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Kevin Laahs

Kevin Laahs is a technology strategist with HP Enterprise Services. He's coauthor of four books on SharePoint; the latest is Microsoft SharePoint 2010 All-in-One For Dummies (Wiley).
Email: kevin.laahs@hp.com

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SharePoint 2010 Faceted Search

By Kevin Laahs, 04/02/2012

Use Microsoft SharePoint 2010’s faceted search feature to help users avoid information overload.

SharePoint 2010 Goes Social, Part 3

By Kevin Laahs, 08/22/2011

Kevin Laahs concludes his series on social networking with SharePoint Server 2010 by describing the major features that build on the user profile to leverage an often forgotten ...

SharePoint 2010 Goes Social, Part 2: Populating the User Profile via Synchronization

By Kevin Laahs, 06/23/2011

Learn how to populate a profile in SharePoint’s User Profile Service through synchronization.

SharePoint 2010 Goes Social, Part 1

By Kevin Laahs, 04/14/2011

Kevin Laahs shows the importance of SharePoint’s User Profile Service in social networking.

Using Windows PowerShell to Manage SharePoint 2010

By Kevin Laahs, 08/27/2010

SharePoint 2010 and PowerShell can help save time and hassle in managing your farms—here’s how.

Emailing SharePoint 2007 Lists and Libraries

By Kevin Laahs, 11/21/2008

Find out how to email-enable SharePoint 2007 and set up your environment to deliver items to SharePoint lists and libraries. You can include SharePoint items in the GAL, but you ...

Controlling SharePoint Access

By Kevin Laahs, 04/28/2008

Identify users and control their access to SharePoint content with an understanding of SharePoint's security architecture.

Stsadm: Taking Control of SharePoint Administration

By Kevin Laahs, 10/30/2007

Stsadm helps IT pros perform SharePoint operations that can't be done or done as efficiently through SharePoint's Central Administration Web interface.

Introducing the Business Data Catalog

By Kevin Laahs, 09/26/2007

Use MOSS 2007's BDC to discover and use data held in back-end Line Of Business (LOB) applications.

Making Sense of SharePoint Search

By Kevin Laahs, 07/24/2006

Learning about Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server search architectures will help you determine which product is right for your users' collaboration needs.

Types of SharePoint Sites

By Kevin Laahs, 07/24/2006

Check out this quick primer on SharePoint site types.

Want to Tick Off Spammers? Try Sender ID

By Kevin Laahs, 02/27/2006

Exchange 2003 SP2 introduces Sender ID, another brick in the wall to block spam.

How ACLs Magically Affect Your GAL

By Kevin Laahs, 04/25/2005

Denying a user access to an object means that the user can't access the object from any application, right? Not necessarily! Learn why ACLs can have different effects on searching ...

Inside MAPI Profiles

By Kevin Laahs, 02/28/2005

Understanding the MAPI profile structure can help in troubleshooting situations and can lead to innovative solutions to migration problems that might at first seem difficult to ...

SharePoint Offers a Different Outlook

By Kevin Laahs, 01/04/2005

WSS raises the bar for Outlook 2003 from an application for personal use to an application for personal use and team collaboration.

Office 2003 and SharePoint: Better Together

By Kevin Laahs, 10/25/2004

By integrating Office 2003 and the SharePoint platform, you can make collaboration a far more productive and enjoyable experience for users.

Building on to SharePoint Products and Technologies

By Kevin Laahs, 05/11/2004

Discover add-on products that can enhance the collaboration and knowledge-sharing capabilities of WSS and SPS.

Exchange Server 2003 OWA End-User Features

By Kevin Laahs, 01/26/2004

The latest version of OWA offers new end user functionality that makes the email client look and function much like Outlook.

Forms-Based Authentication: Problems and Points Worth Noting

By Kevin Laahs, 11/25/2003

Discover the caveats to watch for when deploying forms-based authentication in your environment.



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