A reader MCT asked: Does anyone know how to translate SharePoint’s site usage reports? For example, when you generate the report called monthly summary – page, it lists “total hits.” Does this mean the total number of visits to the page? Also, if you have headers or graphics on a page, they show up in [...]
23 Oct, 2008
Posted by: Toni Frankola In: SharePoint
In order to improve this blog I am constantly monitoring activity reports provided by Google Analytics. Few days ago I noticed that someone came to my blog by using the following keywords: add wikipedia searchbox webpart to sharepoint add google search bar to sharepoint The query seemed interesting and here are some possible solutions: Solution [...]
20 Oct, 2008
Posted by: Toni Frankola In: search server|SharePoint
In Part 1 of this post I described how you can configure multiple site collections and different scopes, and in this article I will provide step-by-step guide on how to configure scopes for a site collection. As you might recall the part 1, if a user does not select a scop,e MSS will return results [...]
19 Oct, 2008
Posted by: Toni Frankola In: search server|SharePoint
We are currently demonstrating Microsoft Search Server 2008 to a number of customers. In order the speed-up the this process, we deployed an evaluation version of MSS on our evaluation server. I wanted to configure MSS as testing environment for some customers but allowing each customer to have an independent site for testing. The sample [...]
13 Oct, 2008
Posted by: Toni Frankola In: SharePoint
If you decide to link a document from a document library using some of the built in SharePoint links web parts, you will encounter a strange behavior of Office clients. Your document will be opened as read-only and you will not be able to save it. There is an KB article which describes how you [...]
Ian has posted a nice link to a Visio model published by Microsoft. It gives a very good overview of SharePoint security.
08 Oct, 2008
Posted by: Toni Frankola In: office 2007|SharePoint
I have been using Microsoft Messenger for a number of years (it’s name changed but I cannot recall the old one). Recently we deployed new Communicator 2007 into production and I must say I am very happy with its possibilities. Conversation History One of the most important features of the new Communicator is the ability [...]
