Feature Area | Features | |
People and | Support for searching for people and what they know has been | |
Expertise | significantly enhanced. These features include: | |
Searching | ||
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Enhanced | • Support for indexing and searching any LDAP directory. | |
| • Dedicated Search Center tab for searching for people. | |
| • Returning SharePoint groups and Active Directory distribution lists in | |
| search results. | |
| • People search results grouped by “social distance” from you and your | |
| common interests. | |
| • Search result refinement by properties such as department. | |
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Business Data | The Business Data Search feature of Office SharePoint Server 2007 makes | |
Search | it easy to index and search any relational database or other information | |
New | ||
store accessible by ADO.NET or a Web service; for example, data in a | ||
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| CRM system. | |
| There is no need to write custom protocol handlers or IFilters or create | |
| searchable HTML representations of information in a database. | |
| Search results from Business Data Search can be highly customized and | |
| fully integrated with search scopes and other Search Center features. | |
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Search | Microsoft Search includes an expanded and improved administration user | |
Manageability | interface that makes the following possible: | |
Enhanced | ||
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| • Broad support for all search and indexing scenarios | |
| • Central control of | |
| • SharePoint sites that subscribe to a central search service | |
| • Easy configuration and management of indexing and search by | |
| corporate IT operations staff | |
| • Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports the centralized management | |
| of distributed indexing and search services within a SharePoint server | |
| farm. This makes it possible for very large collections of business data | |
| and document content to be indexed and searched without | |
| significantly increasing operations overhead. | |
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