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In this part of the series we will take a look at setting up authoritative pages, which allows influencing the order of results coming from different content sources. You can specify which pages have higher or lower priority when appearing in the search results by providing a rank for pages or sites. To add a site/page to Authoritative (or ...

Last week I was working on a simple web part that  would get come data from an MS SQL database and show in a grid. Per client's infrastructure requirements the connection to the sql server might only be done using integrated security, as sql users are not allowed to be created/used. By default, if you specify "Trusted_Connection = ...

Recently I was working on a utility that would query a MOSS list for items with update_timestamp field within a certain range. I used CAML queries for the task and this is when I found out that for dates in CAML  query filter the time part gets omitted, i.e. following two CAML queries will return the same results even though time part of the ...

Everyone knows how painful it is to try reaching a MOSS page after an IIS reset or a server reboot; what happens is ASP.NET performing page and resource compilation and caching. You can help your users save frustration by simply touching every MOSS web application once after a cold restart. Of course you would prefer to automate such a task ...

In the first part of the series we've looked at how to create content sources to be crawled. In addition to that, you can control the behavior of the crawler on the content sources by setting exclusion and inclusion rules on the content. Those rules apply to all and any content matched by specified URL patterns. Let's take an example: you ...

In this part of the series you will learn how to set up Search Scopes. Search scopes allow to create specially defined groupings of searchable content, which can be chosen by users when executing a search. Go to the Sharepoint 3.0 Central Administration site Click on the Search Settings link in the Search section: Click View Scopes in the ...

In this series of MOSS Enterprise Search How-To's I'd like to share the knowledge I received from a recent training on setting up the MOSS search engine. In this post I will show how to setup content sources and crawling rules. Setting up content sources: 1. Navigate to the Search Administration page - Open SharePoint 3.0 Central ...

Let’s talk about dashboards and what they mean for a business. First and foremost, what is a dashboard? It’s a management tool that shows “vital signs” for your enterprise, aggregating data from a wide range of business systems to provide key performance indicators in a clear and easily readable fashion. A well designed dashboard can identify ...