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• How to: Specify the Properties Returned in a Keyword Query when using the Search Web Service

  In the past, I have showed you how to use the KeywordQuery class as well as how to use the Enterprise Search Web Service . Today, I wanted to add one small detail on how to use the web service to return your own custom managed properties. Specifying your... Posted Sep 29 2008, 12:58 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• Announcing the First Tulsa SharePint Meetup

  Recently, my favorite Yankee, Kyle Kelin , returned home to Tulsa and told me about the concept of meetups. Basically, it is just a group of people that meet up together somewhere in a social setting and talk about technology, poker, camping, or whatever... Posted Sep 24 2008, 09:01 AM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Meetup

• What you give up with Full Text SQL Queries using Wildcard Search

  I am very glad to see that the Wildcard Search Web Part has been so well received. It's nice to know so many people are getting good use out of it. I have had a number of comments about it regarding what else works with it and what doesn't so... Posted Sep 18 2008, 11:21 AM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search, Wildcard Search

• Using Wildcard Search Web Part to search for recently modified files

  You may have a case where you want to search for files that were recently modified. Sure, you can use a CAML query to do this, but what if you want to look for recently changed files across multiple content sources? Sure, you can write your own Full Text... Posted Sep 17 2008, 08:39 AM by CoreyRoth with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search, Wildcard Search

• Faceted Search 2.5 is much improved

  I was pleased to see that a new version of the Faceted Search web parts had come out recently. On my last couple of projects, the Faceted Search worked, but it didn't quite meat all the clients needs. Mainly it didn't work with fixed queries,... Posted Aug 14 2008, 01:44 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• How to search your site columns with Enterprise Search

  I decided to go with an intro topic for Enterprise Search today. If you are like me, you often find yourself in a situation where you are doing ECM related activities such as creating custom content types that use site columns. This may present itself... Posted Jul 31 2008, 05:14 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• Infrastructure Update Configuration Fails if HOSTS file is missing

  I have been in the process of updating multiple MOSS development servers with the Infrastructure Update , and ran into an issue where the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard failed. The reason was that this particular server did... Posted Jul 21 2008, 08:50 AM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS

• How to: Query Search using the Web Service

  According to FeedBurner , my posts on querying Enterprise Search with the FullTextSqlQuery and KeywordQuery classes have been some of the most popular. So I thought, I would continue on these posts and explain how to do it using the web service. The SDK... Posted Jul 17 2008, 02:49 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Library

• What's new with Enterprise Search with the Infrastructure Update

  Yesterday, the Infrastructure Update for Office SharePoint Server (as well as WSS and Project Server) was released. This update makes changes to content publishing as well as Enterprise Search. The install went smoothly. Just remember like the service... Posted Jul 16 2008, 02:50 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• Exposing data from the BDC as a DataTable

  Recently, I wanted to bind some data from the BDC to an ASP.NET control (i.e. a GridView, ListView, or DropDownList). For what I needed a Business Data List web part just wouldn't cut it, so I decided to create something that I could bind to. I also... Posted Jul 09 2008, 01:07 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Business Data Catalog

• Wildcard Search with MOSS People Search

  After having success with implementing wildcard search with MOSS , I decided to look into this whether or not I could inherit from the PeopleCoreResultsWebPart today to implement wildcard search functionality and unfortunately I did not get very far.... Posted Jun 23 2008, 04:00 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• Content Index is Corrupt

  I came in after the weekend to find out that someone reported the following error when trying to use my Enterprise Search page. The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service. As you may know, this is a very generic error that means something... Posted Jun 17 2008, 09:46 AM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• NEW! Web Part for Wildcard Search in Enterprise Search

  I have had countless people tell me that they want to be able to do wildcard search in MOSS Enterprise Search using the existing Search Center site templates. The Search Center site template uses keyword query syntax which does not support wildcards.... Posted Jun 09 2008, 08:28 AM by CoreyRoth with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, LINQ to XML, MOSS, Enterprise Search, Wildcard Search

• Error: The parameter is incorrect. (Access denied by BDC.)

  When attempting to configure the Business Data Catalog for use with MOSS Enterprise Search, it can be quite common to get this message when you try crawling for the first time. The cause is actually pretty simple, but I figured I would give some troubleshooting... Posted May 14 2008, 09:47 AM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search, Business Data Catalog

• School of Dev was fun (Slides Attached)

  I had a good time at School of Dev this weekend. It had a fairly decent crowd consider this was its first time and it was on Mother's Day weekend. There was some good info there and I think just about everyone got a prize or two. I had the opportunity... Posted May 12 2008, 08:59 AM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Presentations