It was pointed out to me recently that "I must be busy, because I have not been posting this month…" OUCH! Yes, I have been busy, but that is no excuse. I should point out that twice this month I have been honored with a cross-post from the Enterprise Search Team blog. SharePoint Image Search…
I was recently working with a colleague who posed the following question: "How can I wrap the top navigation rather than scroll it off screen?" My follow up question was: "Why on earth would you ever have a top navigation that was that wide?" To which he answered: "Don’t ask" So, ours is not to…
Every so often I get asked about creating a corporate phonebook or mobile phonebook for SharePoint. I have been doing a lot of planning sessions this week and needed something creative to do, so here’s something fun. I decided to create a lightweight people search page for mobile devices. I created the page starting…
It saddens me to report that the SharePoint community has lost a legend. Patrick Tisseghem passed away suddenly in Sweden on Wednesday. If you have not heard of Patrick, he was a SharePoint MVP and GREAT GUY! He was a prolific contributor to the SharePoint community. The author of many SharePoint books, most recently “Inside…
Often I blog things so that I can stop searching for them. I run across this error all the time…and then have to search for the KB with the fix. When opening IIS Manager you click on the Web Sites folder and receive the following error: The path specified cannot be used at this time.…
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 experience for images and walked…
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 experience for images and walked…
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 experience for images and walked…
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 and look at how cool the property display is! How about the…
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 Search Results page and call it XMLResults.aspx Once the page…
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