Social Computing is one of the focus areas of SharePoint. The current version of product provides a rich feature set for enterprise social computing, from social networking tools like My Sites to social content technologies such as blogs, wikis, RSS....

What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? As Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide aptly puts it - “Search engine optimization is about putting your site's best foot forward when it comes to visibility in search engines”. How to Optimize...

I read an interesting article by C.G. Lynch , on the CIO.com website, on how Enterprise 2.0 start-ups have had to deal with growing market share of SharePoint. Click link below to read it: Microsoft Sharepoint vs. Enterprise 2.0 Start-ups: Day of Reckoning...

External Blob Storage (EBS) is a much blogged about and discussed feature of SharePoint 2007. It has been available for over 2 years now, first as a hotfix and then as part of the Service Pack 1 release but based on my experience its one of least understood...

Yesterday the updated document set on Microsoft Online Dedicated Service was published. The document set can be downloaded from Microsoft Download Center . link: Microsoft Online Dedicated Service Descriptions From the perspective of SharePoint developers...

Microsoft Online services are designed to provide a software-plus-services environment featuring enhanced security and continuous access to applications and data. This week some white papers and documents were released/updated with information on security...

Continuing the discussion on document processing , this post focusses on the document processing engine in FAST ESP. The Document Processing Engine provides processing of documents through customizable document processing pipelines . The Engine consists...

Besides the architectural differences and feature set, transitioning from SharePoint to FAST ESP involves knowing the differences in terminology also. The term – “ Document ” is just one of the many examples available. This post is about...

The blog on Office 2010 - " The Microsoft Office 2010 IT Blog " was launched by the Office product group earlier this week. Subscribe to its RSS feed or check it regularly to get the official word on the product and release information. They have already...

Office Live provides integration points with Office client programs to enhance user experience and make it easier to upload, access and maintain the information. The Microsoft Office Live Update (download: Office Live Update 1.3 ) is a small program...

Microsoft's Enterprise Search website contains information on search products, including FAST ESP . You can also read about the Enteprise search solutions - Enterprise Search for Internet Business and Enterprise Search for Business Productivity here....

As you might know, SharePoint's Web browser support is divided into two levels: level 1 and level 2. Level 1 Web browsers take advantage of advanced features provided by ActiveX controls and provide the most complete user experience. Level 1 browsers...

Continuing the trend of consolidation in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) market, Open Text is acquiring Vignette . The transaction is expected to close in H2 of CY09 after all the required clearances and Vignette will become a wholly owned subsidiary...

Microsoft Forefront solutions help provide a security enhanced messaging and collaboration infrastructure by providing a family of integrated security and identity products that helps protect information and control access. Just read the post - Webcasts...

As part of the SharePoint for Developers screencast series, Kirk Allen Evans has posted screencasts on Silverlight: SharePoint for Developers Part 3 - Expression Blend and Silverlight - SharePoint developers will likely use a variety of tools to build...

Some weeks back, Microsoft released a white paper - “ The Way to Gov 2.0: An Enterprise Approach to Web 2.0 in Government ” to help Government agencies understand the special considerations governments face when implementing Web 2.0 and help create solutions...

MSDN and TechNet libraries have a "low bandwidth view" feature for low bandwidth users. In case you are not aware of it, try it out now. It comes very handy when browsing the MSDN/TechNet library using a data card or any other form of slow Internet connection...

Content retrieval is done very differently in FAST then in SharePoint 2007. FAST ESP may retrieve content from the data sources using two broad approaches: 1) Content Pull : this approach leverages content connectors to retrieve the information via...

In the Using Office Live Workspace for Collaboration post I gave a brief overview of the Office Live Workspace service. In this blog post, I will do a feature walkthrough of OLW and showcase some of key features and concepts. Please note that last major...

Office Live Workspace is a free file sharing and online storage solution from Microsoft. You can use Office Live Workspace to collaborate on Web-based documents, notes, spreadsheets, presentations, and lists. It is built on Windows SharePoint Services...

In SharePoint 2007, custom Search scopes can be enabled in a Site Collection through Site Settings > Search Settings page. You can use Site Settings > Scopes page to view and manage search scopes. After configuring, you will notice that the search...

This blog post is about an issue I faced during data import into SharePoint document libraries. I hope it helps others facing the same issue. Scenario Documents had to be migrated to SharePoint 2007 document libraries from an existing application...

Online Presence is an important collaboration feature available in SharePoint 2007. Online presence enables individuals who have access to your site to see who is online and to send instant messages to them. Most Microsoft customers do it through the...

To full-text index the PDF files in SharePoint 2007, most customers use the free PDF iFilter from Adobe. It's sort of the "default" option. There is a choice available though and it's always good to know the options :-) Choices (in alphabetical order...

Why is IPv6 so important? In case you were wondering why IPv6 and supporting it in your environment is important, read the Royal Pingdom blog post - A crisis in the making: Only 4% of the Internet supports IPv6 "... IPv6 adoption is going so slow...