One of the new features with SharePoint 2010 is the option to add-on FAST for advanced indexing and search capabilities. The short presentation below gives an idea of the extras you get with FAST versus just using SharePoint. The focus is on internal indexing/search solutions. FAST offers a lot more over SharePoint for use with public facing web sites but that’s a whole other scenario.
Read more »May 23
Microsoft has announced a new indexing connector for business intelligence (BI), specifically BI reports created using Excel and/or SQL Reporting Services, including the new tool for analysing massive amounts of data – PowerPivot. The connector creates a dedicated Report tab to query just reports, includes specific refiners filtering search reports, and thumbnails and previews to [...]
Read more »Here are five simple tips to help improve the quality of search results when using SharePoint Server 2007 or Search Server 2008 (they share identical indexing and search features)
Originally, this series was supposed to be 4 parts. But started to realise that part 2 in one shot would be a very looooooong blog post. So here is part 2a. (Click here for part 1): Key messages from the presentation: Slide 3. Whilst most documents about indexing in SharePoint include a complicated diagram to [...]
Read more »Jun 09
Earlier this year, Joining Dots ran a series of Enterprise Search workshops for Microsoft UK. Its purpose was to help organisations explore what enterprise search means and what Microsoft technologies can do to help implement an effective search solution. The workshop consisted of four sessions, containing a mix of presentations, hands-on demonstrations and plenty of [...]
Read more »Microsoft Search Server 2008 is due to be released later this year. It is a subset of SharePoint Server 2007, containing Windows SharePoint Services (the free add-on to Windows Server 2003 or later) and Search Center (indexing and search). You can currently download a release candidate of Search Server Express Edition The release candidate includes [...]
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