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I’m with Scoble, these start-up web sites suck

Brandon Live! — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:36:14 GMT

If you’re launching a start-up at Demo or TC50, you need to do better than any of these. If your home page links to a PDF “info sheet” you fail. Now, some of these suck for the sole reason that the start-up itself seems to be a pointless idea. Some combine terrible company and product names with [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks...(read more)

McCain’s Folly: Keeping up with the Palin debacle

Brandon Live! — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:28:02 GMT

I’m trying very hard to keep up with all the news, but it seems to be endless. Let’s see what we have so far. Governor Sarah Palin… 1) Was a member of (and still supports) the Alaska Independence Party, which believes that Alaska’s statehood is “illegal” and its admission the United States was made possible [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks...(read more)

SQL Index defrag and maintenance tasks for Search

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:47:00 GMT

Hi all, this topic is an area that has caused me much pain and work. My goal for this was to follow the recommended SQL guidelines while minimizing the impact that these maintenance jobs have on Crawling and Queries. We know from the SQL Monitoring an I/O post that Search is extremely I/O intensive . As it turns out so is all of the regular maintenance that SQL recommends, so finding the right balance between the two is an interesting scheduling task. As a starting point much information...(read more)

How to: Mine the ULS logs for query latency

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:38:00 GMT

Tracking query latencies can be made easier through the use of the products ULS logs. Below you will find information on how to enable the specific ULS traces as well as information for how to parse the logs. The primary usage of this information is to monitor the ongoing health of your system. It is one tool in the toolbox to make sure that the system is running in a viable state. It is also necessary when you are making small changes to your environment so you can...(read more)

Opera begins smear campaign against IE 8

Brandon Live! — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:07:04 GMT

There’s an article over at everybody’s favorite internet tabloid The Register about IE 8’s decision to default to Compatibility View (that is, IE 7 emulation) for INTRAnet sites. The article lambastes the IE team for “breaking its promise to embrace web standards.” You might be wondering, “Why does the author of this article care about intranet [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks...(read more)

Search Server 2008 Express Redistribution Rights

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:26:27 GMT

If you’re interested in using Search Server 2008 Express in your application or shipping it on hardware then take a look at the redistribution license page on the Enterprise Search site . This redistribution license agreement grants you the right to redistribute Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express with your software application or hardware. To obtain a Search Server 2008 Express redistribution license, you must: Review the Search Server 2008 Express Redistribution End-User License Agreement (EULA...(read more)

Get A Mac ads jump the shark

Brandon Live! — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:35:29 GMT

These may have been kind of cute or clever in the past, misleading as they were. But now they’re just plain obnoxious. When I bought my new car last year there was a car salesman at one dealership who only seemed concerned with what other options I was looking at. He tried to tell me that [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks...(read more)

How my team and I fit into Windows 7

Brandon Live! — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:25:59 GMT

As you probably heard (if you’re reading this blog), Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan recently launched the Windows 7 Engineer Team Blog. This afternoon the Steven made his second post on the blog, discussing the Windows 7 engineering organization. He describes the rough dimensions of the various feature teams, including a pretty complete list of the [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks...(read more)

Announcing Faceted Search v2.5

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:50:22 GMT

Starting Faceted Search 2.5, the solution relies on Microsoft Enterprise Library to address common software requirements in caching, logging, exception handling, policy injection etc., etc. More importantly, the 2.5 is a ground breaking release that is setting new targets for the Faceted Search. So, what’s new? New Features 1. Caching – dramatically improves performance and decreases the load on the search engine The solution uses 2 mechanisms for manageable cache: quick and long. I built the caching...(read more)

NYT says passwords, OpenID suck

Brandon Live! — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:23:48 GMT

Randall Stross, the same guy who recently said Microsoft should abandon Windows, says on the NY Times site that passwords aren’t good because they’re vulnerable to spoofing attacks, and that they should be replaced by “information cards.” Well, he’s got a point here, and many companies and services already use non-password authentication mechanisms. Microsoft uses them for [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks...(read more)

Why are browser plug-ins so insecure?

Brandon Live! — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:59:07 GMT

Flash and Java, I’m looking at you. You may have heard about the paper released at this week’s Black Hat conference, describing limitations in Windows’ memory protection schemes like ASLR, DEP, etc. The paper is well-written, very detailed, and I’ve no reason to doubt that it’s pretty accurate. Some points it makes are things that teams [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks...(read more)

Microsoft Intern Video 2008 - The Spy

Brandon Live! — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:52:04 GMT

In traditional Microsoft fashion, this year’s interns have put together a video about Microsoft… in this case, telling the story of a spy trying to find all our Win7 secrets Somebody posted the video to YouTube, which you can find here. Random trivia: The building that this takes place in is my building, building 86. [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks...(read more)

