Matthew McDermott, MVP

Moving My Blog

Matthew McDermott — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:37:00 GMT

After more than 2 years of hosting under Mindsharp I am moving to my company blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/matthew. I want to thank the terrific folks at Mindsharp for thier support over the years.

Matthew

Announcing Search Server 2008

Matthew McDermott — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:38:00 GMT

Microsoft has announced the new name and branding for MOSSFS as Microsoft Search Server 2008. The Express Edition is free! Look for more news and information here: http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/

Vista Desktop Search for SharePoint

Matthew McDermott — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:51:00 GMT

You should be reading Joel Oleson’s blog. If you did you would gain the wisdom of the ages as it pertains to SharePoint. Anyway, quite often he posts cool tips to enhance and extend the usability of SharePoint. This post is one example. If you have Vista, you can add a SharePoint search center URL for Instant Search.

1. Click on Start Button.

2. Type Gpedit.msc, Group Policy Editor will open (Click Allow if prompted for elevated privileges)

3. Navigate down and expand the following tree nodes: User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Instant Search.

4. Double Click Custom Instant Search Internet search provider.

5. In the Custom Instant Search Internet search provider Properties dialog edit the following settings:

a.       Choose Enable

b.      Enter Search My SharePoint for the string

c.       Enter http:///searchcenter/pages/results.aspx?k=%w for the URL

d.      Click OK

6. Close Group Policy Editor

You may need to Reboot or run the following command in a command window as Administrator Gpupdate /force

Hiding Authoring Controls from Anonymous Users

Matthew McDermott — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:58:00 GMT

I have been working on our latest initiative this weekend, MOSS Connect. As I was plowing through issues I ran across an article by DLC where the author was hiding different page elements from anonymous users with the following tag (Change the ! to the appropriate open or close tag, I cannot get them to render here):

!Sharepoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl PermissionsString="BrowseDirectories" runat="server"!
[content to be rights-trimmed]
!/Sharepoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl!

It occurred to me that I could hide Welcome and Site Action menu from anonymous users in the same way. This is how I did it on MOSS Connect:

!Sharepoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl PermissionsString="BrowseDirectories" runat="server"!
!TABLE!
!TBODY! !TR!
!!-- Login --!
!TD!
!wssuc:Welcome id=IdWelcome runat="server" EnableViewState="false"!!/wssuc:Welcome!
!/TD!
!TD!
!!-- Site Actions Menu --!
!PublishingSiteAction:SiteActionMenu runat="server"!!/PublishingSiteAction:SiteActionMenu!
!/TD!!TR!!/TR!
!/TBODY!!/TABLE!
!/Sharepoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl!

Oh, now you are wondering how you would log in. We use AAM so the authoring web uses NTLM (or Kerberos), if you are using the same URL for authoring simply point your browser at a protected page like _layouts/settings.aspx.