1 Presented by Jacob Wilson

Jacob Wilson Jacob Wilson Principal Neudesic Principal Neudesic MCTS SharePoint, MCITP SharePoint, MCTS PerformancePoint MCTS SharePoint, MCITP SharePoint, MCTS PerformancePoint Have worked with SharePoint for the past 4 years with field related work in Architecture, Installation, Configuration, Administration, Custom Development, Branding, and User Experience (UX). Have worked with SharePoint for the past 4 years with field related work in Architecture, Installation, Configuration, Administration, Custom Development, Branding, and User Experience (UX). Have also been doing Planning and Architecture work with FAST Search for SharePoint Have also been doing Planning and Architecture work with FAST Search for SharePoint 2010.

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About FAST Search for SharePoint FAST Search for SharePoint Services Planning and Architecture (Demo) Visual Search and User Context (Demo) SharePoint Search Comparisons Extending Search Lesson Learned 4

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April 2008 Microsoft acquires Norwegian Enterprise Search Solution Fast Search & Transfer Overall Vision To provide a market leading enterprise search platform that integrates with your existing infrastructure SharePoint Vision Best-in-class search, with the simplicity and low TCO of SharePoint Build upon a social computing platform for a more robust search experience 6

Processes each item by extracting the searchable text, detecting the written language, and extracting the known properties, such as company names, people names, locations, and dates. The system indexes the extracted text in an inverted index so that it can handle search requests later. Uses the search index to return items that match a user query. The items are returned in a query hit list that is sorted by the relevancy to the specified query. 7

The system interacts with the Active Directory and claims infrastructure to resolve permissions and group memberships. It then only returns items the current user is allowed to see, according to the settings of the content source. 8

SharePoint Sites Indexing Connector: FAST Search Connector Configuration: Central Administration File Shares Indexing Connector: FAST Search Connector Configuration: Central Administration Web Sites Indexing Connector: FAST Search Connector Configuration: Central Administration Line of Business Data Indexing Connector: FAST Search Connector Configuration: Central Administration Database Indexing Connector: Indexing Connector for JDBC Configuration: XML File Lotus Notes Indexing Connector: Indexing Connector for Lotus Notes Configuration: XML Files 9

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FAST Search Web Crawler The FAST Search Web crawler is an indexing connector that can be used for complex Web crawl scenarios involving a mix of Internet and Intranet sites. Fast Search Connector Retrieves content for indexing from SharePoint farms, Exchange folders, internal/external Web sites, line of business data and file shares. This is an indexing connector that crawls the content repositories and retrieves content that can be indexed by FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. 11

Web Link Analysis (Web Analyzer, Scalable) It analyzes search click through logs and hyperlink structures. Items that show many clicks in the search click through log are popular and therefore receive better rank scores than less-viewed items. Items that are linked to from many other items are also perceived to be more relevant for the user and therefore receive better rank scores. 12

Item Processing (Scalable) Receives items to be indexed from indexing connectors. Extracts content from source documents in various formats Discovers and sets managed properties Performs linguistic processing on the content Sends the processed items to the indexing service Key Features Mapping from crawled properties to managed properties Parsing of document formats such as Word, Excel and PDF Extracting properties from crawled content Linguistic processing of items before indexing (Stemming and word breaking) 13

Query Matching (Scalable) The query matching service uses the inverted indexes created by the indexing service to retrieve the items that match a query and then return these items as a query hit list The number of columns in the query matching service always equals the number of columns in the indexer service. The reason is that the index columns represent a partitioning of the index, and each query matching node can handle only one such partition of the index. 14

FAST Search Authorization The FAST Search Authorization (FSA) manager is a part of the administration service that manages user authorization for indexed content Ensures that only items that a user is entitled to read appear in the query results The FSA manager communicates with Active Directory services or other LDAP based directory services to manage the authorization process 15

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CPU Quad 2.0 GHz or faster Memory 4GB or more is recommended for all configurations. For multi-core servers, at least 2GB per core is recommended. Swap Space Should be twice the machine’s physical memory Disk Space 50GB initial available disk space RAID 5 recommended Plan for 1TB of disk space per 5 million indexed documents 17

FeatureItem Processing Indexin g Query Matching Query Processing RAM – Query Matching Disk AccessDisk Space Deep Refiners-LLLH-- Shallow Refiners---H-L- Property ExtractionM-----L Field Collapsing (Dups)--M---- Full-text Sorting--LLH-- Hit highlighted summary--M---L Complex Queries--ML-H- Substring Search-LL--LL StemmingLL-L--L Spell Check---L--- Synonyms---L--- High stop-word threshold--HHLH- 18

