Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog
Crawling case sensitive repositories using SharePoint Server 2010
Introduction There are many repositories which are case sensitive. To elaborate with an example, in...
Date: 07/09/2010
SharePoint Search 2010 in a Small Scale Farm - Hardware
Hello, my name is Hernando Silva and, as some of you might know from Dan's previous posts , for the...
Date: 06/15/2010
SharePoint 2010 Search 'Dogfood' Part 3 - Query Performance Optimization
Hello again and welcome to the SharePoint Server 2010 Search series of blog postings dedicated to...
Date: 06/09/2010
SharePoint 2010 Search 'Dogfood' Part 2 - Query Health Reports
One of my favorite features of SharePoint Server 2010 Search is the health reporting that we added....
Date: 06/09/2010
SharePoint 2010 Search 'Dogfood' Part 1 - Hardware
Hello again, Dan Blood here. To layout the lessons I've learned in hosting Search 2010 I will...
Date: 06/02/2010
SharePoint 2010 Search - Experiences and Best Practices from the Microsoft ‘Dogfood’ Implementation
Hello, Dan Blood here with another series of blog postings about running SharePoint Server 2010...
Date: 05/10/2010
Business Data Search in SharePoint 2010: Crawling associated external content types
Business data associations are widely used to fetch related external content (ex. data from two sql...
Date: 03/09/2010
Innovation on Linux and UNIX
Innovation is at the heart of our enterprise search strategy, and a commitment to innovation is what...
Date: 02/04/2010
Regular Expressions Support in SharePoint 2010 Crawling
Search admins often need to omit from a crawl files that match a certain pattern. E.g.: · In a bank,...
Date: 01/21/2010
The Search Developer Story in SharePoint 2010 - Query Interfaces
SharePoint 2010 includes a number of features that make the platform easier to use for developers....
Date: 11/20/2009
Enterprise Search and Bing Services – Part 2: Bing Geo-coding Structured/Unstructured Text for Search
Web-based mapping services from Microsoft and others have been around for a number of years, but all...
Date: 11/09/2009
FAST meets SharePoint - What's Coming in Search for SharePoint 2010
Last week was the 2009 SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. The sold-out attendance of 7400 doubled...
Date: 10/27/2009
Enterprise Search and Bing Services – Part 1: The Bing Translator
(In May of this year, Microsoft launched its Bing search service for the Web. While Bing has shown...
Date: 09/22/2009
Searching for Virtue - Virtuous Cycles as a Model for Successful Search Implementations
I like design patterns. I like the idea that there are right ways to do things and wrong ways...
Date: 09/14/2009
Coping with Hype in Enterprise Search Marketing
Not long ago, I was invited to participate at a customer’s annual conference. It was an amazing...
Date: 08/27/2009
A Focus on Search User Experience
It’s happening… slowly … but it’s happening. Attention in search is finally shifting from a focus on...
Date: 07/14/2009
Observations from the Text Analytics Summit 2009
One of the hard parts about organizing a conference like the 5th annual Text Analytics Summit, held...
Date: 06/09/2009
Thinking Big – Search Scale and Performance on a Budget
I recently came across Paul Nelson’s informative post on search scalability. I don’t know how long...
Date: 05/22/2009
Actionable Search – From What to Why?
Day 1 at the Enterprise Search Summit in NYC is wrapping up and I’ve just listened to Lisa Denissen...
Date: 05/12/2009
Search and Natural User Interfaces - Part 2
In my first post on this subject last week, I referred to a scene in the movie “Minority Report” as...
Date: 05/03/2009
Search and Natural User Interfaces (NUIs) - Part 1
About five years ago or so, I participated in a conference panel where the question was asked: “What...
Date: 04/27/2009
One Year with Microsoft – a FAST Perspective
After years of writing customer proposals, internal memoranda, and various stuffily formal...
Date: 04/17/2009
Microsoft Presents FAST forward 09: Engage Your User
The Mirage, Las Vegas, Feb 9-11 Since its inaugural conference in 2006, FASTforward has been a venue...
