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SharePoint Search 2010 in a Small Scale Farm - Hardware
15 June 10 09:24 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
Hello, my name is Hernando Silva and, as some of you might know from Dan's previous posts , for the last year I participated in the planning, deployment and management of the SharePoint 2010 Search service at a small scale. In this post I will begin...
SharePoint 2010 Search 'Dogfood' Part 3 - Query Performance Optimization
09 June 10 01:00 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
Hello again and welcome to the SharePoint Server 2010 Search series of blog postings dedicated to detailing the lessons I have learned in the process of hosting our dogfood system. In this posting I will be talk about the high level concepts utilized...
SharePoint 2010 Search 'Dogfood' Part 2 - Query Health Reports
09 June 10 12:42 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
One of my favorite features of SharePoint Server 2010 Search is the health reporting that we added. With the query health reports you can very easily see what is going on with end user query latencies as well as pinpoint were the time is getting spent...
SharePoint 2010 Search 'Dogfood' Part 1 - Hardware
02 June 10 10:12 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
Hello again, Dan Blood here. To layout the lessons I've learned in hosting Search 2010 I will provide you with a full picture of what the hardware behind SearchBeta looks like. Be aware that the hardware is a little underpowered for the count of items...
Server Name Mapping and Alternate Access Mapping (AAM)
28 May 10 09:09 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) and Server Name Mapping are two features SharePoint provides to alter the URLs returned in search results - a common practice used by many companies for their internal and external users. Both features are available in both...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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