15 tips for bullet proof requirements analysis on SharePoint projectsDocFluix, LLC
Success or failure of any significant SharePoint project depends on having well defined business and technical requirements before the project starts. With this presentation, learn concrete, repeatable techniques for ensuring that the requirements for your SharePoint project are well defined.
Introduction to Microsoft Search #SRC101 #365EduCon 20211214Kanwal Khipple
Microsoft Search is looking to bring the search experiences across all Microsoft 365 services together into a single unified experience.
Attend this session to learn how the experience impacts your users, how you can configure it as well as scenarios where you should customize it.
Viva Topics uses AI to reason over content across teams and systems, recognizing content types, extracting important information, and automatically organizing content into shared topics like projects, products, processes and customers. SharePoint Syntex then creates a knowledge network based on relationships among topics, content, and people.
Attend this session to learn more about how Viva Topics, topic pages and how knowledge center can transform knowledge in your organization.
15 tips for bullet proof requirements analysis on SharePoint projectsDocFluix, LLC
Success or failure of any significant SharePoint project depends on having well defined business and technical requirements before the project starts. With this presentation, learn concrete, repeatable techniques for ensuring that the requirements for your SharePoint project are well defined.
Introduction to Microsoft Search #SRC101 #365EduCon 20211214Kanwal Khipple
Microsoft Search is looking to bring the search experiences across all Microsoft 365 services together into a single unified experience.
Attend this session to learn how the experience impacts your users, how you can configure it as well as scenarios where you should customize it.
Viva Topics uses AI to reason over content across teams and systems, recognizing content types, extracting important information, and automatically organizing content into shared topics like projects, products, processes and customers. SharePoint Syntex then creates a knowledge network based on relationships among topics, content, and people.
Attend this session to learn more about how Viva Topics, topic pages and how knowledge center can transform knowledge in your organization.
Sharpen SharePoint Adoption in SharePoint 2013 with GamificationJoel Oleson
Adoption is one of the biggest problems in SharePoint. Understand the new reputation settings and take advantage of community in the social platform and build gamification into the platform with enhancements from Badgeville.
"The 3 P's of SharePoint 2013; Planning, Productivity, and Policies" #SPSSVGina Montgomery, V-TSP
Why do SharePoint intranets fail? What is all the buzz about SharePoint 2013? Can I get better governance with SharePoint 2013? Come spend an hour with us while we discuss the three P's of SharePoint 2013. This session describes the importance of information architecture planning; demonstrates SharePoint 2013's new productivity enhancements including social collaboration and task aggregation and project management; presents how to push SharePoint OOTB to create even more productivity within your organization; and finally shows the new governance features using site policies.
How to Write Amazing Functional Analysis Documents for your SharePoint Projects GSoft
In this session you will learn how to translate business requirements into usable SharePoint
specifications? How to accurately plan effort and scope for a SharePoint project?
How to prepare a clear, complete and concise document for the development team? If these
questions keep you up at night this session is for you!
The following topics will be covered during this presentation:
Requirements Definition
Information Architecture
Functional, and
Non-Functional Specifications
Analysis templates used in the presentation will be distributed to attendees.
Having content that is technically optimized to appear on all platforms and provide quick, stable and successful user experiences is more important than ever. This presentation provides an easy to understand explanation of how to avoid, find and fix technical seo mistakes.
INT103 Intranets With Office 365 What You Need To Know #365EDUConKanwal Khipple
What's more organizations are challenging the Intranet to be more of an interactive and engaging digital hub for their digital workplace than just a communication centric portal.
The top two questions for many companies is “should our intranet be built with Office 365?” and "how should we best leverage it with Office 365?"
In this session we will explore:
• The benefits Office 365 brings to an intranet...
• Where the issues and challenges will lie...
• When and how you may integrate Office 365 with your existing intranet and digital workplace today.
Social Journey Webinar with ViewDo Labs and Portal SolutionsJoel Oleson
Your enterprise social journey starts with exploring a variety of different collaboration solutions and enterprise social networks. In this session we explore the experimenting, expanding, embracing, and everywhere social maturity matrix and help you better understand the business value in social and provide tips to success.