Admin Server Administration Services Non-Admin Server Query Matching (Search) Service Indexing Service Document/Item Processing Service 19

Admin and Non-Admin Services on single server 20

Admin Server and 1+ Non-Admin Server(s) 21

PowerPoint Service Application Viewing/Editing PPT documents in the browser Generating PPT thumbnails in FAST Search Results Word Viewing Service Viewing/Editing Word documents in the browser Generating Word thumbnails in FAST Search Results 22

FAST Search Connector (SSA, App Server) Is a Search Service Application that retrieves content for indexing from SharePoint farms and other content repositories. FAST Query (SSA, WFE) Is a Search Service Application that provides query results from the content that is crawled by the Content SSA. 23

Oh yeah, let’s not forget about the partitioned index. Spread the load for queries across multiple query servers Propagate index subsets to different query servers Hash of document ID’s to determine which partition the index entries for a specific document should be stored Query results can come from different servers 24

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Refiners with Detailed Counts Counts are specific to FAST Search Thumbnails and Scrolling PPT Previews Specific to FAST Search Provided by Office Web Apps 2010 Similarity Search Specific to FAST Search Sorting on any Property Visual Best Bets Specific to FAST Search 27

28 Thumbnails Sorting on any property Similarity Search Visual Best Bets Scrolling PowerPoint Previews Scrolling PowerPoint Previews Refinement with counts on any property Refinement with counts on any property

Keyword Best Bets Visual Best Bets Document Promotion Document Demotion Site Promotion Site Demotion 29

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32 Great OOB search experience Most visual and dynamic user experience Excellent OOB relevance Federated results PC, phone, or browser access Same capabilities, plus: Broader, better language support Deeper query syntax Metadata based refiners Related searches View in Browser Same capabilities, plus: Deep refiners with counts Similarity search Sorting on any property Phonetic & nickname matching Relevance and refiners Integrated presence Same capabilities Click-through drives relevance Colleague & Expertise suggestions Query suggestions Same capabilities Thumbnails & Scrolling Previews Visual Best Bets User context from user profile Multiple relevance profiles End User perspective

33 FeatureSharePoint Foundation 2010 Search Server 2010 Express Search Server 2010 SharePoint Server 2010 FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Basic searchYYYYY Best Bets YYYY Visual Best Bets Y Similar Results Y Duplicate Results Y Search Scopes YYYY Search Enhancement based on user context Y Crawled and Managed Properties YYYY* Query Federation YYYY

34 FeatureSharePoint Foundation 2010 Search Server 2010 Express Search Server 2010 SharePoint Server 2010 FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Query Suggestions YYYY Sort Results on Managed Properties or Rank Profiles Y Relevancy Tuning by Document or Site Promotions YYYY* Shallow Results Refinement YYYY Deep Results Refinement Y Document Preview Y Windows 7 Federation YYYY People Search YY Social Search YY Taxonomy Integration YY Multi-Tenant Hosting YY Rich Web Indexing Support Y

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Extend OOB Web Parts – or Create New Ones Location Awareness Geo-Search using SortFormula()with FQL (Fast Query Language) Query Language Expressiveness Soft boost (relevance control) using Xrank operator in FQL EX: Boost all documents that contain a selected persons name or phrase 38

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FAST Query Service Location Port Use instead of the suggested for HTTP communication. Use for HTTPS. FAST Search User Context Permissions Need to have User Profile Service Application Permissions FAST Search Server Local Admin Group FAST Service Accounts need to be manually added to the FAST Server local group FASTSearchAdministrators Service Account Access to FAST Search SQL DB’s Need to manually grant service accounts access to SQL DB’s Office Web Applications Install and Post Configuration Install on the SharePoint server before installing SharePoint 2010 Run PowerShell scripts for post-configuration Make sure to activate the publishing infrastructure features on the site where the FAST Search Center will live. You won’t be able to successfully add a FAST Search Center site to the Site Collection until this is done. 40

FAST Search Server for SharePoint Deployment & Configuration Guide 37fce8ad6ea7&displaylang=en 37fce8ad6ea7&displaylang=en FAST Search Server for SharePoint Known Issues A8000F2&displaylang=en A8000F2&displaylang=en FAST Search Server for SharePoint Cmdlets Overview 2EF AE&displaylang=en 2EF AE&displaylang=en Deploy Office Web Apps (SharePoint 2010) Search TechCenter 41

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