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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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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

SearchBeta Hardware Configuration
Hello again, Dan Blood here.  As I layout some of the lessons I have learned hosting SearchBeta  I thought it would be beneficial to let you all know what kind of hardware I am using to support this environment.  Be aware that I am not...
May 04, 2008

Scale and performance lessons learned from a live deployment
My name is Dan Blood, I am a senior tester working in the product group that is responsible for Search within MOSS and MSS.  One of my responsibilities is maintaining a mirror, SearchBeta,  of the enterprise search solution that all of Mi...
Apr 30, 2008