Corey Roth [MVP]

I’ve made quite a few Enterprise Search posts and since I have a few talks coming up, I thought it might be a good idea to group up some of the posts for people that may be new learning it.  I hope you may find some of these useful.

Customization

• Customizing Enterprise Search Results
• More on the XSLT behind the CoreResultsWebPart
• How to: Build a custom advanced search control for Enterprise Search
• How to: Create a scope for a custom List Template Type
• Document Link Handler for Enterprise Search

Administration

• Sharing an Index between SharePoint Farms
• Changing the Maximum File Size in the Enterprise Search Index

Querying Results

• How to: Use the MOSS Enterprise Search FullTextSqlQuery class
• How to: Use the MOSS Enterprise Search KeywordQuery class
• How to: Query Search using the Web Service
• Calling the Enterprise Search web service from Silverlight
• Exposing Enterprise Search Results with RSS
• String[] in columns returned from KeywordQuery.Execute
• How to: Specify the Properties Returned in a Keyword Query when using the Search Web Service
• How to search your site columns with Enterprise Search
• Using LINQ to make Enterprise Search Results more usable
• How to: Specify a Content Source using the Keyword Syntax
• Specifying Scope with the KeywordQuery Class
• Working with Managed Properties in Enterprise Search
• Excluding Folders from Search Results

Other Development

• How to: Create a Scope Display Group with the API
• How to: Delete Crawled Properties
• How to: Add a File Type to Enterprise Search programmatically

Wildcard Search

• Custom Sort Orders with Wildcard Search
• Disabling Full Text Search with Wildcard Search Release 5
• Wildcard Search Release 3
• What you give up with Full Text SQL Queries using Wildcard Search
• Using Wildcard Search Web Part to search for recently modified files

BDC

• Setting permissions on your BDC LobSystemInstance for Enterprise Search

Errors

• Object not found. Crawler was denied access.
• Crawl has been paused
• Search Service is currently offline.  An indexer move may be in progress
• The Parameter is incorrect
• HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component
• ArgumentNullException when calling Enterprise Search web service
• SearchBoxWebPart won’t submit

The above list is some of the more useful posts that you may be interested in with Enterprise Search.  I didn’t include every post, so if you are interested in more, check out the Enterprise Search tag.