1. Search in Sharepoint 101 and its many varieties KYSPUG June 2008 Greg Kamer – The Mirazon Group MCSA: 2003, MCTS MOSS 2007 & WSS 3.0

2. Products Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) 3.0 (FREE w/ windows server license) Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007- Standard and Enterprise Microsoft Search Server 2008- Express (FREE) and licensed version

3. Capabilities What are the differences in the versions?

4. WSS 3.0 Search documents, lists and pages within ITS OWN site collection Not flexible Low admin overhead

5. MOSS 2007 Search provided via Shared Service Provider (SSP). Version of MOSS (Std v Ent) doesn’t affect the power and flexibility of search. - The only difference is BDC search. Higher admin overhead

6. MOSS 2007 Cont’d Search across site collections, file shares, Exchange Public Folders, People (MOSS only) other web sites and third party products with connector (Documentum, etc) Security trimmed results “Did you mean?” suggestions

7. Search Server 2008 All the same search capabilities as MOSS, but without the People Search and BDC results. Federated Search – return results from Live.com, TechNet, Google, etc from the search page. Provides cross site collection search ability that WSS lacks.

8. Federation

9. Search Server Express 2008 Same features and search functionality as MSS 2008. X86 and x64 available Catch: Can’t be made highly available

10. Demo Search server install and tour