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Taking People Search on the Road….
16 October 08 10:33 AM | enterprisesearch | 1 Comments   
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/archive/2008/09/27/mobile-people-search.aspx Read More...
SharePoint Image Search
19 September 08 03:03 PM | enterprisesearch | 5 Comments   
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
16 September 08 03:17 PM | enterprisesearch | 4 Comments   
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...
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SQL Index defrag and maintenance tasks for Search
02 September 08 04:47 PM | enterprisesearch | 2 Comments   
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...
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How to: Mine the ULS logs for query latency
02 September 08 04:38 PM | enterprisesearch | 2 Comments   
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...
Announcing Faceted Search v2.5
12 August 08 02:50 PM | enterprisesearch | 5 Comments   
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...
Announcing: Availability of Infrastructure Updates
15 July 08 12:08 AM | enterprisesearch | 12 Comments   
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
07 July 08 02:41 PM | enterprisesearch | 5 Comments   
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...
Indexing Exchange Server 2007 Public Folders
06 June 08 05:56 PM | enterprisesearch | 10 Comments   
I've had several questions recently about how to index Exchange Server 2007 Public Folders with SharePoint Server 2007. Unfortunately with the RTM versions of both products it's not actually possible due a couple of issues with both Exchange Server 2007 Read More...
Announcing: Release to Web of Documentum and FileNet Indexing Connectors
27 May 08 05:45 PM | enterprisesearch | 7 Comments   
Today marks the release of 2 new Microsoft Enterprise Search Indexing Connectors (formally known as Protocol Handlers) for EMC Documentum 5.3 (Service Pack 4) and IBM FileNet P8 3.5.1 or 3.5.2. The connectors are compatible with the 32bit English Language Read More...
Introducing the ExportCrawlLog STSADM Command Extension
26 May 08 08:46 PM | enterprisesearch | 2 Comments   
In versions of SharePoint prior to MOSS 2007 each time a crawl was executed, a new group of log messages were stored to the database.  Also, the name of the log itself was changed in the documentation and the user interface. Formerly this log was Read More...
System Center Data Protection Manager & Search
21 May 08 10:44 AM | enterprisesearch | 0 Comments   
Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) is designed to help you take backups and restore data easily. For a Microsoft SharePoint® farm, DPM understands the objects within the farm and backs up the most relevant data with least Read More...
Search training material available on TechNet!
20 May 08 05:09 PM | enterprisesearch | 4 Comments   
We recently published ~17 hours of training videos for Enterprise Search on TechNet. The 14 recorded presentations are based on training modules from a three-day, in-person training course ‘Implementing and Deploying an Enterprise Search solution’. Read More...
SQL Monitoring and I/O
19 May 08 08:45 PM | enterprisesearch | 4 Comments   
Hello again, the interest in the existing posts is starting to climb. As always feel free to post comments or questions to any of the posts and I will either answer your questions directly or add them as topics for the next set of posts. This week I wanted Read More...
Search Relevance Tuning
14 May 08 05:37 PM | enterprisesearch | 2 Comments   
Changing the advanced relevance settings for Search Server 2008 and SharePoint Server 2007 (such as the global ranking parameters, property weights and property length normalization) isn't something that you'll want to do without a lot of thought, planning Read More...
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