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  • Twitter SharePoint Federated Location Definitions - Ready to Serve

    "Is it Soup Yet?" My last two blog posts on SharePoint and Search Server Federated Locations ( Part 1 and Part 2 ) have been very popular, but some of you have just wanted to download the location definitions without having to read through all of the gory details of their preparation. So, for...
    Posted to The Sanity Point (Weblog) by WoodyW on 11-25-2008

  • It's in There - Automatically Maintained System Columns in SharePoint Lists

    Over the last few weeks, I have veered a bit "off topic". But now that TechEd is over, it is about time to bring things back on track. So today, I'm getting back down to the business of helping you to understand SharePoint with another "Back to Basics" article on the subject of...
    Posted to The Sanity Point (Weblog) by WoodyW on 11-15-2008

  • On Being a SharePoint Master

    In my summary post on TechEd EMEA 2008, IT Pro Week, I mentioned that I felt one of the most significant announcements is the addition of a SharePoint discipline to the Microsoft Certified Master and Certified Architect programs. That is now being borne out as the SharePoint blogoshpere and Twitterverse...
    Posted to The Sanity Point (Weblog) by WoodyW on 11-11-2008

  • Happy Birthday, Search Server!

    Here's something worth celebrating: Microsoft Search Server 2008 (MSS) and Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 (MSSX) were announced almost exactly 1 year ago - November 7th, 2007 - and the release candidate of MSSX made available for download... Read the whole article on my new site!
    Posted to The Sanity Point (Weblog) by WoodyW on 11-10-2008

  • Taking Accounts into Account

    Every service which runs on a Windows server requires an account. While there are built-in accounts designed to facilitate these services ("Local Service" and "Network Service"), many times you will find it is better to use a domain user account when setting up services. This is especially...
    Posted to The Sanity Point (Weblog) by WoodyW on 10-27-2008

  • A List, a View, a Part, in SharePoint

    Today's subject is something of a "back to basics" article. I talk about some very fundamental SharePoint concepts, but I'm adding a little bit of a twist. Lists and libraries, Views, and Web Parts are interrelated components. Sometimes it is hard to tell where one of them stops, and...
    Posted to The Sanity Point (Weblog) by WoodyW on 10-20-2008

  • Finding Buried Treasure - Built-in Usage Reports in SharePoint and Search Server

    If you have a web site, you need usage reports. You need to know how often people are visiting, what they're looking at, and where they're coming from. While this information is a kind of buried treasure in and of itself, I'll also show you how to get to some "bonus" usage reports...
    Posted to The Sanity Point (Weblog) by WoodyW on 10-12-2008

  • The Only Constant in Life is Change

    "What's In a Name?" The recent turmoil in the financial industry has got me to thinking. (And no, this isn't an article about the finance industry, or the turmoil.) What happens when something really foundational changes? How will you adapt your SharePoint environment to the new situation...
    Posted to The Sanity Point (Weblog) by WoodyW on 09-29-2008

  • First, Do No Harm

    When I was speaking at the Wisconsin SharePoint Users Group last week, someone asked me: "How do you know when to choose SharePoint Designer or Visual Studio for a particular change to a site?" I explained that I had a sort of "Hippocratic Oath" for SharePoint customization. Read...
    Posted to The Sanity Point (Weblog) by WoodyW on 09-22-2008

  • The "Language" of Advanced Search (Part 2)

    This is the conclusion of a two-part article about customizing the SharePoint (MOSS), and Search Server, Advanced Search Web Part. In Part 1, you learned about the basic settings of the Web Part - which search options are shown, and how they are labeled. In Part 2, I'll show you how to change which...
    Posted to The Sanity Point (Weblog) by WoodyW on 09-05-2008
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