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• SharePoint Patterns & Practices Guidance for November

  This guidance helps architects and developers design, build, test, deploy, and upgrade SharePoint intranet applications. A reference implementation that is named the Contoso Training Management application demonstrates solutions to common architectural... Posted Nov 21 2008, 09:00 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, Tips, resources

• Live At BETT 2008 - Day 1

  Hello Everyone, For the next three days I will be talking with customers at the Microsoft booth.  For those that do not know what BETT is, it is the largest Education-focused tradeshow in the UK.  There are a lot of exciting technologies on... Posted Jan 09 2008, 06:35 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Vista, SharePoint, Windows, Tips, Microsoft, Photography, Tools, resources, Education

• Tafiti Brightens Up SharePoint Enterprise Search

  Microsoft announced yesterday that Tafiti , the experimental Silverlight front-end for Live Search, has been released under the Microsoft Shared Source Permissive License *it's like BSD*.  Here is the announcement.   Internally this caused a... Posted Dec 19 2007, 10:01 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, Search, Windows, Microsoft, Platform, Tools, Accessibility, Live.com, Cool, resources, Silverlight, academic, OpenSource, FreeAsInBeer, MSS

• Index PDFs Lightning Fast with Foxit's PDF iFilter

  iFilters are like plugins for search products that extend the functionality of the indexing service.  Windows Indexing Service, MSN Desktop Search, Internet Information Server, SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), Site Server... Posted Dec 17 2007, 01:09 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, Search, Adobe, resources, Laundry List, FreeAsInBeer, iFilters

• MOSS 2007: In-depth Look at Search Technology (Level 200)

  TechNet Webcast: An In-Depth Look at SharePoint Server 2007 Search Technology (Level 200) Monday, December 17, 2007 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Pacific Time Matt Hester, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx... Posted Dec 13 2007, 04:25 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Webcast, SharePoint, resources

• Wildcard Search in MOSS 2007 and MSS 2008

  I know a few of you who attended my presentation on Search Server 2008 had questions regarding wildcard search capabilities.  Sammy Jankis sums up SharePoint's wildcard search functionality pretty well.  After reading his article you find that... Posted Dec 07 2007, 08:45 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, Search, Microsoft, Tools, resources

• London TechNet Event Presentation and Resources

  Thank you all who attended the London TechNet event, Beyond SharePoint: Advanced Solutions in Business Intelligence and Enterprise Search. Please follow this link to download the attached PDF of my presentation around Microsoft Search Server 2008. ... Posted Dec 05 2007, 01:51 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, Search, resources, Presentation, roadshow

• Connectors and Investing in Open Technologies

  So I presented at Falkirk to an awesome audience about Search Server 2008 and had some interesting questions.  I've learned in my travels that geography plays a huge part in the sophistication of an audience.  Don't get me wrong, I am not insulting... Posted Nov 29 2007, 02:28 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, Office, Search, Windows, Platform, rant, resources, ocs, Laundry List, Unified Communcations, Op-Ed, OpenSource, FreeAsInBeer

• Saving Loads of Money With Groove

  During the London roadshow, a gentleman came up to me and asked about a solution to allow CAD designers to synchronize jobs across two branch offices. Basically his problem was that the ADSL connection between the offices was too slow to easily transfer... Posted Oct 05 2007, 10:24 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, Office, Microsoft, Groove, IT, resources, Cartoons, Op-Ed, FreeAsInBeer

• Evolving Company Culture Starts With a "SharePoint"

  One of the most difficult tasks that IT departments and businesses have with managing a company is to evolve culture. cul·ture (kŭl'chər) Pronunciation Key n. The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all... Posted Sep 05 2007, 12:12 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, Microsoft, Platform, IT, rant, resources

• Microsoft IT Showcase: Deploying SharePoint

  One of the greatest things that don't happen at most corporate IT departments is giving back to the community and communicating best practices. Microsoft is one of the few companies that invest heavily in IT R&D so that it is an active partner in... Posted Aug 30 2007, 11:20 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Webcast, SharePoint, Microsoft, Platform, Cool, IT, resources, ITshowcase