Wanted to drop a quick note here that Google released the latest version of the Google Search Appliance software last week. That brings the most current version up to 7.4.0.G.72 and officially end of life’s the 7.0 version of the appliance software.
New features from the support site posting:
- Seamless Integration with Microsoft: we’re releasing our SharePoint and Active Directory 4.0 connectors out of beta. These connectors provide improved scalability, easier configuration and tighter integration with SharePoint. Additionally, the GSA now supports ADFS which improves our ability to integrate with Windows security.
- Strengthening GSA as a Platform: GSA 7.4 improves the overall quality of the GSA as a search platform. Examples of this include better monitoring through exposing new SNMP metrics, better administration of the internal group resolution repository (GroupDB) and more support for security standards through a generic SAML Identity Provider (eg: OpenSAML).
- Improved Performance: this new GSA version provides better performance in 3 areas: crawling, serving and authorizing search results.
- Enhanced Connector Platform: we have released new features to our 4.0 connector platform like a new beta Database connector and support for SharePoint 2013 multi tenant. We’ll continue to release new Connector functionality regularly.