INT303 Beyond The Intranet Digital Workplace Apps, Solutions n Bots #365EDUConKanwal Khipple
How to respond to the ever-increasing demand for powerful and integrated solutions that support users' needs across their digital workplace and beyond. Leveraging Office 365 means that you have access to entirely new ways of building solutions faster than ever before. The best part? It's not just IT that can build these great solutions!
Presentation about whether Microsoft SharePoint is suitable for use as a CMS by Frank MacDonald from Heriot-Watt University at the April meeting of the Scottish Web Folk in Glasgow. (Uploaded with permission.)
Intranets With Office 365: What You Need To Know #INT103 #365EduCon 20211214Kanwal Khipple
There is a growing trend of organisations moving to “the cloud” to meet their intranet needs. While many organisations are running their Intranets “on premise”, many are considering entirely cloud-based solutions or running them on platforms like Office 365. What's more organizations are challenging the Intranet to be more of an interactive and engaging digital hub for their digital workplace than just a communication centric portal.
The top two questions for many companies is “should our intranet be built with Office 365?” and "how should we best leverage it with Office 365?"
In this session we will explore:
• The benefits Office 365 brings to an intranet...
• Where the issues and challenges will lie...
• When and how you may integrate Office 365 with your existing intranet and digital workplace today.
SharePoint Upgrade & Migration Planning: From Strategy To ExecutionRichard Harbridge
How do organizations successfully migrate or upgrade SharePoint to SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, & Modern SharePoint From Classic SharePoint Or Legacy Versions Of SharePoint Server?
In this session, MVP and expert Richard Harbridge will discuss what important considerations should be understood and planned before an upgrade/migration, what approaches have successfully worked for other companies, and practical guidance on how best to succeed with your modernization or migration project.
Microsoft Search is looking to bring the search experiences across all Microsoft 365 services together into a single unified experience. Attend this session to learn how the experience impacts your users, how you can configure it as well as scenarios where you should customize it.
Going through SEO practices to discern what still works and what does not. Also, many other disciplines are having an impact on results and how SEOs need to alter their approach to adjust
Sharpen SharePoint Adoption in SharePoint 2013 with GamificationJoel Oleson
Adoption is one of the biggest problems in SharePoint. Understand the new reputation settings and take advantage of community in the social platform and build gamification into the platform with enhancements from Badgeville.
"The 3 P's of SharePoint 2013; Planning, Productivity, and Policies" #SPSSVGina Montgomery, V-TSP
Why do SharePoint intranets fail? What is all the buzz about SharePoint 2013? Can I get better governance with SharePoint 2013? Come spend an hour with us while we discuss the three P's of SharePoint 2013. This session describes the importance of information architecture planning; demonstrates SharePoint 2013's new productivity enhancements including social collaboration and task aggregation and project management; presents how to push SharePoint OOTB to create even more productivity within your organization; and finally shows the new governance features using site policies.
How to Write Amazing Functional Analysis Documents for your SharePoint Projects GSoft
In this session you will learn how to translate business requirements into usable SharePoint
specifications? How to accurately plan effort and scope for a SharePoint project?
How to prepare a clear, complete and concise document for the development team? If these
questions keep you up at night this session is for you!
The following topics will be covered during this presentation:
Requirements Definition
Information Architecture
Functional, and
Non-Functional Specifications
Analysis templates used in the presentation will be distributed to attendees.
Having content that is technically optimized to appear on all platforms and provide quick, stable and successful user experiences is more important than ever. This presentation provides an easy to understand explanation of how to avoid, find and fix technical seo mistakes.
INT103 Intranets With Office 365 What You Need To Know #365EDUConKanwal Khipple
What's more organizations are challenging the Intranet to be more of an interactive and engaging digital hub for their digital workplace than just a communication centric portal.
The top two questions for many companies is “should our intranet be built with Office 365?” and "how should we best leverage it with Office 365?"
In this session we will explore:
• The benefits Office 365 brings to an intranet...
• Where the issues and challenges will lie...
• When and how you may integrate Office 365 with your existing intranet and digital workplace today.
Social Journey Webinar with ViewDo Labs and Portal SolutionsJoel Oleson
Your enterprise social journey starts with exploring a variety of different collaboration solutions and enterprise social networks. In this session we explore the experimenting, expanding, embracing, and everywhere social maturity matrix and help you better understand the business value in social and provide tips to success.
