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• #4: Please encourage folks to visit the sponsors in the lobby. Everyone should have a sponsor bingo card. If they get initials from each sponsor they can be entered in our drawings to win great prizes, including Kindles, and a Surface RT.
• #5: This is the local Philly SharePoint user group. We cover a range of topics for all audiences.
• #6: This is a local group that is just getting started as an adjunct to the user group. As the slide says, it is a support and social group for independent and remote workers in the Philly area. More information is available on the website.
• #7: Findability, ease of use
• #8: Addresses two fundamental issues with full/incremental crawls:they can run in parallelone deep change will not result in degraded freshness on all following changesOnly for sharepoint sourcesThe interval of 15 minutes is the default value, but you can change is with the PowerShell cmdlet Set-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSourceUser Crawler impact rules to set maximum number of simultaneous requests
• #9: Unified Core Search engine combining SP & FASTDeep result counts (disabled by default)Studies showed that while it may be nice to see them, they weren’t actually used that much by users.Available refiners == Managed Properties/_catalogs/masterpage/Display Templates/Filters/Can drive refiners from termstore managed metadata. “Faceted Navigation” (need to catalog enable a library)Knowledge Library
• #10: Need office web apps in environment for document previews (separate box)
• #11: PDF indexing support OOTB (iFilter)Item_PDF.html, ~sitecollection/_catalogs/masterpage/Display Templates/Search/Item_Site_HoverPanel.js
• #12: Replacement for best betsSearch Keywords < Query Rules.Search Keywords say “when the query is ‘image library’, promote a link to our image library.”Query Rules say “when it looks like the user wants images, show useful image results.”The power of Query Rules is this generality. You can infer what the user wants; Instead of just promoting specific results, they can show whole other blocks of results relevant to the user’s query.
• #13: User clicks results 6 times (not the same results)Logged and entry pairs of (query, result) are added to the Analytics Link Store DB, specifically to the MSSQLogPageClick tableTimer job “Prepare Query Suggestions” creates suggestions dailyManual importCentral Admin > Search Service ApplicationImport-SPEnterpriseSearchPopularQueries –ResultSource (Search Result Source where suggestions show)
• #14: Scopes replaced by result sourcesEasy to search remote sources, including other farmsAble to create complex search queriesQuery Builder tool: Able to any combination of managed property inclusion/exclusionQuery Testing from within query builder toolSite & Site collection admins can manage & configure result sources for their site collection{searchTerms} is a query variablehttp://www.bing.com/search?q={searchterms}&format=rss&Market=en-Us
• #15: Render different items differently: Person, Proposal, Client Information, photos, videosQuickly find what you’re looking forFilter based on result source or type of content (Query rules)
• #16: Crawled Properties are automatically created when SharePoint encounters data in a columnManaged properties drive facetsSearchable: (adds noise)Enables querying against the content of the managed property.  The content of this managed property is included in the full-text index. For example, if the property is "author", a simple query for "Smith" returns items containing the word "Smith" and items whose author property contains "Smith". Queryable: Enables querying against the specific managed property. The managed property field name must be included in the query, either specified in the query itself or included in the query programmatically. If the managed property is "author", the query must contain "author:Smith". Retrievable: Enables the content of this managed property to be returned in search results. Enable this setting for managed properties that are relevant to present in search results. Refiner: User as RefinerSortable: Sort result set on server
• #17: Company name extraction based on inclusion listCustom entity extraction – Example SharePoint feature(?)
• #18: Basics – Select from Documents, Content Types, Tags, Videos, moreRefiners – Filters like department, author, file type/extensionSettings – Performance (priority), Query roles, page loadingNumber of Items to showDisplay template – Control, ItemProperty mappings
• #19: Forum experience to categorize and cultivate discussions with a broad group of peopleModerators manage, Visitors can joinPortal rolls it all up
• #21: Crawl– Crawls content sources; content and metadata. Connectors/Protocol handlers. Scalable. Uses crawl DBA) Crawl DB – Tracking/Historicaly info such as last crawl time, last crawl id, type of updateContent Processing (*) – Artifacts for index. Document Parsing & Property Mapping. Linguistics processing, entity extraction. Links/URLs for Links DB where Analytics adds relevanceAnalytics (*) – Search & Usage analytics. Improve relevance, recommendations (search reports & deep links)B) Link DB – Unprocessed Link info from content processing and search click dataC) Alanytics reporting db – results of usage analysis & statisics info for search reportsIndex – 1 for each index replica. Stored in index file. Responds to queries (load balanced). Index = Sum (Partitions). Replicas for each partition possibleQuery Processing – Analyzes & Processes queries & results. Queries are optimized for precision, recall, relevancy.Search administration – run system processes essential to searche