OpenSearch spec status

Brandon Live! — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:21:03 GMT

In addition to the aforementioned e-mailing, I also spent a little of the weekend on some personal projects, and did some poking around at the OpenSearch discussion group. I was curious about the fact that OpenSearch 1.1 has been stuck in “Draft 3″ status for well over a year now. Apparently my prodding has provoked [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks...(read more)

Home from LA

Brandon Live! — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:15:11 GMT

Last week I headed down to LA to spend a long weekend with my sister and my friend Sara, both of whom live there. I tried to remain disconnected during that time but failed pretty miserably, at least the last couple days. I even kept up with my work e-mail most of yesterday. I really [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks...(read more)

SharePoint Server 2007 Powers Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:20:00 GMT

In light of the 2008 Olympics starting tomorrow in Beijing, we’re extremely excited to share that the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games is one of our newest SharePoint Server 2007 customers! After checking out a variety of different search solutions, such as the Google Search Appliance, the BOCOG is using SharePoint as a search platform to power their INFO 2008 database (which over 3,500 Olympics partners and members of the media will have access to.) This means that thousands of...(read more)

New Blog

lars — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:38:00 GMT

Hey, sorry for not blogging for so long - but please check out my new blog at blog.sharepointproducts.com. Here I will continue blogging about SharePoint on technical subjects. I will not restrict myself to search related topics as I do more than search now. But search is of course still my favorite SharePoint topic and I will ask the sharepointsearch.com admin if he can mirror posts from my Enterprise search category here.

The FSF show their true colors (a bright shade of ***)

Brandon Live! — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:23:37 GMT

The so-called “Free Software Foundation,” having vanquished their enemy from Redmond and having nothing better to do, is now launching a Denial of Service campaign against users of Apple’s products. Basically they want their minions to descend upon Apple stores everywhere and harass the store employees so that they can’t help real customers. Here is my [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks...(read more)

Announcing: Availability of Infrastructure Updates

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:08:13 GMT

As announced on the SharePoint Team blog this morning we released to web three new important updates that affect SharePoint Server 2007 , Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 , Project Server 2007 , Search Server 2008 , Search Server 2008 Express and Project Professional 2007 . The Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) ( Download X86 , Download X64 ) is particularly important from a Search and SharePoint Server 2007 perspective as it contains the new Enterprise Search features...(read more)

Announcing: conceptClassifier for SharePoint

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:41:07 GMT

conceptClassifier for SharePoint adds automatic document classification and taxonomy management to Microsoft SharePoint and works without the need to build another search index. It is installed as a set of Features that, when activated, cause new columns to be displayed in the document library listings and new menu options appear that allow authorised users to edit the automatically generated metadata, if required. Adding Taxonomy navigation to SharePoint Classification results are saved directly...(read more)

Who is a bigger threat to the US? Islam or Creationists?

Brandon Live! — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:24:26 GMT

Earlier this evening I discovered a wonderful series of videos on YouTube (which I am convinced more than ever is a Google plot to make sure I stay up all night watching videos and don’t get any work done in the morning). It’s a series called “Why do people laugh at creationists?” and it is published [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks...(read more)

NYT article says we should throw away Windows

Brandon Live! — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:22:47 GMT

A couple months ago I posted about an article by some guy at Business Week, that made all sorts of rubbish claims about Windows and OS X. Not to be outdone, Randall Stross at the NY times decided he could use some TechMeme love and wrote basically the same piece. He says of Windows: Painfully visible are the [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks...(read more)

Snow Leopard = Apple’s XP SP2? It better be.

Brandon Live! — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:23:31 GMT

As I read the initial details about Apple’s “Snow Leopard” release (ostensibly called OS X 10.6), I got to thinking… What do they mean that they’ve taken the focus away from new features? From Apple.com: Taking a break from adding new features, Snow Leopard — scheduled to ship in about a year — builds on Leopard’s enormous [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks...(read more)

Announcing: SharePoint Web Parts for FAST ESP

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:06:00 GMT

It’s been around 45 days since the acquisition of FAST Search and Transfer closed and we’re moving quickly to provide interoperability for Microsoft customers between FAST ESP and Microsoft SharePoint Server. The first deliverables from this work are a set of FAST ESP Search Web Parts for quickly integrating results from FAST ESP into SharePoint Server 2007 and a FAST ESP Search site template. Using these Web Parts and Site Template SharePoint administrators will be able to quickly and easily build...(read more)

Good time to join Yahoo?

Brandon Live! — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:22:57 GMT

John McCain debates himself

Brandon Live! — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:08:47 GMT

Found this slightly amusing. My greatest concern with McCain is how different he is today from the man he was a year or two ago. I feel that he’s compromised far too many of his principles, and turned the wrong direction on many issues - apparently believing that is how he will get elected. What do [...] Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks...(read more)