Roberdan : Enterprise Search

Patrick Tisseghem

Roberdan — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:13:58 GMT

It is with deepest regret that we have to announce the death of Patrick Tisseghem, co-founder of U2U. Patrick suddenly passed away on Wednesday 3 September 2008 around 18 hours in Gothenburg Sweden due to a heart failure. Our sympathy and thoughts go out to his wife Linda, their daughters Anahi and Laura, and to his family. We are all deeply saddened by this tragic loss. We remember him as caring father as well as a driven and warm hearted colleague and friend. We miss you Patrick.

http://www.u2u.be/

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I had a chat with Patrick last Saturday morning and was supposed that we have another call today. I’m so sad :-(

Italian Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008

Roberdan — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:54:38 GMT

Ciao ,
con questa email ti annunciamo ufficialmente il lancio della Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008.

Da qualche giorno è online il sito dedicato all’evento dove puoi trovare agenda, descrizione delle sessioni, biografie degli speaker e modalità di iscrizione.

L’evento si terrà il 2 e 3 ottobre 2008 a Milano e vedrà riuniti in due giorni i massimi esperti di Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 e delle tecnologie collegate, per erogare 30 sessioni tecniche dedicate a Sviluppatori, Professionisti IT e Site Builder.

E’ un appuntamento unico di formazione e approfondimento tecnico, per condividere esperienze reali e riunire la comunità di persone che ad oggi lavorano con Microsoft SharePoint.

L’evento prevede un early bird che permette l’iscrizione a tariffa agevolata (480€+IVA anziché 600€+IVA).

L’early bird scade il 20 luglio 2008.Approfitta dell’offerta iscrivendoti subito.

Ti aspettiamo,

Il Team Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008

My Team, my extended family, my pleasure

Roberdan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:41:32 GMT

L’Arte di Imparare

Roberdan — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:21:29 GMT

[Contesto]: ieri (20.06.2008) ero a [Londra] per fare la review [valutazione FY08] col mio capo [JW]

[Evento]: parte di coaching del processo di review. Chiedete a Pierg se volete sapere nel dettaglio di cosa si tratta

[Conclusione]: [Definizione di “Management”] =

[“

Investire Tempo

sulle Persone

Gestendo

le Eccezioni,

massimizzando il ritorno degli investimenti di tempo

E

Riapplicando/Replicando/Delegando

gli insegnamenti quotidiani.

Quindi

L’ARTE DI IMPARARE.

”]

PS: e poi vi chiedete perchè la gente non mette i tag sui sistemi di collaborazione? perchè è una gran rottura di scatole senza beneficio a breve termine. Quindi pls smettete di lamentarvi che nessuno usa i tag e dormiteci sopra: si può vivere anche senza.

O, poi, ovviamente se volete comprarli (e quindi volete pagare anche per questo…) fate pure, li possiamo fare a prezzo molto contenuto, praticamente lo 0,1% di quello che spendereste comunque per giustificare le analisi sbagliate che qualcuno vi ha fatto…e voi gli avete pagato :-)
-come prima, se volete capire questa frase, Pierg ve lo può spiegare benissimo e poi potrete parlarne con Max per esempio, che ve lo confermerà e Bertrand, che è il più sveglio di tutti noi/voi messi insieme, vi dimostrerà che sareste potuti arrivare alla stessa conclusione 3 mesi fa, semplicemente fidandovi del vostro istinto. E mentre tutto ciò accade,qualcuno si godrà tutto questo spettacolo, ridendo delle umane vanità. Thx Magister ;-)

[Next steps: Actions, Ownership, Deadline, Risk Mitigation]

fare post di review del FY08 nelle seguenti versioni:

versione light, in Italiano. leggibile da chiunque da pubblicare sul blog msdn. stile novella 2000 perchè tanto questo è quello che la gente si aspetta da post di tipo generico.
tempo richiesto: 30 minuti. tool: Windows Live Writer. processo: quando c’ho voglia. priorità: bassa
considerazione: forse sto sottovalutando quanta gente legge questo blog….decisamente. sorry.

versione solid: formato Word/email, in inglese per la comunità. palloso fare report che non interessano a nessuno (e non ho voglia di fare :-)) e trasformarlo in alcune storie: questi account, gestiti da queste persone ci hanno ingaggiato e poi insieme abbiamo fatto. la vendita è costata x ed il valore è stato di y. storie, persone, fatti. esempio Reportage di viaggio: persone, emozioni, storie, foto.

