Unplugged FAST meets SharePoint (FS4SP) Avneesh Kaushik (Sr. Consultant, MCS) Hemant Kathuria (Consultant, MCS)

Agenda FAST Search Feature Overview FAST Search Architecture & Deployment FAST Search Connectors FAST VS SharePoint Search QA

Features

FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Sorting on any property Query completion People Search Refinement with counts on any property Document thumbnails Scrolling previews RUNAR DEEP REFINERS! DEEP REIFNERS CAN ALSO BE USED FOR BI OR REPORTING APPLICATIONS (HISTOGRAMS, GRAPHS) SCROLLING PREVIEWS. IMAGES BUILT BY WAC ADVANCED RELEVANCE FEATURES, CLICKRANK LEARNS OVER TIME PLATFORM FOR SEARCH DRIVEN APPLICATIONS Explore using navigators that help you understand the scope of information available, with exact counts of results Visualize your results so you can quickly recognize what you’re looking for without opening separate applications Improve relevance with use based on how people tag and rate content in SharePoint and on click-throughs of search results

Go Beyond the Search Box Sorting on any property Visual, Conversational Search Visual Best Bets Scrolling PowerPoint Previews Thumbnails Similarity Search

User Context Matters Renee Lo, Engineer Alan Brewer, Sales What should I know about implementing ERP? Alan Brewer, Sales What should I know about selling ERP consulting?

Click through improves relevance Documents are boosted by ‘popularity’: if many users find a document useful, it must be useful.

Architecture

Search Technologies

Storage Overview General SharePoint TechReady12 4/25/2017 Storage Overview General SharePoint FAST Query SSA (search + people crawl) FAST Content SSA (crawl only) FAST Search Admin Content Crawl Crawl Config. Admin Admin Less used +++ Property Property Unused SQL Server Local disk From: SP From: FAST SharePoint 2010 FAST Search © 2011 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

External federation sources Architecture SharePoint Farm Web Server Site Collection Admin UI Deployment User Context Management Promotion/Demotion PowerShell Schema configuration Admin configuration Deployment configuration Central Administration UI Property mapping Property extraction Spell-checking Web Parts Custom front-end Query Web Service FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Farm Federation Object Model Administration Query SSA (Search Service Application) Query Processing Query Matching Item Processing Content SSA (FAST Search Connector) - SharePoint - BDC Exchange Web FAST Search Query Content FAST Indexing Connectors Content People Search (query/crawl) Indexing FAST Search Authorization (FSA) Web Link Analysis Content External federation sources Monitoring Active Directory Microsoft System Center Operations Manager User Profiles ! !

Deployment.xml Sample deployment.xml for generic single node install : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <deployment version="14" modifiedBy="contoso\user" xmlns=”http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch deployment.xsd"> <instanceid>XS1</instanceid> <connector-databaseconnectionstring> [<![CDATA[jdbc:sqlserver://sqlbox.contoso.com\sql:1433;DatabaseName=XS1.jdbc]]> </connector-databaseconnectionstring> <host name="fs4sp1.contoso.com"> <admin /> <query /> <content-distributor /> <indexing-dispatcher /> <searchengine row="0" column="0" /> <webanalyzer server="true" link-processing="true" lookup-db="true" max-targets="4"/> <document-processor processes="12" /> </host> <searchcluster> <row id="0" index="primary" search="true" /> </searchcluster> </deployment>

FAST Search – Query Side HA FAST Search – Query Data Flow FAST Search – Query Side HA Web Front End (WFE) WFE WFE FAST Query SSA FAST Query SSA FAST Query SSA SharePoint FAST Search Query Processing Query Processing Query Processing Query Matching Extra search row

FAST Content SSA The FAST Search Connector is a Search Service Application (SSA) that retrieves content for indexing from SharePoint farms and other content repositories, it runs on a SharePoint application server. Create all the Content Sources other than People Search Crawl components are associated with FAST Search Content SSA. You can distribute the crawl load by adding crawl components to different farm servers.

