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Implementation Considerations for FAST Search For SharePoint (FS4SP)

Implementation Considerations for FAST Search For SharePoint (FS4SP). Presenter : Shyam Narayan MOSSIG – February 2011 Meeting. b: www.dotnetbounce.com t: @dotnetbounce. Introduction. Solutions Architect at Pitcher Partners Consulting in Melbourne

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Implementation Considerations for FAST Search For SharePoint (FS4SP)

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  1. Implementation Considerations for FAST Search For SharePoint (FS4SP) Presenter : Shyam Narayan MOSSIG – February 2011 Meeting b: www.dotnetbounce.com t: @dotnetbounce

  2. Introduction Solutions Architect at Pitcher Partners Consulting in Melbourne vTSP – Business Collaboration Platform at Microsoft Primarily focused on SharePoint and .NET Technologies Agile advocate Other interests

  3. Agenda • FAST Search Architecture • Deployment Planning • FS4SP Deployment • Post Installation Configurations - Content Feeding, Connectors, SSA • Tips and Tricks • Q&A

  4. The Vision: A New Choice in Search Enterprise Search from Microsoft • Best of High-end • Best of SharePoint • Dynamic user experiences • Advanced content processing • Broad repository connectivity • Extreme scale and performance • Open and Extensible Platform • Out-of-the-box intranet search • People Search • SharePoint platform integration • No code customization • Best of Microsoft • Simplicity and low TCO • Familiar, integrated developer tools • Windows 7 Integration • Robust partner and platform eco-system

  5. Microsoft Enterprise Search- Productivity Products for Every Customer Need OOB General Productivity Search with light customization Heavily customizable OOB General Productivity Search and easy to build Search-Driven Applications Common across the product line • Common UI Framework • Social search features and integration • SharePoint platform integration • End user and site administrator enablement • Common Connector Framework (BDC) • APIs and developer Experience • Admin & deployment capabilities • Operations advantages (SCOM, scripting)

  6. FAST Search Extends SharePoint Superset of capabilities; common base functionality and platform Best High-End Content Search based on FAST ESP Advanced Content Processing FAST Search for SharePoint Common query and federation APIs Common connectors and content APIs Content search SharePoint Server 2010 People search Query SSA Content SSA End Users Content Unique Social Search from SharePoint Server 2010 + Profiles Common IT Pro and developer experience

  7. SharePoint Server(s) FAST Search Server 2010 FAST Server(s) Other Server(s) Summary of architectural components • Site Collection Level Admin UI • Keyword Management • User Context Management • Site Promotion/Demotion • PowerShell • Schema configuration • Admin configuration • Deployment configuration • Central Administration UI • Property mapping • Property extraction • Spell-checking Administration and Schema Object Model Advanced Content Processing Linguistics Web Link Analysis • Connectors • SharePoint • File Traverser • Web • BDC • Exchange • Notes • Documentum SharePoint Front-end Security Access Module Indexing Custom Front-End Query Object Model Query and Result Processing Search Core Query Web Service • Connectors • Web Crawler • JDBC Federation Object Model OpenSearch or Other Sources Monitoring Services Content Microsoft System Center Operations Manager People Search

  8. Getting ready for deployment …

  9. Planning that needs to be done • Search Solution Planning • FAST Server Farm Topology • Redundancy and Availability • System Requirements

  10. Search Solution Planning • Plan content collection and Crawl Schedules • Design the Index Schema • Crawled to Managed Properties • Rank Profiles and Relevancy tuning • Query Refinement • Security Considerations • Plan for monitoring and recovery

  11. SharePoint Server(s) Topology - FAST Search Server 2010 and SharePoint Server Farms FAST Server(s) Other Server(s) Web parts and Web Services Service Endpoints Query and Content SSA’s

  12. Topology - FAST Search Server 2010 and SharePoint Server Farms – Redundancy and Availability Administration Node Content SSA FAST Farm Content Distributor Item Processing Indexing Dispatcher Search Cluster Indexingand QueryMatching Web Analyzer FAST specificconnectors QueryProcessing Query SSA FSA

  13. System Requirements • x64 Servers running Windows Server 2008 SP2 or Windows Server 2008 R2 • Memory - 4GB (min) – 16GB (recommended) • CPU – 4 Cores @ 2.0Ghz (min) – 8 cores @ 2.0GHz (recommended) • Disk – 50 GB (minimum) – 1 TB in a RAID configuration • Other Requirements • Windows Firewalls are turned on • Static IP Addressing scheme • Windows updates are turned off • DST and Anti –Virus

  14. Installation Stand-alone deployment Multi-server deployment Deployment

  15. Similar to SharePoint Install FS4SP Installation Process

  16. Similar to SharePoint Install FS4SP Installation Process

  17. Stand-alone server configuration • Easy to setup and can handle 15 million indexed items • Used for development environments, test and small scale production environment • All FS4SP components deployed on a single server • No scalability or failover capabilities • Can be changed to a multiple server deployment

  18. Multi-server configuration • More complex to setup and has no theoretical upper bounds for scale • Recommended for most production environments • FS4SP components deployed on a specialised server to provide scalability and failover capabilities • Additional operational overheads

  19. Content Search Service Application Query Search Service Application Post deployment configurations

  20. Content Search Service Application • Create SSA to associate FAST Farm with SharePoint farm and enable crawling • Enable content feeding • Content sources managed through SharePoint Central Administration • Deploy additional connectors specific to FAST

  21. Query Search Service Application • Create Query SSA to enable queries from the SharePoint WFE’s • Contains the query and crawl component for people search • Configure FAST Specific service endpoints – Query, Administration and Resource Store. • Add Query SSA to the default group for your web applications • Enable Claims Based Authentication

  22. Backup , Recovery and Monitoring

  23. Backup, Restore and Monitoring • Plan backup and restore strategies early in your FAST deployment process • Configuration backup and restore • Full backup and restore • Pair with SharePoint Backups • No UI all backups and restores administered via PowerShell • SMO is required • Monitor FS4SP • SCOM SP1 or R2 • WMI • Perfmon and SP Logs

  24. Questions and Answers

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