Enterprise Search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Find and act on information and expertise

• Provide a familiar user experience with recommended best bets, authoritative sources, term definitions, hit highlighting, and query correction.

• Make it easy for people to find and act on information in structured business systems, using the Business Data Catalog.

• Deliver productivity solutions with SharePoint Productivity Infrastructure by combining search with capabilities for collaboration, portal, content management, workflow, forms, and business intelligence.

• Enable faster connections between people, using people and expertise searching, with dynamically updated personal profiles and social networking information.

Grow and extend your search solution

• Index common information sources using out-of-the-box indexing connectors for file shares, Web sites, SharePoint sites, Exchange public folders, and Lotus Notes databases.

• Use federated search connectors to quickly and easily connect to applications and services, using the Open Search standard.

• Build upon a familiar user interface and application platform that lets you customize your search experience and the actions you can take on your search results, using familiar development tools and the SharePoint platform.

• Scale your deployment to meet your needs, with no pre-set document limits, using advanced indexing features like continuous propagation.

• Take advantage of a strong Partner ecosystem to implement and further extend your search solution.

Help secure and manage your search deployment

• Review common administrative tasks, statuses, and settings in a single view, using a unified administrative dashboard.

• Manage content sources, search scopes, authoritative sources, key words, best bets and other configurable relevancy settings through a powerful, easy-to-use management console.

• Set crawl rules and schedules that govern how and when your information is indexed.

• Maintain high availability and load balancing using a variety of topologies. Configure multiple Web, query, and clustered database servers.

• Monitor search performance and improve search relevance with query and results reporting.

• Help ensure that only the right people can find information, using query and index-time security trimming.

• Help secure your federated relationships with other search indexes using Kerberos and NTLM authentication.