Transcript SharePoint Search

Welcome to the
Minnesota SharePoint
User Group
June 10th, 2009
Search: From WSS to FAST
Brian Caauwe, Wes Preston
Bob Koviak, Tom Washek
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Meeting # 56
Agenda
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Introductions
Search Overview
Break
FAST
Q&A
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User Group Goal / Objectives
Develop and support a local community focused on Microsoft
SharePoint Technologies
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Educate user group members about SharePoint Technologies
Transfer knowledge within the community
Communicate best practices
Introduce new products / solutions
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Introductions – MNSPUG Sponsors
Inetium (www.inetium.com)
• Technology consulting company
• Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
• Practice area focused on SharePoint
New Horizons – Minnesota (www.newhorizonsmn.com)
• Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
• Training on many technologies
Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)
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Website for user group
SharePoint resource documents
SharePoint resource links
RSS Feeds
Meeting Schedule
Past User Group Presentations
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Upcoming Schedule
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Next Meeting
• July 8th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
• Microsoft’s Bloomington Office
• Topic: Panel Discussion
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• Ongoing Schedule
• 2nd Wednesday of every month
• 9:00 to 11:30 am
• Microsoft’s Bloomington Office
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Other Events
• SharePoint Server 2007: Social Networking
Wednesday, June 17th 8:30 AM to Noon
At New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details)
• SharePoint Server 2007: Workflow Deep Dive
Thursday, June 18th 8:30 AM to Noon
At New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details)
• SharePoint Server 2007: SharePoint 101
Thursday, June 25th 8:30 AM to Noon
At New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details)
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Conferences
SharePoint Conference 2009 – October 19-22, 2009
http://www.mssharepointconference.com
Las Vegas, NV
Local Events
Minneapolis Office Developer Interest Group - July
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Topic: TBD
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Blog Posts / News:
SharePoint Team Blog:
• Attention: Important Information on SP2
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-importantinformation-on-service-pack-2.aspx
• New Microsoft SharePoint site
http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint
• New STSADM Technical Reference
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/06/05/technet-launches-newinteractive-silverlight-application-for-stsadm-technical-reference.aspx
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Microsoft Search
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Microsoft Search Landscape
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Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS)
Search Server 2008 Express
Search Server 2008
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)
• FAST
• 3rd Party Products
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Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
• Search within a site collection
– Including sub sites/webs (upgrade from 2003)
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Search ‘This Site’
Search ‘This List’
Indexes and searches document contents and metadata
Security trimmed
• That’s it!
– No configuration settings available
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Demo – WSS
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Search Server 2008 Express
• Search across site collections
• Scopes
• Content Sources
– File Shares, Public Folders, External Websites
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Search Web Parts
Configurable search results pages
No document limits
Federated Search
High Availability (NOT available for MSSX)
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Results Pages
• WSS results – nothing can be configured
• Search Servers and MOSS
– Advanced Search
– Edit Page
– Federated results
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Demo – MSSX
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Same features as Search Server
Plus…
• People Search
• Search Center w/Tabs site template
• Enterprise - Business Data Catalog (BDC)
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What is Federated Search?
• Wikipedia says:
Federated searching consists of (1) transforming a query and
broadcasting it to a group of disparate databases with the
appropriate syntax, (2) merging the results collected from the
databases, (3) presenting them in a succinct and unified format
with minimal duplication, and (4) providing a means,
performed either automatically or by the portal user, to sort
the merged result set.
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Demo – Federated Search
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Search and more…
• Search can be configured… creatively
• Search can be configured without deploying code (XSLT)
– Use SPD to configure XSLT for result
• Search can be extended
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Search API / Object Model
Search Web Services
Managed Properties
(This should be a topic for MODIG)
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Demo
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Further Topics and Considerations…
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SharePoint Search Architecture, Taxonomy and Design
Operational and governance topics
‘Findability’
XSLT results page configurations
Using data forms for results
Configuring Best Bets
Configuring the Thesaurus and Noise words
Managed Properties, BDC and search
Search Web Parts in depth
Configuring and customizing Advanced Search
Administration controls
More scenarios…
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Break
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Q&A
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Thanks for coming!
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