Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

Microsoft positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2008 Information Access Magic Quadrant

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:33:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Taking People Search on the Road….

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:33:53 GMT

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...(read more)

Partner Post: One Stop Search from the Microsoft Office Research Task Pane

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:04:59 GMT

Since the release of Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft desktop applications such as MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and Internet Explorer have contained an internal federated or meta-search capability known as the ‘Research Pane’. To see this in action...(read more)

How to: Customize the Thesaurus in SharePoint Search and Search Server

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:49:04 GMT

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...(read more)

SharePoint Image Search

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:03:43 GMT

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...(read more)

SQL File groups and Search

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:17:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Partner Post: Announcing conceptClassifier for SharePoint – Automatic Classification within Office

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:10:00 GMT

Enterprise customers are increasingly struggling with how to apply policy and governance at the desktop. End user adoption is cited as the single most critical barrier to success in ECM and Records Management initiatives. Using Concept Searching’s unique...(read more)

SQL Index defrag and maintenance tasks for Search

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:47:00 GMT

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...(read more)

How to: Mine the ULS logs for query latency

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:38:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Search Server 2008 Express Redistribution Rights

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:26:27 GMT

If you’re interested in using Search Server 2008 Express in your application or shipping it on hardware then take a look at the redistribution license page on the Enterprise Search site . This redistribution license agreement grants you the right to redistribute...(read more)

Announcing Faceted Search v2.5

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:50:22 GMT

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...(read more)

SharePoint Server 2007 Powers Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:20:00 GMT

In light of the 2008 Olympics starting tomorrow in Beijing, we’re extremely excited to share that the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games is one of our newest SharePoint Server 2007 customers! After checking out a variety of different search...(read more)

Announcing: Availability of Infrastructure Updates

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:08:13 GMT

As announced on the SharePoint Team blog this morning we released to web three new important updates that affect SharePoint Server 2007 , Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 , Project Server 2007 , Search Server 2008 , Search Server 2008 Express and Project...(read more)

Announcing: conceptClassifier for SharePoint

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:41:07 GMT

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...(read more)

Announcing: SharePoint Web Parts for FAST ESP

Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:06:00 GMT

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...(read more)