Brilliant thanks, will give it a try shortly :)

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Prashanth Thiyagalingam
Sent: Thursday, 22 September 2011 12:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: People search - wildcards (SPS2010)

Worked like a charm...thanks for that.
Nigel * needs to be added to both Query Template and "More Results" link 
template. If you need for people search then add it to "Local People Search 
Results" as well.

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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: People search - wildcards (SPS2010)
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:14:51 +1000
Adding an * to the local search results didn't work for me.

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Nigel Hertz
Sent: Thursday, 22 September 2011 11:51 AM
To: ozMOSS
Subject: RE: People search - wildcards (SPS2010)

Thanks Maxine, I had actually just opened that page 5 minutes ago. I like the 
below comment:
if all  you need to do is to add the asterisk to the query, then it's possible 
to add it in the confuguration of the federated location you are using. Since 
even local searches are routed through the federation layer, as documented 
here: 
msdn.microsoft.com/.../ee558338.aspx<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee558338.aspx>
 - "The search result Web Parts in SharePoint Enterprise Search are built on 
top of the federated search object model." - then you can add the asterisk to 
the query template of the "Local Search Results" location, like so: 
{searchTerms}* . It seems to me you'll achieve pretty much the same, no 
programming needed.




From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> 
On Behalf Of Maxine Harwood
Sent: Thursday, 22 September 2011 11:47 AM
To: 'ozMOSS'
Subject: RE: People search - wildcards (SPS2010)

We ended up using a free web part to replace the existing search - 
http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2010/05/13/wildcard-search-web-part-for-sharepoint-2010.aspx

Works for us.

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> 
On Behalf Of Nigel Hertz
Sent: Thursday, 22 September 2011 11:31 AM
To: ozMOSS
Subject: RE: People search - wildcards (SPS2010)

Thanks Paul, Prashanth

Not the answer I was looking for :)  I'll keep looking though, and if I do find 
a way, I'll let you know :)

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> 
On Behalf Of Prashanth Thiyagalingam
Sent: Thursday, 22 September 2011 11:20 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: People search - wildcards (SPS2010)


 Faced the same issue even with FAST Search 4 SP.... no default wildcard 
support...
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From: 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:13:05 +1000
Subject: RE: People search - wildcards (SPS2010)
LOL. I just went through the same thing here.

Choices: dumb down search, or get your Luddite user base to learn something new?

What makes it so funny is that none of these Boolean or wildcard operators are 
new. Other search engines have had them in place for decades, much to the 
delight of tech-savvy surfers who use them in order to retrieve a far better 
result set.

The worse thing Google ever did was to dumb it all down.

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> 
On Behalf Of Nigel Hertz
Sent: Thursday, 22 September 2011 9:06 AM
To: ozMOSS
Subject: People search - wildcards (SPS2010)

Hi all

In SharePoint 2010, you can search for people using wildcards if you put an 
asterisk at the end of the string.

Does anyone know of a way to have the people search use wildcards as default, 
without actually typing in an asterisk? That is how our  current solution in 
MOSS works, and we'd prefer not having to re-train everyone to type asterisks.

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