SharePoint Use Cases

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 > [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]