Sep27
Every so often I get asked about creating a corporate phonebook or mobile phonebook for SharePoint. I have been doing a lot of planning sessions this week and needed something creative to do, so here's something fun.
I decided to create a lightweight people search page for mobile devices.
I created the page starting with an regular ASPX page. After adding a web part zone I dropped a Peopl...
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Saturday, 27 Sep 2008 09:00.
Sep5
It saddens me to report that the SharePoint community has lost a legend. Patrick Tisseghem passed away suddenly in Sweden on Wednesday.
If you have not heard of Patrick, he was a SharePoint MVP and GREAT GUY! He was a prolific contributor to the SharePoint community. The author of many SharePoint books, most recently “Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007” and “Inside the Index and S...
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Friday, 5 Sep 2008 10:24.
Sep3
Often I blog things so that I can stop searching for them. I run across this error all the time...and then have to search for the KB with the fix. When opening IIS Manager you click on the Web Sites folder and receive the following error: The path specified cannot be used at this time. The only temporary solution I have found is to perform an IISRESET which is a drag, because the site is usu...
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Wednesday, 3 Sep 2008 04:31.
Sep1
Introduction
This is Part 4 of a 4 part series on how to create an image search center on a MOSS site. My goal is to create a search results page similar to the Microsoft Live Search Images page. In Part 1 I explored the out of the box search experience for images and walked through the setup required to get the indexer to crawl image file types. In Part 2 I installed the XMP IFilter and demo...
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Monday, 1 Sep 2008 05:00.
Aug31
Introduction
This is Part 3 of a 4 part series on how to create an image search center on a MOSS site. My goal is to create a search results page similar to the Microsoft Live Search Images page. In Part 1 I explored the out of the box search experience for images and walked through the setup required to get the indexer to crawl image file types. In Part 2 I installed the XMP IFilter and demo...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Sunday, 31 Aug 2008 04:40.
Aug30
Introduction
This is Part 2 of a 4 part series on how to create an image search center on a MOSS site. My goal is to create a search results page similar to the Microsoft Live Search Images page. In Part 1 I explored the out of the box search experience for images and walked through the setup required to get the indexer to crawl image file types. We concluded the post with an issue: images st...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Saturday, 30 Aug 2008 12:00.
Aug28
Introduction
After working on several search projects it is clear that the out of the box search experience for images is, well, less than optimal. I mean look at how cool the Microsoft Live Search Images interface is, then, hover over an image and look at how cool the property display is!
How about the results in SharePoint…
OK, I know, SharePoint is a document centric application ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Thursday, 28 Aug 2008 09:24.
Aug28
I have been working on a couple search projects lately and have found it very helpful to create a XML Results page in my Search Center.
It is easy enough to do.
In the Search Center choose Site Actions | Create Page.
Create a new Search Results page and call it XMLResults.aspx
Once the page is created, set the "Target search results page URL" property of the Search...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Thursday, 28 Aug 2008 09:14.
Aug27
Thanks again to my hosts at the San Antonio SharePoint User Group. I had a great time. You can download my deck and the samples that I demonstrated from my SharePoint Conference post. I have not added the information on image search that I presented last night. I am working on a three part post that will pull all of the necessary information together.
Thanks again to Rackspace, our gracious h...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Wednesday, 27 Aug 2008 06:29.
Aug18
The folks over at AMD have been busy getting their message out and they are using the Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition to do it! The team developed an EBE theme that goes with their corporate brand. No customizations beyond the XSL that you have to write to complete your concept....
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Monday, 18 Aug 2008 07:50.