Tackling Search Mark RackleyStephanie Donahue

September 19, 2015

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Team Bios

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Stephanie Donahue, Partner & Co-founder Over 17 years of experience in the IT industry Active in the SharePoint community through blogging,

speaking at events, and webinars

Mark Rackley, Partner & CTO Globally recognized SharePoint expert 20 years experience in software development and architecture

The symptoms

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• SharePoint is ugly• It’s hard to use• I can’t find what I’m looking for• Users aren’t even using SharePoint• Disorganization

Red Shirt Freshman

Use out of the box search

Don’t plan their Architecture

Hit List View Thresholds

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The Playbook

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• Dashboards – Demo• The breakdown:

• Planning and Architecture• Content Types and Publishing• Display Templates• Hybrid Search• Future of Search

Planning and Architecture

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Planning Your Architecture

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Planning Content Types and Publishing

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• DO use cross-site publishing where appropriate• Create once, publish many times

• Useful for multi-lingual environments

• DO create content types• Guides users to use the right metadata

• Makes retention policies easier

• DO use the content type hub and publishing• Allows the re-use of content types across site collections

• Supports ability to aggregate data across different sites

• Publishing timer job

Configuration - Demo

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Personal Foul – Unnecessary Architecture

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Pros of Hybrid Search

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• Inbound – Search on-premises results from online

• Outbound – Search online results from on-premises

• Both

• Searched indexed file share from SharePoint Online

• Search extranet from the intranet

Cons for Hybrid Search

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Complexity!!

• Setup and Configuration issues

• Reverse Proxy required

• File share results must be published

• Directory Sync required

• ADFS NOT required

• Wait until 2016??

The future of Search

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