SharePoint Search Best Practices
October 27, 2011
SharePoint search tips are of particular interest to us here at Beyond Search. We strive to sort the chafe from the wheat and sometimes turning to the source material is the best way to do that.
We noted a quite useful series of best practice articles from Microsoft’s own TechNet Web site. Navigate to “Best Practices for Search in SharePoint Server 2010.” The article explains the best methods for enterprise search and it applies to both SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Search Server 2010.
What we like about this article is that it outlines the best methods without beating around the bush. As with many SharePoint plans, there’s a simple to follow list:
- Plan the deployment
- Start with a well-configured infrastructure
- Manage access by using Windows security groups or by using role claims for forms-based authentication or authentication using a Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) security token
- Defragment the search database
- Monitor SQL Server latency
- Test the crawling and querying subsystems after you change any configuration or apply updates
- Review the antivirus policy.
Each step is given its own section with additional information that goes into further detail about how to deploy the ideas.
What we noted about this article is that it is an official Microsoft document.
We want to include our own best practice. When it comes to making findability brings smiles to SharePoint users’ faces, we rely on SurfRay Ontolica to deliver SharePoint 2010 search.
Whitney Grace, October 27, 2011
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Google Shoes the Next Money Maker?
October 19, 2011
We know the home economics major, the failed Web masters, and the “real” analysts are busy with the Endeca Oracle tie up.
We’re not. Oracle bought a late 1990s technology which requires a ton of services. This move reminded us of three things:
- When the acquisition price is not disclosed, we think that Oracle ponied up some big bucks to get Endeca’s 600 customers, its services business, and the technology that makes the Harvard Business School wiggle with joy
- Oracle is now going to tackle HP and Autonomy with its Oracle database plus Endeca. This should be exciting and create some enterprise marketing excitment. Happy customers? Will that be secondary?
- After $70 million in funding, a stalled IPO, an injection of cash by Intel and SAP Ventures, Endeca is no longer the last remaining 1990s search vendor.
Despite Google’s well designed and ever-impressive logos on their homepage, shoes are not their forte. Well, I suppose we can at least deduct that Evan Steinberg, Google Community Manager for Android has nothing to do with their graphics department, according to Gizmodo’s article, “These Google Designed Nikes Are Proof That Google Has No Taste.”
Yes, Google has a shoe designed with its likeness, if an Internet entity can one of those. The elements range from a snapshot of Larry Page’s face on the tongue, to Google Maps watermarked underneath the swoosh, all the way back to the original exclamation point studded logo.
The Gizmodo article accurately points out the following:
The Nike Air Mags, though not the prettiest shoe, represent a sort of nostalgic geek beauty. These Google designed Nike Dunks though? Just plain fugly. Even the geekiest, worst-dressed Googler would never be caught dead in these.
Hopefully people will see these shoes for what they are, a shoe given to the friend who excessively says “let me Google that” or the family member who is employed by the search engine giant–not any sort of representation of their reputation.
Will Google sneakers be allowed at Oracle?
Megan Feil, October 19, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
Protected: Attention! Attention! Another SharePoint 2010 Update Package
October 14, 2011
InQuira: Customer Support Not So Hot
September 6, 2011
I read “InQuira Says Self Service Web Unsatisfying.”
The news item reported that InQuira, which seems destined to follow the Triple Hop jump into Oracle, conducted a survey. Well, sort of a survey, but the findings, if I understood the write up, revealed that
More than 90% who use online sites had to compose multiple queries to get an answer to their question, and about half were satisfied with their answer before abandoning the Web and calling an 800 number for support.
Okay, search and customer support are unsatisfying. One hopes companies like InQuira will address this problem, not tell me that customer support is not exactly like a cool drink on a hot day.
Stephen E Arnold, September 5, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
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