Enterprise Search is one of the topics that required in every organization but sometimes it doesn’t get enough resources. I don’t mean CPU, memory, etc. but human resources during the plan, deploy and configure the search infrastructure and architecture. Let me summarize some key components that you...
No, this time I won’t write a full step-by-step install guide of FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010. If you’d like to get a detailed install guide, please go to the Microsoft Download Center and download the B2FASTSearchDeploy.xps from there. This is a very detailed, 59 pages long guide. Ohhhhhhh...
IE8 has a very customizable Search Toolbar. Of course, the default search engine used by it is the Live Search, but you can manage the search providers in a very easy way. Just click on the “Find More Providers” menu: On that page you can find the most popular search providers like Google, Live Search...
After the success of SharePoint Best Practices Conference , organized by Mindsharp last September in Washington DC, the series goes on. Next event is going to be at the very beginning of February, in San Diego . This conference goes beyond the how-to’s of SharePoint and delves into real world issues...
Today I had a really interesting (and horrible but useful) experience. One of our customers has installed a brand new MOSS 2007 Enterprise farm with one server (and one other for SQL 2005), and my task was to migrate some content databases to here from another MOSS 2007 Enterprise. It seemed to be really...
After a basic introduction let's see, how you can build a custom search page, and Property mappings. This post will built on traditional method without Infrastructure Updates , but in the next part we'll see the Updates details as well. Step 0: Set the basic search See my previous post and practice...
The MOSS Search Engine gives a lot of really powerful features for us. Let's see a few options, how can we set very useful search pages. First of all, we can define several types of content sources: SharePoint site web site (everywhere in the world) File Share Exchange Public Folder Business Data...
By default, we are able to display query results in our own page with the Search Core Results web part . Basically the search query can be built in two ways: UserQuery: to get a query from current user we need a Search Box or Advanced Search Box web part. After typing the query, both of these webparts...