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Minnesota SharePoint User Group Meeting March 12th, 2008

Join our upcoming Minnesota SharePoint User Group Meeting on March 12th, 2008. Learn about SharePoint Search from experts Brian Caauwe and Wes Preston. Get insights, best practices, and updates on SharePoint technologies and solutions.

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Minnesota SharePoint User Group Meeting March 12th, 2008

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  1. Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint User Group March 12th, 2008 SharePoint Search Brian Caauwe, Wes Preston http://www.sharepointmn.com

  2. Agenda • Introductions • Products Overview • Break • Installation, Configuration and Details • Q & A http://www.sharepointmn.com

  3. User Group Goal / Objectives Develop and support a local community focused on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies Educate user group members about SharePoint Technologies Transfer knowledge within the community Communicate best practices Introduce new products / solutions http://www.sharepointmn.com

  4. 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) http://www.sharepointmn.com

  5. www.sharepointmn.com Website for user group SharePoint resource documents SharePoint resource links RSS Feeds Meeting Schedule Past User Group Presentations www.sharepointmn.com http://www.sharepointmn.com

  6. Upcoming Schedule Next Meeting April 9th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Microsoft’s Bloomington Office Topic: TBD – Check www.sharepointmn.com for updates! Ongoing Schedule 2nd Wednesday of every month 9:00 to 11:30 am Microsoft’s Bloomington Office http://www.sharepointmn.com

  7. Other Events Minneapolis Office Developer Interest Group *New (still)Thursday, March 25th 5:30 PMMicrosoft Bloomington Office SharePoint Server 2007: ECM (Enterprise Content Management)Thursday, March 13th 8:30 AM to NoonAt New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details) SharePoint Server 2007: BrandingWednesday, March 19th 8:30 AM to NoonAt New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details) SharePoint Server 2007: BI Deep Dive (Business Intelligence)Wednesday, March 26th 8:30 AM to NoonAt New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details) http://www.sharepointmn.com

  8. Other Events Making your MOSS growApril 14th – 18th – Las VegasHigh Monkey Consulting – Virgil CarrollRSVP to training@highmonkey.comMore information at: http://www.highmonkey.com/moss.html Conferences • Tech Ed – Developers – June 3-6, 2008Tech Ed – IT Professionals – June 10-13, 2008http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2007/default.mspxOrlando, Fl http://www.sharepointmn.com

  9. Other Events Twin Cities MPA Free Lunch ‘n’ LearnMarch 21st 12:00 – 2:00 PM – Microsoft Bloomington OfficePortfolio Management using Portfolio Server:Business Drivers and Portfolio CreationRSVP at http://www.tcmpa.org http://www.sharepointmn.com The Official Industry Association for Microsoft Office Project

  10. Blog Posts / News: SharePoint Team Blog: Silverlight Blueprint for SharePointhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/03/02/announcing-the-silverlight-blueprint-for-sharepoint.aspx Microsoft Online Services and SharePoint Onlinehttp://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/03/03/more-information-about-microsoft-online-services-and-sharepoint-online.aspx “GEAR Up” for SharePointhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/03/03/announcing-gear-up-for-sharepoint.aspx Solution Accelerators for SharePointhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/03/03/roundup-of-recently-released-microsoft-solution-accelerators-for-sharepoint.aspx CKS – Enhanced Blog Edition 2.0http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/03/05/announcing-the-community-kit-for-sharepoint-enhanced-blog-edition-2-0-cks-ebe-final-release.aspx WSS w/SP1 and MOSS w/SP1 ‘Slipstream’ install bitshttp://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/03/07/moss-2007-with-sp1-slipstream-officeserverwithsp1-exe-released.aspx http://www.sharepointmn.com

  11. Microsoft Search http://www.sharepointmn.com

  12. Microsoft Search Landscape Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) – “No additional cost” Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) SharePoint Server for Search Search Server 2008 Express – “No additional cost” Search Server 2008 Fast http://www.sharepointmn.com

  13. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Search within a site collection Including sub sites/webs (upgrade from 2003) Search ‘This Site’ Search ‘This List’ Indexes and searches document contents and metadata Security trimmed That’s it! http://www.sharepointmn.com

  14. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search across site collections People Search Scopes Content Sources File Shares Public Folders External Websites Enterprise - Business Data Catalog (BDC) Search Web Parts Configurable search results pages http://www.sharepointmn.com

  15. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search can be extended Search API / Object Model Search Web Services Managed Properties (This should be a topic for MODIG) http://www.sharepointmn.com

  16. Search Server 2008 Express Search across site collections Scopes Content Sources File Shares Public Folders External Websites Search Web Parts Configurable search results pages Federated Search Extensible No document limits http://www.sharepointmn.com

  17. 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. http://www.sharepointmn.com

  18. What is Federated Search? http://www.sharepointmn.com

  19. What Federated Search Connectors are available? PeopleSoft Siebel SAP EMC Documentum Vignette Epicor ERP Epicor ESA Flickr Virtual Earth Symantec Enterprise Vault IBM FileNet OpenText Hummingbird Interwoven iManage Online Services:News: Live.com News, Yahoo News, Google News, Wired, The Register Information Resources: MSDN, TechNet, Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, Yahoo Media: Flickr, Yahoo Images, YouTube, PodScope Blogs: Technorati, Google Blog Search http://www.sharepointmn.com

  20. What about MOSS? MOSS is still the ‘premium’ search solution from Microsoft today. People Search Tabbed Search Results (MOSS Enterprise) Business Data Catalog (BDC) All the new features of Search Server WILL be added to MOSS with a Feature Pack. http://www.sharepointmn.com

  21. Fast? What does the acquisition mean? Enterprise Search Highly Scalable It’s from Norway http://www.sharepointmn.com

  22. Break http://www.sharepointmn.com

  23. Scenario Current Environment Single WFE WSS 3.0 Separate SQL 2005 server Multiple Site Collections Shortcomings Search just happens Cannot search other sources Global search not available Proposed Solution Add Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Integrated Search Center into current environment http://www.sharepointmn.com

  24. Overview Installation of MSSE Search Configuration Creation of Search Center Activation of MSSE Features Integration with WSS 3.0 Search for new Search Center Scopes Keywords http://www.sharepointmn.com

  25. Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Installation Notes • STOP the Windows SharePoint Search Service • You will have an existing database in SQL • Run Prep Tool

  26. Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Installation Notes (cont’d) • Run Installation • Run Configuration Wizard

  27. Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Installation Notes (cont’d) • Search Server Wizard • Creates special Shared Services Provider • Starts Services • Creates multiple databases

  28. Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Installation Notes (cont’d) • Search Server Wizard

  29. Search Demo http://www.sharepointmn.com

  30. Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Search Center Integration • Enable Features • Web Application • Site Collection

  31. Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Search Center Integration (cont’d) • Creation of Search Center

  32. Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Search Center Integration (cont’d) • Integration with new Search Center

  33. Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Search Center Integreation (cont’d) • Search Center • Advanced Search • Results • Best Bets • Federated Search

  34. Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Search Administration • Admin Screen • System status • Active Crawls • Recently completed crawls • Shortcuts • I want to…

  35. Q & A http://www.sharepointmn.com

  36. References • Microsoft Enterprise Search • http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/ • Fasthttp://www.fastsearch.com/ • Inetium Blogshttp://blogs.inetium.com • David Overton’s Blog • http://uksbsguy.com/blogs/doverton/archive/2007/11/08/how-to-install-microsoft-search-server-2008-express-including-how-to-install-on-windows-home-server.aspx http://www.sharepointmn.com

  37. Thanks for coming! http://www.sharepointmn.com

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