INT303 Beyond The Intranet Digital Workplace Apps, Solutions n Bots #365EDUConKanwal Khipple
How to respond to the ever-increasing demand for powerful and integrated solutions that support users' needs across their digital workplace and beyond. Leveraging Office 365 means that you have access to entirely new ways of building solutions faster than ever before. The best part? It's not just IT that can build these great solutions!
Presentation about whether Microsoft SharePoint is suitable for use as a CMS by Frank MacDonald from Heriot-Watt University at the April meeting of the Scottish Web Folk in Glasgow. (Uploaded with permission.)
Intranets With Office 365: What You Need To Know #INT103 #365EduCon 20211214Kanwal Khipple
There is a growing trend of organisations moving to “the cloud” to meet their intranet needs. While many organisations are running their Intranets “on premise”, many are considering entirely cloud-based solutions or running them on platforms like Office 365. What's more organizations are challenging the Intranet to be more of an interactive and engaging digital hub for their digital workplace than just a communication centric portal.
The top two questions for many companies is “should our intranet be built with Office 365?” and "how should we best leverage it with Office 365?"
In this session we will explore:
• The benefits Office 365 brings to an intranet...
• Where the issues and challenges will lie...
• When and how you may integrate Office 365 with your existing intranet and digital workplace today.
SharePoint Upgrade & Migration Planning: From Strategy To ExecutionRichard Harbridge
How do organizations successfully migrate or upgrade SharePoint to SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, & Modern SharePoint From Classic SharePoint Or Legacy Versions Of SharePoint Server?
In this session, MVP and expert Richard Harbridge will discuss what important considerations should be understood and planned before an upgrade/migration, what approaches have successfully worked for other companies, and practical guidance on how best to succeed with your modernization or migration project.
Microsoft Search is looking to bring the search experiences across all Microsoft 365 services together into a single unified experience. Attend this session to learn how the experience impacts your users, how you can configure it as well as scenarios where you should customize it.
Going through SEO practices to discern what still works and what does not. Also, many other disciplines are having an impact on results and how SEOs need to alter their approach to adjust
While Office365 continues to grow at a rapid rate, adoption beyond Exchange can be slow without a strategy in place. This presentation discusses: a "go to market" strategy for a successful Office 365 deployment; productivity features that will enhance adoption; strategies for keeping end users engaged; how to track usage and activity so you can measure your success; and touches on many of the productivity features (Groups, Delve, Yammer, co-editing, etc). The primary focus, however, is on the management/ongoing educational aspects of a successful deployment.
You can find a video recording of this session via #Collab365 at https://youtu.be/uYpPx5R3lPY
Presentation given in San Francisco in January 2013 by myself and Paul Lawbaugh from Webtrends on the importance of capturing robust metrics to better understand the end user experience, build out strong KPIs and metrics, and optimize/improve based on data.
Mobile First to AI First: How User Signals Change SEO | SMX19Philipp Klöckner
Traditional ranking factors have been great proxy metrics for the past years and have made Google the best search engine in the world. But as Google advances to an AI first company, SEOs have to change their metrics and toolsets as well. Learn about how Machine Learning changes SEO and why User Signals and UX have to guide your work.
You Spoke, We Listened – Achieving a New Level of Search Optimization with Go...Concept Searching, Inc
Join us to learn how the combination of Google Search Appliance and conceptClassifier improves search outcomes. Concept Searching’s industry recognized technology, still unique in the market, provides the Google Search Appliance index with automatically generated semantic metadata, based on our core compound term processing, that generates multi-term metadata that represents concepts.
If you are using Google Search Appliance or evaluating search options, this webinar will provide highly useful information to understand how conceptClassifier improves search results in any search environment.
How does conceptClassifier improve Google Search Appliance results?
• Eliminates end user tagging.
• Automatically generates keywords and phrases that represent a concept.
• Accepts queries in natural language, with the user typing words, phrases or whole sentences, and inter-relationships among content,
• Retrieves highly relevant content even if the results do not contain the search string,
• Improves dynamic navigation through the use of semantic metadata.
• Improves result biasing as the results will automatically include related keywords and concepts.
