SharePoint Search Server

All editions of Microsoft SharePoint come with a search engine which extracts content from SharePoint’s database (documents, sites, pages, etc.) and constructs an indexed catalog to facilitate efficient and rapid searching.

Microsoft Search KM for PATROL works ideally in conjunction with the Microsoft SharePoint KM for PATROL and it supports the following editions of SharePoint:

•Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

•Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server

•Windows SharePoint Services

Microsoft SharePoint’s search engine browses the SharePoint Web site to look for searchable content, based on the SharePoint database.

The search engine extracts the content by filtering—using filter components that understand a file's format. By default, SharePoint’s search engine is able to handle Microsoft Office files, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) files, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) messages, and plain-text files.

The final step in the indexing process is creation of a catalog that contains a master index (and any temporary word lists and shadow indexes) storing words and their locations within a set of indexed documents. Subsequently, searching, or querying, the catalogs for particular word combinations uses the master index as well as word lists and shadow indexes to execute queries quickly and efficiently.

For “Microsoft SharePoint” search engines, the KM will monitor the errors in the Windows Event Log, the presence and performance of the related processes, the activity of the gatherer as well as the size and content of the index catalogs. It will also perform search queries to verify the responsiveness of the search engine and the accuracy of the results.