Inside the Index and Search Engines: Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007

Introduction

Over the past decade, we have seen a large investment from Microsoft in the Enterprise Search space, and there’s more to come. At the time of this writing, we have support for search in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, there is the new release of Microsoft Search Server 2008, and community tools are available for extending the search infrastructure and the search user experience. There is also a wealth of Microsoft partners who are active in the Enterprise Search space, filling the niches; selling helpful add-ons that enrich the experience for administrators, users, and developers; and delivering consultancy services around of all this.

We (Lars Fastrup and Patrick Tisseghem) decided to ...