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Forrester Report: "Microsoft: The Latest Disrupter in Enterprise Search"
This Forrester report examines Microsoft's expanded enterprise search offerings. Analyst Ken Poore writes "Microsoft Search Server 2008 raises the bar and frees up search. This week, Microsoft made its latest move into the enterprise search platforms market with two strategic products: Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 and Microsoft Search Server 2008. These products deliver a solid set of features that reset the feature/price/ease-of-use equation for entry-level and midtier enterprise search."

Customer Spotlight: Monsanto Agricultural innovator empowers employees, cuts costs with integrated enterprise search: Case Study and Video

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Search Relevance Tuning
Changing the advanced relevance settings for Search Server 2008 and SharePoint Server 2007 (such as the global ranking parameters, property weights and property length normalization) isn't something that you'll want to do without a lot of thought, pl...
May 15, 2008

Crawling Novell Netware with SharePoint Server 2007 and Search Server 2008
Search in SharePoint Server 2007 and Search Server 2008 can crawl a variety of content sources. For several of the “out of the box” content sources security information in the form of ACLs are collected as part of the indexing process.
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May 12, 2008

Creating crawl schedules and starvation - How to detect it and minimize it.
Hello again, Dan Blood here.  For this post I want to discuss starvation as it relates to the Search crawler.  One of the more difficult tasks that the Search admin is going to face is figuring out how to build out the myriad of crawl sched...
May 09, 2008