OBA, SharePoint and Aghy [MVP] : search

Searching your SharePoint sites with Internet Explorer 8

OBA, SharePoint and Aghy — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:38:16 GMT

IE8 has a very customizable Search Toolbar. Of course, the default search engine used by it is the Live Search, but you can manage the search providers in a very easy way. Just click on the “Find More Providers” menu: On that page you can find the most...(read more)

Presenting at European SharePoint Best Practices Conference

OBA, SharePoint and Aghy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:45:10 GMT

After the success of SharePoint Best Practices Conference , organized by Mindsharp last September in Washington DC, the series goes on. Next event is going to be at the very beginning of February, in San Diego . This conference goes beyond the how-to...(read more)

WFE vs. Complete installation

OBA, SharePoint and Aghy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:28:09 GMT

Today I had a really interesting (and horrible but useful) experience. One of our customers has installed a brand new MOSS 2007 Enterprise farm with one server (and one other for SQL 2005), and my task was to migrate some content databases to here from...(read more)

MOSS Search: Custom Search pages and Property mappings

OBA, SharePoint and Aghy — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:06:01 GMT

After a basic introduction let's see, how you can build a custom search page, and Property mappings. This post will built on traditional method without Infrastructure Updates , but in the next part we'll see the Updates details as well. Step 0...(read more)

MOSS Search - Base search functions

OBA, SharePoint and Aghy [MVP] — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:30:00 GMT

The MOSS Search Engine gives a lot of really powerful features for us. Let's see a few options, how can we set very useful search pages. First of all, we can define several types of content sources: ... You can read the full article on my new blog...(read more)

Build fix queries in a dynamic way

OBA, SharePoint and Aghy [MVP] — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:13:00 GMT

By default, we are able to display query results in our own page with the Search Core Results web part . Basically the search query can be built in two ways: UserQuery: to get a query from current user we need a Search Box or Advanced Search Box web part...(read more)