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SharePoint Image Search (Part 4)

Introduction This is Part 4 of a 4 part series on how to create an image search center on a MOSS site. My goal is to create a search results page similar to the Microsoft Live Search Images page. In Part 1 I explored the out of the box search ex ...[Read more]

Published: 9/1/2008 | 69  Comments | 0  Links to this post

SharePoint Image Search (Part 3)

Introduction This is Part 3 of a 4 part series on how to create an image search center on a MOSS site. My goal is to create a search results page similar to the Microsoft Live Search Images page. In Part 1 I explored the out of the box search ex ...[Read more]

Published: 8/31/2008 | 8  Comments | 0  Links to this post

SharePoint Image Search (Part 2)

Introduction This is Part 2 of a 4 part series on how to create an image search center on a MOSS site. My goal is to create a search results page similar to the Microsoft Live Search Images page. In Part 1 I explored the out of the box search ex ...[Read more]

Published: 8/30/2008 | 8  Comments | 0  Links to this post

SharePoint Image Search (Part 1)

Introduction After working on several search projects it is clear that the out of the box search experience for images is, well, less than optimal. I mean look at how cool the Microsoft Live Search Images interface is, then, hover over an image ...[Read more]

Published: 8/28/2008 | 25  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Create a XML Test Page for Search Results

I have been working on a couple search projects lately and have found it very helpful to create a XML Results page in my Search Center. It is easy enough to do. In the Search Center choose Site Actions | Create Page. Create a new Sear ...[Read more]

Published: 8/28/2008 | 2  Comments | 0  Links to this post

SASUG Search Presentation

Thanks again to my hosts at the San Antonio SharePoint User Group. I had a great time. You can download my deck and the samples that I demonstrated from my SharePoint Conference post. I have not added the information on image search that I present ...[Read more]

Published: 8/27/2008 | 2  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Another EBE Blog in the Wild

The folks over at AMD have been busy getting their message out and they are using the Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition to do it! The team developed an EBE theme that goes with their corporate brand. No customizations beyond t ...[Read more]

Published: 8/18/2008 | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

SDPS and Microsoft RoundTable

I have been spending this week delivering a Microsoft sponsored SharePoint Delivery Planning Services session. If you are a Partner and you don't know about SDPS you should check it out. If you are a customer and have Software Assurance you should ...[Read more]

Published: 8/13/2008 | 2  Comments | 0  Links to this post

My Site Availability

I struggled with how to title this post because readers may not know that you have this issue (and if they do, how do you search for the issue?) On the My Site profile page just below the default profile information there is a web part that display ...[Read more]

Published: 8/8/2008 | 15  Comments | 0  Links to this post

AAM and SSL Termination

Scenario A few days ago I knew nothing about SSL Termination, the Cisco ACE load balancer or Alternate Access Mapping. (OK, I lied, I knew enough about AAM to hate it. Mostly because I just don't get it.) I was struggling with the following scen ...[Read more]

Published: 8/5/2008 | 21  Comments | 0  Links to this post