great people, great experience, great passion Solving Enterprise Search Challenges Matthew McDermott, MVP Aptillon, Austin & AbleBlue

great people, great experience, great passion About… Matthew McDermott, MVP – Aptillon, Inc. & Critical Path Training – – – – Blogger, Author, Educator, Dog Guy, Foodie

great people, great experience, great passion Agenda Search Configuration Overview Global Links to File Shares Rendering Metadata in Search Results Creating a 360 degree Customer view Creating actionable search results

great people, great experience, great passion The Process Identify Content Sources and Connectors Identify Content Types and need for iFilters Crawl, Map Properties, Crawl Again Review and Customize the Results XSL

great people, great experience, great passion Global File Shares Distributed File System

great people, great experience, great passion GLOBAL FILE SHARE SEARCH CONFIGURATION

great people, great experience, great passion Crawl Configuration DFS Address = \\domain.com\share\\domain.com\share Local Address = \\Server\Share\\Server\Share Server Name Mapping – \\Server\Share => \\domain.com\share \\Server\Share\\domain.com\share

great people, great experience, great passion Other File Share Considerations Location, Location, Location Server name mapping for “alternate” locations Ensure your iFilter can handle the files Consider your crawl schedule for your content

great people, great experience, great passion RENDERING BCS METADATA In SharePoint XSL is everywhere

great people, great experience, great passion Rendering Metadata Anywhere you can place a search web part Centralize your XSL – Version Control – Syntax Highlighting Add Columns to web part Use lowercase in the Web Part Use Refiners to Improve Drill Down

great people, great experience, great passion 360° CUSTOMER VIEW Search is not just for SharePoint

great people, great experience, great passion Profile Pages Centrally locate the pages Use the query string to pass variables Use Managed Properties for Query Use BCS Web Parts with custom XSL

great people, great experience, great passion LOOKING TO THE FUTURE How does 2013 change the game

great people, great experience, great passion SharePoint 2013 Much is the same or better One search engine to rule them all Fresher SharePoint Indexes Significantly more control over “promotion” Significantly more control over rendering Head in the clouds

great people, great experience, great passion Search Resources My Blog – CodePlex Search XSL Examples – Microsoft Enterprise Search – us/sharepoint/ee aspx us/sharepoint/ee aspx SharePoint 2013 Search Administration – us/library/ee aspx us/library/ee aspx