After Kasparov Vs Deep-Blue, a super computer as beaten another professional board player, but the big difference this time is the game! It was a Go game!

The game was played the 7th of August at the U.S. Go Congress, MoGo(software) running on Huygens(hardware) won against Kim MyungWan (8 dan of Go, it means that is a top top player

Huygens is far more powerful than Deep-Blue with floating point processing power of 15 Teraflop (more than 1000 times).

The big difference between playing chess and go, is the complexity of the game, the number of possible position on a Goban (the Go board) is 2.08168199382×10^{170 ,}

For more informations reads the links below:

Read about Go on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(board_game)

Go complexity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_complexity

The site of the project: http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/g.chaslot/muyungwan-mogo/

And probably one the best site about go (news, game,…): http://gobase.org/

The site directory is useful to list all sites created.

When activated, when you will create a new site it will be automatically listed in a list which is called
“Sites”. To find it, when you are in the “site directory” go to “site actions” -> “view all site content”.

It can be really useful for the content management process, you will be able to say in real-time how many sites have been created or deleted. With some little customisation and maintenance you can put admin names, contact or purpose of the sites.

It can be a good way of tracking changes in a content migration or creation process.

One feature of the site directory is that you can check “in live” if no site has been deleted, to do it simply go to the “site directory” -> “site actions” -> “scan for broken links”, it will update the site list.

Scan for Broken Links

But, it will only check for broken links to sites, not for pages.
It’s only a way to manage a list of site.
A broken link in that case is: “The site has been deleted but it still in the list of sites of the site directory”

It will not scan all pages to find which one are ok or not and that’s a pity.

Sorry for those who thought that they will easily found all 404 pages

My next post, will be about enabling and configuring a “site directory”.

The adventure of today is: Auditing Sharepoint!

Did you know that Sharepoint can generate audit reports ?

Ok for me those tools are more logging than auditing, but as the Sharepoint’s terminology call that Audit, I will call it like that.

From my point of view the contents of the reports are impressive FOR a out-of-box solution, maybe after learned the feature of those you will tell: “I know better tools for auditing an intranet”.

And you will be right, but your solution or tool will probably be more expensive than using the OOB tools because it will be from third parties or custom dev, but there will be maybe more accurate or provide a real analysis than just data.

So to make it short what does that auditing tool ?

You can generating reports at documents or item level, you can log:

• Opening or downloading documents, viewing items in lists, or viewing item properties
• Editing items
• Checking out or checking in items
• Moving or copying items to another location in the site
• Deleting or restoring items

And list, libraries and sites you can log:

• Editing content types and columns
• Searching site content
• Editing users and permissions

Now the important question is how can you use it ?

First you have to choose what to log, to do it, simply go into the “Site Settings” and in the column “Site Administration Collection” you will find the item “Configure Audit Settings”.

Here you can check everything you want.

Configure Audit Settings

After you will have all configured, you can check the reports, the big surprise is that they are generated in .xml, a very good point, because you can open it with exel and easily create charts, use pivot table and other funny things.

Here is the list of full proposed records.

View Auditing Reports

You can in the screenshot, that you can customize more the settings of the auditing reports,  you can choose to log a specific list or site for example.

I’ve applying a log on the deletion action, uploaded some file in a doclib a deletem them, here is the generated reports about the deletion:

Deletion Report 1

The first tab is an overview with only the count of deleted items and their location in the portal.

The second tab (Report Data), tell more details, like who has deleted the docs and when, which is more useful to trace what really happen on the portal.

Deletion Report 2

Hope you have found that post interesting.

Something that everybody involved in content migration must know.

Because you think, ok I will upload 1000 files easily with the “Explorer View”, but back to reality when you see that you have a “&” in almost every filename and you will have to rename those

And of course when you are working for a big company like a bank, you cannot rename files without approval, and it will really slowly the process.

Extract from: http://blogs.officezealot.com/legault/archive/2007/04/26/20302.aspx

Site Names

· In WSS Site Names may not contain the following characters: \ / : * ? ” < > | # { } % & <TAB>” ~ +

· You cannot start a site name, subsite name, or a site group name with an underscore (_) character or with the period character (I recommend avoiding the (_) underscore in site names)

· You cannot use the period character consecutively in the middle of a site name

· You cannot use the period character at the end of a site name

File Names

· Invalid characters: ” # % & * : < > ? \ / { | } ~ 

· Cannot be longer than 128 characters

· You cannot use the period character consecutively in the middle of a file name

· You cannot use the period character at the end of a file name

· You cannot start a file name with the period character

Folder Names

· You cannot use the following characters anywhere in a folder name or a server name: ~ # % & * { } \ : < > ? / | ”

· Cannot be longer than 128 characters

· You cannot use the period character consecutively in the middle of a folder name

· You cannot use the period character at the end of a folder name

· You cannot start a folder name with the period character

Hope it will be useful for you.