Date: 12/18/2008
Microsoft positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2008 Information Access Magic Quadrant
We’ve got great news to share! Last month, Gartner published the 2008 Magic Quadrant for Information...
Date: 10/30/2008
Taking People Search on the Road….
In another great blog post Matt McDermott walks you through the steps of enabling SharePoint’s...
Date: 10/16/2008
Partner Post: One Stop Search from the Microsoft Office Research Task Pane
Since the release of Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft desktop applications such as MS Word,...
Date: 09/26/2008
How to: Customize the Thesaurus in SharePoint Search and Search Server
The thesaurus is an xml file that provides users with a means of automatically expanding or...
Date: 09/23/2008
SharePoint Image Search
Matthew McDermott, a SharePoint MVP, has written a great 4 part blog post on how to make SharePoint...
Date: 09/19/2008
MoveTableToFileGroup.sql
Page for MoveTableToFileGroup.sql attachment MoveTableToFileGroup.sql
Date: 09/16/2008
MoveCrawlTablesToFileGroup.sql
Page for MoveCrawlTablesToFileGroup.sql attachment MoveCrawlTablesToFileGroup.sql
Date: 09/16/2008
SQL File groups and Search
This article has been a long time coming, but it is finally here. In the post below I will...
Date: 09/16/2008
Partner Post: Announcing conceptClassifier for SharePoint – Automatic Classification within Office
Enterprise customers are increasingly struggling with how to apply policy and governance at the...
Date: 09/02/2008
SQL Index defrag and maintenance tasks for Search
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
How to: Mine the ULS logs for query latency
Tracking query latencies can be made easier through the use of the products ULS logs. ...
Date: 09/02/2008
Search Server 2008 Express Redistribution Rights
If you’re interested in using Search Server 2008 Express in your application or shipping it on...
Date: 08/21/2008
Announcing: Availability of Infrastructure Updates
As announced on the SharePoint Team blog this morning we released to web three new important updates...
Date: 07/15/2008
Announcing: conceptClassifier for SharePoint
conceptClassifier for SharePoint adds automatic document classification and taxonomy management to...
Date: 07/07/2008
Announcing: SharePoint Web Parts for FAST ESP
It’s been around 45 days since the acquisition of FAST Search and Transfer closed and we’re moving...
Date: 06/20/2008
Indexing Exchange Server 2007 Public Folders
I've had several questions recently about how to index Exchange Server 2007 Public Folders with...
Date: 06/06/2008
Introducing Protocol Handler.NET
"Protocol Handler.Net is a set of .Net wrappers for the protocol handler interfaces that enable...
Date: 06/05/2008
Announcing: Release to Web of Documentum and FileNet Indexing Connectors
Today marks the release of 2 new Microsoft Enterprise Search Indexing Connectors (formally known as...
Date: 05/27/2008
Introducing the ExportCrawlLog STSADM Command Extension
In versions of SharePoint prior to MOSS 2007 each time a crawl was executed, a new group of log...
Date: 05/26/2008
Understanding Total Hits & Paging in the MOSS 2007 Search API
One of the more discussed topics I’ve seen (and struggled with myself) is around the concept...
Date: 05/22/2008
System Center Data Protection Manager & Search
Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) is designed to help you take backups and...
Date: 05/21/2008
Search training material available on TechNet!
We recently published ~17 hours of training videos for Enterprise Search on TechNet. The 14 recorded...
Date: 05/20/2008
SQL Monitoring and I/O
Hello again, the interest in the existing posts is starting to climb. As always feel free to post...
Date: 05/19/2008
Search Relevance Tuning
Changing the advanced relevance settings for Search Server 2008 and SharePoint Server 2007 (such as...
Date: 05/14/2008
Crawling Novell Netware with SharePoint Server 2007 and Search Server 2008
Search in SharePoint Server 2007 and Search Server 2008 can crawl a variety of content sources. For...
Date: 05/12/2008