SharePoint Sunday: January 3, 2010 Round Up

January 4, 2010

Herd them SharePoint geese. Yee-hah. The goslings and I love SharePoint almost as much as Exchange. If you are a SharePoint 2010 wrangler, you may find these tips and tricks helpful. If not, click away, partner. The addled goose may trample you with its stampeding goslings who are full as a tick after New Year’s Eve partying.

  1. Do you know how to get the Search Query API calls to be logged in the search usage analysis reports? If the answer is no, then you will need to mosey over to Trailblazer’s SharePoint Blog. You will find the explanation and a code snippet to get you started. Check out the pre requisites. Omit one, partner, and the method won’t work. Log analysis is too much work for some busy SharePoint administrators in my opinion.
  2. If you are not aware of the social freight that will be heaped on SharePoint and its supporting servers, you will want to take a look at “Ray Ozzie’s New Social Lab: What It Means For Enterprise 2.0.” Microsoft has been gnawing on social functions for five or more years, but its seems that everything old is new again, including a social lab, big ideas, and more bloat for SharePoint. SharePoint may be getting roostered up.
  3. We had a client call us last week and talk about enterprise memory and knowledge management. We are not sure what knowledge is, but we poked around and provided some ideas. In the course of  our research, we came across Melodika.net’s “Building a Corporate Knowledge Structure with KWizCom’s Wiki Plus.” the idea is that this tool runs within SharePoint and it seems to provide the type of content capture and access functions our caller wanted. You can get more information about KWizCom’s products and services here.

As a final note, one of the Microsoft execs (Chris Liddell) on duty when the $1.23 billion acquisition of Fast Sear ch & Transfer SA took place has skedaddled from Redmond. The fellow is now working at General Motors. I wonder what super acquisitions he will engineer at that fine organization. I think the assets of the Tucker Corporation and Studebaker Corporation may be in play. GM may not want to let those hot properties go up the flume.

Stephen E. Arnold, January 4, 2010

No one paid me to provide this summary of SharePoint search information, darn it. I suppose I need to alert the Joint Fire Science Program because I wrote about such a hot product as SharePoint without taking cash.

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