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• Tafiti Brightens Up SharePoint Enterprise Search

  Microsoft announced yesterday that Tafiti , the experimental Silverlight front-end for Live Search, has been released under the Microsoft Shared Source Permissive License *it's like BSD*.  Here is the announcement.   Internally this caused a... Posted Dec 19 2007, 10:01 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, Search, Windows, Microsoft, Platform, Tools, Accessibility, Live.com, Cool, resources, Silverlight, academic, OpenSource, FreeAsInBeer, MSS

• Index PDFs Lightning Fast with Foxit's PDF iFilter

  iFilters are like plugins for search products that extend the functionality of the indexing service.  Windows Indexing Service, MSN Desktop Search, Internet Information Server, SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), Site Server... Posted Dec 17 2007, 01:09 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, Search, Adobe, resources, Laundry List, FreeAsInBeer, iFilters

• Wildcard Search in MOSS 2007 and MSS 2008

  I know a few of you who attended my presentation on Search Server 2008 had questions regarding wildcard search capabilities.  Sammy Jankis sums up SharePoint's wildcard search functionality pretty well.  After reading his article you find that... Posted Dec 07 2007, 08:45 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, Search, Microsoft, Tools, resources

• London TechNet Event Presentation and Resources

  Thank you all who attended the London TechNet event, Beyond SharePoint: Advanced Solutions in Business Intelligence and Enterprise Search. Please follow this link to download the attached PDF of my presentation around Microsoft Search Server 2008. ... Posted Dec 05 2007, 01:51 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, Search, resources, Presentation, roadshow

• Connectors and Investing in Open Technologies

  So I presented at Falkirk to an awesome audience about Search Server 2008 and had some interesting questions.  I've learned in my travels that geography plays a huge part in the sophistication of an audience.  Don't get me wrong, I am not insulting... Posted Nov 29 2007, 02:28 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, Office, Search, Windows, Platform, rant, resources, ocs, Laundry List, Unified Communcations, Op-Ed, OpenSource, FreeAsInBeer