How to make your mark with SharePoint installations by creating installations that stand out from the crowd. Presentation given to SMBITPro - Brisbane 6 September 2009.
9. Search By default will WSS v3 index: Word 2007 documents? Acrobat documents? OneNote Notebooks? Outlook MSG files & attachments? Existing documents in file shares? Exchange public folders? Web sites? No! But it can (and TIFF on 2008R2!) 9
10. 10 First addition Install appropriate Ifilters. Make registry changes. Restart IIS. Perform full content crawl.
11. Next, Search Server After WSS install Search Server Express (SSX). (Not on SBS though!). SSX will do WSS site by default but add: Network file shares. Public folders. Web sites. Other SharePoint sites. Configure full and incremental crawls. 11
12. Enabling existing items Usage analysis. Additional web parts. Subsites. Additional site collections. Drive mappings. Inbound emails. Themes. 12
13. Office Applications Outlook Offline document libraries. Offline wikis. Meta data fields. Displaying Office information. OneNote synchronization. Infopath forms 13
14. SharePoint Designer Free download. FrontPage replacement. Specifically designed for SharePoint. Allows modification and customization of SharePoint beyond GUI. 14
15. Enabling 3rd party items Free Chatterbox. http://www.codeplex.com/CKS/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=4234 Pentalogic. http://www.pentalogic.net/sharepoint-reminder.aspx Commercial Dark Blue Duck scanning enabler. http://www.darkblueduck.com/products/ScanningEnablerWSS.aspx 15
17. Look and Feel Skins. http://www.pixelmill.com/products/searchresults.aspx?action=reset&ProductTypeID=35&Keyword=skin Templates Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/latam/sharepoint/templates.mspx 17