My colleague Mauro Cardarelli posted a simple code snippet yesterday to determine the GUID for an SSP. It worked, and he accomplished what he wanted to accomplish, but my first thought was: STSADM command extension. If you’ve worked with SharePoint much at all on the server, you’re very familiar with STSADM. It’s the command line…
Do you regularly look at your search logs? If you don’t, you are missing a significantly valuable source of information. The search logs tell you what people really want, not what you’ve provided them "easy" access to. Some insights you will be able to glean include: Ways to tailor your navigation to provide access to…
Last week, Microsoft announced three updates which affect SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Project Server 2007, Search Server 2008, Search Server 2008 Express and Project Professional 2007. These updates are explained on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog: Announcing: Availability of Infrastructure Updates. The Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers contains the new Enterprise…
There’s a post over the SharePoint Solutions Blog which describes the benefits of Microsoft’s new Search Server Express 2008 well. One key benefit: You can search across Site Collections in WSS! An excerpt: So the scenario is that you have deployed WSS in your company and you do not have a need for most of…
Over at the Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog, there’s a nice post from Jon Campbell about how to plot your data using Virtual Earth. The first step is to get your data into nice shape using some geocoding service. There are many of these out there these days, but Yahoo’s service has been many people’s…