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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:46 PM

PDF iFilter Battle! FoxIT vs.. Adobe, 64bit version

After so long a time Adobe finally released its 64bit version of PDF iFilter! http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025 “In response to customer requests, Adobe is releasing Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms, which will allow
Posted by Jie Li | 10 Comments
Friday, September 05, 2008 9:23 AM

Search Suggestions in IE8 with SharePoint/Search Server

IE8 Beta 2 has been there for a while. Although it is not supported to use together with SharePoint products yet (there’s no chance to support a beta product), you can still try it out. There’re couple of new features introduced like WebSlices, Accelerators
Posted by Jie Li | 4 Comments
Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:35 PM

SharePoint Search - Lotus Notes Indexing Best Practice

Many people have been asking for the best practice or a guide to properly maintain Lotus Notes indexing function in SharePoint Search. So here it is, this is not a official guide, but our experience in several big customers. I will write this in a Q/A
Posted by Jie Li | 1 Comments
Monday, June 02, 2008 9:17 AM

SharePoint Search Admin 0.80b – Now with Keywords and Bestbets Backup and Restore Feature

It has been a long time since last update. In this version of SharePoint Search Admin, I added a feature by very popular request: Keywords and Bestbets. I mark it a “Beta” because there’re still something I didn’t finish due to time limitation, so I disabled
Posted by Jie Li | 0 Comments
Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:11 AM

“Evil” way to federate search results through a password protected proxy

In real world environment, people sometimes use password protected proxy to make company employees to access the Internet. Most of the time, that is a basic authentication. So in this kind of environment, the federated search webpart of Microsoft Search
Posted by Jie Li | 1 Comments
Monday, April 14, 2008 2:44 AM

What may happen when I crawl MILLIONS of files in MOSS/MSS? Part II - Why I need X64 instead of X86?

In last post of this series we talked about the crawl time and and CPU usage. This time we will talk about process memory usage and x86/x64 issue. Many customers asked me questions about x86/x64 comparison. Most of them consider x64 would be a benefit,
Posted by Jie Li | 1 Comments
Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:03 PM

Index FTP content with SharePoint 2007/Search Server 2008

Question: Can SharePoint 2007/Search Server 2008 index and search ftp? Answer: OOTB you cannot. But we have a FTP protocol handler in SharePoint 2001 ResKit, and that one can be used on SharePoint 2007 or Search Server 2008. Important Notice: This approach
Posted by Jie Li | 4 Comments
Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:21 AM

Search Community Toolkit on Codeplex

http://www.codeplex.com/sct Richard Riley (3x to your xbox racing wheel:)) announced the new Community Toolkit project on Codeplex, which gives you a list of opensource enhancement for Search Server 2008 and SharePoint 2007. http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch/archive/2008/03/12/search-community-toolkit.aspx
Posted by Jie Li | 1 Comments
Saturday, March 08, 2008 2:00 AM

Smart Search for SharePoint v1.2

Many many thanks to Shawn Feldman! Quote from him: "I was having a few issues getting smart search installed and granting it the right permissions to access the db (I’m running a multi account environment) so I put it in a feature, Gac’d
Posted by Jie Li | 1 Comments
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
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
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
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