• Eliminates the development of collections as the taxonomy hierarchy can be used to guide users to specific content based on their role and function – this also applies to segmentation.
• Can load synonym lists, but are not needed as the taxonomy manager component will recognize synonyms as well as related concepts during auto-classification. The results can be easily and quickly modified by an administrator.
• Blacklist and stop words can also be managed in the taxonomy component, without creating and uploading files and eliminating human subjectivity.
• Taxonomies are easily tuned and managed by Subject Matter Experts, providing unique features not available in any other taxonomy product.
SEF2013 - Create a Business Solution, Step by Step, with No Managed CodeMarc D Anderson
with Christian Ståhl
In this session, you will learn how you can devise powerful solutions from beginning to end without deploying any managed code with two of the biggest proponents of this approach. We’ll take a business problem and go through the actual solution in SharePoint 2013, but we’ll dip into SharePoint 2010 as well to see how the solution might work there and discuss how we might approach things differently. You’ll get the solution in a WSP as well as the underlying code.
Slides from "Supercharging SharePoint for Success with Search"
at Houston SharePoint User Group on Non 19th.
Ranges across 4 topics: best practices for search deployment, hybrid sharepoint and search, Delve and Office Graph, and Search-Driven Applications
SharePoint Saturday Houston 2016
Our SharePoint environment is a lot like many others – a SharePoint 2007 implementation that was used more as a file dump than a collaboration space. With minimal user adoption, we were never quite ready to implement 2010, with a pilot SharePoint 2010 implementation stalled out of the gate.
In the meantime, some content was put on Box and other services to address external collaboration needs. Business users needed more relevant search results, content databases had grown uncomfortably large, and access controls had become spaghetti. Fortunately, site sprawl wasn’t too bad… except that the reason for that was the low adoption.
SharePoint 2013 arrived to a perfect storm – business and technology needs to be addressed, content that needs to be brought back in-house, and user adoption that needs to be improved. Time to upgrade!
See how we approached the upgrade, the issues than needed to be addressed, and the questions that needed to be answered.
Since late 2012, SharePoint lovers and companies slowly started using SharePoint 2013. Clearly, the modern UI of SharePoint 2013 provides an engaginguser experience, but that won’t be enough to explain to your users about how their day-to-day experiences with SharePoint might be improved with an upgrade to 2013. In this presentation, I will cover 10 most liked features of SharePoint 2013 that clarify the reason why people wants to move to 2013.
A beginner's guide to setting up your development environment to build a very basic "Hello World" web part using the SharePoint Framework and resources on how to keep learning more about it.
Part of the SPBiz Conference, a real-world look at some basic and complex SharePoint scenarios that did not go so well. However, each issue has a solution or an alternate method to resolve it. In this presentation, we follow a six step process to analyze, solve and prevent SharePoint issues & "debacles".
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
2. Session Agenda
What use to take days or weeks to program can
now be done with simple Query Rules, Result
Sources, Promoted Results & other new features
of SharePoint 2013 search. See how we can
create a beautiful, functional, multi-media based
search experience based on the user's needs and
intended results.
Topics we going to cover in this session:• What is a search-based application?
• New features of SharePoint 2013 search
• Solve a real world business case scenario with search related
functionality
• Learn how silly I am
3. Matthew J. Bailey, MCTS
SharePoint Business Analyst &
IT Project Manager
JDSU
I consider myself a “SharePoint All-Rounder”. My job tasks vary from
Administration, Development, Training, Analyst, UAT and Project Management.
My job changes daily based on the crazy life of an IT fellow in corporate America,
but it keeps things interesting!
I am not an expert with SharePoint search and have not worked FAST too much,
however I have worked with SEO, search analytics and design and SharePoint in
general for several years. If I don’t know an answer to one of your questions, I will
try to find out or point you in the right direction!
Oh, did I mention my “dry” sense of humor? No worries, you’re about
to experience it while learning SharePoint at the same time
6. Special thanks to…
• Eric Harlan for helping me with my
presentation setup
• http://www.ericharlan.com/
• Scot Hillier’s presentation on search
at SharePoint Conference 2012 &
blog post
• http://www.shillier.com/
7. What is a Search-Based or Search Driven
Application?
