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Friday, September 26, 2008 1:04 PM

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

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
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 2:49 PM

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

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
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Friday, September 19, 2008 3:03 PM

SharePoint Image Search

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
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 3:17 PM

SQL File groups and Search

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
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 5:10 PM

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

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
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 4:47 PM

SQL Index defrag and maintenance tasks for Search

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
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 4:38 PM

How to: Mine the ULS logs for query latency

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
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