Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

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Date: 07/09/2010

Hello, my name is Hernando Silva and, as some of you might know from Dan's previous posts , for the...

Date: 06/15/2010

Hello again and welcome to the SharePoint Server 2010 Search series of blog postings dedicated to...

Date: 06/09/2010

One of my favorite features of SharePoint Server 2010 Search is the health reporting that we added....

Date: 06/09/2010

Hello again, Dan Blood here. To layout the lessons I've learned in hosting Search 2010 I will...

Date: 06/02/2010

Hello, Dan Blood here with another series of blog postings about running SharePoint Server 2010...

Date: 05/10/2010

Business data associations are widely used to fetch related external content (ex. data from two sql...

Date: 03/09/2010

Innovation is at the heart of our enterprise search strategy, and a commitment to innovation is what...

Date: 02/04/2010

Search admins often need to omit from a crawl files that match a certain pattern. E.g.: · In a bank,...

Date: 01/21/2010

SharePoint 2010 includes a number of features that make the platform easier to use for developers....

Date: 11/20/2009

Web-based mapping services from Microsoft and others have been around for a number of years, but all...

Date: 11/09/2009

Last week was the 2009 SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. The sold-out attendance of 7400 doubled...

Date: 10/27/2009

(In May of this year, Microsoft launched its Bing search service for the Web. While Bing has shown...

Date: 09/22/2009

I like design patterns. I like the idea that there are right ways to do things and wrong ways...

Date: 09/14/2009

Not long ago, I was invited to participate at a customer’s annual conference. It was an amazing...

Date: 08/27/2009

It’s happening… slowly … but it’s happening. Attention in search is finally shifting from a focus on...

Date: 07/14/2009

One of the hard parts about organizing a conference like the 5th annual Text Analytics Summit, held...

Date: 06/09/2009

I recently came across Paul Nelson’s informative post on search scalability. I don’t know how long...

Date: 05/22/2009

Day 1 at the Enterprise Search Summit in NYC is wrapping up and I’ve just listened to Lisa Denissen...

Date: 05/12/2009

In my first post on this subject last week, I referred to a scene in the movie “Minority Report” as...

Date: 05/03/2009

About five years ago or so, I participated in a conference panel where the question was asked: “What...

Date: 04/27/2009

After years of writing customer proposals, internal memoranda, and various stuffily formal...

Date: 04/17/2009

The Mirage, Las Vegas, Feb 9-11 Since its inaugural conference in 2006, FASTforward has been a venue...

Date: 12/18/2008

We’ve got great news to share! Last month, Gartner published the 2008 Magic Quadrant for Information...

Date: 10/30/2008

In another great blog post Matt McDermott walks you through the steps of enabling SharePoint’s...

Date: 10/16/2008

Since the release of Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft desktop applications such as MS Word,...

Date: 09/26/2008

The thesaurus is an xml file that provides users with a means of automatically expanding or...

Date: 09/23/2008

Matthew McDermott, a SharePoint MVP, has written a great 4 part blog post on how to make SharePoint...

Date: 09/19/2008

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Date: 09/16/2008

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Date: 09/16/2008

This article has been a long time coming, but it is finally here.  In the post below I will...

Date: 09/16/2008

Enterprise customers are increasingly struggling with how to apply policy and governance at the...

Date: 09/02/2008

Hi all, this topic is an area that has caused me much pain and work.  My goal for this was to...

Date: 09/02/2008

Tracking query latencies can be made easier through the use of the products ULS logs.  ...

Date: 09/02/2008

If you’re interested in using Search Server 2008 Express in your application or shipping it on...

Date: 08/21/2008

As announced on the SharePoint Team blog this morning we released to web three new important updates...

Date: 07/15/2008

conceptClassifier for SharePoint adds automatic document classification and taxonomy management to...

Date: 07/07/2008

It’s been around 45 days since the acquisition of FAST Search and Transfer closed and we’re moving...

Date: 06/20/2008

I've had several questions recently about how to index Exchange Server 2007 Public Folders with...

Date: 06/06/2008

"Protocol Handler.Net is a set of .Net wrappers for the protocol handler interfaces that enable...

Date: 06/05/2008

Today marks the release of 2 new Microsoft Enterprise Search Indexing Connectors (formally known as...

Date: 05/27/2008

In versions of SharePoint prior to MOSS 2007 each time a crawl was executed, a new group of log...

Date: 05/26/2008

One of the more discussed topics I’ve seen (and struggled with myself) is around the concept...

Date: 05/22/2008

Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) is designed to help you take backups and...

Date: 05/21/2008

We recently published ~17 hours of training videos for Enterprise Search on TechNet. The 14 recorded...

Date: 05/20/2008

Hello again, the interest in the existing posts is starting to climb. As always feel free to post...

Date: 05/19/2008

Changing the advanced relevance settings for Search Server 2008 and SharePoint Server 2007 (such as...

Date: 05/14/2008

Search in SharePoint Server 2007 and Search Server 2008 can crawl a variety of content sources. For...

Date: 05/12/2008

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