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I was recently working on a SharePoint (2007) search customization project where one of the requirements was to add custom sorting.  The desired interface is below where ‘Relevance’ is the default sort, ‘Title’ is the standard SharePoint property for the title of the item and ‘Date’ is a custom (managed property) field used with our ...

After a recent SharePoint 2010 installation and configuration, a client attempted to enable search.  Crawling internal content worked fine but the following error appeared in the crawl log related to people search: sps3://<server> Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or ...

Here’s an interesting tidbit that I recently found useful…  I had to include a collection of new file types in SharePoint 2007 search results.  The files were of extension *.m but where simple text files.  We wanted to include the files in the crawl AND perform a full-text crawl on the content.  These are separate challenges; ...

It was interesting to read the announcement of the Microsoft Search Roadmap that came out of FASTForward last week.  As someone who has strong ties to SharePoint and equally strong interest in enterprise search, I am extremely pleased.  It was five years ago when I wrote my first article on search and SharePoint (SPS2003 at the ...

Today at the Fast forward conference Microsoft announced their product roadmap for enterprise search. It includes two new products to be released with the Office 14 wave. The first is FAST search for SharePoint which is basically FAST ESP 5.3x tuned and integrated with SharePoint and targeted for use inside the enterprise. It will be included as ...

In my opinion, the thesaurus in SharePoint ranks in the top 10 of least used capabilities in MOSS.  There are three main reasons.  First, not many folks know that it even exists.  Second, those who know and want to use it are often confused on how to use it.  Third, and most importantly, those who REALLY care about it and know ...

The Enterprise Search Blog has a post about new training material for MOSS search configuration.  It's 17 hours (over 14 modules) of online tutorials.  This is good stuff. The 14 recorded presentations are based on training modules from a three-day, in-person training course ‘Implementing and Deploying an Enterprise Search ...

I get this question every once in a while and the answer is simple... No! Check out this KB article for details... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932743 SYMPTOMS loadTOCNode(1, 'symptoms'); You configure Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to crawl content that resides on a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site or on a ...

I came across a recent article in CIO Magazine entitled ''Nine Mistakes That Turn Your Corporate Intranet into a Ghost Town'' by Martin Amm.  It is a great piece to share with your business sponsors as you start to plan your MOSS-based intranet deployment.  The items are centered around common sense approaches (if you've done this ...

Date : 12/11/2007 Time : 11:30am-1pm Location : Quickstart Irvine - 16815 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 100 Irvine, CA 92606   Agenda : Microsoft has made an significant investment into Search, making many recent announcements including the new Search Server 2008.  Come and see Search Server 2008 in action, as well as hear from ...