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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...

Filed under: Search Server, SharePoint, search, Perf & Scale, SS14 DogFood

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...

Filed under: Search Server, SharePoint, search, Perf & Scale, Scale, SS14 DogFood

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...

Filed under: Search Server, SharePoint, search, Perf & Scale, Scale, SS14 DogFood

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...

Filed under: Search Server, SharePoint, search, Perf & Scale, Scale, SS14 DogFood

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...

Filed under: Search Server, Connectivity, Developer, SharePoint, Results, search, FAST Search for SharePoint 2010

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

FAST meets SharePoint - What's Coming in Search for SharePoint 2010
27 October 09 09:22 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

Last week was the 2009 SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. The sold-out attendance of 7400 doubled the number from the previous SharePoint conference 1 ½ years ago. This is not too surprising given the incredible momentum of SharePoint and the fact that...

Filed under: Announcements, Updates, SharePoint, FAST, Ranking, Relevance, People Search, search, FASTForward'09, enterprise search, Perf & Scale, Scale

A Focus on Search User Experience
14 July 09 02:17 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

It’s happening… slowly … but it’s happening. Attention in search is finally shifting from a focus on low-level features and relevancy models to looking at the whole user experience for information access. I, for one, am very glad to see this trend. Of...

Filed under: FAST, search, vision, enterprise search, user interfaces, user experience

Observations from the Text Analytics Summit 2009
09 June 09 09:56 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

One of the hard parts about organizing a conference like the 5 th annual Text Analytics Summit , held last week in Boston, must be selecting the industry case studies. Text analytics is a highly specialized, but broad reaching topic that has applications...

Filed under: search, enterprise search, sentiment analysis, etl, 'text analytics"

Search and Natural User Interfaces (NUIs) - Part 1
27 April 09 12:08 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

About five years ago or so, I participated in a conference panel where the question was asked: “What will search interfaces look like 20 years from now?”. I had just seen Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi film “Minority Report” starring Tom Cruise, so I referred...

Filed under: search, natural user interfaces, NUIs, vision