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Microsoft positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2008 Information Access Magic Quadrant
30 October 08 05:33 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
We’ve got great news to share! Last month, Gartner published the 2008 Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology, and Microsoft was positioned in the Leaders Quadrant. Since the completion of the acquisition, we’ve worked incredibly hard to communicate...
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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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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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Announcing: SharePoint Web Parts for FAST ESP
20 June 08 01:06 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
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...
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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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Introducing Protocol Handler.NET
05 June 08 02:13 AM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
"Protocol Handler.Net is a set of .Net wrappers for the protocol handler interfaces that enable developers to create and deploy protocol handlers for SharePoint search and Search Server.  Developers can index data and documents from any system...
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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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Understanding Total Hits & Paging in the MOSS 2007 Search API
22 May 08 02:45 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
One of the more discussed topics I’ve seen (and struggled with myself) is around the concept of obtaining the total number of hits in a search results when working with the MOSS API. For instance, when I search for “sales forecast” in...
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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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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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