| Feb. 21, 2005 |
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Many Microsoft products incorporate full-text search technology developed by the Microsoft Search (MS Search) team, but these products have different capabilities, intended uses, and update schedules.
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Microsoft Product
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Sources Crawled
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Intended Uses
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Last Updated
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Next Update
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| SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) |
File system
Web sites
E-mail servers
(Exchange, Lotus)
SPS Workspaces |
Intranet search aggregated from multiple sources (e.g., intranet Web site, Exchange, Office documents on file shares)
Web site search |
Indexing technology unchanged since SPS 2001; update in SPS 2003 added new languages and sources and changed APIs and management interface |
Next version (2006?) might be combined with Content Management Server |
| Windows Indexing Service |
File system
Web sites (local, static only) |
Web site search for IIS-based Web sites
File-share search |
Indexing Service 3.0, which ships with Windows 2000 and later (some minor bug fixes have been released) |
Unknown |
| SQL Server (full-text search) |
SQL tables (including unstructured data in documents, such as Office and HTML files, that are included in the database) |
Web applications that store data in SQL Server (e.g., Web sites, product catalogs), document management systems, other custom applications |
SQL Server 2000 |
SQL Server 2005 |
| Exchange Server |
Exchange public folders
Exchange private mailboxes |
E-mail search |
Core technology unchanged since Exchange 2000; minor updates and new command-line administration tool added in Exchange 2003 |
Likely in Exchange 12 (2006?) |
| Office on Win9x and earlier (Office on later OSs uses Indexing Service) |
Local file system
SPS Workspaces |
Employees searching Office documents stored on their PCs |
Office XP |
Likely in Office 12 (2006?) |
| MSN Desktop Search |
File system
Web sites
Outlook e-mails, calendar, and contacts
Third party (through IFilters) |
Home users searching information on local and home-networked PCs |
Introduced in Dec. 2004 |
Unknown |
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