Monthly Archives for October 2008

SharePoint Usage Reports explained

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - October 26, 2008

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…

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Google, Live.com and Wikipedia Search Web Parts

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - October 23, 2008

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…

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Configuring scopes in Microsoft Search Server 2008 – Part 2

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - October 20, 2008

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…

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Configuring scopes in Microsoft Search Server 2008

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - October 19, 2008

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…

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Office 2003 and 2007 Office documents from a document library opens as read-only in Internet Explorer

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - October 13, 2008

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…

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Taming SharePoint Security – Part 2

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - October 8, 2008

Ian has posted a nice link to a Visio model published by Microsoft. It gives a very good overview of SharePoint security.

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Communicator 2007 with SharePoint/Office 2007

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - October 8, 2008

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…

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