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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 2:18 PM

How to: Specify a Content Source using the Keyword Syntax

At some point you may want to do an Enterprise Search query and specify that the results come from a particular content source. A lot of times you might create a custom scope with that content source in it, but if you don't want to create a new scope Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Monday, March 10, 2008 3:22 PM

Specifying Scope(s) with the KeywordQuery class

Today I realized that when I blogged about how to use the KeywordQuery class, I forgot to mention how to specify the scope(s) you are querying. You would think there would be a built-in property to set this, but there isn't. I wanted to see how Microsoft Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Thursday, March 06, 2008 12:15 PM

How to: Use the MOSS Enterprise Search FullTextSqlQuery Class

A while back, I posted a how to on using the KeywordQuery class and it seemed to get pretty good response, so I figured I would post a follow up on how to use the FullTextSqlQuery class today. It's actually pretty similar to using the KeywordQuery Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Friday, February 29, 2008 10:59 AM

How to: Create a Scope Display Group using the API

Yesterday, I talked about an issue with the SearchBox Web Part resulting from not having the Scope Display Group it used defined on my site collection. I mentioned, the best way to fix this was to have your feature create the scope display group for you Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:12 PM

Help! My SearchBox Web Part won't Submit

I have caused this to happen a number of times and the answer isn't obvious at first, so I thought I would post on it and explain what causes it and how to fix it. The behavior usually occurs for me when I am deploying a SearchBoxEx web part via a Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:51 AM

Speaking at Tulsa SharePoint Developer's User Group

I'll be giving my talk on Searching Business Data with MOSS Enterprise Search at the Tulsa SharePoint Developer's User Group on March 10th. This is the same presentation I gave at TechFest, but I have updated it some and will likely also cover Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:36 AM

How to: Delete Crawled Properties

This unfortunately is not as simple as it should be. Out of the box, there is not an option to delete a single crawled property. I sort of understand the reason behind this, but when developing its very easy to get your crawled properties filled with Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 2:35 PM

How to: Use the MOSS Enterprise Search KeywordQuery class

I don't think there are enough complete examples on using the KeywordQuery class out there, so I am posting this today to help out. The example in the SDK is close, but not quite enough. The KeywordQuery class is used to execute a keyword syntax query Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 3:56 AM

PDF ifilter for x64

There has been a bit of an issue with a full x64 MOSS farm, mainly due to the lack of ifilters for x64, the obvious (and also, importantly, tested and supported) workaround being the use 32bit for the Index server and x64 elsewhere. The most common third party ifilter needed by clients (in my experiance) is for PDF documents, Adobe were very slow to respond and deliver an x64 ifilter (in fact they still haven't) but now have a publishing work around toi running v8.1 ifilter on x64, see this:...( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Friday, February 08, 2008 3:00 PM

Changing the Maxmium File Size in your Enterprise Search Index

In MOSS Enterprise Search, the maxium size of a file that it will index is 16 MB. This is probably not an issue for most people, but some organizations do have large PDFs, PowerPoints, etc. This is becoming a little more common knowledge, but I thought Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Friday, February 01, 2008 12:10 PM

Things users complain about with Enteprise Search

MOSS Enterprise Search has proven to be a great tool for allowing users to search Line of Business systems and documents at the same time. Out of the box, the Search Center provides some great looking search resuts. However I keep hearing the same two Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:09 PM

Adding a Default Action to a Business Data Catalog Entity

I tend to write the most about things that I am currently working with. Today I have been working with the Business Data Catalog (BDC) again and I thought I might point out how to configure a default action because it isn't very well documented. A Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:19 PM

How To Extend Wildcard People Search on MOSS 2007

Ramon Scott just posted on his blog on how to perform wildcard people search on MOSS 2007. His script example, shows how to search for First Name and Last Name. After reading some of the comments, many were wondering how to implement search on additional Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:47 AM

Search Server 2008 Express - Search Doesnt Have To Be Complicated

SharePoint 2007 brought enterprise class features into an integrated user experience. Yesterday, Microsoft released a free version of its beloved enterprise search product dubbed Search Server 2008 Express. This release will allow any IT department to Read More......( read more ) Del.icio.us | Digg It | Technorati | Blinklist | Furl | reddit | DotNetKicks
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