SharePoint BUZZ

The Microsoft Filter Pack for search has been released enabling critical search scenarios.   Microsoft provides iFilters for the following file type extensions: .docx (Microsoft Office 2007 Word Document) .docm (Microsoft Office Word Macro-Enabled Document) .pptx (Microsoft Office 2007 PowerPoint Presentation) .xlsx (Microsoft Office 2007 Excel Worksheet) .xlsm (Microsoft Office Excel Macro-Enabled Worksheet) .xlsb (Microsoft Office Excel ...

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Microsoft has just RTM'd Visual Studio 2008 and you can get your hands on it now! To read more about the release, check this post: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released by ScottGu Visual Web Developer 2008 Express...

SharePoint 2007 brought enterprise class features into an integrated user experience. Yesterday, Microsoft released a free version of its beloved enterprise search product dubbed Search Server 2008 Express. ...

Just a friendly reminder to everyone who has deployed Sharepoint 2007 to read this. Microsoft has just released hot fix roll-up for MOSS 2007 for Search. This Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search Hotfix Roll-up fixes a problem in which case-sensitive Web content cannot be crawled. This update also ...

Microsoft has just provided a command line utility to assist in creating crawl rules for indexing Forms Authentication/Cookie-protected Web sites in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Input to the utility is provided via an XML file (sample). The XML file ...

Buck has just posted that Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is now available for download and includes a "Go Live" license, which allows you to use it in production. The team has been eating their own dog food as 2 of the 21 instances of TFS at Microsoft are ...