Quick, Easy, and Powerful Search

You need software that empowers your people to quickly find the information they need, while giving you the security and control your environment demands. ® Search Server 2008 and Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express are designed to offer a familiar search experience helping your people connect with the information and business systems you already have. You can build an enterprise-class search infrastructure that gives you the right balance of control and simplicity. Enterprise Search doesn’t have to be complicated. Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express delivers search to your organization quickly, easily, and for Free. Familiar search experience • Search Center. Empower your people to quickly find the information they need through a familiar interface with features like hit highlighting, best bets, definitions, and query correction. • Extensible Search Experience. Build upon a familiar application platform that lets you extend your search experience and the actions you can take on your search results using powerful development tools. Easy to configure, easy to maintain • Streamlined Installation. Go from downloading Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express to searching in minutes, making it easy to get an enterprise search infrastructure running in your The Search Center delivers relevant search results in a famil- environment quickly. iar environment, brought to you from indexed and federated • Unified Administration Dashboard. Review common repositories, applications, and services. administrative tasks, search status, and settings in a single view. • Relevancy Tuning. Retrieve highly relevant results immediately using a ranking engine developed in collaboration with and Windows® Live. Manage content sources, search scopes, authoritative sources, key words, best bets and other configurable relevancy options. • Query and Results Reporting. Monitor search performance and improve search relevance with query and results reporting. • Security-trimmed Results. Help ensure only the right people can find information. Access Control Lists (ACLs) for content on file shares, SharePoint® sites, and Lotus Notes® databases are automatically captured at index time. • High Availability and Load Balancing. Separate server roles across hardware by configuring multiple query and clustered database servers (not available in Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express). Connects with your information and business systems • No Pre-set Document Limits. Scale your search infrastructure to meet your needs—however big or small they are—using the same search platform across a breadth of server hardware options. • Continuous Propagation Indexing. Find new content faster with an index that updates itself while it crawls your information. • Out-of-the-box Indexing Connectors. Index content on file servers, Web sites, SharePoint sites, Exchange Server public folders, and Lotus Notes environments. • Federated Search Connectors. Federate your searches to indexes in other data repositories, applications, and services using the Open Search standard. • Search . Index a wide variety of documents and file types using an interface common across Windows Desktop Search, Windows Vista®, Office SharePoint Server, and SQL Server™. • Search Connector Gallery. Reference an online gallery of Federated Search Connectors and Indexing Connectors, and iFilters at http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch. • Partner Ecosystem. Take advantage of Microsoft’s broad partner ecosystem with expertise in extending and implementing enterprise search solutions.

Visit http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch to download Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express for Free. m Search as Part of Your Productivity Infrastructure

Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 encompasses the functionality and power of Microsoft Search Server 2008, while helping your people find and act on the information and expertise you have within your organization. These enterprise search capabilities are offered in the context of a powerful business productivity infrastructure, where people can immediately take productive actions on their search results. Find and act on information and expertise • People and Expertise Searching. Enable faster connections between people, with dynamically updated personal profiles and social networking information—integrated with LDAP, Active Directory®, or any structured repository of people information. • MySites. Allow people to manage their personal profile, identify colleagues, and share information using personal portals that augment your search results when you’re looking for expertise. • Business Data Catalog. Make it easy for people to connect to, find, and act on information locked away in structured line-of-business systems (such as SAP or Siebel) by securely integrating it into your search results using a declarative framework. Configure actionable dashboards and mash-ups of this data without writing any code.

• SharePoint Productivity Infrastructure. Take advantage of the People Searching in Office SharePoint Server 2007 helps you business productivity infrastructure in Office SharePoint Server find expertise in your organization, allowing you to sort your to integrate search with your collaboration, portal, content search results either by relevance or by social distance. management, workflow, electronic forms, and business intelligence activities. Compare Microsoft’s enterprise search products

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Search Center ˜ ˜ ˜

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Streamlined Installation ˜ ˜

High Availability and Load Balancing ˜ ˜

People and Expertise Searching ˜

Business Data Catalog ˜

SharePoint Productivity Infrastructure ˜

* These features are included with the Enterprise Client Access License version of SharePoint Server 2007

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