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2. Session Agenda. Enterprise Search Features and FunctionalityObjectivePlan for SearchSearch Feature Differences MOSS vs. WSSEnhanced FeaturesRelevanceCustom ResultsBusiness Data CatalogSearch CenterMOSS 2007 Search AdministrationFederated SearchSearch Server 2008Google Enterprise Searc
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1. Deploying SharePoint Search for the Enterprise Veenus Maximiuk
SharePoint Architect
Information Control Corporation (ICC)
2. 2 Session Agenda Enterprise Search Features and Functionality
Objective
Plan for Search
Search Feature Differences MOSS vs. WSS
Enhanced Features
Relevance
Custom Results
Business Data Catalog
Search Center
MOSS 2007 Search Administration
Federated Search
Search Server 2008
Google Enterprise Search Appliance
Features
Benefits
Limitations
3. 3 Objective Help users find relevant information
Internet
Intranet
Enterprise applications
File shares
People within the organization
Use search features of
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Search Server Express and Search Server 2008
4. 4 Planning for Search Meet with stakeholders
Gather requirements
Identify data and content
Structured/unstructured
NTFS File System
Exchange Public Folders
Business Data
..and others
Metadata
Security
5. 5 Planning for Search (Contd) Dont forget about people
Identify attributes
Department
Expertise
Skill
Certification
and others
6. 6 Why do we need people search?
Someone, somewhere has the skills and information I need
7. 7 Search Feature Differences Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Subset of SharePoint Server search features
Indexing and query always on the same machine
Search scope limited to site and sub site content only
Only content stored in WSS 3.0 can be indexed
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Substantial additional features and functionality
Indexing Business Data Catalog
Rich people search
Customizable Search Center
Indexer and query server roles can be distributed
Custom search scopes across multiple content sources
Managed via a Shared Services Provider
Local and remote content sources can be indexed
8. 8 What are Your Content Sources? Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - OOTB
Content Source Type
SharePoint Sites
Sites
User Profiles
Web Sites
File Shares
Exchange Public Folders
Business Data
9. 9 Enhanced Features Improved control over indexing
Continuous index propagation for data integrity
Multiple start points
Customized crawling
Single item removal from index
Relevance customizable to the enterprise content
Ranking
Security trimmed
more
Customizable Results Center
Best Bets
Faceted search
more
10. 10 Relevance Dynamic ranking
Frequency
Location in document
Appearance in link text
Appearance in URL
Static ranking
URL Depth
Click Distance
Authority/Demoted site
Change property weights
Language of customer
Security trimmed results dependent on broad/granular
Permissions setting
Folder/document
Search Alerts
User can subscribe to receive e-mail when results change
File type filtering
Some file types are deemed more relevant (HTML, DOC) than others (XML, TXT)
Supports 220 file types
11. 11 Custom Results Search Scopes
Allow users to refine search through filtering
Define content resources and map to business rules/key concepts
Duplicate results filtering
Collapsing duplicates from same directory or site
Query time security trimming
Only results that user has permissions to see are presented
Based on permissions from LDAP or AD
Synonym mapping
Manually map related terms or program results to keywords
Faceted Search
Group results by categories
12. 12 Business Data Catalog Search Index and Search Structured Data
NO CODE! XML Application Definition
Sample SAP and Siebel definitions included OOTB
13. 13 Out of the Box Search
14. 14 Customizing Search Center Customize the Results
Highlight the keyword in search results
Customizing the XSLT
15. 15 Search Center Demo
Search Center Demo
16. 16 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Search
17. 17 Search Administration with Infrastructure Updates
18. 18 Search Administration Dashboard
19. 19 Search Administration Dashboard Consolidated UI to place key administrative tools and information one click away
Aggregates search settings from
Search Center Site
Shared Services Provider
Central Administration
Provides a unified view of search status
Active crawl status
Status of recently completed crawls
Search Server system status
20. 20 What is Federated Search?
21. 21 Federated Search Overview
Enables the display of results from other search engines or applications to be displayed alongside results from the local index
Federation in Search Server will
Send a query to other search engines or applications
Format and render the results
Work out of the box or with minimal effort with many existing search engines and applications
Federation in Search Server will not
Interleave multiple result sets into a single result set
Relevance rank results from other search engines or applications
22. 22 Federated Search Demo
Federated Search Demo
23. 23 Search Server 2008 Introduction
Updated and rebranded version of SharePoint Server 2007 for Search
Key investment areas and new features
Simplified Installation Experience
Enhanced Administration Interface
New Federation Capabilities
Performance and Stability Enhancements
No Preset Document Limits
Available in 2 versions
Microsoft Search Server 2008 (MSS)
Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express (MSSX)
24. 24 Search Server 2008 Version Differences
Search Server 2008 Express
Can only be installed in single server mode
FREE
Downloadable from www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch
Search Server 2008
Can be installed in a distributed topology to provide greater scale and redundancy
Licensed per server
There are no other feature differences
25. 25 Which Search Product is Right for You?
26. 26 FAST Search A Note on Search for SharePoint
On April 25, 2008, Microsoft completed its acquisition of FAST Search & Transfer
Adding a FAST Search for SharePoint
Existing MOSS customers will only have to pay a server license - $25,000
At FASTforward'09, Microsoft announced the latest feature for SharePoint14 will include FAST Search for SharePoint and will deliver significant out-of-the-box value
27. 27 Google Search Appliance Features
Hardware and software solution
Search all content through one search box
Web servers
Intranets
File shares
Databases
Business Applications
Content management systems
Results collapsing
User assigned search parameters
28. 28 Google Search Appliance - Benefits Same search experience as with Google Web
Relevance based on Google PageRank
Plug and play
Quick setup
Point to content source and start crawling
Google OneBox searches across structured data
Google People Search
Small set of features to adjust
29. 29 Google Search Appliance Limitations Has a black-box set of relevance algorithms
(Almost) No tuning allowed
KeyMatch feature can be used to change results set
File shares or databases must be web-enabled for content crawling
Non-HTML files are converted to HTML for indexing
Each database record counts as a document toward the license limit
References:
Google Enterprise Blog
Google Search Appliance Help
30. 30 Search Community Toolkit http://www.codeplex.com/sct
Document Link Handler for SharePoint 2007 Search - NEW!
SharePoint WildCard Search Web Part NEW!
SharePoint SearchCoder - NEW!
FAST ESP Web Parts for SharePoint 2007
Search Crawl Log Export Tool
Search ASP.NET Server Controls
Search Center Branding Removal Feature
Faceted Search V2
SharePoint Search Admin
SharePoint 2007 Wildcard Search
SharePoint Search Bench
C# Protocol Handler Sample
HTML Agility Pack
Search As You Type
Smart Search for SharePoint
31. 31 Enterprise Search Resources
Technical Communities, Webcasts, Blogs, Chats & User Groups
http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch
http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch
Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) & TechNet
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb931107.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/searchserver
Free Download and Trial Software
Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express (x64, x86)
Microsoft Search Server 2008 Trial (x64, x86)
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Trial (x64, x86)
http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/downloads/default.aspx
32. 32 Thank You
Thank You
Email: vmaximiuk@iccohio.com
Blog: http://www.iccohio.com/blogs/vmaximiuk