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Feature Area Features
People and
Expertise
Searching
Enhanced
Support for searching for people and what they know has been
significantly enhanced. These features include:
• 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
Search
New
The Business Data Search feature of Office SharePoint Server 2007 makes
it easy to index and search any relational database or other information
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
Manageability
Enhanced
Microsoft Search includes an expanded and improved administration user
interface that makes the following possible:
• 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.