Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers
by James J. Townsend, Dmitri Riz, Deon Schaffer
Scaling Up Your Search Solution
The most sophisticated search functionality in the world is no good if it cannot support the number of users and the intensity of the search and indexing activity that you throw at it. Microsoft has addressed these scalability concerns with the latest generation of its search products in Windows 2003, Content Management Server, and SharePoint Portal Server version 2.
One of the design goals of SharePoint version 2 was to support one million users of a portal. For searching, the goal was to perform 95% of all queries in less than two seconds, and index up to 20 million documents (up from five million in version 1). This performance requires fast loading of thesaurus files and rapid crawling and indexing. SharePoint ...
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