Slides from my introduction to SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search talk given at NWA TechFest on July 8th, 2010.

1. Help usThank ourSponsors: NWATechFest 2010 | Thu, Jul 8th, 2010 | Center for Nonprofits @ St. Mary’s – Rogers, AR| 25+ Speakers & 8 Tracks

2. Introduction to SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search Corey Roth Stonebridge Twitter: @coreyroth Blog: www.dotnetmafia.com NWATechFest 2010 | Thu, Jul 8th, 2010 | Center for Nonprofits @ St. Mary’s – Rogers, AR| 25+ Speakers & 8 Tracks

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4. Session Objectives and Takeaways Session Objective(s): Learn what you can index in Enterprise Search Session Objective 2 How to configure Search Learn Enterprise Search terminology NWATechFest 2010 | Thu, Jul 8th, 2010 | Center for Nonprofits @ St. Mary’s – Rogers, AR| 25+ Speakers & 8 Tracks

5. Corey Roth Consultant for Stonebridge in Tulsa, OK Worked in Consumer Electronics, Travel, Advertising, and Energy industries Currently doing SharePoint development specializing in Enterprise Search Microsoft Solutions Advocate Microsoft Award for Customer Excellence (ACE) Winner E-mail: coreyroth@gmail.com Twitter: @coreyroth Blog: www.dotnetmafia.com NWATechFest 2010 | Thu, Jul 8th, 2010 | Center for Nonprofits @ St. Mary’s – Rogers, AR| 25+ Speakers & 8 Tracks

6. What is Enterprise Search? A tool to help your users find what they are looking for. NWATechFest 2010 | Thu, Jul 8th, 2010 | Center for Nonprofits @ St. Mary’s – Rogers, AR| 25+ Speakers & 8 Tracks

7. What is Enterprise Search? Enterprise Search is one of Microsoft’s current offerings to do search in the Enterprise Included in SharePoint 2010, MOSS 2007 Also 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.) NWATechFest 2010 | Thu, Jul 8th, 2010 | Center for Nonprofits @ St. Mary’s – Rogers, AR| 25+ Speakers & 8 Tracks

8. Components of Enterprise Search Content Sources Crawled Properties Managed Properties Scopes File Types Crawl Rules NWATechFest 2010 | Thu, Jul 8th, 2010 | Center for Nonprofits @ St. Mary’s – Rogers, AR| 25+ Speakers & 8 Tracks

9. Search Center Out of the box site and web parts for searching and displaying results Can be created using the Site Settings menu on the root web site by enabled certain features Search Results can be customized using XSLT MOSS 2007 supports keyword search only for now (no wildcard) – For wildcard search alternative see wildcardsearch.codeplex.com (no longer necessary in SharePoint 2010) NWATechFest 2010 | Thu, Jul 8th, 2010 | Center for Nonprofits @ St. Mary’s – Rogers, AR| 25+ Speakers & 8 Tracks

10. Metadata Properties After 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, boolean Only text properties are included in the index by default Managed Property - a property that can be queried on or displayed on the results page One or more Crawled Properties can be mapped to a Managed Property Managed Properties can be used to define scopes NWATechFest 2010 | Thu, Jul 8th, 2010 | Center for Nonprofits @ St. Mary’s – Rogers, AR| 25+ Speakers & 8 Tracks

11. Scopes Scopes allow you to predefine subsets of the search index using rules Rules 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 NWATechFest 2010 | Thu, Jul 8th, 2010 | Center for Nonprofits @ St. Mary’s – Rogers, AR| 25+ Speakers & 8 Tracks

12. Querying Search Used to search by Managed Properties Can 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) NWATechFest 2010 | Thu, Jul 8th, 2010 | Center for Nonprofits @ St. Mary’s – Rogers, AR| 25+ Speakers & 8 Tracks

13. People Search in SharePoint 2010 Great way to find people in your organization Improved in SharePoint 2010 Support phonetic searching and synonyms Gateway to new social features NWATechFest 2010 | Thu, Jul 8th, 2010 | Center for Nonprofits @ St. Mary’s – Rogers, AR| 25+ Speakers & 8 Tracks

14. Search Center – Web Parts SearchBoxEx CoreResultsWebPart BestBets Paging AdvancedSearch PeopleCoreResultsWebPart – People Search RefinementWebPart (new in SharePoint 2010) NWATechFest 2010 | Thu, Jul 8th, 2010 | Center for Nonprofits @ St. Mary’s – Rogers, AR| 25+ Speakers & 8 Tracks

15. Drawbacks of Enterprise Search No out of the box Wildcard Search (i.e.: docum*) – Use DotNetMafiaWildcardSearchWebPart – http://wildcardsearch.codeplex.com (MOSS 2007) Search Center customizations limited to XSLT Advanced Search web part is ugly and not very configurable Cannot exclude sections of pages to not be indexed Most search web parts are sealed and cannot be inherited from NWATechFest 2010 | Thu, Jul 8th, 2010 | Center for Nonprofits @ St. Mary’s – Rogers, AR| 25+ Speakers & 8 Tracks

16. What’s new in 2010? Lots of things! More Options – Search Server 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, FAST Search Server 2010 Refinement Web Part Keyword Query Syntax Improvements – Wildcards! Multiple Index Servers Greatly improved People Search Common API between SharePoint Search and FAST NWATechFest 2010 | Thu, Jul 8th, 2010 | Center for Nonprofits @ St. Mary’s – Rogers, AR| 25+ Speakers & 8 Tracks

17. Related Content Blogs DotNetMafia – Lots of Search Topics http://www.dotnetmafia.com NWATechFest 2010 | Thu, Jul 8th, 2010 | Center for Nonprofits @ St. Mary’s – Rogers, AR| 25+ Speakers & 8 Tracks

18. Session Objectives and Takeaways Session Objective(s): Learn what you can index in Enterprise Search Session Objective 2 How to configure Search Learn Enterprise Search terminology NWATechFest 2010 | Thu, Jul 8th, 2010 | Center for Nonprofits @ St. Mary’s – Rogers, AR| 25+ Speakers & 8 Tracks

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