My first project at Microsoft (way back in 1998), led by the (in)famous Mike “Fang” Seyfang , was to work out why all the ministers in the state government were turning up one hour late to meetings (especially embarrassing for the Minister of Punctuality...

One of the reasons I really love working at Microsoft is the opportunity to “eat your own dogfood”. This means trying out our software, and thereby finding problems, before our customers do. I always try to be one of the edge cases, chowing...

This one comes up quite a bit, and causes one of those “wait, I know, I know, of course!” moments every time I’m about 85% through explaining the solution. The Issue You want to index Adobe Acrobat files. You have installed the Adobe...

Going to start posting up a few Frequently Asked Questions I tend to get as I travel around meeting customers. The first one? “How can I use SharePoint Portal Server Search from within a WSS team site” Here is the article: Sample: Creating...