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• Faceted Search 2.5 is much improved

  I was pleased to see that a new version of the Faceted Search web parts had come out recently. On my last couple of projects, the Faceted Search worked, but it didn't quite meat all the clients needs. Mainly it didn't work with fixed queries,... Posted Aug 14 2008, 01:44 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• How to search your site columns with Enterprise Search

  I decided to go with an intro topic for Enterprise Search today. If you are like me, you often find yourself in a situation where you are doing ECM related activities such as creating custom content types that use site columns. This may present itself... Posted Jul 31 2008, 05:14 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• What's new with Enterprise Search with the Infrastructure Update

  Yesterday, the Infrastructure Update for Office SharePoint Server (as well as WSS and Project Server) was released. This update makes changes to content publishing as well as Enterprise Search. The install went smoothly. Just remember like the service... Posted Jul 16 2008, 02:50 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• Wildcard Search with MOSS People Search

  After having success with implementing wildcard search with MOSS , I decided to look into this whether or not I could inherit from the PeopleCoreResultsWebPart today to implement wildcard search functionality and unfortunately I did not get very far.... Posted Jun 23 2008, 04:00 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• Content Index is Corrupt

  I came in after the weekend to find out that someone reported the following error when trying to use my Enterprise Search page. The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service. As you may know, this is a very generic error that means something... Posted Jun 17 2008, 09:46 AM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• NEW! Web Part for Wildcard Search in Enterprise Search

  I have had countless people tell me that they want to be able to do wildcard search in MOSS Enterprise Search using the existing Search Center site templates. The Search Center site template uses keyword query syntax which does not support wildcards.... Posted Jun 09 2008, 08:28 AM by CoreyRoth with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, LINQ to XML, MOSS, Enterprise Search, Wildcard Search

• Error: The parameter is incorrect. (Access denied by BDC.)

  When attempting to configure the Business Data Catalog for use with MOSS Enterprise Search, it can be quite common to get this message when you try crawling for the first time. The cause is actually pretty simple, but I figured I would give some troubleshooting... Posted May 14 2008, 09:47 AM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search, Business Data Catalog

• School of Dev Tomorrow

  I am looking forward to giving my updated talk on the Business Data Catalog and Enterprise Search tomorrow at School of Dev . For the two of you that read my blog, feel free to stop by and see the session. Posted May 09 2008, 02:24 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search, Business Data Catalog, Presentations

• Error: HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component

  I was working on an Enterprise Search deployment the other day and I encountered this lovely error. I found the answer buried in some forum posts, but I wanted to tell you what side effects I found when implementing the solution (and I wanted to make... Posted May 01 2008, 02:15 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, Error, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• Speaking at Tulsa's School of Dev

  I'll be talking about the BDC and Enterprise Search at Tulsa's School of Dev next Saturday May 10th. This is the same talk I was going to give at the SharePoint Users Group a while back, but it never happened due to logistics. This updated session... Posted May 01 2008, 01:29 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: MOSS, Enterprise Search, Business Data Catalog, Presentations

• Don't forget to set your row limit

  Recently, I wrote my own control to allow drilldown on Facets for one of our Enterprise Search pages, and someone pointed out to me that it never returns more than 50 results. It was then I remembered seeing a RowLimit property on the KeywordQuery and... Posted Apr 10 2008, 10:49 AM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• Using LINQ to make Enterprise Search Results more usable

  In my previous post about using the KeywordQuery class, I had one small omission. The fact is that when you add your own managed properties using the SelectProperties collection of the keyword class, the data type you get back is a string[] containing... Posted Mar 25 2008, 09:58 AM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, LINQ, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• How to: Specify a Content Source using the Keyword Syntax

  At some point you may want to do an Enterprise Search query and specify that the results come from a particular content source. A lot of times you might create a custom scope with that content source in it, but if you don't want to create a new scope... Posted Mar 11 2008, 01:18 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search, Business Data Catalog

• Specifying Scope(s) with the KeywordQuery class

  Today I realized that when I blogged about how to use the KeywordQuery class, I forgot to mention how to specify the scope(s) you are querying. You would think there would be a built-in property to set this, but there isn't. I wanted to see how Microsoft... Posted Mar 10 2008, 02:22 PM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• How to: Use the MOSS Enterprise Search FullTextSqlQuery Class

  A while back, I posted a how to on using the KeywordQuery class and it seemed to get pretty good response, so I figured I would post a follow up on how to use the FullTextSqlQuery class today. It's actually pretty similar to using the KeywordQuery... Posted Mar 06 2008, 11:15 AM by CoreyRoth with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search