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Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint

User Group

June 10th, 2009Search: From WSS to FAST

Brian Caauwe, Wes PrestonBob Koviak, Tom Washek

Meeting # 56

Agenda

• 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

• 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

• 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 NetworkingWednesday, June 17th 8:30 AM to NoonAt New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details)

• SharePoint Server 2007: Workflow Deep DiveThursday, June 18th 8:30 AM to NoonAt New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details)

• SharePoint Server 2007: SharePoint 101Thursday, June 25th 8:30 AM to NoonAt New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details)

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ConferencesSharePoint Conference 2009 – October 19-22, 2009http://www.mssharepointconference.comLas Vegas, NV

Local EventsMinneapolis Office Developer Interest Group - Julyhttp://www.sharepointmn.com/MODIG Topic: TBD

Blog Posts / News:SharePoint Team Blog:

• Attention: Important Information on SP2http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx

• New Microsoft SharePoint sitehttp://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint

• New STSADM Technical Referencehttp://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/06/05/technet-launches-new-interactive-silverlight-application-for-stsadm-technical-reference.aspx

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Microsoft Search

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Microsoft Search Landscape• 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)

• 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

• 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– 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…• 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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