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The Search Developer Story in SharePoint 2010 - Query Interfaces
20 November 09 06:39 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

SharePoint 2010 includes a number of features that make the platform easier to use for developers. An improved Visual Studio integration, the addition of LINQ to the SharePoint platform, sandboxing for deployment, and the new developer dashboard are just...

Filed under: Announcements, Query, Developer, Tools, SharePoint, FAST, search, enterprise search, FAST Search for SharePoint 2010

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...

Filed under: Search Server, Announcements, Developer, Samples, Tools, SharePoint, FAST, Search Community Toolkit

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...

Filed under: Express, Search Server, Announcements, Connectivity, Developer, Samples, Tools, SharePoint, Search Community Toolkit

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...

Filed under: Express, Search Server, ITPro, Developer, Tools, SharePoint, Search Community Toolkit

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...

Filed under: ITPro, Query, Tools, Results, Ranking, Relevance

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. ...

Filed under: Express, Search Server, Connectivity, ITPro, Developer, Tools, SharePoint, Search Community Toolkit

Search Community Toolkit
12 March 08 04:15 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

Last week at the SharePoint Conference we announced the Search Community Toolkit which is a set of tools, utilities and samples available from CodePlex to extend and enhance the search features in SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint Server 2007 for Search...

Filed under: Express, Search Server, Announcements, Connectivity, ITPro, Developer, WebService, Samples, Tools, SharePoint

How to: Enable Faceted Search in Search Server 2008 and SharePoint Server 2007 Search
24 November 07 12:42 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

It has many names; Faceted Search, Refinement UI, Search within Search and it’s a feature that’s frequently requested. Both Search Server 2008 Express and SharePoint Server 2007 Search can display faceted results with just a little customization work...

Filed under: ITPro, Query, Developer, Samples, Tools