Agile Sharepoint development by 21apps and Andrew Woodward MVP

There was a fantastic turn out for the SUGUK meeting in London last night – considering the awful weather we managed officially the biggest turnout with 106 people attending an suguk event!   Chris O’Brien took on the challenge of doing a deep dive into workflow in just 1 hour!   And as a bonus is giving away some of his top tips which he will be posting on his blog very soon, this was a great presentation and if you only take away one thing from it it should be ‘Look at the State Based workflows, this may save you a lot of time and reworking’.

The Search Server 2008 presentation was pretty much the same as that demo’ d at the recent Tech Net session in Newcastle,  this time however we did get the Google search working which is detailed here.

The feedback from the session regarding Search Server 2008 was very positive, people could really see how the simplicity of Federation and the way it has been implemented will be very useful in their organisation,  oh and the fact you get MOSS capable search for FREE with in the Express Edition helps .

I was a little surprised when I asked how many people tuned and updated their search settings.  Out of a room with 100+ people only 2 said they did this.   Jenny Everett (a regular at SUGUK meetings) has posted an article on how she has improved search results in her organisation, she has blogged on this here – definitely worth a read.

The files from the demo can be downloaded here from my SkyDrive.  If you want any more information on Microsoft Search Server 2008 visit http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/

See you at the next meeting

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