Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Tudor Baraboi

Kameshwar Jayaraman

John D Fan

Michal Krzysztof Piaseczny

Thottam Sriram

Ramanathan Somasundaram

Jessica Anne Alspaugh

Anupama Janardhan

Bradley Stevenson

Zainal Arifin

Graham Lee McMynn

Julian Zbogar Smith

Fan Mao

Ashish Shrikrishna Malgi

Adam David Harmetz

Quentin Gary Christensen

Carlos David Argott Hernandez

Benjamin Joseph Rinaca

Ido Miles Ben-Shachar

Ashwin Palekar

Joy Chik

David C Steere

Meher P Malakapalli

Thottam R Sriram

David Steere

Meher Malakapalli

Technologies are described herein for locating relevant content items across multiple disparate content sources. Query parameters are received from a user interface for defining a query for searching a number of content sources located on multiple, disparate content servers. A native search is executed on each of the content servers based on the received query parameters, and query statistics and other data regarding content items in the content sources matching the query parameters are received. The query statistics are aggregated across the content servers and presented in the user interface. The presentation of the query statistics may be broken out by each content source, by each query phrase segmented from the query, and the like. In addition, a preview of a number of content items matching the query parameters is presented based on the data received.

Locating relevant content items across multiple disparate content sources

Implementations of the present invention relate to a communication framework that is readily adaptable to a wide variety of resources intended to be accessible through a firewall. In general, a communication framework at a gateway server can provide a specific connection to a requested resource in accordance with a wide range of resource and/or network access policies. In one instance, a client requests a connection to a specific resource behind a firewall. The communication framework authenticates the connection, and quarantines the connection until determining, for example, that the client is using an appropriate resource features. If appropriately authenticated, the communication framework can pass control of the connection to an appropriately identified protocol plug-in processor, which facilitates a direct connection to the requested resource at an application layer of a communication stack.

Providing consistent application aware firewall traversal

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