This document provides an overview of implementing enterprise search in SharePoint 2010. It discusses key search concepts like the search center, index partitioning, content sources, scopes, and search federation. It also covers configuring federated locations and using FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint, which provides additional search capabilities such as thumbnails, previews, and deep refiners. The document concludes with some example search queries.

1. Implementing Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2010 Agnes Molnar Senior SharePoint Consultant, SharePoint Server MVP, BA-Insight Consultant Partner

2. About the Speaker 2 Senior SharePoint Consultant SharePoint Server MVP since 2008 BA-Insight Senior Consultant Partner Conferences SharePoint Best Practices Conferences 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 SharePoint Evolutions Conference The Experts Conference Slovenian SharePoint Conference SharePoint Conference Peru SharePoint Saturdays SharePoint User Group Meetings ...

3. About the Speaker 3 Books Contributed:

4. The Anatomy of Search 4 Source: http://searchpatterns.org

5. Search Technology Concept 5 Concepts Search Center - UI for users to issue queries and interact with results OpenSearch Source Query Object Model Query Servers- Accept query requests from users and return results Query Servers Query Federation - Return results from non-SharePoint Indexes Index Partition Indexing - Extract information from items to enable efficient matching Indexer Index Partition - Subset of the overall index Crawling- Traverse URL space to record items in search catalog Crawler Connectors- Know how to process different content sources Content Sources - Host the content Content Content Content

6. SP 2010 Content Sources 6 SharePoint sites File Share Business Data Website Exchange Public Folder Lotus Notes database ... OpenSearch Source Query Object Model Query Servers Index Partition Indexer Crawler Content Content Content

7. SP 2010 Scopes 7 Refine the queries Scope Rules Web address Property query Content source All content Scope operations: Include Require Exclude OpenSearch Source Query Object Model Query Servers Index Partition Indexer Crawler Content Content Content

8. SP2010 Search Federation 8 Using remote index for SharePoint queries Prefix match For example: „weather” Pattern match For example: email query (^([-]+)@([-]+)+ ([a-zA-Z]{2,4})$) Location Type: SharePoint Search Index FAST Index OpenSearch 1.0/1.1 OpenSearch Source Query Object Model Query Servers Index Partition Indexer Crawler Content Content Content

9. SP 2010 Search Federation 9 Features (cont.) Query Template {searchTerms} scope:Documents {searchTerms} type:.doc type:.docx type:.docm „More Results” link Template Results formatting (XSL) Usage restrictions (for sites) Custom Credentials

10. SP 2010 Search Federation 10 YES NO remote site’s robots.txt blocks SharePoint’s crawler you need results only with specific keywords and/or keyword patterns in the query content changes very often, immediately crawling needed queries under different security context infrequently queried contents >500 content sources You don’t have enough bandwith content changes very often, but immediately crawling NOT needed content that is not indexed by the remote server remote server does not return with RSS or Atom (OpenSearch 1.0/1.1)

11. Federated Location Connectors 11 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/enterprisesearch/ff727944.aspx

12. FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Extra Capabilities: Thumbnails + Previews Visual Best Bets Deep Refiners with counts User context from User Profile Sorting on any property Similar search Extreme scale-out (up to >500M docs) Content processing pipeline Entity extraction Easy configuration (user context, visual best bets, promotion/demotion, sorting, refinement) 12

13. FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint 13 „I’m a salesman. What should I know about ERP systems?” „I’m an IT Consultant. What should I know about ERP systems?”

14. Deploying SP2010 Search 14

15. 15 Thank you!http://aghy.hu/feedbackE-mail: aghy@aghy.huTwitter: @molnaragnes