Search - U.S. Midwest SharePoint Community

9/30/2008

If you haven't seen, there a few new SharePoint add-ons to call-out. First off, Captaris just announced the availability of a TIFF iFilter and document image metadata extraction for SharePoint.

Secondly, Epok has announced an extranet security toolset to help enable IT and empower end users.

-Jason | Who am I?

Posted at 8:38 AM by b36c7feac0eaea3d13260c321657b3e8 | Category: Search; Security; Partners | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

9/23/2008

Office 2007 File Indexing in WSS 3.0

Something that recently came to my attention at a customer, that I thought I would share, is that Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 does not natively index the new Office 2007 file types. There are a few routes you could take here to address...

Download and install the Filter Pack (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=946338)
Install Office 2007 on the WSS 3.0 server/s (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944433/en-us)
Leverage Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Search Server 2008, or Search Server 2008 Express. More information here. One of these methods would also allow you to have more capabilities surrounding your search, including searching across site collections.

What is your experience? I would love to hear your thoughts...

-Jason | Who am I?

Posted at 9:23 AM by b36c7feac0eaea3d13260c321657b3e8 | Category: Search | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

5/10/2008

Enterprise Search training videos

We just published ~17 hours of training videos for enterprise search on TechNet.

The presentations provide details about key enterprise search capabilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

· Module 1: Workshop Overview (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115635&clcid=0x409)

· Module 2: Enterprise Search Overview (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115636&clcid=0x409)

· Module 3: SharePoint Search 2007 Walkthrough (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115637&clcid=0x409)

· Module 4: Search Architecture and Deployment Scenarios (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115638&clcid=0x409)

· Module 5: Crawl and Query Processes (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115639&clcid=0x409)

· Module 6: Relevance Ranking (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115640&clcid=0x409)

· Module 7: Customizing the End-User Experience (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115641&clcid=0x409)

· Module 8: Developing Search Solutions (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115642&clcid=0x409)

· Module 9: Business Data Catalog Search (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115643&clcid=0x409)

· Module 10: Extensibility and Integration for Search (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115644&clcid=0x409)

· Module 11: Search Administration (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115646&clcid=0x409)

· Module 12: Security for Search (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115647&clcid=0x409)

· Module 13: Performance Scalability and Capacity Planning for Search (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115648&clcid=0x409)

· Module 14: Search Operations (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115649&clcid=0x409)

Posted at 4:19 PM by Larry Kuhn | Category: Search | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

4/28/2008

Microsoft Completes Tender Offer for FAST Search & Transfer

If you have not seen, last Friday Microsoft announced that we officially completed settlement of our tender offer for FAST. I haven’t been this excited for an acquisition for a while as this directly affects us in the SharePoint space. Recently I was in Redmond and had a chance to find out more information about FAST and I was ecstatic to find out how complementary the FAST product is with SharePoint search. FAST seems to play very well in the high end, more structured space whereas SharePoint does very well in the medium to large unstructured and collaborative environments. Now that’s not to say that there isn’t overlap between the products where, for example, SharePoint will search structured data as well. I think Jeff Teper said it best in the above linked article surrounding the acquisition, “With our companies combined, we’ll be uniquely able to offer customers what they’ve been telling us they want most — a strategy for meeting everything from their basic to most complex enterprise search needs.” Enough said!

If you want to find out more information on FAST, take a stroll through their/our website…the product has a very impressive listing of customers worth taking a look at to get a sense of what the technology provides. A good callout would be careerbuilder.com.

Posted at 11:15 AM by NORTHAMERICA\jbullock | Category: Search | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)