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Enterprise Search Using SharePoint 2010 and FAST
Bert JohnsonSharePoint Architect and 2010 MCM, West Monroe Partners
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Bert Johnson
SharePoint Architect with West Monroe Partners
Microsoft Certified Master – SharePoint Server 2010
Twitter: @SPBert Event Hashtag: #sps2011
Email: [email protected]
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Agenda
The Need for Enterprise Search
Microsoft’s Enterprise Search Capabilities
Search in SharePoint 2010What’s New, What’s ImprovedDemo
FAST Search 2010Advanced ScenariosDemo
Q&A
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The Need for
Enterprise Search
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Enterprise Challenges…
More data in more placesFind data spread across multiple systemsScale to support large index and query volumes
Different types of dataIncorporate different types of resultsFind employee expertise
A need to act quicklyEnable fast decisions through filteringAdapt based on user behavior
Ensure results are secure and manageableAutomatic security trimmingCentralized analytics
Search Solutions
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Microsoft’s Search Capabilities
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Microsoft’s Search Capabilities
Search is one of Microsoft’s top priorities, permeating every product line
SharePoint, FAST, and Bing are the cornerstones of a ten year R&D roadmap focused on search innovation
2010’s R&D budget for search is over $2.67 billion
Microsoft has recently made several large search acquisitions, including:
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Microsoft’s Search Capabilities
FAST Search solves the toughest challenges…
The #1 electronics retailer
The source for all government publications
The #1 computer retailer
The #1 fashion retailer
The #1 career site
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Microsoft’s Search Capabilities
Thanks to its new capabilities,Microsoft is now recognizedas the leader in Gartner’sInformation AccessTechnology quadrant.
Forrester’s 2010 Reporton Search says:“SharePoint gives users theability to find the content,information, and people theyneed by combining anintegrated, easy-to-manageplatform with best-of-breedenterprise search technology.”
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What’s New for
Search in SharePoint 2010
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What’s New for Search in SharePoint 2010
• Taxonomy• Metadata can now be managed
centrally in a reusable term store• Enables hierarchy of structured terms• Ensures more consistent data labels• Can be reused across sites and farms
• Folksonomy• Tagging allows users to find content
using consistent, familiar terms• Ratings make finding quality easier
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What’s New for Search in SharePoint 2010
• Filter-Based Navigation
• Navigators• Allow easy filtering within results• Automatically generated based
on context
• Document Library Filters• Filter results directly from within
document libraries• Drill into content based on tags
or taxonomy
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What’s New for Search in SharePoint 2010
• Social Search Enhancements• People Search
• Incorporates people’s interests, expertise, and recent activity• Outlook Social Connector automatically discovers relationships
• “Self Search”• Returns information about the current user
• User Behavior• Click popularity influences the ranking of search results• Suggestions driven by past searches and taxonomy• Ranking driven by:
• Content ratings• Social tagging• Query suggestions• Popularity of click-through
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What’s New for Search in SharePoint 2010
Supports phonetic name lookup and
Wildcards
Organization browsing
Recentcontent
Filter by focus, expertise, etc
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What’s New for Search in SharePoint 2010
• Linguistic Capabilities• Wildcard searches using a partial prefix• e.g. “Micro*” returns “Microchip”, “Microscope”, and “Microsoft”
• Correct common misspellings and recommend alternatives• Phonetic search algorithm and nickname matching• Search using booleans (AND, OR, NOT)• Support for operators on property restrictions
• e.g. “modified>10/16/2010”• Even more language packs supported
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What’s Improved for
Search in SharePoint 2010
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What’s Improved for Search in SP 2010
• Architectural Improvements• Crawling now distributed across
multiple load balanced servers• Index can be partitioned and
distributed across servers• New service application model can
isolate search from other services• Scale and performance improvements• Manageability through PowerShell
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What’s Improved for Search in SP 2010
• Functional Improvements• Federation
• Additional OpenSearch providers now available• Can now be searched directly from Windows 7 or Internet Explorer
• Indexing• Now uses Business Connectivity Services• Connectors can be defined visually through SharePoint Designer• Connectors can be written in .NET
• Usage Analytics• Built-in reports show term popularity and peak times used• Custom reports can be written using the Report Definition Language
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Bringing It All Together:
SharePoint 2010 Search Demo
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Advanced Scenarios with
FAST Search
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Advanced Scenarios with FAST Search
• Contextual Audience Targeting• Search results and best bets can be targeted to specific audiences• Results can be targeted based on what group or office a user
belongs to• Results can also be targeted based on a user’s expertise or other
profile data
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Advanced Scenarios with FAST Search
Alan Brewer, Sales
What should I know about selling ERP consulting?
