Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Brion Stone

Arnold Neil Blinn

Emmanuel Jose Miranda-Steiner

Oliver Wallace

Eric W Hebenstreit

Victoria Taranov

Lucius B C A Fleuchaus

Scott D Stacey

A mechanism for automatically laying out a search topology and assisting administration of the system in a shared services environment is provided. A search configuration wizard user interface may prompt an administrator to specify a number of items to be supported by the search system on initial search application topology configuration, as well as selections between high-availability or high throughput options. A topology manager managing the search configuration wizard may determine how many servers are needed upon receiving configuration options and create specific search components on available servers to optimize query and crawl performance for the system.

Automatic role determination for search configuration

Configuration of an application module to utilize branded content is described. In an implementation, a method includes identifying one of a plurality of business relationships which correspond to a request sent by a client over a network. A configuration file is the formed for communication to the client and for configuration of an application module of the client to utilize branded content which corresponds to the identified business relationship.

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