So what can we do to really tighten down search result availability? Well in this type of environment I would architect the farm a certain way and setup the incremental crawl for the content source to fire literally every minute. So the information below outlines how I would configure the farm to squeeze the absolute most performance out of crawl processing.

It seems that one of the Windows Server 2003 Updates manages to hose up our ability to remote desktop (RDP) into that server. I've seen this happen several times now and never found a clean fix for it through internet research so I spent several hours one day trying to figure out how to overcome the problem.

Well, the last couple weeks have been a whirlwind. In the past few months, I've been working hard with Paul Learning (Microsoft Consulting Services), Andy Hopkins (Technical Development Manager, Microsoft) as well as a few guys on the MS SharePoint Product team. Paul and I have been busy loading up a massive Fujitsu server farm while Andy burns through logistical hurdles all in an effort to develop a SharePoint Scalability whitepaper. It looks like we're going to have this whitepaper done i

Just wanted to give a shout out to Todd Baginski and his excellent SharePoint Development Bootcamp training course. I'm sure many of you that cruise SharePoint Blogs are quite familiar with him. But for you Google Searchers (or Live Searchers Paul ;) ) who are looking for a review of his class, here's the bottom line. If you haven't had a chance to attend one of his classes or at least one of his conference lectures, you're missing out.