Soft introduction to Microsoft Enterprise Search Products including Microsoft Search Server 2008 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

1. Microsoft Enterprise Search Products Jarosław Białkiewicz 3/3/2010 1

2. Products and fearures

3. Enterprise Search Products Search Server 2008 (MSS) Search Server 2008 Express (MSSX) Office SharePoint Server 2007 + Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) 3/3/2010 3

4. Comparison of features 3/3/2010 4

5. Internal architecture 3/3/2010 5

6. Administration and config.

7. Administration dashboard Consolidated UI to place key administrative tools and information one click away Aggregates search settings from Search Center Site Shared Service Provider Central Administration Provides a unified view of server status Active crawl status Status of recently completed crawls Search Server system status

10. DEMO

11. Federation capability

12. Federated Search overview Enables the display of results from other search engines or applications to be displayed alongside local results Search Server will Send a query to other search engines or applications Format and render the results Work out of the box or with minimal effort with many existing search engines and applications Search Server will not Aggregate multiple result sets into a single result set Relevance rank results from other search engines or applications 3/3/2010 12

13. Federated Search Results 3/3/2010 13 DEMO

14. Customization

15. DEMO

16. Keyword Syntax Three possible options: A word – the query consists of the keywords expressed as a word, including one or more characters without spaces or punctuation A phrase – multiple keywords combined into a phrase separated by spaces and enclosed in quotation marks A prefix – a word followed by prefix: To include or exclude terms use (+) and (-) in the front of the keyword respectively Example Microsoft –”SharePoint” author:Ballmer

17. Enterprise Search SQL Query Syntax Extends the standard SQL-92 and SQL-99 database query syntax Is tunned for compiling full-text search queries Syntax: SELECT <columns> FROM scope() WHERE <conditions> ORDER BY <columns> Example: SELECT Rank, Title, Autor, Size, Write, HitHighlightedSummary FROM scope() WHERE ”scope”=‘All Sites’ AND fileextension=‘doc’ AND FREETEXT(defaultproperties, ‘SharePoint’) 3/3/2010 17

18. The Query Object Model 3/3/2010 18

19. <QueryPacketxmlns="urn:Microsoft.Search.Query"> <Query> <Context> <QueryText type="STRING" language="en-us">Barolo</QueryText> </Context> <Range> <StartAt>1</StartAt> <Count>10</Count> </Range> <EnableStemming>true</EnableStemming> <TrimDuplicates>true</TrimDuplicates> <IgnoreAllNoiseQuery>true</IgnoreAllNoiseQuery> <ImplicitAndBehavior>true</ImplicitAndBehavior> <IncludeRelevanceResults>true</IncludeRelevanceResults> <IncludeSpecialTermResults>true</IncludeSpecialTermResults> <IncludeHighConfidenceResults>true</IncludeHighConfidenceResults> </Query> </QueryPacket> <QueryPacketxmlns="urn:Microsoft.Search.Query"> <Query> <Context> <QueryText type="MSSQLFT" language="en-us">select path from scope() where freetext('sharepoint')-- </QueryText> </Context> <Range> <StartAt>1</StartAt> <Count>10</Count> </Range> <EnableStemming>true</EnableStemming> <TrimDuplicates>true</TrimDuplicates> <IgnoreAllNoiseQuery>true</IgnoreAllNoiseQuery> <ImplicitAndBehavior>true</ImplicitAndBehavior> <IncludeRelevanceResults>true</IncludeRelevanceResults> <IncludeSpecialTermResults>true</IncludeSpecialTermResults> <IncludeHighConfidenceResults>true</IncludeHighConfidenceResults> </Query> </QueryPacket>

20. Scalable architecture

21. Server roles 3/3/2010 21

22. Single-Server & Two-Server Farm 3/3/2010 22

23. Three-Server Farm 3/3/2010 23

24. Four-Server Farm 3/3/2010 24