Archive for Search Server

Add portal search to IE7 Search Bar

Portal Server, Search Server on June 29th, 2008 2 Comments

So you know Dev2Dev blogs are being decommissioned, but there really is a treasure trove of information out there, and individual bloggers are scrambling to repost their articles elsewhere. Two of the top Plumtree/Aqualogic/ALI bloggers out there are Ross Brodbeck (new blog site here) and Fabien Sanglier (new RSS blog feed here), and a tip [...]

ALI Maintenance Packs Remove Licensing Entirely

ALBPM, Collaboration, PEP, Portal Server, Publisher, Search Server on June 6th, 2008 No Comments

Well, Oracle’s gift keeps givin’:  First, they published unlimited license keys for all ALUI products, and now, they’ve release maintenance packs for everything with all the licensing stripped out completely!
Go Oracle!
 
Update June 9, 2008: Sorry ladies and gents, I just spent the day trying to upgrade our dev environment here.  After downloading hundreds of megabytes [...]

R.I.P. ALI E-Licensing: the wicked witch is dead!

ALBPM, Collaboration, PEP, Portal Server, Publisher, Search Server on June 3rd, 2008 1 Comment

My love for e-licensing at BEA, or lack thereof, was no secret.  I was mostly appalled as an employee when I was working at client sites – who completely trusted me with administrative access to their servers – and tried to get a license key.  Often this process took days, and occasionally took weeks.  In [...]

Check Search Server Status The Hard Way

Search Server on December 28th, 2007 No Comments

You’re no doubt aware that you can go into Administration: Select Utility: Search Service Manager, then click on “Status” to see the status of your Search Server:

You probably also know in 6.1 (if you remember to import the searchserver.pte) that there’s also a Search Cluster Manager in Administration.
This tip is about checking out the search [...]

Modifying Search Preferences

Search Server on May 18th, 2007 No Comments

We’ve discussed restricting security on the Everyone Group, so that the guest user can’t search for other users, but what if you don’t want users searching for other users at all? Or for that matter, anything but Documents in basic search?
You can go into “My Account” and click on “Search Preferences” to change the [...]

Search Server Tweaks

Search Server on April 7th, 2007 No Comments

There are a handful of under-utilized Search Server settings that you can use to provide more accurate search results to your end users. You can find these in Administration: Select Utilities: Search Results Manager.

Best Bets allow you to specify up to 20 documents that are returned in response to specific search terms. You [...]