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

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

3. Features

4. 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

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

6. 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?

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

8. Architecture

9. Search Technologies

10. Storage Overview General SharePoint
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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
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11. 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 ! !

12. Deployment.xml Sample deployment.xml for generic single node install :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<deployment version="14" modifiedBy="contoso\user"
xmlns=”
xmlns:xsi=”
xsi:schemaLocation=" 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>

13. 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

14. 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.

15. Connectors

16. 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

17. BCS Overview Business Data Connectivity Service (BDC) Web Services
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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
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18. BCS Stereotyped Operations
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BCS Stereotyped Operations
Core Operations
Finder
SpecificFinder
Item Level Security
BinarySecurityDescriptorAccessor
Incremental Crawls
ChangedIdEnumerator
DeletedIdEnumerator
Attachments
StreamAccessor
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19. Tooling for Connectors
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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)
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20. FAST VS SharePoint Search

21. 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

22. 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.

23. 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

24. 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

25. Q & A
FAST Capabilities, Deployment, Connectors

26. Software Application Developers Infrastructure Professionals
Resources
Software Application Developers
Infrastructure Professionals
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27. © 2011 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved
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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.