I have seen a lot of different definitions of what this really
means, some of the definitions I have found are:
• Using search as a data access technology. This is less about the UI and more
about the concept of using search features, queries and indexes to retrieve your
data.
• Using search as the interface. This concept is more along the lines of presenting
the user a web page that looks more like a search experience, whether it be a
basic search with type-ahead features or a multiple field advanced search type of
concept.
• Extending the existing search center.
• Adding URLs that have search queries in them
8. Benefits of Search-Based or Search
Driven Applications
• Less risk, no code deployments vs. configurations
• Easier to troubleshoot issues with results than code
• Must faster than coding
• More dynamic, flexible to gather and manipulate data
11. Why do I love search in SharePoint
2013 sooooooooo much?
• Intent based
• Dynamic improvement
• Ease of use
• Massive flexibilty
• Visual Interest
• Multimedia/format
• Huge productivity increases/time savings
• All of the expensive features that use to be in FAST are now free
• Makes me look good to my boss when I create awesome searches
• I can make it be exactly what I WANT! (is this all about control? Enquiring
minds would like to know…)
No one even paid me to say this!
12. My Development Environment
• Running on Windows Azure
• 3 VMs – 1 AD, 1 SQL, 1 SP
• Configured with very high performance settings
• Do not have Office Web Apps installed, but will show an example of how
this functions from my Office 365 account.
*NOTE: Make sure to check out my link at the end of the presentation where I have
included a list of several options to create your own SharePoint 2013 “playground” if
you do not have one.
13. Business Case
There is always something going on at inCogNeato. Productivity is down, morale
and employee motivation are low, profit margins aren’t high enough, we aren’t
meeting our new client goals, operating costs are too high, etc. Frankly speaking,
the cog business just isn’t what it use to be.
Hugh Jordeal (Executive Director Manager Supervisor) has held an important
meeting discussing changes we need to make immediately in regards to the launch
of the product that will save the company, the “NewCog5000”. Hugh has assigned
certain tasks to some employees that need to be accomplished “pronto”.
Unfortunately, no one is sure how to meet the lofty goals assigned and complaints
are coming in to the help desk that no one can find anything on the intranet to do
their job. Word makes it up to Hugh and IT gets a call that someone better fix the
intranet or else. IT needs to whip up an application to help everyone out, and as
usual, it was due yesterday.
No worries, I’ve got it all figured out (I think).
14.
15. What are Our Requirements and/or
Issues?
• People are seeing incorrect results or cannot find items that are there
• People cannot find what they are looking for and some people are searching for
things they shouldn’t be
• People don’t know how to search / Do not know some things are there
• Important and related data is spread all over due to lack of governance
Experience is very lackluster, uninspiring, unmotivating
16. What are Our Solutions?
• People are seeing incorrect results or cannot find items that are there
Continuous Crawl
• People cannot find what they are looking for and some people are searching for
things they shouldn’t be
Result Sources & Query Rules
• People don’t know how to search / Do not know some things are there
Search Verticals
• Important and related data is spread all over due to lack of governance
Content Search Web Part
• Experience is very lackluster, uninspiring, unmotivating
Design Manager / Display Templates
17. Issue
People are seeing incorrect results or cannot find items that are there
Solution
Continuous Crawl
• It is available only for content sources that use the SharePoint Sites content
source type.
• Set intervals. The default interval is 15 minutes, but you can set continuous
crawls to occur at shorter intervals by using Windows PowerShell.
• Continuous crawls ensure content freshness. Unlike full and incremental
crawls, multiple continuous crawls can run at the same time. For example, if
one continuous crawl is processing a large update, another continuous crawl
can start at the same time and crawl and index other content updates.
• Very resource intensive, need to plan for an architecture to support this.
• Once enabled, cannot be deleted but it can be disabled and/or re-enabled
again.
19. Enable continuous crawl
• As an Administrator for the Search service application, in Central
Administration, in the Application Management section, click Manage service
applications.
• Click the Search service application.
• On the Search Administration page, in the Quick Launch, under Crawling,
click Content Sources.
• On the Search Service Application: Manage Content Sources page, click the
SharePoint content source for which you want to enable continuous crawl.
• In the Crawl Schedules section, select Enable Continuous Crawls, click OK.