Renee Lo, Engineer
What should I know about implementing ERP?
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Advanced Scenarios with FAST Search
• Visual Cues• Visual Best Bets
• Support plug-in graphicresults, videos, orinteractive tools
• Document Previews• Allow you to easily
distinguish betweenfiles based on thumbnails
• Office Web Applications• Full document view is
only one click away
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Advanced Scenarios with FAST Search
• Deep Refinement• Refinement panels in FAST give exact # of results• Navigators are based on all data, not just a subset• Built-in support for sorting by any property• Eliminate duplicates automatically
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Advanced Scenarios with FAST Search
• Flexible Content Pipeline• FAST introduces a “Content Pipeline”
• Sequential stages perform specific tasks on content• Breaks down content into discrete parts• Understands file encoding, data formats, and written languages
• Custom stages can be built to enrich content• The Content Pipeline tries to infer known properties (names,
addresses, dates)• e.g. Author property of “John Doe” is automatically picked up from “By
John Doe”
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Advanced Scenarios with FAST Search
• Durability and Immense Scale• Deployments can scale as large as needed in query and index
dimensions• All node types can be configured with failovers• Natively understands over 400 document types and 85 languages• Performance targets
• 30 million documents / node• 50 queries / sec / node• 35 documents indexed / sec / node
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Advanced Scenarios with FAST Search
Content Volume
Query Volume
Scale-out Multiple “Dimensions”
Content VolumeQuery VolumeIndexing Freshness
Redundancy Options
SearchIndexing
Performance Targets*
15M Docs/column30 QPS/row
Search and Indexing
Crawling and Content Processing
Query and Result Processing
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FAST Search Demo
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FAST Search Demo
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Questions?
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Bert Johnson
SharePoint Architect with West Monroe Partners
Microsoft Certified Master – SharePoint Server 2010
Twitter: @SPBert Event Hashtag: #sps2011
Email: [email protected]
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Records Management Capabilities in SharePoint 2010
Coskun Cavusoglu
3:00 – 4:15
How We Did It/Case Study: A SharePoint 2007 extranet solution provides valuable new capabilities and helps transform members' online experience.
Kyle Snyder
Wed: 11:30 – 12:45
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Appendices
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Microsoft Search Solutions Compared
Feature SharePoint Foundation 2010
Search Server 2010 Express
Search Server 2010
SharePoint Server 2010
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
Basic search ü ü ü ü ü
Visual Best Bets Limited Limited Limited ü
Scopes ü ü ü ü
Search enhancements based on user context
ü
Custom properties ü ü ü ü
Property extraction Limited Limited Limited ü
Query federation ü ü ü ü
Query suggestions ü ü ü ü
Similar results ü
Sort results on managed properties or rank profiles
ü
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Microsoft Search Solutions Compared
Feature SharePoint Foundation 2010
Search Server 2010 Express
Search Server 2010
SharePoint Server 2010
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
Relevancy tuning by document or site promotions
Limited Limited Limited ü
Shallow results refinement ü ü ü ü
Deep results refinement ü
Document preview and thumbnails
ü
Windows 7 federation ü ü ü ü
People search ü ü
Social search ü ü
Taxonomy integration ü ü
Multi-tenant hosting ü
Rich Web indexing support ü
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Enterprise Search Using SharePoint 2010 and FAST