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Friday, February 29, 2008 7:17 PM

Build Custom Federated Search Connector in Microsoft Search Server (and SharePoint) - Solve Problems and Extend Your Ideas

I assume the read of this article understand what is federated search. So we already know that in order to use Federated Search webpart in Search Server, you need to provide a RSS feed to it, which can also be called "OpenSearch" stuff. But,
Posted by Jie Li | 0 Comments
Friday, February 29, 2008 3:23 PM

Don't compare things that are not on one level

Nowadays we heard of many interesting topic about "killers" on newspapers and online medias. They are talking about "Office killer" - maybe OpenOffice, maybe Lotus Symphony(I worked with Lotus Notes for years, so I think compared with
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:53 AM

Okay...Here comes Smart Search bug fix and installation guide...

It's my fault to ignore it for so long a time. It is not written by me originally, but by a colleague of mine, Gang Chen. But he asked me to do a favor to create a project on codeplex, so now it is maintained by me. http://www.codeplex.com/smartsearch
Posted by Jie Li | 1 Comments
Monday, February 25, 2008 2:05 PM

Try Microsoft Search Server Express for Federated Search

I just installed a Search Server Express on my public box, so everyone can try it just by several clicks! If you don't have the time to install one for yourself, now it's your chance to get your hands on it.   Play with default interface: http://www.mssearch.cn:5000/Search/default.aspx
Posted by Jie Li | 1 Comments
Friday, February 22, 2008 1:00 AM

The Greatness of Interoperability

Today we are talking a lot about openness and interoperability in Microsoft. Maybe most of the people can't imagine this several years before. I remember when I joined Microsoft, I talked a lot about "we should be interoperable with other software,
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:47 PM

Real World Lotus Notes Index Result in SharePoint 2007

Crawled Notes data: 1240 Gbytes Crawled Notes Items: 2.7 Million SharePoint Index: 70 Gbytes SharePoint Search DB: 120 Gbytes Data vs Index = 124:7 = 18:1, which is a ratio of 6%. Index vs Search DB = 7: 12. Search DB is 160% of Index. In total, (Search
Posted by Jie Li | 1 Comments
Sunday, February 17, 2008 3:53 PM

Next steps of SharePoint Search Enhancement, and...

I was collecting feedbacks from many people these days about the enhancement we did for SharePoint Search in China. Good feedback, bad feedback, that's okay. I just put the whole list here: Search As You Type, SAYT: The live search feel for your SharePoint
Posted by Jie Li | 3 Comments
Sunday, February 10, 2008 1:04 AM

Dealing with custom content source in SharePoint Search

By default, SharePoint 2007 family (MOSS/MSS) supports the following content sources: Web sites, SharePoint Sites (WSS/SharePoint Server), Exchange Public Folders(through OWA), File Shares, Lotus Notes databases on Domino Server. Through BDC and user
Posted by Jie Li | 1 Comments
Sunday, February 03, 2008 12:57 AM

SharePoint Search Admin v.06: Support 250K Lotus Notes Databases Now

http://www.codeplex.com/searchadmin We all know that SharePoint 2007 and Microsoft Search Server 2008 support Lotus Notes content source. So we can index the databases on Domino Servers. Y-E-S. But there ARE some issue you may face in the real world.
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