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How to: Customize the Thesaurus in SharePoint Search and Search Server
23 September 08 02:49 PM | enterprisesearch | 2 Comments   
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 Read More...
SharePoint Image Search
19 September 08 03:03 PM | enterprisesearch | 2 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...
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...
Announcing: SharePoint Web Parts for FAST ESP
20 June 08 10:06 AM | enterprisesearch | 5 Comments   
It’s been around 45 days since the acquisition of FAST Search and Transfer closed and we’re moving quickly to provide interoperability for Microsoft customers between FAST ESP and Microsoft SharePoint Server. The first deliverables from this work are Read More...
Indexing Exchange Server 2007 Public Folders
06 June 08 05:56 PM | enterprisesearch | 8 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...
Introducing Protocol Handler.NET
04 June 08 11:13 PM | enterprisesearch | 2 Comments   
"Protocol Handler.Net is a set of .Net wrappers for the protocol handler interfaces that enable developers to create and deploy protocol handlers for SharePoint search and Search Server.  Developers can index data and documents from any system Read More...
Announcing: Release to Web of Documentum and FileNet Indexing Connectors
27 May 08 05:45 PM | enterprisesearch | 5 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...
Understanding Total Hits & Paging in the MOSS 2007 Search API
22 May 08 11:45 AM | enterprisesearch | 3 Comments   
One of the more discussed topics I’ve seen (and struggled with myself) is around the concept of obtaining the total number of hits in a search results when working with the MOSS API. For instance, when I search for “sales forecast” in 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...
Crawling Novell Netware with SharePoint Server 2007 and Search Server 2008
12 May 08 03:07 PM | enterprisesearch | 0 Comments   
Search in SharePoint Server 2007 and Search Server 2008 can crawl a variety of content sources. For several of the “out of the box” content sources security information in the form of ACLs are collected as part of the indexing process.  Read More...
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