versione executive: 5 righe massimo. perchè è stato un anno fantastico e quindi gli obiettivi aziendali raggiunti. vista da 10.000 m quindi importante capire l’impatto sul resto dell’organizzazione di quello che è stato fatto, in termini positivi e negativi. l’imperativo è: NO SORPRESE. se è 5 dimmi che è 5, se è 50 dimmi che è 50. se non sei sicuro dimmi: “non sono sicuro”. se devi andar piano stattene a casa, se devi andar veloce per rompere le scatole stattene a casa lo stesso

Versione intervista: all’evento del primo luglio bisogna fare foto, video, interviste. ci vorrebbe Paolo [interruzione quindi non mi ricordo più che altro dovevo aggiungere a questo post :(]. ho appena mandato una mail a Paolo, vediamo se può mandarmi qualcuno per il primo luglio. tempo, sempre una questione di tempo e di soldi. ma quelli di solito si rimediano, c’è sempre qualcuno pronto a comprar qualcosa…il problema è il tempo di vendita. mi ci vorrebbe una settimana per convincere Paolo ad investire in quest’idea…il problema è che son troppo stanco per trovare il tempo.

2. Deadline 1 luglio 08. tempo a disposizione 1 settimana, 5 giorni lavorativi, 40 ore da trovare on top al lavoro normale.

alto rischio. come mitigare: comunque andrà bene perchè già quello che abbiamo è molto e di valore

mitigazione: delegare.

3. Owner: Roberdan

4. Pro: Impatto

5. Costo: fatica

6. Soluzione Possibile? Si

[Saved on 21/6/2008. Draft 3.15pm. Words 598 excluding signature tag]

[Add-on e raccomandazione]: Domande frequenti quando si organizza un’evento: aeroporti, taxi, visti di ingresso, hotel, distanza dall’ufficio, tempi, orari, zero sorprese. stampabili. l’ho fatto abbastanza bene credo ma è stata fortuna.

Flickr keywords: Learning, Management, Il problema dei rifiuti!

that’s wonderful! Recent Crash

Roberdan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:25:31 GMT

thx Pierg http://pierg.wordpress.com

PierG

Recent Crash
PierG
Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:03:08 GMT

powerset is open

Roberdan — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:34:35 GMT

http://www.powerset.com/

try that link :-)

Roberdan — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:40:20 GMT

http://esearch.idvsolutions.com/default.aspx

Faceted Search on CodePlex

Roberdan — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:23:21 GMT

http://www.codeplex.com/FacetedSearch

MOSS Faceted Search is a set of web parts that provide intuitive way to refine search results by category (facet).
The facets are implemented using SharePoint API and stored within native SharePoint METADATA store. The solution demonstrates following key features:

Grouping search results by facet
Displaying a total number of hits per facet value
Refining search results by facet value
Update of the facet menu based on refined search criteria
Displaying of the search criteria in a Bread Crumbs
Ability to exclude the chosen facet from the search criteria
Flexibility of the Faceted search configuration and its consistency with MOSS administration

* NEW Business Data Catalog Definition Editor (BDC tool) and MOSS SDK *

Roberdan — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:21:11 GMT

Business Data Catalog Definition Editor tool (or "BDC tool")

The Business Data Catalog Definition Editor tool (or "BDC tool") is now available in the latest (August 2007) version of the downloadable MOSS 2007 SDK, which was just posted at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6d94e307-67d9-41ac-b2d6-0074d6286fa9&displaylang=en.

Overview

The Business Data Catalog Definition Editor provides a visual tool for creating an Application Definition for BDC in MOSS 2007. Features include:

Underlying XML is abstracted by the design surface and properties window
Drag and drop web methods, tables, or views to create line of business (LOB) connections.
Entities and methods are created automatically from database metadata and WSDLs.
Additional method instances can be added to further enhance the database or web service connection.
Method instances can be tested from within the tool, enabling incremental development of LOB connections

Just Published: Major Update to the MOSS and WSS Downloadable SDKs (8/22/2007)

· MOSS 2007 SDK 1.2. Includes Conceptual and Class Library Reference documentation, Web Services documentation, and Developer Tools and Samples for MOSS and WSS. See below for a detailed breakdown what’s new in this release.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6D94E307-67D9-41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en

· WSS 3.0 SDK 1.2. Includes Conceptual and Class Library Reference documentation, Web Services documentation, and Developer Tools and Samples for WSS technology only. See below for a detailed breakdown what’s new in this release.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=05E0DD12-8394-402B-8936-A07FE8AFAFFD&displaylang=en

Viewing the SDK Documentation Online

We are currently in synch with our online and offline documentation, but you will always find Community Content on MSDN appended to core Microsoft documentation in the form of Wiki comments.

