New System Center Vista Sidebar Content Search Gadget

Wanted to bring to your attention a neat little bit of code that some colleagues in our user assistance/docs org have developed and released to the Live Gadget Gallery: a Web content search gadget for System Center. SC Search Gadget for Vista

This gadget offers the following features: Search all of System Center or scope by product; filter by domain, currently including:

  • TechNet
  • MSDN
  • Microsoft.com /SystemCenter
  • Downloads
  • TechNet Edge Videos/Media
  • Webcasts
  • Blogs
  • Forums
  • Learning
  • WWW (for everything else)

It also bears, if you're interested, the new branding that's getting implemented around and about MSCOM and in our various marketing materials, including on the new product sites. Simply install the gadget in your Vista sidebar, run a search and it will then display a results page which offers additional filtering options.

Our friends in UA are also putting together an HTML script for inclusion on blogs and Web sites, which can be customized with some knowledge of HTML. You can see a current version implemented as an experiment in the top of the masthead on this blog. Soon I hope to make that available to you for simple blog/site implementation, probably through a page we'll build on TechNet.

If you have suggestions or comments, and until I've got a better feedback channel for you, go ahead and speak up on the comments attached to this blog post.

IN the meantime, if you've got Vista, download the gadget and run search queries to your heart's content--and tell a friend if you think it's cool.

- dave//

Published 06 June 08 01:00 by davemorehouse

Comments

# Windows Vista ?????? Gadget???System Center Content Search ?????? | LiveSino - LiveSide ????????? said on June 5, 2008 10:57 PM:

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# rodtrent said on June 7, 2008 7:28 PM:

Cool gadget -- the new logo is a little scary, though, particularly for those hit by severe weather in recent history.

# Configuration Manager Writers - Announcements, Comments and other Stuff said on June 9, 2008 1:53 PM:

This Vista search gadget from the System Center SDK UA team (and special kudos here to Chris Scoville

# rodtrent said on June 12, 2008 7:53 PM:

BTW: Lots of cool myITforum.com functionality in this tool...

http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2008/06/10/new-myitforum-com-specific-functionality-added-to-the-system-center-windows-vista-search-gadget.aspx

# rosemaryf said on June 15, 2008 5:29 PM:

Is there a way to filter  the  hits by date - for example to show items that have been updated in the last month, etc.

# Team Blogs at Microsoft said on August 14, 2008 6:44 PM:

132 Microsoft Team blogs searched, 105 blogs have new articles in the past 30 days. 641 new articles

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About davemorehouse

Born in Minnesota and reared in Alaska, Dave went on to college in Claremont, California and grad school at UW in Seattle. After a stint yodeling in the Swiss Alps (and, incidentally, organizing biotech events), he found himself back in Seattle, getting involved in tech just as the Great Internet Bubble burst, coming to Microsoft in 2000 to work on the Windows 2000 Web team. Since then, he’s had various stints at Microsoft.com, including posts in Web publishing and site management, and has also spent a great deal of time and energy focused on the ins-and-outs of online communities and leveraging the new technologies that are emerging to support them. Now in System Center Marketing and applying his Web and communities experience to the priorities of an actual Microsoft business group, Dave looks forward to deepening his relationships with customers wherever they choose to be active on the Web and off, and drive toward a better, more integrated set of tools and resources to support the diverse needs of the community.

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