Connectors

Secure, unified access to information OpenSearch Federation Websites and Intranet File Shares IBM Lotus Notes EMC Documentum SharePoint Server Exchange Public Folders AD & LDAP Profiles Etc … User Experience Search Index Enterprise Content Business Applications Information Services Federate queries using OpenSearch to quickly access existing search indexes and online information services Indexing Connectors Extend your reach using Business Connectivity Services to access your content sources and business applications Access content securely with a full-featured content crawler and both index- and query-time trimming of results Federate queries using OpenSearch to quickly access existing search indexes and online information services

BCS Overview Business Data Connectivity Service (BDC) Web Services TechReady12 4/25/2017 BCS Overview External Lists Search External Data Columns Web Parts User Profiles Importer Custom Solutions Workflow Business Data Connectivity Service (BDC) Metadata Store Database Custom Web Services .Net Connectivity Assembly © 2011 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

BCS Stereotyped Operations TechReady12 4/25/2017 BCS Stereotyped Operations Core Operations Finder SpecificFinder Item Level Security BinarySecurityDescriptorAccessor Incremental Crawls ChangedIdEnumerator DeletedIdEnumerator Attachments StreamAccessor © 2011 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Tooling for Connectors TechReady12 4/25/2017 Tooling for Connectors SharePoint Designer 2010 Create BDC model files for OOB BDC Connector Types Export BDC model files between BCS services applications Limited set of capabilities. Visual Studio 2010 Implement a .NET BDC Connector (Using BDC model VS2010 Template) Write Custom BDC Connector for your repository (No VS2010 Template Support) © 2011 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

FAST VS SharePoint Search

FAST VS SHAREPOINT Search Feature Description SharePoint 2010 FAST Search Out of the Box Search Center √ Advanced Search Provides end users with the ability to search using all/some/none of these words, restricting to particular document types or languages, or specific property values. FQL Scopes Users can filter results using FAST Query People Search Search users to find people by name or expertise. Custom Properties Create new managed properties , Map crawled properties to managed properties V Manage how properties are indexed and how these are treated in the search results. Property Extraction Extract key information (peoples names, company names, and locations). Use this new information for sorting, querying, refinement. Limited: title, author, and date only. Limited

FAST VS SHAREPOINT Search Feature Description SharePoint 2010 FAST Search Custom Processing Programmatically process content through an extensibility stage √ Shallow Results Refinement Deep Results Refinement The extraction is supported by custom dictionaries and allows the user to refine and sort data that they care about. Similarity Search Explore additional results that are similar to a particular document in the search result set. Document and Site Promotions Promote individual documents by keyword Promote sites Customized Rank Profiles Customize rank profiles for different search centers. Managed Property Boosting Assign weight to the value of a specific attribute (defined as a Managed Property) of a document. Add ranking boost for specific values of a Managed Property.

FAST VS SHAREPOINT Search Feature Description SharePoint 2010 FAST Search Flexible Sorting The administrator can enable sorting on any metadata property These properties are exposed for sorting to the end user √ Visual Best Bets Query Suggestions Improve with use by suggesting search queries that were successful for other users. Document Previews and Thumbnails Display thumbnails of Word and PowerPoint documents. Display inline scrollable previews of PowerPoint files on the results page. Offensive Content Processing Managed property stemming Enable managed property stemming support for word forms. Additional Document Format Support Conversion from native document format to indexable text for 400+ document formats

FAST VS SHAREPOINT Search Feature Description SharePoint 2010 FAST Search Advanced Linguistics Processing 30+ languages to enable tokenization, linguistics normalization and index-based spell checking √ User Contexts Targeted communication towards specific groups of users. You can associate Best Bets, Visual Best Bets, synonyms, and document promotions with a user context. Highly capable and easy to manage Extreme scale-out and performance Easy deployment Enterprise-class manageability Lotus Notes Content Indexes Lotus Notes content. Limited: does not include Lotus Notes roles. Limited

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