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MC+A 5 years old, a time for reflection

Michael — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:24:49 +0000

It’s been 5 years since the current MC+A organization was formed (When we relocated from San Francisco to Chicago, we reorganized). In that time many changes have begun to surface. We’ve seen the explosion of Microsoft SharePoint into the once Java dominated portal market. We’ve seen the Google Search Appliance become the defacto intranet search [...]

Remotely Calling The Google Search Appliance RESTful Web Services When SAML is enabled

Michael — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:38:23 +0000

Calling the Google Search Appliance when a SAML interface or Forms Authentication security interface is enabled causes a bit of a challenge from SharePoint or ASP.NET. The following is some code that we developed to handle all of the hand shaking from the redirects and cookie exchange. This will be published shortly as a open source project.

Michael Cizmar interview by IT Knowledge Exchange

John — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:58:29 +0000

In a recent article on IT Knowledge Exchange, The impending cloud MC+A’s president, Michael Cizmar discussed the position of VAR’s and cloud solutions. Excerpt: Cizmar thinks that value-added partners — those who integrate disparate services and applications, those who build applications, and those who support customers — will be more valuable than ever in a cloudy future. [...]

Google Geo Api 3.0 released to Labs

Michael — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:04:18 +0000

Yesterday on the Google Geo Developers blog, Google announced the availability of a new api for Google Geo mashups

Google Apps to get scripting

Michael — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:49:53 +0000

Today Google posted on their enterprise blog an announcement about a long awaited feature for scripting Google Apps. You’ll have to sign up to be part of the beta before it’s released widely. Here is a video describing the new feature: addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fblog.mcplusa.com%2F2009%2F05%2F27%2Fgoogle-apps-to-get-scripting%2F'; addthis_title = 'Google+Apps+to+get+scripting'; addthis_pub [...]

Wonder wheel – The New Vanity Search

Michael — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:30:36 +0000

Vanity search using Google's Wonder Wheel

Jira Excludes For Google Search Appliance Crawler

Michael — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:47:33 +0000

Rather than learning by Trial and Error, here are some excludes that you will want to add to your Google Search Appliance configuration if you are trying to crawl Jira Studio

Gartner says you can save $250,000 by Federating Your Search Technology…

Michael — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:39:31 +0000

Gartner has released a report detailing how you can save $250,000 by selecting tactical measures in your federation strategy. Our suggestion would be to to look at the Google Search Appliance or try our Search Best Practices health check. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fblog.mcplusa.com%2F2009%2F05%2F06%2Fgartner-says-you-can-save-250000-by-federating-your-search-technology%2F'; addthis_title = 'Gartner+says+you+can+save+%24250%2C000+by+Federating+Your+Search+Technology%26%238230%3B'; addthis_pub [...]

Troubleshooting Your Google Sharepoint Sitemap Continued

Angelo — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:21:25 +0000

Continuing from our previous troubleshooting post. Step 2: Check the appliance’s configuration If the links are functioning properly in your Google Sitemap, but there is still no SharePoint content being crawled, then you should check to which URLs are being crawled. Often time’s people make the mistake of entering the URL of their SharePoint site and not the [...]

CIO Synergy Chicago Wrap Up

Michael — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:08:38 +0000

Summary of the CIO Synergy Event.