Written by three of the most recognized influencers in the community of Microsoft's SharePoint, this book highlights the SharePoint Search in the enterprise and focuses solely on Microsoft's search technology. This book is intended for a variety of people from IT administrators search for developers to write applications. We span many topics in this book to try to cover up the extent of use, manage, and develop a SharePoint search technology. The chapters developers will be important for administrators to understand, because developers and administrators must work together to create a job search. On the other hand, the chapters that administrators will be very important for developers to understand the architecture and administrative search because, without this knowledge, write to the API will be more difficult. This book covers the width of the SharePoint Server Search technology for Windows SharePoint Services for Office SharePoint Server. We also include information on the latest search technology from Microsoft, including the new federation capabilities, filter pack, and recently acquired FAST technology. The chapters are arranged in such a way that they build with one another, beginning with an overview chapter and the chapter ends with an API that shows you how to program against all the technology about which you have just learned. If you are new to SharePoint, the first few chapters will be important for you to understand and digest before moving on, because the array of search technology can be amazing for someone who is new to them. To the reader experienced SharePoint, review chapters are good refresher to skim through, but you can probably skip right to the detailed chapters, beginning with Chapter 3, Planning and Deploying Enterprise Search Solution. Windows SharePoint Services or Server search will work, but you will not have access to all the search capabilities we're talking about in this book. These virtual machines, while large, has been configured for you so you can start working with SharePoint Search technologies without having to install any software and configure it.