Eli Robillard's World of Blog.
Bligger. Blagger. Blogger.
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Web Deployment Projects: CodeCamp Presentation and Source
Since this presentation, there's been an update to Web Deployment Projects, read about it on ScottGu's blog.
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Unit Testing and SharePoint
Chris Chapman of iMason develops an NUnit base class for testing SharePoint applications.
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Eli's Resources for SharePoint Search
Start Here
A wonderful summary of SharePoint Search and Index, how it works, how it is configured, and how WSS and SPS search differ.
Reference- Managing External Content. Excerpted from the SharePoint Resoure Kit, this is an excellent reference on all aspects of search, not just the crawling of external content.
- Updates to Content Indexes and Content Sources: Differences between Full, Incremental, Incremental (Inclusive), and Adaptive Updates.
- Scoping and Configuring the Content Index for the Site Directory.
- The Gatherer Log.
- iFilters, Noise Word Files, and Thesaurus files.
Developing solutions with SharePoint Search and Index- Using SharePoint Search with MCMS 2002.
- Using SharePoint Search with Lotus Notes, with secure results.
- Using SharePoint Search with ASP.NET sites.
- Using SharePoint Search with ASP.NET sites, with noise filtering.
Events and Webcasts
DevConnections 2006: PAD303: Search and Indexing Configuration and Administration for SharePoint Portal Server
Optimising SharePoint Search
Mondosoft BehaviorTracking. A fantastic analysis tool to discover how your users search, enabling you to optimise Best Bets, Synonyms, and even your Site Taxonomy. It's not SharePoint specific, so you can also use it with your public website to figure out what customers are looking for, and how. Think on that, the marketing opportunities are endless. It's doesn't seem to be a bargain, but really is compared to what it would cost to develop, and I can think of scads cases where it would pay for itself within months.
Enhance with Web Parts
csegSearch by Carlos Segua Sanz. A Web Part that highlights search terms in the results and parses boolean (and/or) searches.
Cross-Site Search for WSS by CorasWorks. Requires free registration. Read Todd Bleeker's description.
People Finder Web Part by Mark Bower. Mark engineers the Content Editor Web Part to filter search results down to people, pretty cool.
Rip and Replace
If you really don't like the way SharePoint does Search, or want a search engine for WSS without the overhead of SPS, the market leaders are Mondosoft and Coveo. Both are excellent products with strong supporters.
MondoSearch.
Coveo Search.
The Future: Search in SharePoint 12 Office Server
PDC 2005 Video (OFF320).
PDC 2005 Slide deck (OFF320).
- Managing External Content. Excerpted from the SharePoint Resoure Kit, this is an excellent reference on all aspects of search, not just the crawling of external content.
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Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Inside Out: Excerpts
MS Press has another SharePoint book, and like the Resource Kit they've posted a few chapters online for your convenience.
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Toronto SharePoint User Group: Wednesday, Feb 8
Optimise SharePoint Search with Mondosoft Analysis Tools
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Out-of-box vs. Modular
A number of companies with products for SharePoint were recently cited in a release from Kurt Delbene, the VP of Microsoft's Office Server group, including K2.net workflow (a product of SourceCode) and CorasWorks. Kurt's release highlights the great work done by third parties to make SharePoint a great solution in a variety of settings.
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Free CorasWorks training on February 28
CorasWorks holds free workshops in many cities (see the complete schedule), and Toronto is again on the list for February 28th.
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TSPUG December and January Recap
I'd like to thank a couple of people for helping out the Toronto SharePoint User Group these past two months. In December we were prize-less until John from CorasWorks (creators of some terrific SharePoint add-ins) dropped in and donated a $100 Amazon Gift Certificate to our monthly prize raffle. Thank-you John!
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Toronto Code Camp 2006: a stunning success
Thanks to a great pair of organizers (JL and Chris), a raft of sponsors, 30 volunteers (including Luis and Louella from EI), 17 others who came out to present, and over 200 developers, Saturday's Code Camp in downtown Toronto was a great experience for everyone involved!
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SharePoint Team Blogs
The SharePoint team has launched a new blog to discuss topics across the SharePoint Products and Technologies family. It started off with a summary of SharePoint's role in Microsoft's collaboration story, a pretty important story to understand if you're in the business. Today they added a good post with links of the role of Business Intelligence in SharePoint with links to a few great related resources like the Excel team's blog and a BI strategy announcements page.