April 2008 - Posts

Scale and performance lessons learned from a live deployment
30 April 08 07:47 AM | enterprisesearch | 5 Comments   

My name is Dan Blood, I am a senior tester working in the product group that is responsible for Search within MOSS and MSS.  One of my responsibilities is maintaining a mirror, SearchBeta,  of the enterprise search solution that all of Microsoft Read More...

Filed under: ITPro, Search Server, SharePoint, Perf & Scale

FAST Tender Offer Complete!
25 April 08 06:00 AM | enterprisesearch | 3 Comments   

Well, it has been a while since I last posted – but for good reason. Aside from our usual day-to-day efforts to deliver great enterprise search solutions for our customers, we’ve also been feverishly working on the acquisition of FAST Search & Transfer Read More...

Filed under: Announcements, FAST

New hotfix package for Lotus Notes Protocol Handler
14 April 08 02:40 AM | enterprisesearch | 1 Comments   

If you're working with searching Lotus Notes with SharePoint Server 2007 or Search Server 2008, you may have hit one of the following problems: "You configure SharePoint Server 2007 to crawl a Lotus Notes content source. In the Manage Content Sources Read More...

Filed under: Announcements, Hotfix, Updates, ITPro, Search Server, Support, SharePoint

Search Server Express Heroes - Tell Your Story!
11 April 08 12:13 PM | enterprisesearch | 0 Comments   

Search Server 2008 Express has only been available for a month now , and we have already been hearing stories from customers about how it has helped them deliver value to their organization -- in many cases in unexpected ways that became a great hero Read More...

Filed under: ITPro, Express

Add Virtual Earth Interactive Maps to your Search Server Site
01 April 08 02:40 PM | enterprisesearch | 2 Comments   

Are you trying to think of ways to make your Search Server site more interactive and graphical? You can use Federation as a way to enhance the functionality of your search result pages. The Federated Search Web Part makes it possible to display more than Read More...

Filed under: Query, Developer, WebService, Connectivity, Search Server, Samples, Documentation