Introduction To Enterprise Search - OKCSUG 2010
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The document provides an introduction to SharePoint 2010's enterprise search capabilities, detailing its components such as content sources, querying methods, and customization options. It highlights improvements over previous versions, including better people search, support for wildcards, and enhanced visual search features. Additionally, the document addresses some limitations, such as restrictions in customization and indexing capabilities.
Introduction To Enterprise Search - OKCSUG 2010
- 1. Introduction to SharePoint 2010 Enterprise SearchCorey RothBlog: www.dotnetmafia.comTwitter: twitter.com/coreyroth
- 2. Corey RothConsultant for StonebridgeWorked in Consumer Electronics, Travel, Advertising, and Energy industriesCurrently doing SharePoint development specializing in Enterprise SearchMicrosoft Award for Customer Excellence (ACE) WinnerMCTS: MOSS 2007 Configuring, DeveloperVery active in SharePoint communityE-mail: coreyroth@gmail.comTwitter: twitter.com/coreyrothBlog: www.dotnetmafia.com
- 3. What is Enterprise Search?It helps you find your stuff…
- 4. What is Enterprise Search?Enterprise Search is one of Microsoft’s current offerings to do search in the EnterpriseIncluded in SharePoint 2010, MOSS 2007Also available as a stand alone product (Search Server 2010/ 2008 / Search Server Express)Allows for indexing and querying of documents from multiple sources (i.e.: documents, web sites, file shares, Active Directory (people), databases, web services, etc.)
- 5. Components of Enterprise SearchContent SourcesCrawled PropertiesManaged PropertiesScopesFile TypesCrawl Rules
- 6. Content SourcesDefines what is being crawledConfigure a crawl for SharePoint, Web Sites, File Shares, Active Directory, Line of Business Systems (using BCS) etc.Specifies a full and incremental crawl scheduleCan manually start crawls here
- 7. Search CenterOut of the box site and web parts for searching and displaying resultsCan be created using the Site Settings menu on the root web site by enabled certain featuresSearch Results can be customized using XSLTMOSS 2007 supports keyword search only for now (no wildcard) – For wildcard search alternative see wildcardsearch.codeplex.com (no longer necessary in SharePoint 2010)
- 8. Metadata PropertiesAfter a full crawl, Crawled Properties are created for any metadata discovered (i.e.: Site Columns, Columns in a database, etc.)Properties can be of type text, integer, decimal, date / time, booleanOnly text properties are included in the index by defaultManaged Property - a property that can be queried on or displayed on the results pageOne or more Crawled Properties can be mapped to a Managed PropertyManaged Properties can be used to define scopes
- 9. ScopesScopes allow you to predefine subsets of the search index using rulesRules can be created by web address, content source, or managed property query (i.e.: Color:”Red”)Scopes can be grouped together in Scope Display Groups for use in the Search Center
- 10. Querying SearchUsed to search by Managed PropertiesCan specify Scopes (Scope:”MyScope”)Can be passed via URL to CoreResultsWebPart (k Query String parameter)AND implied between each keyword (i.e.: Color:”Red” Size:”M” is the same Color=“Red” AND Size=“M”)OR implied when multiple keywords of the same managed property used (i.e.: Color:”Red” Color:”Blue” translates to Color=“Red” OR Color=“Blue”)Asterisk can be used to do wildcard searches (SP2010)Supports operators such as >, <, >=, <= etc (SP2010)
- 11. People Search in SharePoint 2010Great way to find people in your organizationImproved in SharePoint 2010Support phonetic searching and synonymsGateway to new social features
- 12. Search Center – Web PartsSearchBoxExCoreResultsWebPartBestBetsPagingAdvancedSearchPeopleCoreResultsWebPart – People SearchRefinementWebPart (new in SharePoint 2010)
- 13. Search Center - CustomizationCoreResultsWebPart displays search resultsColumns property – XML specifying Managed PropertiesXSL – Transform the HTML output of the search resultsColumn names are specified in lower case in XSL (i.e.: Color will be color)
- 14. Indexing Other SourcesFile SharesDatabasePeople
- 15. Drawbacks of Enterprise SearchNo out of the box Wildcard Search (i.e.: docum*) – Use DotNetMafiaWildcardSearchWebPart – http://wildcardsearch.codeplex.com (MOSS 2007)Search Center customizations limited to XSLTAdvanced Search web part is ugly and not very configurableCannot exclude sections of pages to not be indexedMost search web parts are sealed and cannot be inherited from
- 16. What’s new in 2010?Lots of things!More Options – Search Server 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, FAST Search Server 2010Refinement Web PartKeyword Query Syntax Improvements – Wildcards!Multiple Index ServersGreatly improved People SearchCommon API between SharePoint Search and FAST
- 17. FAST Search ResultsVisual, Conversational SearchSorting on any propertyScrolling PowerPointPreviewsVisual Best BetsThumbnailsRefinement with countson any propertySimilarity Search
- 18. Questions?Corey RothBlog: www.dotnetmafia.comTwitter: twitter.com/coreyroth
Editor's Notes
- #7: Demo how to create a content source.
- #8: Search “Accounting” to see results from SharePoint, File Share, BDCSearch “December” to see results from inside Excel
- #9: Demo how to set up managed properties.
- #11: Demo querying search results.Color:”Red”ContentSource:”File Share”Scope:”
- #12: Search for “Help Desk”Search for “Mike”
- #14: Demo SearchDemo site. Show managed property and document link handler customizations.DemoFederatedSearch site to show federated results. Search for “Accounting”.Demo WildcardSearch. Search for “Account”.
- #15: Set up these content sources. Show file types and crawl rules.Login as Jennifer Evans as demonstrate file share search not showing documents.
- #18: Borrowed from SPC09 slide deck.