1. http://www.sharepointmn.com Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint User Group June 10 th, 2009 Search: From WSS to FAST Brian Caauwe, Wes Preston Bob Koviak, Tom Washek Meeting # 56

2. Agenda Introductions Search Overview Break FAST Q & A http://www.sharepointmn.com

3. 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 http://www.sharepointmn.com

4. Introductions – MNSPUG Sponsors Inetium (www.inetium.com)www.inetium.com Technology consulting company Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Practice area focused on SharePoint New Horizons – Minnesota (www.newhorizonsmn.com)www.newhorizonsmn.com Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Training on many technologies Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)www.microsoft.com http://www.sharepointmn.com

5. www.sharepointmn.com Website for user group SharePoint resource documents SharePoint resource links RSS Feeds Meeting Schedule Past User Group Presentations www.sharepointmn.com http://www.sharepointmn.com

6. Upcoming Schedule Next Meeting July 8 th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Microsoft’s Bloomington Office Topic: Panel Discussion Check www.sharepointmn.com for updates!www.sharepointmn.com Ongoing Schedule 2 nd Wednesday of every month 9:00 to 11:30 am Microsoft’s Bloomington Office http://www.sharepointmn.com

7. Other Events SharePoint Server 2007: Social Networking Wednesday, June 17 th 8:30 AM to Noon At New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details) SharePoint Server 2007: Workflow Deep Dive Thursday, June 18 th 8:30 AM to Noon At New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details) SharePoint Server 2007: SharePoint 101 Thursday, June 25 th 8:30 AM to Noon At New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details) http://www.sharepointmn.com

8. Conferences SharePoint Conference 2009 – October 19-22, 2009 http://www.mssharepointconference.com Las Vegas, NV http://www.mssharepointconference.com Local Events Minneapolis Office Developer Interest Group - July http://www.sharepointmn.com/MODIG Topic: TBD

9. Blog Posts / News: SharePoint Team Blog: Attention: Important Information on SP2 http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important- information-on-service-pack-2.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important- information-on-service-pack-2.aspx New Microsoft SharePoint site http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint New STSADM Technical Reference http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/06/05/technet-launches-new- interactive-silverlight-application-for-stsadm-technical-reference.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/06/05/technet-launches-new- interactive-silverlight-application-for-stsadm-technical-reference.aspx http://www.sharepointmn.com

10. Microsoft Search http://www.sharepointmn.com

11. Microsoft Search Landscape Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) Search Server 2008 Express Search Server 2008 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) FAST 3 rd Party Products http://www.sharepointmn.com

12. 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! – No configuration settings available http://www.sharepointmn.com

13. Demo – WSS http://www.sharepointmn.com

14. Search Server 2008 Express Search across site collections Scopes Content Sources – File Shares, Public Folders, External Websites Search Web Parts Configurable search results pages No document limits Federated Search High Availability (NOT available for MSSX) http://www.sharepointmn.com

15. Results Pages WSS results – nothing can be configured Search Servers and MOSS – Advanced Search – Edit Page – Federated results http://www.sharepointmn.com

16. Demo – MSSX http://www.sharepointmn.com

17. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Same features as Search Server Plus… People Search Search Center w/Tabs site template Enterprise - Business Data Catalog (BDC) http://www.sharepointmn.com

19. 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. http://www.sharepointmn.com

20. Demo – Federated Search http://www.sharepointmn.com

21. Search and more… Search can be configured… creatively Search can be configured without deploying code (XSLT) – Use SPD to configure XSLT for result Search can be extended – Search API / Object Model – Search Web Services – Managed Properties – (This should be a topic for MODIG) http://www.sharepointmn.com

22. Demo http://www.sharepointmn.com

23. Further Topics and Considerations… SharePoint Search Architecture, Taxonomy and Design Operational and governance topics ‘Findability’ XSLT results page configurations Using data forms for results Configuring Best Bets Configuring the Thesaurus and Noise words Managed Properties, BDC and search Search Web Parts in depth Configuring and customizing Advanced Search Administration controls More scenarios… http://www.sharepointmn.com

24. Break http://www.sharepointmn.com

25. Q & A http://www.sharepointmn.com

26. Thanks for coming! http://www.sharepointmn.com