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Thijs ter Beek9 April 2023

ShareCafe: SharePoint 2010 Search

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Agenda

What is enterprise search?Why is good enterprise search important?What’s new in 2010?Configuring Search

Search Service ApplicationSite collectionSearch site

What about FAST Search?

What is enterprise search?

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Definition: Enterprise search is the practice of making content from multiple enterprise-type sources, such as

databases and intranets, searchable to a defined audience.

20% structured

Enterprise Data ChallengesUnmanaged Data is Pervasive & Increasing

80% unstructured90% of unstructureddata is unmanagedVolume of data isincreasing ~36%/year

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Information Management Pains

Exponential growth of information…

…is causing information management pain

At least 50% of online searches are not successful15% to 30% of information worker time spent looking for information~$18k of lost productivity per information worker per year for a mid-sized company

New information produced each year per Information Worker (MB)

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What’s new in 2010 Demo

Refinements out-of-the-boxWildcard *Better relevancyBetter stemming (House/ Houses)Phonetic search in people search (only English)??Search Query suggestions

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Search Service Application (Search Config)

What do you manage here?Content sources: SharePoint Sites, File Shares, Websites (Using SharePoint index), Exchange Public Folders, Business Data (BCS)

Federated locations: Google, Wiki, MSDN, (Using external index)Metadata properties: Properties of the content that need to be searchable (Result properties need to be metadata properties)

File Types: What file types to indexLogs, Crawl schedules, Authoritive pages (promotion of content)

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Search Scopes (Service Application and Site Collection)

Scopes splits index into segments based on:AddressProperty

•Example: ContentType = ContactsContent source

•Example: File ShareBy separating the index you can be more specific and find better

results

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Site (Collection) Search settings

Standard result page used for searchNo customization/_layouts/OSSearchResults.aspx

Creating a custom search center siteEnterprise with tabsBasic without tabs

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Search center site config

TabsSearch result pageSearch query page

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Refinement panel config

Promote properties you want to use as refinementSome problems with multiple value lookup/choice columns

CrawlEdit webpart refinement web part on results page !Don’t forget to uncheck localisation

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Search Result config

Promote the properties you want to show CrawlCreate devresults.aspxhttp://sridharu.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-to-read-raw-xml-from-sharepoint.html

Fetch columns in core search result webpartModify xslt: Rik, Bart, Viktor?

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Config federated locations

A federated location makes it possible to get search results from an external source

The search of the external source should comply with OpenSearch protocol.

Most importantly you should be able to receive the results in XMLPreconfigured locations

http://www.whatsthepointofsharing.com/2009/08/24/sharepoint-federated-search-connector-examples/

http://www.searchconnectors.com/category/connectors/sharepointconnectors/

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What about FAST Search

CostsEnterprise licensesImplementation/ running costsSeperate server

FeaturesPreview docs, presentationsAutomatic keyword extractionAdvanced linguistic engine

Possible future projectAxel Vervoordt wants to index library with art/design booksRequested Features:

•Preview pdf docs on right page•Metadata extraction