Customer Reviews

Designing and Implementing Index Server

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You'd think there would have been a market for a book like this, since Index Server comes with no documentation. Instead, this book tries to teach you how to put together a query. Who needs that? Server administrators will not find much new here to help them administer this complex software and will find themselves rushing back to the Microsoft web site to find more information there.

Overall, the book contains (and looks like reprints) of details that are available via Microsoft's MSDN library. While this is useful for non-MSDN subscribers, neither source is comprehensive in describing the actual setup, use and practical examples. Actual syntax of commands and functionality is missing - appendices are unclear and effectively describe what the term means - not how it's used nor it's options. This is definitely NOT a step-by-step book. After reading, I found I had more knowledge about the product, but was still unable to effectively set it up. Am still seeking other sources. I do not recommend this book for anyone attempting a functional use.

If your looking for insight or help in setting up or implementing the index server this book offers no help. I was highly disappointed in what this book has to offer.

I thought the book was a good one. There was plenty of information about the Microsoft Index Server. And since there are no other books (that I am aware of) on this subject... its even better. There is information about all areas of Index Server, from what the product is, to how to install it, and things like the registry keys that you can tweak to change performance of Index Server. It discusses how to use Index server on a multi-homed IIS server (although briefly) and describes how to use all the major parts of index server.

I think there needed to be more good examples, and then I would give the book a GREAT review.

I am looking forward to getting version of book for Index Server 2.0???

Thanks

The first 60 pages describes downloading, installation and questions like "What is Microsoft Index Server". I bought the book to learn more about META-tags, hidded keywords and similar. Not a word about it.

Overall this is a nice, neat, small, coherent, and potentially useful little volume. It seems to cover most of what one might need to know to make good use of Microsoft Index Server--with one glaring exception. I bought this book hoping to learn about searching on META tag contents, which I was having trouble understanding. For example I wanted to be able to search on the META tag contents for the META tags AUTHOR, KEYWORDS, SUBJECT, and DESCRIPTION. I was surprised and disappointed that I could find no reference to any of these topics in the index of the book, and I could not find them in the body fo the book either: META, META tag, @DocAuthor, @DocTitle, @DocKeywords, DESCRIPTION, AUTHOR, KEYRWORDS, or SUBJECT. I think you could read this book and not know that it is possible to search on the contents of some META tags. That's why I gave the book a 5; otherwise I would have given it about an 8.