SharePoint Server 2007 Search

Search in Office SharePoint Server 2007 has undergone a dramatic evolution in this release, with an extensive new set of features that provides powerful and advanced search features across the portal with increased relevance. 

The newest generation of Search functionality in Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides an intuitive and flexible user interface, improved relevance, and the ability to search unstructured and structured information such as databases and line-of-business applications. Search in Office SharePoint Server 2007 also includes powerful tools for performing advanced queries. Property-based searching can be accomplished through advanced searches (and — for the power user — direct input of property keywords in any search box) to allow extensive flexibility in forming search queries. “Did you mean?” functionality is included for handling unrecognized keywords that may have been misspelled. Advanced duplicate result handling is also built into the solution; not only are exact duplicates handled appropriately, but near-duplicates are handled as well. Duplicate search results are indicated by a “Duplicates” link under an individual search result; the user can review the duplicates by clicking on the link.

Find and act on information and expertise.

 

• Make it easy for people to find and act on information in structured business systems with the Business Data Catalog.
  
• Deliver productivity solutions with SharePoint Productivity Infrastructure by combining search with collaboration, portal, content management, workflow, forms, and business intelligence capabilities.
  
• Enable faster connections between people using people and expertise searching, with dynamically updated personal profiles and social networking information.
  

Grow and extend your search solution.

• Use federated search connectors to quickly and easily connect to applications, and services using the Open Search standard.
  
• Build upon a familiar user interface and application platform that lets you customize your search experience and the actions you can take on your search results using familiar development tools and the SharePoint platform.
  
• Scale your deployment to meet your needs with no pre-set document limits and advanced indexing features like continuous propagation.
  
  

Help secure and manage your search deployment.

• Review common administrative tasks, status, and settings in a single view using a unified administrative dashboard.
  
• Manage content sources, search scopes, authoritative sources, key words, best bets and other configurable relevancy settings through a powerful, easy-to-use management console.
  
• Set crawl rules and schedules that govern how and when your information is indexed.
  
• Maintain high availability and load balancing using a variety of topologies – configure multiple web, query, and clustered database servers.
  
• Monitor search performance and improve search relevance with query and results reporting.
  
• Help ensure only the right people can find information using query and index-time security trimming.
  
• Help secure your federated relationships with other search indexes using Kerberos and NTLM authentication.
  

Index common information sources with out-of-the-box indexing connectors for file shares, web sites, SharePoint sites, Exchange public folders, and Lotus Notes databases.
Provide a familiar and actionable user experience with recommended best bets, authoritative sources, term definitions, hit highlighting, and query correction.