1. FOCUS ON SHAREPOINT THIERRY JANSSENS – 8/12/2011 Microsoft Search offering
Jan 28, 2015
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FOCUS ON SHAREPOINTTHIERRY JANSSENS – 8/12/2011
Microsoft Search offering
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Questions often asked …
What Search products does Microsoft offer?
What are the major differences for End-users?
What are the differences for IT Professionals?
Are there any differences for Developers?
Why don’t people use Search on our Intranet?
The results are poor and not clear, what are my options?
Why bother organizing my documents if I have “FAST”?
Does FAST have all the functionalities as Sharepoint Search?
What are the typical costs for both products?
What else can search do for me?
Are there other search products from Microsoft that could help me?
What about the future of the Microsoft search offering?
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Search products for Sharepoint
Sharepoint Foundation 2010
Sharepoint Server 2010
FAST Search Server for Sharepoint
Search Server 2010 Express
Search Server 2010
30/11/2011
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Search Server 2010 (Express?)
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FAST?
Formerly FAST ESP
Norwegian
Since 1997
Bought by MS in 2008
Summer 2011, only Sharepoint FAST
www.fastsearch.com
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FAST: What does it look like?
FAST/Sharepoint result page:Ø RefinersØ ResultsØ View in browserØ Thumbnail preview
Demo
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Major differences for end-users
Federated results
Metadata based refiners
Query Suggestions, Did You Mean & Related Searches
People search
View in Browser
Same capabilities, plus:
Thumbnails & Previews
Visual Best Bets
Deep refiners with counts
Sorting on any property
Better language support
Richer query language
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And for IT Professionals?
Enterprise Scale-out
Full Fault Tolerance
PowerShell support
SCOM support
Full search reporting
Same capabilities, plus:
Extreme scale-out
Content Processing pipeline
Tunable relevance ranking
OOB JDBC connector
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Major differences for developers
Public web parts
New connector framework
Integrated with BCS
Tooling in VS2010
Same capabilities, plus:
Extend content processing
Include ext. data in relevance
Use advanced queries (FQL)
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Pitfalls with FAST
FAST doesn’t have…Ø AlertingØ Refinement & relevance on social tagsØ Index mirroring across data centersØ OOB monitoring (FAST requires SCOM)
Points of attentionØ FAST requires quite some infrastructureØ No upgrade path from ESP to FS4SPØ Configuring FAST is not straightforwardØ It is a strange environment for .net people
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Why don’t people use search on our Intranet?
Most vendors have decent search engines
There’s no search engine that can read users’ minds
Were stakeholders interviewed?
Was the engine monitored and adjusted on an ongoing basis?
Was there a POC and phased implementation?
Add other sources: File servers, business data, other websites
Use taxonomies, tagging, promote properties as facets
Exclude no longer relevant data (archive)
Configure best bets, visual clues, synonyms,…
Scope on certain content types
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Tuning the results
Why bother organizing my documents if I have “FAST”?
Metadata is “key” for search engines
But … then I need to tag all info ???
… with FAST you can interfere much more through the pipeline model
Demo
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Hardware Licenses
Configuration Search Team
What are the typical costs?
• 3 for FAST • 2 for SPSearch• Disksize
• Install & Config• Customizing results• Reindex!
• Servers• CALs
• Standard• Enterprise
• Measure • Tune• End-user follow-up
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What else can search do for me?
Provide a navigation
Facilitate document roll-up
Reporting or overviews
Who-is-who
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Other search “things” ?
Desktop Search
SQL 2008 iFTS
Exchange 2010
LookingGlass
BING
OpenSearch
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What about the future?
Probably on the BI side of search
Search Based Applications
Visualization of results
What we (Sharepoint) hope for…Ø Better integration between SP / FAST
Where is FAST Home?Search Business Center?
Ø Converge to one product?Should be for the Sharepoint ecosystemOther technologies require other engines
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If Search is important for your company, than treat it that way
Tune, measure, repeat