Microsoft 2007 manual Support for indexing and searching any Ldap directory

Feature Area	Features
People and	Support for searching for people and what they know has been
Expertise	significantly enhanced. These features include:
Searching
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.
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
	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.
Search	Microsoft Search includes an expanded and improved administration user
Manageability	interface that makes the following possible:
Enhanced
	• Broad support for all search and indexing scenarios
	• Central control of resource-intensive operations
	• 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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