This session was presented at Lucene Solr Revolution 2013. It covered tips and tricks for getting the most out of Solr in Microsoft Azure. Azure enables quick and easy installation and setup of Solr search functionality in a variety of ways, and lets you focus on managing and operating Solr servers in our managed environment. We showed multiple options for setting up Solr on Azure, including working examples.

1. Solr on WindowsAzure
Brian Benz
SeniorTechnicalEvangelist,MicrosoftOpenTechnologies,Inc.

3. Manage Windows Azure Features
http://www.windowsazure.com
Solr search PHP App
http://a-jamepi-php-linuxvm-solr-searchdemo.azurewebsites.net/search.php
Solr search ASP.NET App
http://a-jamepi-aspnet-linuxvm-solr-searchdemo.azurewebsites.net/

8. Flexible

12. South Central US
West US East US

13. > 500 miles

15. VM depot Image
http://vmdepot.msopentech.com/Vhd/Show?vhdId=278&version=292
azure vm create bbenz-solr -o vmdepot-214-1-1
-l "West US" bbenz <password> --vm-name
bbenz-solrvm

16. From your Azure Subscription

25. http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/overview/

30. http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/java/
http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/common-
tasks/publishing-with-git/#Step7

35. <!-- top content area -->
<div align="center" id="header">
<h1>Solr Windows Azure search demo</h1>
Windowsazure.com | licene.apache.org/solr
<div id="search" align="right">
<form> Search me <input type="text" name="names"
onkeyup="showResults(this.value)">
</form>
</div>
</div>
<!-- end top content area -->

37. // Setting curl options
curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );
// Getting results
$response = curl_exec($ch);
// Getting jSON result string
$response = json_decode($response, true);

41. private void RunSearch(string SearchWord)
{
List<SearchResultsItem> FoundItems = new
List<SearchResultsItem>();
try
{
Session["SearchWord"] = SearchWord;
hdrResultsHeader.Visible = false;

42. NetworkCredential MyNetworkCredentials = new
NetworkCredential(Resources.User, Resources.Password);
HttpWebRequest WebReq =
(HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(Resources.SolrLink +
SearchWord);

43. HttpWebResponse WebResp = (HttpWebResponse)WebReq.GetResponse();
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(WebResp.GetResponseStream());
XmlNodeList ItemNodes =
xmlDoc.SelectNodes("/response/result/doc");

44. HttpWebResponse WebResp = (HttpWebResponse)WebReq.GetResponse();
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(WebResp.GetResponseStream());
XmlNodeList ItemNodes =
xmlDoc.SelectNodes("/response/result/doc");

45. foreach (XmlNode Item in ItemNodes)
{
SearchResultsItem FoundItem = new
SearchResultsItem();
FoundItem.Title = ExtractString("<arr
name="title"><str>", "</str>", Item);
FoundItem.Description = ExtractString("<str
name="description">", "</str>", Item);
FoundItem.Link = ExtractString("<str name="id">",
"</str>", Item);
FoundItems.Add(FoundItem);
}
}

47. CONTACT
Brian Benz
bbenz@microsoft.com