would include a 64-bit iFilter for use with SharePoint but unfortunately it doesn’t. Many WSS or MOSS users want to index PDF documents...
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Arpan Shah has a post about availability of Federated Search for SharePoint 2007. Right now federated search is only available for Search Server 2008/Express - what this does is allow you to pass queries to other search engines (Live Search, Wikipedia...
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