You can browse the SDK online through the following links:

· Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK

· Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK

Enterprise Search at Microsoft with Office SharePoint Server 2007

Roberdan — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:02:22 GMT

Published: July 19, 2007 on http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itshowcase/content/deployingsearchtwp.mspx

There are more than 120,000 employees, contractors, and vendors at Microsoft, and they create and store an incredible amount of digital information in the form of Microsoft® Office documents, pictures, videos, Web pages, and other formats. The information is stored on servers throughout the Microsoft network. In many cases, several people can use a document or file to complete assignments if only it is accessible or advertised for use.

For example, an employee on the Office User Assistance team might be developing user documentation for Microsoft Office Word. At the same time, another employee might be creating marketing collateral for a specific vertical industry marketing campaign that includes Office Word as a part of the solution. If the employee creating the campaign is unaware of the user documentation created by the other employee, the documentation is underutilized. Enterprise search can help an employee take advantage of other employees' knowledge and information. This is the business value of enterprise search. Considering the size of Microsoft and the diversity of jobs, including product development, marketing, operations, sales, and administration, the volume of information involved is overwhelming.

Files and information are stored on a variety of internal content sources, such as document libraries, intranet Web sites, within Exchange Server 2007 data stores, file shares, databases, and local hard disk drives. To make the situation even more challenging, employees continually add new types of content every day.

The problem is how to identify and crawl the information that Microsoft has today and to keep the index up to date with all the new content and content types in the future in a way that is useful to a variety of users. Naturally, maintaining security while ensuring that the index is current is essential to enterprise search.

The solution is the Enterprise Search feature provided in Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007. The new enhancements of the Search feature incorporate fast searching and the Indexing Service. Fast searching builds off the Indexing Service of Office 2003 to create database catalogs of the Office files that are available on a computer's hard disk, in projects, and in SharePoint Web folders.

Microsoft built the Indexing Service feature from the Index Server technology of Microsoft Windows 2000 to create a better cataloging experience for fast searching and to offer the ability to search any Office file for information that the file contains.

Enterprise Search helps employees to collaborate more easily, reduce duplication of efforts, and perform job functions more efficiently with more depth than in the past. With Enterprise Search, employees can more easily find the people, information, tools, and software necessary to perform their day-to-day job functions. Employees can be more productive and improve the quality of their work without relying on others to assist them in completing their tasks.

By using flexible and innovative indexing rules, Office SharePoint Server 2007 can find relevant data so that Microsoft employees can locate the people and information that they are looking for with greater accuracy. Performance improvements in Office SharePoint Server 2007 help employees locate people and information faster than before.

This white paper covers:

• Teams at Microsoft that were involved in the development, deployment, and ongoing management of the solution.

• Background on Enterprise Search at Microsoft.

• Business values achieved in deploying the Enterprise Search solution.

• Architectural design of the solution.

• Products and technologies used in creating the solution.

• Administration of the shared search services for the solution.

• Administration of indexed sites and content for the solution.

• User experience when using the Enterprise Search solution.

• Migration of Enterprise Search from Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Office SharePoint Server 2007.

• The best practices that Microsoft used in developing and deploying the solution.

This document shares the experiences of Microsoft teams in deploying Enterprise Search at Microsoft. Because of the significant amount of knowledge that these teams gained, the experience provides relevant guidance to organizations that want to help improve employee productivity, improve the quality of work produced, reduce duplication of efforts, and take advantage of the financial investment in digital assets by deploying Enterprise Search.

This white paper assumes that readers are technical decision makers and are already familiar with SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005. Many of the principles and techniques described in this paper can be employed to manage deployment and operations risk within any organization, and the design considerations for enterprise search can likewise be applied to almost any enterprise-scale IT environment through Microsoft products. However, this paper is based on the experience and recommendations of Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) as an early adopter. It is not intended to serve as a procedural guide. Each enterprise environment has unique circumstances; therefore, each organization should adapt the plans and lessons learned described in this paper to meet its specific needs.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itshowcase/content/deployingsearchtwp.mspx

Prepare to crawl Lotus Notes (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

Roberdan — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:08:29 GMT

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/0d8df5f0-71dc-49aa-a96a-0f5028dc946e1033.mspx?mfr=true

Before you perform the procedures in this article, confirm that:

You have read the topic:

• Configure Office SharePoint Server Search to crawl Lotus Notes (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

This article provides the procedures for preparing Office SharePoint Server 2007 to crawl Lotus Notes content. You must do the procedures in the order listed.

At key points in this article, we prompt you to enter information on the Configure Office SharePoint Server Search to crawl Lotus Notes worksheet (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=94461&clcid=0x409) that pertains to the information you have read. You will use the information you record on this worksheet when performing steps in this article.

