Windows 7 Federated Search Provider Implementer's Guide
Brief Description
This document describes how to build a basic web service that leverages the Windows OpenSearch provider for federated search.Federated search enables users to search remote data sources from within Windows Explorer and to interact with that remote data from within Windows Explorer.
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| File Name: | Windows 7 Federated Search Provider Implementer's Guide.docx |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Date Published: | 5/15/2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Download Size: | 1.2 MB |
| Estimated Download Time: | 3 min 56K |
Overview
Windows 7 introduces support for search federation to remote data stores using OpenSearch technologies. Federated search enables users to search remote data sources from within Windows Explorer and to interact with that remote data from within Windows Explorer.
This document describes how to build a web-based data source that can be searched using Windows federated search. Following the best practices described here, you can enable rich integration of your remote data sources with Windows Explorer without having to write or deploy Windows client-side code.
Windows 7 federated search supports the following standards:
For item data:
- RSS 2.0, 1.0, 0.91 & 0.92
- Atom 0.3 & 1.0
- MediaRSS content and thumbnail elements
For connection information:
Authentication:
- NTLM
- Kerberos
- Basic (only over https)
- plus any other Security Support Providers installed on the client and the server hosting the web service
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System Requirements
- Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7
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