• Verification: In the Search Service Application: Manage Content Sources
page, verify that the Status column has the status Crawling Continuous.
To change the continuous crawl interval
• Run SharePoint 2013 Management Shell as Administrator, enter PowerShell
script:
• $ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication
$ssa.SetProperty("ContinuousCrawlInterval",<n>)
20. Issue
People cannot find what they are looking for and some people are searching for
things they shouldn’t be.
Solution
Query Rules
Provides the ability to influence the search results by overriding the term the user
entered to force it to go to a certain result. They are processed under certain
conditions.
They are composed of 3 items:
1. Condition
2. Action
3. Publishing
They are applied to a Result Source. They can also be applied at the site, site
sollection or service application level.
*NOTE: If you want Query Rules to apply in all your websites and the search center, you
should apply these at the web application level as the search center is actually a different
site collection from your other sites.
22. Apply Query Rules
Assist users in finding what they need
As an Administrator for the Search service application, in Central Administration,
in the Application Management section, click Manage service applications.
• In Central Administration in your search service go to Query Rules.
• Add the Query Conditions
• Result Blocks
Prevent users from finding what they don’t need
• Create Query Rules to “inform” users of inappropriate behavior
23. Hover Panel / Document Preview
With a full Enterprise installation of SharePoint 2013, you need to have an Office
Web Apps server for the document previews to work. This is enabled by default
in Office 365 however.
I will now perform a quick demo from my session on Rubber Duckies
https://duckville.sharepoint.com
24. How is this going so far? Too fast, too
slow, too complex, too easy, too silly?
25. Issue
Important and related data is spread all over due to lack of governance.
Solution
Content Search Web Part
Like a pre-built search query to provide search results.
• More functional than a CQWP as it has more than 3 levels of criteria & can
span SC
• Can be offered to a “power user” to create meaningful results
• Offers refining, sorting, display options and much more with no code (well
KQL)
*NOTE: The Content Search web part is only available in the Enterprise edition of an on-
premise/full trust installation of SharePoint 2013. As a replacement, there is an option to
use the Search Results web part instead which has almost all of the same features (but
not quite). Check out Benjamin Niaulin’s link here:
http://en.share-gate.com/blog/sharepoint-2013-content-search-webpart
30. Search Verticals
Link to anything but usually links to a custom search
result page. The existing search verticals OOTB are:
• An .aspx page with some search web parts
• The Search Results web part configured to use a Result Source
32. Easily create your own Search Vertical with a Result
Source:
• Go to the Search Center pages library
• Copying a result page that already exists via Open in Explorer or SharePoint
Designer
• Rename the page to something appropriate
• Edit the page and the Search Results web part and change the Search Criteria to
a different Result Source (either one that already exists or a new one you
created)
• Save, check-in/publish the page
• Go to search center Site Settings Search Settings
• Add a navigation link to your new custom search result page, save
Easily create a Search Vertical to other links:
• Just Go to search center Site Settings Search Settings
• Add a navigation link to wherever you like, save
34. Issue
The interface is uninspiring and not standard to
corporate design. The Graphic Design department
is none too pleased…
Solution
Design Manager / Display Templates
• Quickly use a pre-built template from the installed selections or import your own
Design Package for a custom look
35. Display Templates (won’t go into but know they are there)
• Display templates in SharePoint Server 2013 are templates used in Search
Web Parts
• They show the results of a query made to the search index.
• Display templates control which managed properties are shown in the search
results, and how they appear in the Web Part.
• Each display template is made of two files: HTML file and .js file (use to be
the xslt designer in 2010)
• Only Search Web Parts can use display templates (i.e., Search Results,
Content Search, Taxonomy Refinement)
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj945138.aspx
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC4LZapFdfY
36. And so much more…
• All types of different rule variations
• All types of different ways to display results
• All types of concepts to personalize search per user
• All types of sorting on rules
• All types of queries using KQL
• All types of coding against the search object
model/CSOM, from apps, against the index, etc.
37. Now that we understand search in
SharePoint 2013, everyone is a happy
family…
38. Feel free to connect:
@matthewjbailey1
http://www.matthewjbailey.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewjbailey1
sharepointmatthew@gmail.com
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