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Taking People Search on the Road….
16 October 08 01:33 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
In another great blog post Matt McDermott walks you through the steps of enabling SharePoint’s people search capability on a mobile device with the end results looking something like this; The post is here;   http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/matthew...
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How to: Customize the Thesaurus in SharePoint Search and Search Server
23 September 08 05:49 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
The thesaurus is an xml file that provides users with a means of automatically expanding or rewriting their queries to include synonyms, acronyms, etc. For example, in a chemical company, product ID 1234, oxygen, O2 and LOX could all refer to the same...
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SharePoint Image Search
19 September 08 06:03 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
Matthew McDermott , a SharePoint MVP , has written a great 4 part blog post on how to make SharePoint 2007 search (and Search Server) render image results in a way that looks very similar to http://images.live.com . Not only does this make searching images...
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SQL File groups and Search
16 September 08 06:17 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
This article has been a long time coming, but it is finally here.  In the post below I will cover how to configure the Search database to span multiple filegroups.  First I'll cover a little about the benefits of doing so: General references...
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SQL Index defrag and maintenance tasks for Search
02 September 08 07:47 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
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...
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How to: Mine the ULS logs for query latency
02 September 08 07:38 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
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...
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Announcing Faceted Search v2.5
12 August 08 05:50 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
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...
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Announcing: conceptClassifier for SharePoint
07 July 08 05:41 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
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...
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Indexing Exchange Server 2007 Public Folders
06 June 08 08:56 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
I've had several questions recently about how to index Exchange Server 2007 Public Folders with SharePoint Server 2007. Unfortunately with the RTM versions of both products it's not actually possible due a couple of issues with both Exchange Server...
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Announcing: Release to Web of Documentum and FileNet Indexing Connectors
27 May 08 08:45 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
Today marks the release of 2 new Microsoft Enterprise Search Indexing Connectors (formally known as Protocol Handlers) for EMC Documentum 5.3 (Service Pack 4) and IBM FileNet P8 3.5.1 or 3.5.2. The connectors are compatible with the 32bit English Language...
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Introducing the ExportCrawlLog STSADM Command Extension
26 May 08 11:46 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
In versions of SharePoint prior to MOSS 2007 each time a crawl was executed, a new group of log messages were stored to the database.  Also, the name of the log itself was changed in the documentation and the user interface. Formerly this log was...
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System Center Data Protection Manager & Search
21 May 08 01:44 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) is designed to help you take backups and restore data easily. For a Microsoft SharePoint® farm, DPM understands the objects within the farm and backs up the most relevant data with least...
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Search training material available on TechNet!
20 May 08 08:09 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
We recently published ~17 hours of training videos for Enterprise Search on TechNet. The 14 recorded presentations are based on training modules from a three-day, in-person training course ‘Implementing and Deploying an Enterprise Search solution’...
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Search Relevance Tuning
14 May 08 08:37 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
Changing the advanced relevance settings for Search Server 2008 and SharePoint Server 2007 (such as the global ranking parameters, property weights and property length normalization) isn't something that you'll want to do without a lot of thought...
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Crawling Novell Netware with SharePoint Server 2007 and Search Server 2008
12 May 08 06:07 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
Search in SharePoint Server 2007 and Search Server 2008 can crawl a variety of content sources. For several of the “out of the box” content sources security information in the form of ACLs are collected as part of the indexing process. ...
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