Related Blog Posts
- SharePoint 2010 Search Set-up – Nov 2010
- Staff Directory Search in SharePoint 2010 – Mar 2011
- SharePoint 2010 vs with FAST for Search – June 2010
- Indexing reports with FAST for SharePoint – May 2010
- Indexing Adobe PDF files with SharePoint – March 2010
- Search Site Master Page Tweak – Apr 2011
External Links
- Microsoft Enterprise Search Site
- Microsoft Federated Search Connectors
Note: TechNet and MSDN broken, Query Template and More Results URLs need updating as follows:
Technet – http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Search/en-US/feed?format=RSS&Query={searchTerms}
MSDN – http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Search/en-US/feed?format=RSS&Query={searchTerms}
Snippets
- Search exclusion rules to consider: http://.*/forms/allitems.aspx
Useful Articles
- Search 2010 Architecture and Scale – Part 1 Crawl – MSDN blogs, Apr 2010
- Search 2010 Architecture and Scale – Part 2 Query – MSDN blogs, April 2010
- Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010 – MSFT presentation from SPC09 (Slideshare), Mar 2010
- Search Architecture models – MS TechNet, 4 models (scroll down table)
- Search performance and capacity tests and recommendations – TechNet, published 29 July 2010
- Experiences and best practices from the MS ‘Dogfood’ implementation – MS Search blog, May 2010
- SharePoint 2010 Search ‘Dog Food’ Part 1 – Hardware – MS Search blog, June 2010
- SharePoint 2010 Search ‘Dog Food’ Part 3 – Query Performance Optimisation – MS Search blog, June 2010
- SharePoint 2010 Search in a Small Scale Farm – Hardware – MS Search blog, June 2010


