Hi all, I just recently put together an email on some of the articles available for Developers on MOSS Search. So here is my quick list: Best Practices: Writing SQL Syntax Queries for Relevant Results in Enterprise Search --> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb219479.aspx Creating...

Hi all, I have heard questions around the need to do a Full Crawl, after installing MOSS Service Pack 1. I did not see anything in the documents for SP1 that a full crawl is required or recommended. But after talking to some of the experts, I was told that a full crawl is recommended but not required...

Hey all, So I was doing some work with a customer and I was asked how to do a Full Crawl for a site, without actually doing a Full Crawl and only doing Incremental Crawl. So bascially, they would like to crawl a site fully, using only Incremental crawls. So I was told a quick thing that worked for...

Hi all, I wanted to make sure you saw the following sites: Announcement on this news at the SharePoint Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/11/06/announcing-microsoft-search-server-2008-express.aspx Microsoft Enterprise Search site: http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/ ...

Hi all, I just wanted to make sure that everyone saw these two excerpts from Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by Patrick Tisseghem, from Microsoft Press These two excerpts can be found at: Chapter 3: Customizing and Extending the Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Search (Part 1...

Hi all, I just wanted to make sure that everyone saw this technical whitepaper on how Microsoft deployed SharePoint Server 2007 Search internally: "This document shares the experiences of Microsoft teams in deploying Enterprise Search at Microsoft. Because of the significant amount of knowledge...

Hi all, Just want to make sure that you saw the announcement for the new Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor for MOSS 2007. The BDC Definition Editor tool is now available in the latest version of the MOSS SDK at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6d94e307-67d9...

Hi all, I have been asked a lot for guidelines around some of the boundaries for MOSS Search. Here is a quick table that does a good job on this: Search object Guidelines for acceptable performance Notes Search indexes One per SSP Maximum of 20 per...

Hi all, I have been asked about how MOSS can be configured to crawl Lotus Notes. Below are some links that may be useful : Configure MOSS 2007 to crawl Lotus Notes: http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/82c7c354-6347-4ae8-b5f8-7d0cdfe432401033.mspx Configuring the Lotus...

Hi all, I have been asked few times for best practices on writing SQL Syntax Queries with respect to MOSS Search. There are great articles in the MOSS SDK and MSDN on best practices. In case folks are not aware of these, here are couple of quick links: Best Practices: Writing SQL Syntax Queries...

Hi all, I have been asked many times by other consultants or customers, how to plan the MOSS Search team. Before planning and rolling out the deployment of MOSS, you need to know what your Search planning and Operations team might need to look like. There are guidelines on Microsoft's TechNet site...

Hi all, The MOSS Search Performance and Capacity whitepaper is now available at TechNet at: http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/5465aa2b-aec3-4b87-bce0-8601ff20615e1033.mspx?mfr=true This document dives into performance and capacity scenarios, discussing lab testing and topology...

The Did You Mean? feature is used by the query engine to catch possible spelling errors and to provide suggestions for queries. The Did You Mean? feature builds suggestions by using three components: Query log : Information tracked in the query log includes the query terms used, when the search...

Hi all, There are a lot of customers today that want to engage in a Proof of Concept or Pilot with MOSS 2007 Search. These customers would like to setup MOSS Search, configure it, index and crawl all their content and then present the results to their end users. The great thing about MOSS Search is...

So how Does MOSS Expand Search Query Terms to Related Words? Here is how this works in MOSS: In MOSS, stemming is used in combination with the word breaker component which determines where word boundaries are. The word breaker is used at both index and query time while the stemmer is used...

Hi all, So I have been getting some questions around how MOSS does Word Stemming, so here is what I have been able to gather/research: MOSS Search Stemming: The word Stemming refers to the process of stripping off endings of words at query/index time so that different search terms will...

I have heard this question few times and I wanted to share my thoughts on it. The two questions are: Is there anything special that MOSS does to crawl pages with iFrames in them? Or do we have to do anything special to get MOSS to crawl these pages? The answer to both questions are not really. MOSS...

I have been getting this question few times now with some of my MOSS Search customers. I have been asked what is the difference in setting up a "SharePoint Sites" MOSS Content Source versus a "Web Sites" MOSS Content Source . Here I have tried to add some of my thoughts on these two: Both...

I have been asked this question few times by my MOSS Search customers. Question being: What is the difference in features in WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search? One thing to note is that the Search in the 3 products are all based on the same Microsoft Search core indexing...

I just wanted to let the readers know of a tool that allows taking MOSS Search settings from one SSP to another. This tool written by Angus Logan, can take the output of Search settings from one MOSS SSP and import them into another SSP. This eliminates errors and saves time when deploying Search settings...

There is a great feature in MOSS Search that some folks may not know about. This is regarding finding out the status of an item in MOSS Search. For example, if you want to know if a site, a document or a link was crawled or not by MOSS Search, we have the feature called Crawl Logs. From the SharePoint...

I have been compiling links to current documents/links/articles on Mcirosoft related sites regarding Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search. I am sure there are more links out there, but this is a good list to start with: MOSS 2007 Search Overview in SDK: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us...

I just wanted to make sure that folks are aware of some blog postings and links/whitepapers that Microsoft has today regarding Enterprise Search: Start with this article by Arpan Shah on Enterprise Search: http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2005/11/15/492946.aspx Then read this article by...