Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint User Group March 12 th, 2008 SharePoint Search Brian Caauwe, Wes Preston

Agenda Introductions Products Overview Break Installation, Configuration and Details Q & A

User Group Goal / Objectives Develop and support a local community focused on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies Educate user group members about SharePoint Technologies Transfer knowledge within the community Communicate best practices Introduce new products / solutions

Introductions – MNSPUG Sponsors Inetium ( Technology consulting company Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Practice area focused on SharePoint New Horizons – Minnesota ( Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Training on many technologies Microsoft (

Website for user group SharePoint resource documents SharePoint resource links RSS Feeds Meeting Schedule Past User Group Presentations

Upcoming Schedule Next Meeting April 9 th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Microsoft’s Bloomington Office Topic: TBD – Check for updates! Ongoing Schedule 2 nd Wednesday of every month 9:00 to 11:30 am Microsoft’s Bloomington Office

Other Events Minneapolis Office Developer Interest Group *New (still) Thursday, March 25 th 5:30 PM Microsoft Bloomington Office SharePoint Server 2007: ECM (Enterprise Content Management) Thursday, March 13 th 8:30 AM to Noon At New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details) SharePoint Server 2007: Branding Wednesday, March 19 th 8:30 AM to Noon At New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details) SharePoint Server 2007: BI Deep Dive (Business Intelligence) Wednesday, March 26th 8:30 AM to Noon At New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details)

Other Events Making your MOSS grow April 14 th – 18 th – Las Vegas High Monkey Consulting – Virgil Carroll RSVP to More information at: Conferences Tech Ed – Developers – June 3-6, 2008 Tech Ed – IT Professionals – June 10-13, Orlando, Fl

Other Events Twin Cities MPA Free Lunch ‘n’ Learn March 21 st 12:00 – 2:00 PM – Microsoft Bloomington Office Portfolio Management using Portfolio Server: Business Drivers and Portfolio Creation RSVP at The Official Industry Association for Microsoft Office Project

Blog Posts / News: SharePoint Team Blog: Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint sharepoint.aspx sharepoint.aspx Microsoft Online Services and SharePoint Online and-sharepoint-online.aspx and-sharepoint-online.aspx “GEAR Up” for SharePoint Solution Accelerators for SharePoint accelerators-for-sharepoint.aspx accelerators-for-sharepoint.aspx CKS – Enhanced Blog Edition enhanced-blog-edition-2-0-cks-ebe-final-release.aspx enhanced-blog-edition-2-0-cks-ebe-final-release.aspx WSS w/SP1 and MOSS w/SP1 ‘Slipstream’ install bits officeserverwithsp1-exe-released.aspx officeserverwithsp1-exe-released.aspx

Microsoft Search

Microsoft Search Landscape Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) – “No additional cost” Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) SharePoint Server for Search Search Server 2008 Express – “No additional cost” Search Server 2008 Fast

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Search within a site collection – Including sub sites/webs (upgrade from 2003) Search ‘This Site’ Search ‘This List’ Indexes and searches document contents and metadata Security trimmed That’s it!

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search across site collections People Search Scopes Content Sources – File Shares – Public Folders – External Websites Enterprise - Business Data Catalog (BDC) Search Web Parts Configurable search results pages

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search can be extended – Search API / Object Model – Search Web Services – Managed Properties – (This should be a topic for MODIG)

Search Server 2008 Express Search across site collections Scopes Content Sources – File Shares – Public Folders – External Websites Search Web Parts Configurable search results pages Federated Search Extensible No document limits

What is Federated Search? Wikipedia says: Federated searching consists of (1) transforming a query and broadcasting it to a group of disparate databases with the appropriate syntax, (2) merging the results collected from the databases, (3) presenting them in a succinct and unified format with minimal duplication, and (4) providing a means, performed either automatically or by the portal user, to sort the merged result set.

What is Federated Search?

What Federated Search Connectors are available? PeopleSoft Siebel SAP EMC Documentum Vignette Epicor ERP Epicor ESA Flickr Virtual Earth Symantec Enterprise Vault IBM FileNet OpenText Hummingbird Interwoven iManage Online Services: News: Live.com News, Yahoo News, Google News, Wired, The Register Information Resources: MSDN, TechNet, Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, Yahoo Media: Flickr, Yahoo Images, YouTube, PodScope Blogs: Technorati, Google Blog Search

What about MOSS? MOSS is still the ‘premium’ search solution from Microsoft today. People Search Tabbed Search Results (MOSS Enterprise) Business Data Catalog (BDC) All the new features of Search Server WILL be added to MOSS with a Feature Pack.

Fast? What does the acquisition mean? Enterprise Search Highly Scalable It’s from Norway

Break

Scenario Current Environment – Single WFE WSS 3.0 – Separate SQL 2005 server – Multiple Site Collections Shortcomings – Search just happens – Cannot search other sources – Global search not available Proposed Solution – Add Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 – Integrated Search Center into current environment

Overview Installation of MSSE Search Configuration – Creation of Search Center – Activation of MSSE Features Integration with WSS 3.0 – Search for new Search Center – Scopes – Keywords

Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Installation Notes STOP the Windows SharePoint Search Service – You will have an existing database in SQL Run Prep Tool

Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Installation Notes (cont’d) Run Installation Run Configuration Wizard

Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Installation Notes (cont’d) Search Server Wizard – Creates special Shared Services Provider – Starts Services – Creates multiple databases

Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Installation Notes (cont’d) Search Server Wizard

Search Demo

Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Search Center Integration Enable Features – Web Application – Site Collection

Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Search Center Integration (cont’d) Creation of Search Center

Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Search Center Integration (cont’d) Integration with new Search Center

Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Search Center Integreation (cont’d) Search Center Advanced Search Results – Best Bets – Federated Search

Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Search Administration Admin Screen – System status – Active Crawls – Recently completed crawls – Shortcuts – I want to…

Q & A

References Microsoft Enterprise Search Fast Inetium Blogs David Overton’s Blog server-2008-express-including-how-to-install-on-windows-home-server.aspx

Thanks for coming!