One of the new features with SharePoint 2010 is the option to add-on FAST for advanced indexing and search capabilities. The short presentation below gives an idea of the extras you get with FAST versus just using SharePoint. The focus is on internal indexing/search solutions. FAST offers a lot more over SharePoint for use with public facing web sites but that’s a whole other scenario.
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Microsoft has announced a new indexing connector for business intelligence (BI), specifically BI reports created using Excel and/or SQL Reporting Services, including the new tool for analysing massive amounts of data – PowerPivot. The connector creates a dedicated Report tab to query just reports, includes specific refiners filtering search reports, and thumbnails and previews to [...]
Read more »The presentation below contains a walkthrough the basics of what are content types in SharePoint 2010 and what’s new. Enjoy!
Read more »This week I presented at the SharePoint Evolutions Conference and one of the sessions I delivered was an interactive tour around some of the new and improved features being introduced in SharePoint 2010, from the end-user’s perspective. Here’s a presentation that summarises some of the demonstration:
Read more »Following the problems with travel caused by a certain volcano, I’ll now be presenting at the SharePoint Evolutions conference in London. My session abstract hasn’t made it onto the web site yet so here it is below:
Session: What’s new in SharePoint 2010 for Information Workers
Abstract: We will take a look at the new features in SharePoint Server 2010 from the end-user’s perspective. Starting with a tour of the new user interface we will explore the new search results, social networking features and new ways to organise and classify content within sites. We’ll finish with a peak behind the scenes at the new administration settings and tips to consider when planning to deploy SharePoint Server 2010.
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SharePoint Server 2010, like its predecessors, includes indexing and search capabilities. But what doesn’t come out of the box is the ability to index and search for PDF documents. PDF is a format owned by Adobe, not Microsoft. If you want to be able to find Adobe PDF documents, or have the PDF icon appear when viewing PDF files in a SharePoint document library (see image above), you will need to set it up for yourself. This post describes how to.
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