1. Needles in a Haystack Harnessing the SharePoint Search Engine Presenter: Ivan Wilson – SharePoint Gurus

2. About Me Ivan Wilson E-mail: ivanw@SharePointGurus.net Blog: http://guru-web.blogspot.com Sydney SharePoint User Group Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Senior Consultant/Architect in WSS, SPS and MOSS

3. Time Person of the Year 2006

4. Overview of SharePoint Search Demo Development Framework Build a Custom Web Part Resources

6. SharePoint Search Products Windows SharePoint Services MOSS 2007 Standard Edition MOSS 2007 Enterprise Edition MOSS 2007 for Search Standard Edition MOSS 2007 for Search Enterprise Edition

7. Physical Architecture Web Server Accepts search requests, renders results Security trims results Query Processes the search request against the local copy of the search index Index Crawls the content sources to build the index. Ships indexes to query servers Database Stores the Managed Properties *

8. Logical Architecture Overview Content Source Protocol Handlers iFilters Content Index Managed Properties Search Scopes Best Bets

10. Search Development API Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Query namespace KeywordQuery FullTextSQLQuery Web Service http:// /_vti_bin/Search.asmx Query QueryEx Search Syntax

11. Keyword Syntax Inclusions and Exclusions +Travel –Beach Property Filters Author:Ivan Site:http://marketing site:http://research Site:http://marketing author:ivan Scope:People

12. Full Text SQL Syntax SELECT FROM WHERE RANK BY ORDER BY SELECT rank, title, path, author FROM Scope() WHERE CONTAINS(title,'SharePoint') AND "scope"='Marketing'

14. Resources MOSS SDK and Technical Articles (link)link Mike Taghizadeh's Blog(link)link Mick Badrans Query Ranking command (link)link Evaluation guide for Search in MOSS 2007 (link)link Customizing and Extending the Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Search (link)link Wildcard search from Ontolica (link)link CodePlex – MOSS 2007 Search Manager (link)link CodePlex – Test WSS and MOSS Search Web Service (link)link

15. Third Tuesday of Every Month Next session is on 20 November 2007 http://www.sharepointusers.org.au/sydney