You’re in the UK, your server knows it’s in the UK, yet all the dates in SharePoint are listing in the US format of month/day/year. SharePoint ignores the regional settings of the server and watches the time in its own little world. To change, go to the top level site in the site collection, click [...]
Read more »*** This post was originally published on the Joining Dots blog in November 2007 *** I’ve just spent more time than I care to admit trying to kick a SharePoint server to life. The installation completed without a problem. Same too for the configuration wizard. But when it came to actually running SharePoint, the following [...]
Read more »Originally, this series was supposed to be 4 parts. But started to realise that part 2 in one shot would be a very looooooong blog post. So here is part 2a. (Click here for part 1): Key messages from the presentation: Slide 3. Whilst most documents about indexing in SharePoint include a complicated diagram to [...]
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Earlier this year, Joining Dots ran a series of Enterprise Search workshops for Microsoft UK. Its purpose was to help organisations explore what enterprise search means and what Microsoft technologies can do to help implement an effective search solution. The workshop consisted of four sessions, containing a mix of presentations, hands-on demonstrations and plenty of [...]
Read more »Excel Services is a new feature introduced with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) Enterprise Edition. It enables you to, amongst other things, display information from an Excel 2007 spreadsheet inside an Excel Web Access web part. Why is this useful? There are all sorts of reasons, but the best by far is to [...]
Read more »Microsoft Search Server 2008 is due to be released later this year. It is a subset of SharePoint Server 2007, containing Windows SharePoint Services (the free add-on to Windows Server 2003 or later) and Search Center (indexing and search). You can currently download a release candidate of Search Server Express Edition The release candidate includes [...]
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