Note:

You should have already entered information into some of the tables in the worksheet when you read Configure Office SharePoint Server Search to crawl Lotus Notes (Office SharePoint Server 2007) .

Important:

Some procedures in this article require the involvement of a Domino administrator of the Domino server that you want to crawl and other procedures require a server administrator of the index server.

Note:

These procedures are based on Lotus Notes version 6.5.

Create a content source and crawl content

A shared services administrator can now create one or more content sources to crawl Lotus Domino databases. The shared services administrator must know the names of the Lotus Domino servers and databases you want to crawl to create the content sources. These names are listed in Table 2 of the worksheet.

Note:

You must create one content source for each Domino database that you want to crawl.

For more information about creating content sources, see Add a content source for search (Office SharePoint Server) . You can download a third-party tool from CodePlex (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=95141&clcid=0x409) to help automatically manage content sources for crawling Lotus Notes databases.

In this article:

• Add the Windows account assigned to the OSearch service to the Administrators group

• Install the Lotus Notes client application

• Grant permissions to the data folder

• Configure the Lotus Notes client application

• Verify access to the Lotus Domino database you want to crawl

• Configure security mappings

• Reboot the index server

• Download the Lotus C++ API Toolkit for Notes

• Register Lotus Notes with the index server

• Restart the Office SharePoint Server Search service

• Create a content source and crawl content

New Microsoft Enterprise Search website

Roberdan — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:43:01 GMT

http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/

SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007 Customization Policy white paper

Roberdan — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:29:55 GMT

The SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007 Customization Policy white paper is a starting point for companies to develop their own policies for implementing and managing customizations in a SharePoint based environment. A version of this document is currently being used as a key component of the hosting policy for SharePoint customizations within Microsoft’s internal SharePoint hosting team, which manages what may be the world's largest SharePoint environment. This document was designed to act as a bridge between system administrators and developers so that both sides could evaluate SharePoint customizations with an emphasis on administration concerns such as supportability, performance, and deployment issues. This document will be added to over time as new information and best practices become available.

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=92311&clcid=0x409

Replica is a cost, bandwidth is an asset: geographically distribuited environment. What can we do?

Roberdan — Wed, 30 May 2007 09:50:00 GMT

that's my conclusion after months of work dealing with geographically distribuited enterprises: replica is a cost, bandwidth is an asset!

I'm not sayng that's the truth for everyone and for every situation, but most of customers I've talked with agree with me on that. Why?

Replica is a cost because you've to manage it, you have to buy a lot of servers in varius region of the world (maybe you don't have IT also there), many storage etc. Replicate data have a cost, no way. What's the benefit? put documents nearest your users so they can access informations (like news, communications, blogs, wiki etc) and documents (intranet portal is my scope). Does this solve at all the issue, expecially when you've very limited bandwidth? my opinion is no. you cannot replicate everything, it's like in internet every server have all the contents of other servers: do that it's not your job in most of the cases. When you really need replica? when you're occasionally connected, for example if you're in a navy with satellite communications or when you're in a truck, for example to follow a race in remote zone of the world. So, replica don't solve at all the information access issue in distribuited environment I think: in some few situation you've to do, but in most of the scenarios replica don't solve the issue. [my personal opinion]

Bandwidth have an high cost, I know. And sometimes you cannot rely on bandwidht: in some countries simply you cannot update your network! you've to rely on 64kb if you are lucky and that's situation will be the same for a long time. In some scenarios you simply don't have bandwidth or you've to rely only on satellite that means be "occasionally connected" with also a bery poor bandwidth. When you're in a boat for example you can have 9.6kb for most of the time (when you've network!). BUT, in 80/90% of normal scenarios, invest on bandwidth can help to solve your needs better than Replica and the difference is that BANDWIDTH IS AN ASSET for your company: you can use in any way and from and IT perspective it is a good investiment, not only a cost.

So, what's my suggestion regarding MOSS 2007? Let's made an example: you're a big enterprise who works in 27 countries, with 20.000 users and very limited bandwidth in some regions plus some remote branch that are occasionally connected (trucks for example).

Consolidate in 3/4 main datacenter around the globe your network infrastructure, with good bandwidth (invest on that), for example 1 DC in New York, 1 in Italy, 1 in Singapore and 1 in Brasil. Suppose the main corporate offices and datacenters are in Italy ;-)

Consolidate the main portal architecture in Italy. That will be the "corporate portal" with the main formalized content (communications, news, pr, main business units, applications for everyone etc). Install MOSS 2007 here, with Shared Services. Main search is here and enable to search everywhere.

