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 to optimize query performance. For reference and a...

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. The capacity planning document talks about a lot...

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 in the index. As such you should not take the hardware...

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 much of the event was dedicated to disclosure of...