MOSS has a great search functionality, especially for indexing SharePoint content. But when it comes to indexing organization’s external web sites, some problems may arise. The crawling and ranking mechanisms are tuned for indexing structured intranal content and do not always perform optimically with external web site content.

Indexing organization’s external web sites creates also problems in presenting the content….

The content access account of MOSS search should have a read-only access to content. In some cases that is not enough – there is a list level setting to limit the visibility of draft versions of list items to only the ones with edit permissions. This means that the content access account cannot index the draft versions. So…

TechNet has a good article about the effect of word breakers, stemmers and noise word lists in MOSS search. It was known to some that the word breakers and stemmers were not enabled by default in some languages including Finnish, although the components themselves were shipped in MOSS binaries. It was not until last spring when Microsoft documented that in…

According to Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog, the official launch date of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 is now set to be May 12th. The RTM should be ready in April. Exciting news for all of us Microsoft professionals!

We recently wrote about upgrade path from SP2010 beta/RC to RTM being blocked. When we get the RTM…

SharePoint stores all portal content in content databases. This means that large documents and other binary large objects (BLOBs) quickly push the databases towards the recommended 100GB maximum size limit. Item versioning settings make this even worse, as every minor or major version creates a new binary copy of the document into the database.

A brand new feature of SharePoint…

TechDays 9-10.3.2010 at Messukeskus is the biggest annual Microsoft technology event in Finland. This year there are two tracks of SharePoint-related content. Most of the SharePoint Blues authors will also be there. You can easily find us by looking for these shirts:

Come to meet us and give your feedback!

This time Sininen Meteoriitti has