search server 2010

WSS 2010 & Search Server Express 2010

Enterprise Search on a SMB budget

Joshua HaebetsPrincipal Consultant

Evolve Information Services

Who am I?

Principal SharePoint Consultant / SharePoint Solutions Architect

Working with SharePoint for 4 years Previously System Administrator Driven by solving business road-

blocks using SharePoint From Melbourne, Australia

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What is Microsoft Search Server

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Search Server

What is Microsoft Search Server Single Corporate Search Solution

▪ SharePoint▪ File Shares▪ Public Folders / Notes Databases▪ Internet / Intranet Sites

Search Centre▪ One location to search all content sources

Defined search areas▪ Using search scopes to define search areas

Where does Search Server fit?

MOSS / SPS 2010

Search Server

WSS / WSF

Windows SharePoint Services

Pro’s Low cost to deploy Works out of the box

Con’s Can only search across a

single site Cant be customised

MOSS / SPS 2010

Search Server

WSS / WSF

Search Server 2010

Pro’s Extensive functionality Simple to deploy Allows cross-site searching

in WSF Little to no cost to

license (Search Server Express) Con’s

Limited BCS search Express – availability could be an issue

MOSS / SPS 2010

Search Server 2010

WSS / WSF

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

Pro’s Results can be customised Great search functionality People search Full BCS search capabilities Can scale

Con’s Higher cost to purchase and

implement

MOSS / SPS 2010

Search Server 2010

WSS / WSF

What’s new in 2010

Admin Search is it’s own Service Application, no

more SSP Crawl load can be distributed across

servers Powershell can be used for Admin tasks More health and performance

management tools, including creating reports for admins

What’s new in 2010

Interface Wildcard search Support for Boolean queries

▪ AND, OR, NOT Suggestions as you type. This is based

on past queries, time to build. Improvements to client integration Search facets now OOTB

Content Sources

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Content Sources

SharePoint File Shares Public Folders Intranet / Internet Federated Locations Lotus Notes Databases

Files Shares

All permissions are retained Provides immediate benefit to users Ensure you have iFilters and icons

installed Can be a great way to migrate to

SharePoint Make files shares read only

Beware! You never know what you may find

Intranet / Internet Sites

Index other sites outside of SharePoint

Needs careful planning Beware of the following;

Crawl schedules Security Amount of content

Use federated connectors where possible

Federated Search

Used to run queries to remote servers and returns results in structured XML

Queries are directed to the search servers RSS Results page

Use an existing Search Index Other SharePoint farms can become

Federated locations Good when combined with triggers

Federated Search

When to use federation• Remote site has a quality search engine• Cant be crawled due to location of content,

resources or amount of content.• You don’t want to two indexes of the same content

Federation limitations• Can’t join results from different federated location

into one web part• Does not use relevance ranking from other search

engines

Demo

Federated Search

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Working with LOB Application Data

BDC v’s BCS

MOSS EnterpriseOnly

BDC

BDC v’s BCS

Available in WSF and Search Server Express 2010

BCS

Demo

Creating and crawling LOB Data

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Customising Results

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Customising results pages

Customise you results page Scopes - tabs

Web Parts Best Bets High Confidence Related queries

Working with the results

Fun with XSL Search results are XML, do with them as

you wish XSL gives you power to highlight, modify

and add conditions to your results

Beginning Customising XSL

Replace your existing XSL with the following

This will render results as raw XML

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xmp><xsl:copy-of select="*"/></xmp> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

Demo

Customising Search Results

Search Facets

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Search Facets

Allows you to drill in on results Create facets for;

Author Site Content type Language

Faceted Search for 2007

http://www.codeplex.com/FacetedSearch

Client Integration

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Client Integration

Search within Windows 7 Users can search directly from the

explorer window Preview document in results Can be deployed using Group Policy

Client Integration (2007)

Adding OpenSearch to you sites

The following goes into your MasterPage<link title=“OpenSearch Title”

   type="application/opensearchdescription+xml"    rel="search"    href="/_catalogs/OpenSearch.xml" />

Create the following XML file and save to site library (as above ~/_catalogs/OpenSearch.xml)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1">    <ShortName>MySharePoint Site</ShortName>    <Description>Search SharePoint</Description>    <InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>    <Url type="text/html" template="http://moss/searchcenter/pages/results.aspx?k={searchTerms}" />

</OpenSearchDescription>

Demo

Client Integration

Office Integration

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Client Integration

Search with Office Using SharePoint sites for research in

Office Works with 2007 and 2010

Adding SharePoint Search as a Reference

1. Highlight a word or phrase and ALT + Click

2. 3. Enter the URL to the Search web

service eg. http://sharepoint/_vti_bin/search.asmx

4. Ok out (ok, ok, ok)

Demo

Adding a SharePoint search site as a reference in Office

Questions

ContactJoshua.haebets@evolve-is.com.au

Slidesharehttp://www.slideshare.net/jhaebets

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