Imagine the MOSS search without the surrounding SharePoint gubbins. Imagine it free. http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/serverproducts/searchserverexpress/default.aspx  

Historically we've been seen as a Microsoft shop within the UK eBusiness division - quite rightly too. As part of the wider B&D group though we have a lot of experience in the Java/Open Source arena to bring to the party as well. For example, currently we provide solutions expertise in all the following ECM/CMS systems: SME                 /\       ADXSTUDIO (Closed Source / .NET)                         |       Pelikan (Open Source / PHP)                         |       EPiServer( Closed Source / .NET)                         |       Nuxeo (Open Source / Java) Enterprise        \/   ... [More]

Well the cram fest paid off - now the MCTS in config. and admin. of MOSS 2007 is under my belt too. Now to put this into practice, but before that I have to tie off an EPiServer project and also get stuck into an ADXSTUDIO one!

So the cram-fest that I blogged about a few weeks ago has come around, and the last couple of days+nights swotting have paid off with an MCTS in Configuring WSS v3. Now there's another few days of intensive, 14 hour days and then I'll be going for the Sharepoint Server equivalent as well. Here's to reading thick tomes!

So it was decided that it was worth getting myself and one of the guys on my team actually certified on SharePoint - probably a good idea! Looks like it's not going to be a rubber-stamping of what we already know though - the course is one of these condensed 5-day blitzes where you eat, sleep and work the course. Yikes. It's not the stuff I normally do anyway, as it's the professional rather than developer perspective and I tend to get my mitts stuck in the API more than the other things. I think I'm going to learn lots and very fast. It's a bit daunting but it should be good though. Good fo... [More]

If you are setting MOSS User Profile properties, there is a bit of a gotcha when dealing with multi-value properties. Normally, you'd do something like: UserProfileManager oManager = GetUserProfileManager(); UserProfile oProfile = oManager.GetUserProfile(sUsername); oProfile["SomePropertyName"].Value = "This is a nice value to set"; If you try this then, happily, it will probably work. That is unless you have a multi-value property. Well - it will work if you have a multi-value property, as long as you are only setting a single value. Let me explain.... it looks at first glance as i... [More]

Massive frustration... only being able to point to an AD once with a single Import connection. (Try setting up a second and see what happens!) Can anyone think of a logical reason why this limitation should be there? To work around it, either construct a clever LDAP query to change your search root or select specific AD nodes, or use a Security Group on the filter, like so: (&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User)(memberOf=CN=YOURGROUP,OU=YOUR_OU_IF_PRESENT,DC=SOMEDOMAIN,DC=CO,DC=UK)) The advantage of using a Security Group is to get excellent granularity. I use it to select whol... [More]

If you use MOSS profiles much, and especially custom properties, you will probably be aware of the excellent tool kick off by Angus Logan called ProfilePropertyMgr. Unfortunately, until now it had one particular drawback - it didn't support the entries in a multi-value field. So, if you had a multi-value field with values 'A', 'B', and 'C', when you exported the property it just exported the property and thats it, without the values. One of the MOSS projects I've been working on has massive multi-value lists, such as country lists. Now, you can have them in a text file and 'Import file...' th... [More]