Relevancy is the measure of how well a set of documents (results) answers or addresses the intent of a given query. When there are many query matches, the search engines must rank the results by relevance score, sorting the results listing so that...

FAST ESP performs linguistic processing: at the document level – during document processing, and at the query level – during query and result processing This helps it provide more relevant search results to users. On the query side, linguistic...

FAST ESP is a feature rich search platform; no doubt about that. To give my readers, especially SharePoint 2007 developers/architects, an idea of what it provides, given below are some of FAST ESP features in an alphabetical order: Capability...

As I menioned in my previous post - JQuery and SharePoint 2007 , SharePoint community is publishing lot of content on using jQuery. So, learn from them and start using it today. I would go further and say that its difficult to come up with a convincing...

FAST ESP is built on a distributed system architecture that enables any type of information to be accessed through core search and filter engines. Incoming content is fed through a number of processors that automatically extract information, generate...

This is the first post from a planned series on the FAST ESP platform to increase product awareness in the SharePoint community. This post builds on the basic FAST information I shared in my blog post – “ FAST and SharePoint 2007 ” last month. Target...

Are you a Microsoft customer planning to deploy Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 in your organization? Would you like Microsoft to help you plan the deployment? Do you have a Software Assurance (SA) agreement with Microsoft? If yes, then...

As Steve Bell wrote (ref: Microsoft SharePoint on the iPhone ) in SharePoint Magazine , SharePoint sites can be browsed in full fidelity on an iPhone. You just need to be in landscape mode in the web browser. " ... I would not have understood how compelling...

UK SharePoint Team - blog of the SharePoint Team from Microsoft Consulting Services, UK has been publishing interesting posts since its launch in Jan 09. Latest is the post by James Kemp on options available for taking SharePoint files offline. Taking...

Workflow Scalability and Performance in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 article, authored by David Mann and Rohit Puri has been published recently in MSDN. Though it focuses on workflow scalability and performance, it also gives an overview of workflow...

What is jQuery? jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development ( wikipedia article ). It was created by John Resig and dual licensed...

In the InformationWeek's Government IT blog, J. Nicholas Hoover recently blogged (ref: Microsoft Woos Obama Administration ) that Microsoft wants to help the President Obama's administration in its mission to increase transparency in government and is...

In Sep 2008, EMC, IBM and Microsoft had announced a jointly developed Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification. As a next step, an article authored by Trent Swanson, Bhushan Nene and Scot Hillier has been published in MSDN with...

Podcasting Wikipedia definition : " A podcast is a series of audio or video digital media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated download, through Web feeds, to portable media players and personal computers. " It's part of "Web...

In 2008, CodePlex , Microsoft's open source project hosting web site, has more than doubled in terms on projects, visitors and usage!! Check out the statistics in CodePlex Weblog's post - CodePlex 2008 – A Year in Review by Sara Ford. Last year there...

Microsoft SharePoint Online offers enterprise companies a flexible, web-based solution that includes tools and services to help users manage information and collaborate effectively. Based on MOSS 2007, this Microsoft hosted solution provides users...

SPDisposeCheck tool to help developers comply with SharePoint's memory management best practices has been updated on the MSDN Code Gallery . Please refer to Paul Andrew blog post for more details: SPDisposeCheck v1.3.1 is released . " SPDisposeCheck...

Microsoft's Live Search team has released a search add-on for Firefox browser. You can use this add-on to get to your results faster via Microsoft Live Search auto suggestions. Beatrice Oltean and Debapriya Ray have blogged about it on the Live Search...

When working with Partners and Customers there are lot of queries related to SharePoint 2007 installation, development, sample code, administration etc. Most of the queries can be answered by directing them to a relevant webpage on the Internet. For quick...

On 22nd Jan, Autonomy announced agreement to acquire Interwoven for US$775 million approx. (ref: Press release ). Leslie Owens mentions in Forrester Research blog (ref: Autonomy Acquires Interwoven — What It Means For Search ) - "... Since 2005, Autonomy...

Got a great news on Microsoft merging PerformancePoint Server features with MOSS 2007, more specifically scorecarding and dashboarding capabilities will now become part of SharePoint Enterprise CAL. MOSS 2007 customers will get more value from exisitng...

For some time, I have been working on pre-sales engagements for FAST search based solutions. I get lot of queries from SharePoint developers/architects - what is "FAST" and how it works with SharePoint etc. I am sharing some information below. The links...

Do you want to evaluate SharePoint 2007 or just want to know more about its features? Not sure what resources are available and where? Given below are some useful links you can leverage to get the information and download Trial version and installation...

Like ASP.NET Web Parts you can also use ASP.NET Controls in SharePoint 2007. I have put together a comparison between them in context of their use in SharePoint: Similarities Custom Properties are supported Can exist inside as well as outside...

If you use lot of evaluation/trial Microsoft software and had difficulty in locating the link to evaluation software, you can bookmark this link: TechNet Evaluation Center . TechNet Evaluation Center has downloadable beta and trial software under following...