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MOSS provides some very powerful features to enable the new buzzword "social networking." Discussions about these can be found pretty easily, and I give an overview of some tools near the end of this posting. But specifics about how some of the details
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To modify SharePoint’s default search behaviors, it’s important to understand how the user interface elements for search work together to specify a query, execute a search and display the results. The following high-level overview shows how searches are
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MOSS 2007's search engine supports three different types of query syntax: Keyword, SQL and URL. MSDN article Building Windows SharePoint Services Search Queries gives a reference for these syntaxes. What it doesn’t make clear is that MOSS's out-of-box
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides two categories of search scopes: Custom and Contextual . Custom scopes : “All Sites” “People” The custom search scopes created via the search or site admin pages Contextual scopes : “This Site” “This List”
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Since upgrading from B2 to B2TR, many people have reported that their search scope dropdown box now only shows a single scope for the current site, and that the Advanced Search link has disappeared. Some people have fixed this by creating new sites or
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SharePoint can search for content using the values in site columns, as well as performing free text searches. The official help page that describes this is at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms476494.aspx . This posting gives some more examples
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The term “Area” is no longer used in MOSS 2007. Areas were implemented as subsites, however, and it is still possible to create subsites on the Portal. The ability to manage the hierarchy and navigation of subsites replaces the ability to reorganize Topic
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