Introduction toSharePoint 2013 Search

Presented by: Josh Noble & Robert Piddocke

Agenda

• Crawler Side Improvements• Query Side Improvements• User Side Improvements• What is Missing?• Ontolica Search & Preview

Crawler Side Improvements

• Native PDF Indexing• Faster Office & PDF Indexing• Federated Locations & Search Scopes• Mailbox Search• Scalability

Fig 1. SharePoint 15 Content Sources

Crawler Side Improvements

Crawl Health Reports

Fig 3. The Diagnostics Menu in the SSA

Fig 2. The Crawl Reports Page

Crawler Side Improvements

Managed Properties are now set under Search Schema in the SSA with new property options.

• Searchable: Includes the content of the property in the index, making it searchable as a query term alone.

• Queryable: Property can be used in queries such as Property:Value.

• Retrievable: Property can be returned to the result set for display or programmatic usage.

• Refinable: Property can be returned in refiners. • Sortable: Properties can be used for sorting.

Crawler Side Improvements

Managed Properties Options

Fig 5. Managed Property Options

Fig 4. Making a Property Refineable

Crawler Side Improvements

Complete Matching of Property Values & Entity Extraction

Fig 6. Complete Matching Feature in Managed Properties

Fig 7. Company Name Property Extraction

Crawler Side Improvements

Continuous Crawl

Fig 8. Advanced Query Syntax

Query Side Improvements

• Search Dictionaries - Links to MMS• New Query Syntax• Query Suggestions

Fig 9. Advanced Query Syntax

Query Side Improvements

• Result Types• Result Type Rules• Result Type Management• Display Templates

Query Side Improvements

• Result Blocks• Query Rules– Add Promoted Results (Best Bets)– Add Result Blocks– Add Action Terms

User Interface Improvements

• Ajax UI• Video & Reports Tab• inDocument Library Search Box

Fig 11. Videos Tab, Reports Tab, &Personal Favorites Promoted Results

Fig 10. Document Library Search Box

User Interface Improvements

Fig 12. Visual Refiner Controls

Deep Visual Refiners with Counts

Fig 13. Visual Refiner ControlsFig 12. Search Refinement Configuration

User Interface Improvements

Floating Info/Preview Pane

Fig 14. SharePoint 15 Floating Info. Pane

User Interface Improvements

• Social Definitions• Personal Favorites• Response Time• Language Selection• Sorting Dropdown

What is Missing?

• Better Advanced Search• Configurable Web Crawler• Extended Search Result Actions• Preview Support for PDFs & Other File

Types• Saved Searches/Alerts/RSS Feeds• Preview Without Additional

Infrastructure

Ontolica Search & Preview

• End –User Search Personalization• Dynamic Result Views• No-coding cross-farm configuration

Ontolica Search & Preview

Preview 500+ File Types & External Content

Fig 15. SharePoint 15 Floating Info. Pane

Agenda

• Crawler Side Improvements• Query Side Improvements• User Side Improvements• What is Missing?• Ontolica Search & Preview

Q/A & Contact Details

Josh NobleDirector of Sales, Americas & OceaniaAuthor: Pro SharePoint 2010 Search

jno@surfray.com

Robert PiddockeSenior Technical Lead, Americas & OceaniaAuthor: Pro SharePoint 2010 Search

Working with FS4SPrcp@surfray.com