Put other MOSS 2007 servers in the other 3 datacenter but just for collaboration, mysite for people on the region and regional search. Consider that, like for email, people works 70/80% of their time with their regional team, so put collaboration in these datacenters can optimize bandwidht and offer good performances to all the people in the same region.

Invest in a better network between these main datacenters and the countries within the region, when you can, and evaluate hardware network accelerators lik Certeon (http://www.certeon.com/solutions/sharePoint_application_delivery_solutions.asp) or Cisco.

Use Groove in the Occasionally Connected scenarios, but take care of governance! Groove should be used with Groove Server (so you can manage who connect with others and how) and should be in sync with SharePoint, so you can have a centralized search and, most important, a governance. for example you can enforce policies on the sharepoint. If you're dealing with confidential information evaluate to use also Rights Management Services on top of that architecture.

if you still need full replica for some countries or trucks (at this point should be a real need), evaluate Syntergy or Iora.

thanks for your time, what do you think? If I've time later I'll try to paint a model of that topics. r

Architecture Content Map and Topicmaps

Roberdan — Sun, 27 May 2007 15:17:30 GMT

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/skyscrapr/bb428857.aspx

Skyscrapr aims to make daunting searches a thing of the past with the release of our new Web-based tool: the Architecture Content Map.

Searching for more information, media, and articles on architecture topics can be daunting. Enter “Article on SOA” as the search term in many popular search engines and you’ll likely receive millions of results. The nature of today’s searches often makes them too broad when looking for published articles and other types of content. As a result, it can be difficult to find information, explore relationships, and understand connections between articles.

The Architecture Content Map is a social network for articles, tags, and authors related to architecture. Using the map, you can navigate between different sites (e.g. MSDN or Channel 9), categories (e.g. SOA), authors (e.g. Ron Jacobs), and articles to find the content you are looking for. It is quicker than a regular search. It also helps develop a picture of how content relates to each other, providing you with a means to discover authors and articles you may have not otherwise seen.

Roberdan : Enterprise Search

Patrick Tisseghem

Italian Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008

My Team, my extended family, my pleasure

L’Arte di Imparare

that’s wonderful! Recent Crash

powerset is open

try that link :-)

Faceted Search on CodePlex

* NEW Business Data Catalog Definition Editor (BDC tool) and MOSS SDK *

Business Data Catalog Definition Editor tool (or "BDC tool")

Overview

READ MORE on SHAREPOINT BLOG: Announcing the Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor for Microsoft Office SharePoint

Just Published: Major Update to the MOSS and WSS Downloadable SDKs (8/22/2007)

Viewing the SDK Documentation Online

Read More on SharePoint Blog: Just Published: Major Update to the MOSS and WSS Downloadable SDKs (8/22/2007) and don't forget also this link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb544954.aspx

Enterprise Search at Microsoft with Office SharePoint Server 2007

Prepare to crawl Lotus Notes (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

Note:

Important:

Note:

Create a content source and crawl content

Note:

New Microsoft Enterprise Search website

SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007 Customization Policy white paper

Replica is a cost, bandwidth is an asset: geographically distribuited environment. What can we do?

Architecture Content Map and Topicmaps

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/skyscrapr/bb428857.aspx

Roberdan : Enterprise Search

Patrick Tisseghem

Italian Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008

My Team, my extended family, my pleasure

L’Arte di Imparare

that’s wonderful! Recent Crash

powerset is open

try that link :-)

Faceted Search on CodePlex

***** NEW Business Data Catalog Definition Editor (BDC tool) and MOSS SDK *****

Business Data Catalog Definition Editor tool (or "BDC tool")

Overview

READ MORE on SHAREPOINT BLOG: Announcing the Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor for Microsoft Office SharePoint

Just Published: Major Update to the MOSS and WSS Downloadable SDKs (8/22/2007)

Viewing the SDK Documentation Online

Read More on SharePoint Blog: Just Published: Major Update to the MOSS and WSS Downloadable SDKs (8/22/2007) and don't forget also this link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb544954.aspx

Enterprise Search at Microsoft with Office SharePoint Server 2007

Prepare to crawl Lotus Notes (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

Note:

Important:

Note:

Create a content source and crawl content

Note:

New Microsoft Enterprise Search website

SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007 Customization Policy white paper

Replica is a cost, bandwidth is an asset: geographically distribuited environment. What can we do?

Architecture Content Map and Topicmaps

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/skyscrapr/bb428857.aspx

* NEW Business Data Catalog Definition Editor (BDC tool) and MOSS SDK *