SharePoint Use Cases

While configuring SharePoint 2010 for a client we encountered the following error in the search crawl logs: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80070422) Had no idea how to fix it because all the SharePoint services were up [...]

In previous articles I wrote about configuring scopes in SharePoint and Search Server 2008 (Part 1 | Part 2). One additional question that I would like to explain is scopes dropwodn configuration. Configuring Scopes Scopes are controlled by Site Settings > Search Settings, here is the list of available options: Option Result Default Scope > [...]

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 [...]

Back in November Microsoft announced Microsoft Search Server 2008 (MSS). It is built on SharePoint search technology but it does not include any other features. I have been testing it internally ever since and I must say that I am quite impressed with the results. The search engine is quick, reliable and fast. With the [...]

Last week I was busy setting up BDC, Search and Excel services for my company intranet site. I will be posting a series of posts on these topics but today I will put a few notes on SSO. You will definitely need SSO for BDC and BDC Search; for Excel services there are some workarounds. [...]