Yesterday, Microsoft published an “Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297)“.  As I look through the list of fixes and read the post from the SharePoint Team Blog, I’m pretty psyched to see what they’ve put in this update.

New Search features such as federated search and a unified search administration dashboard.

This seems to be coming up a lot with larger companies and a few Govt. agencies.  The ability to easily join searches from multiple farms with multiple content.

Several core fixes to Search to improve performance and scale.

Platform performance improvements and fixes.

Both of these could be a very big deal as we are seeing companies and agencies that are really testing the “recommended” boundaries of architecture in things like document libraries, custom lists, and amount of site collections in a web application.  I have seen a document library with 1,000,000+ pdf’s in it.  And it was completely indexed.

Don’t forget to RTFM when installing patches to SharePoint, kiddies.

UPDATE: Browse here for very important installation instructions.