[Update: 26 Jan] February workshops are now full and registration has been closed [Update: 15 Jan] January workshops are now full and registration has been closed To kick off 2008, amongst other things, Microsoft UK is running a series of Enterprise Search workshops. The focus of the day is to explore how Microsoft products and [...]
Read more »Following Microsoft’s Enteprise Search Announcement, a partner – IDV Solutions – has created a great demonstration of federated search, combining standard web search results with Flickr photos and Virtual Earth. Below is a screenshot, showing a search for ‘Rome’. As you select each image, it’s location is displayed alongside using Virtual Earth: They have made [...]
Read more »Yesterday, Microsoft announced some changes to their enterprise search strategy. To read all about it, go to www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch. Here’s the summary: New Products Server-based enterprise search solutions are now available in three flavours: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Microsoft Search Server 2008 Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express Edition Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) is [...]
Read more »In Search Lessons (part 1), I highlighted the most common of requests from customers thinking about, or in the middle of, deploying enterprise search solutions: ¨We want our own search to be as good, if not better than, searching the Internet. Our people are used to Google.¨ Part 1 focused on the top challenge created [...]
Read more »I have been running Enterprise Search discovery workshops on behalf of Microsoft throughout this year. Now, this should not be a total surprise, but the technology focus of the workshop is Microsoft’s products and services. Specifically: SharePoint Server 2007 (I’ve gone off calling it MOSS at the moment), Windows Desktop Search and Live Search (that’s [...]
Read more »[Entire Post reviewed and updated: 17/03/09 to include infrastructure update, 64-bit and farm installation notes] If you are deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, even if you are planning a vanilla deployment (i.e. no bespoke development, using only out-of-the-box features) there is one piece of bespoke configuration you will likely still want – the [...]
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