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Here’s a quick tip that might help you some day. (It did for me..) SharePoint stores some of it’s search configurations (that are usually configured through the SSP Admin UI) in the windows registry of the index server. Now, there are basically 2 search services for a typical MOSS farm: Windows SharePoint Services Search Service (WSS Search), and Office Server Search Service (MOSS Search). The differences between them are explained here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263400.aspx#section1...
The “Contains” operator was removed from Advanced Search UI, by KB950437 , and all hotfixes and updates to follow. You can restore the original behavior by setting <Option Name=”AllowOpContains” Value=”True”/> in the properties definition XML. More info and a step by step guide here: http://blogs.msdn.com/mmcintyr/archive/2008/09/29/hotfix-for-advanced-search-issue-in-moss-950437.aspx -- My name is Itay Shakury and I’m a SharePoint Consultant --
Problem + Steps to reproduce: Take a folder (SPFolder object) in a SharePoint list (or Document library). Make a copy of the folder in any of the following methods: Explorer view. SharePoint Designer. Code: SPFolder.CopyTo(string path). Start an incremental crawl to index that folder. The folder will not get indexed. Even if you add new items (or documents) to the copied folder, it will not get indexed with incremental crawl. Workaround: If you want to make sure it is being indexed, start a full...
UPDATE: Since this post was published, lots of updates and fixes was released that effected implicit wildcard search for properties - The "Contains" operator was removed from advanced search UI. You CAN revert this. About keyword search - seems to default to "Equal" instead of "Contains", expet for searching by "Author" or user profiles properties. More info here: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive/2009/04/16/contains-operator-disappeared-from...
If you ever tried to use SharePoint's Content Types with search, you'll find it simply doesn't work. This article tries to help you overcome this issue. In the following article I use the term ' IMT' to address the Internet Media Type (AKA MIME type) of the file (text/plain, application/vnd.ms-word, image/gif, etc...). I use the term ' SP Content Type' for a SharePoint content type (Item, Event, Document, etc...). I use the MOSS Query Tool to quickly execute search queries...
Today Microsoft has announced a new product called Microsoft Search 2008. As you can guess it is an enterprise search solution. Very much like Moss Search, and it's FREE! (the express edition). More info on this here: http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/default.aspx This is how Microsoft's Search products family looks today: Product Features click each to learn more Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express (FREE!) Microsoft Search Server 2008 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007* Search...