introduction to fast search for sharepoint 2010

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Introduction to FAST Search Server 2010

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ABOUT ME

ECM Unit Manager @ RealDolmen SharePoint Server MVP Blog – http://jopx.blogspot.com Co-founder BIWUG – www.biwug.be Co-author

Real World SharePoint 2010 (November 2010, Wrox) Real World SharePoint 2007 (August 2007, Wrox) SharePoint 2007, The definitive guide (September 2007,

O’Reilly)

http://jopx.blogspot.com/

http://www.biwug.be/


AGENDA

Improvement areas 2007 vs 2010 Microsoft Enterprise Search – Products FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 (FS4SP)-

architecture FS4SP - SharePoint/FAST differentation Extending FAST Search


IMPROVEMENT AREAS 2007 VS 2010

Social – Connect with people and expertise Address-book style name lookup with phonetic matching Improved expertise matching - mined e-mail inbox data Social behavior improves search; search improves My Sites

Refinement – Find information faster Metadata-based refiners provide drill-down Related query suggestions show popular queries

Relevance – Provide great search results New ingredients, more experience -> better OOB search Better wordbreakers in more languages Social Distance, tagging, click-through influence relevance


IMPROVEMENT AREAS 2007 VS 2010 (CTD.)

Platform - Industrial Strength Search at High Scale Index partitioning -> sub-second latency at 100M items Full failover support Connector and BDC enhancements and tooling support

TCO – Deploy and operate with less effort Virtualization and native 64-bit simplify deployment Powershell, Admin Web Parts, SCOM provide easier admin

Extensibility - Create powerful applications based on search Web parts, query OMs are public -> easier to modify Enhanced query syntax


DEMO


ABOUT FAST SEARCH FOR SHAREPOINT

April 2008 Microsoft acquires Norwegian Enterprise Search Solution Fast

Search & Transfer

Overall Vision To provide a market leading enterprise search platform that

integrates with your existing infrastructure

SharePoint Vision Best-in-class search, with the simplicity and low TCO of

SharePoint Build upon a social computing platform for a more robust search

experience

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MICROSOFT ENTERPRISE SEARCH - PRODUCTIVITY

• Quick, easy, powerful search (for free with Express edition)

Search Server 2010

• OOB General Productivity Search with light customization

SharePoint Server Search

• Heavily customizable OOB General Productivity Search and easy to build High-Value Search Applications

FAST Search 2010

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• Common UI Framework• Social search features and integration• SharePoint platform integration • End user and site administrator enablement• Common Connector Framework (BDC)• Object Model, APIs and developer XP• Admin & deployment capabilities• Operations advantages (SCOM, scripting)


• Powerful content processing with deep navigation

• Visual search experience with document previews

• Tailored relevance and visual best bets

• Best-in-class platform to build search applications

• Advanced linguistics• Extreme scale and

performanceSharePoint Enterprise CAL +

FAST Search for SharePoint server licenseSharePoint Standard CAL +

SharePoint server license

• Search-as-you-type and metadata-driven navigation

• People and expertise search with MySite profiles

• Social tagging and rating• OpenSearch federation• Business Connectivity

Services• Centralized administration

and System Center integration


FS4SP ARCHITECTURE


FAST SEARCH SERVER – PHYSICAL ARCHITECTURE FS4SP uses SharePoint Server 2010 for query servers

and for crawling content, but adds servers in a FAST farm. The additional servers process content, produce index partitions, and process queries.


FAST SEARCH - LOGICAL ARCHITECTURE


SHAREPOINT SEARCH SERVICE APPLICATIONS

FAST Search Connector (SSA) Crawls the content and feeds it into the FAST Search Server

2010 for SharePoint back-end

FAST Search Query (SSA) The Query SSA provides query results from the content that is

crawled by the Content SSA

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FAST SEARCH - SCALING

FS4SP uses rows and columns of servers to scale Adding more columns of servers increases content

processing capacity linearly. Adding more rows of servers increases the query processing ability. Fault tolerance is provided by deploying a minimum of two rows.


SEARCH – ITEM LEVEL SCALING


FAST/SHAREPOINT DIFFERENTATION


END USER PERSPECTIVE

Great OOB search experience Most visual and dynamic user experience

One-stop search center to find answers fast

Excellent OOB relevanceFederated resultsPC, phone, or browser access

Same capabilities, plus:Broader, better language support Broader query syntax

Refinement to explore information quickly

Metadata based refiners Related searchesView in Browser

Same capabilities, plus:Deep refiners with countsSimilarity searchSorting on any property

Social search to connect with people and expertise

Phonetic & nickname matchingRelevance and refinersIntegrated presence

Same capabilities

Search gets better with use

Click-through drives relevanceColleague & Expertise suggestionsQuery suggestions

Same capabilities

Visual cues for rapid recognition of information

Thumbnails & Scrolling PreviewsVisual Best Bets

Contextual to meet the needs of diverse groups

User context from user profileMultiple relevance profiles


FAST SEARCH – END USER PERSPECTIVE DEMO


VISUAL, CONVERSATIONAL SEARCH

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Thumbnails

Sorting on any property

Similarity Search

Visual Best Bets

Scrolling PowerPointPreviewsRefinement with

countson any property


IT PRO PERSPECTIVE

Enterprise class search system integrated with SharePoint

Highly capable and easy to manage

Industrial strength scale-out and performance

Enterprise Scale-out (to 100M docs)Full Fault ToleranceNative 64 bit; Hyper-V support

Same capabilities, plus:Extreme scale-out

Easy deploymentWizard - driven installationConsolidated search dashboard

Same capabilities

Enterprise-class manageability

PowerShell supportSCOM support Full search reporting

Same capabilities

Secure, broad connectivity

Full set of connectors OOB Easy to add new sources via BDCStrong security

Same capabilities, plus:Enterprise Web Crawler

Advanced content processing OOB

Content Processing pipelineMetadata Extraction

Easy to configure high-end user experiences

Easy setup of User Context, Visual Best Bets, PromotionGive end users control over sorting, ranking, navigation


DEVELOPER PERSPECTIVE

Open and flexible search platform

The power to build a whole new class of search applications

Customize the OOB user experience using Web Parts

Public Web PartsPublic Web Parts with high end capabilities

Extend connectivity using the BDC and Federation

New connector frameworkIntegrated with BCS

Same capabilities

Combine search with other SharePoint capabilities

Integrate search with BI, Workflow, Social, & Collab

Integrated using high-end search capabilities

Use familiar tools built for developer productivity

BDC tooling built into SPDApplication tooling in VS2010

Same capabilities

Leverage advanced content processing

Add custom property extractorsExtend content processing

Customize relevance Include external data in relevanceBuild multiple relevance profiles

Use advanced query capabilities to create powerful applications

Leverage FQL to create geosearch, user-selected influencers, and much more


EXTENDING SEARCH

Extend OOB Web Parts – or Create New Ones Location Awareness

Geo-Search using SortFormula()

FQL (Fast Query Language)

Using Document Vectors to add extra UI elements – e.g. Word Cloud Web Part

Query Language Expressiveness Soft boost (relevance control) using Xrank operator in FQL Examples:

Boost all documents that contain a selected persons name or phrase

Use user comments, social tagging or content rating to impact rlevance


USEFUL RESOURCES

FAST Search Server for SharePoint Deployment & Configuration Guide http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa

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FAST Search Server for SharePoint Known Issues http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa

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FAST Search Server for SharePoint Cmdlets Overview http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?fami

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Professional Microsoft Search: Fast Search, SharePoint Search and Search Server (Wrox, october 2010)

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