Introducing Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express

Easy to configure, easy to maintain

• Go from downloading to searching in minutes with a streamlined installation experience, which makes it easy to quickly get an enterprise search infrastructure running in your environment.

• 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 relevance tuning settings through a powerful, easy-to-use management console.

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

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

Familiar search experience

• Empower your users to quickly find the information they need, using a familiar Search Center interface.

• Pinpoint the most relevant information you need, with recommended best bets, authoritative sources, term definitions, hit highlighting, and query correction.

• Retrieve concise and clear search results, using duplicate collapsing, which allows you to quickly review a wide variety of relevant information.

• Stay on top of new information relevant to your work by subscribing to update notifications of your search results, using e-mail and RSS alerts.

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

Powerful enough to meet your needs now and as they grow

• Employ a search capability optimized for business data that can deliver highly relevant results across intranet and public-facing web site content. Scale your deployment to meet your needs with no pre-set document limits.

• Find information across a variety of business applications and services using federated search connectors.

• Upgrade to a multi-server topology with Microsoft Search Server 2008.

• Upgrade to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 when you need to easily index structured information and expertise information, or when you need to add enterprise content management, collaboration, or other complementary capabilities to your business productivity infrastructure.

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