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The hotfix for enabling case-sensitive URL's to be crawled with MOSS is pretty well known http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932619 (The fix is also included in MOSS SP1) but what is maybe less well known is that you also need to enable the same registry key in Search Server 2008 to crawl case-sensitive URLs - i.e. it's not switched on by default in MSS. This is also true after installing SP1 for MOSS, you'll need to set the registry key afterwards to enable the fix.
Following the KB article enables case-sensitive crawling, it doesn't enable case-sensitive searching. So for example, MOSS and MSS will be able to successfully crawl and index a URL of http://SERVER/Site/content but a query of "QUERY TERMS" will return the same results as a query of "query terms".
Richard Riley
Senior Technical Product Manager
Microsoft Corp
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It’s been a very exciting last few months for both Microsoft and our customers in the enterprise search space. In November, Jon Kauffman provided some insight into our Search Server Express product and its importance to companies that are looking for entry level solutions. Today, I’m excited to write about another important milestone as we announced that we will make an offer to acquire Fast Search & Transfer, one of the premier companies in the enterprise search market.
Let me first tell you a little about FAST. They are headquartered in Oslo and have operations worldwide. Their people are fantastic and not only have a great customer focus, but also bring tremendous expertise in the category – more than 60% of their people are engineers and close to 50 of them have PhDs in relevant fields. Customers like Best Buy and CareerBuilder.com have deployed FAST’s solution, driving business results through advanced capabilities that can detect the context and intent of a query, perform complex query refinements, and enable dynamic query-driven navigation—all securely and at incredible scale.
So why are we doing this? Ultimately, the combination of Microsoft and FAST eliminates the need for customers to compromise. In enterprise search to date, organizations have basically been forced to choose between high-end, specialized products and more mainstream, infrastructure solutions-- but not anymore. The combination of Microsoft and FAST gives customers a new choice—a single vendor with solutions that span the full range of enterprise search needs.
This is a sizable deal, and we are taking this exciting step because we envision enterprise search becoming a fundamental capability in every organization’s productivity infrastructure. We believe enterprise search will be for workers tomorrow what internet search is for consumers today – an indispensible tool that is central to how they find and use information.
I look forward to keeping you posted as this truly exciting story unfolds.
Kirk Koenigsbauer
General Manager,
SharePoint Business Group
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Just before the holidays we released a filter pack to the download center that add's support for new Microsoft Office and ZIP file types for several applications that include Microsoft search functionality.
The pack includes IFilters for the following formats: .docx, .docm, .pptx, .pptm, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .zip, .one, .vdx, .vsd, .vss, .vst, .vdx, .vsx, and .vtx.
The download is available here; http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=60C92A37-719C-4077-B5C6-CAC34F4227CC&displaylang=en
Links to the installation instructions for each product are here;
Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Office SharePoint Server 2007 registration steps
Search Server 2008 - Search Server 2008 registration steps
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 - SharePoint Portal Server 2003 registration steps
Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 - Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 registration steps
Exchange Server 2007 - Exchange Server 2007 registration steps
SQL Server 2005 - SQL Server 2005 registration steps
SQL Server 2008 - SQL Server 2008 registration steps
There's a slight mistype in the instructions for SharePoint Server 2007 and Search Server 2008 - Details are here http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/archive/2008/01/04/errata-for-filter-pack-kb.aspx
Richard Riley
Senior Technical Product Manager
Microsoft Corp
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