Knowledge Network Release Candidate 0

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Knowledge Network is a Technical Preview add-on to Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) enhancing enterprise search for people by automating the discovery of the business relationships and subject matter expertise of everyone in the network.

For a complete rundown of KN read the Microsoft site.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101687241033.aspx

The KN team (http://blogs.msdn.com/kn ) has an early KN build available for download here.

https://connect.microsoft.com/knbeta

You’ll need to have a live (hotmail) sign in to get to the download page. There are a few clicks to get through until finally you can get hold of the download which is about 30MB in size.

This release features the following enhancements and promises to be a stable build:

  • Back-off functionality to improve your experience when you are performing activities on your machine

  • Various performance enhancements on both the client and server

  • Improved keyword quality and generation

  • An inner-circle web part that highlights people closest to you and are most likely to assist with your query

The 30MB package contains the software and documentation for the Knowledge Network.

**KnowledgeNetworkClient.exe: **

This self-extracting file contains the bits for the client component of KN. Please follow the instructions in the deployment guide upon extracting the EXE.

**KnowledgeNetworkServer.exe: **

This file has the bits for the server component of KN. Again refer to the deployment guide on how to proceed with the installation of the server. The 32-bit version of the server bits is in the server/x86 directory whereas the 64-bit version is located in x64 server/x64 subdirectory.

**Deployment Guide.doc: **

This deployment contains the installation instructions as well as detailed information on the configuration and administration of the Knowledge Network system

**KNPolicies.adm: **

This file has the list of policies that can be imported into Active Directory for the purpose of managing the KN client software on users’ desktops

**KnownIssues.txt: **

This file has the list of the known issues at the time of this release and work-arounds for each issue.

**KIServerProcs.sql: **

The file is required as part of the work-around for the collation-related database creation known issue.

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