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Join our upcoming Minnesota SharePoint User Group Meeting on March 12th, 2008. Learn about SharePoint Search from experts Brian Caauwe and Wes Preston. Get insights, best practices, and updates on SharePoint technologies and solutions.
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Welcome to the Minnesota SharePoint User Group March 12th, 2008 SharePoint Search Brian Caauwe, Wes Preston http://www.sharepointmn.com
Agenda • Introductions • Products Overview • Break • Installation, Configuration and Details • Q & A http://www.sharepointmn.com
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
Introductions – MNSPUG Sponsors Inetium (www.inetium.com) Technology consulting company Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Practice area focused on SharePoint New Horizons – Minnesota (www.newhorizonsmn.com) Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Training on many technologies Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) http://www.sharepointmn.com
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
Upcoming Schedule Next Meeting April 9th 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Microsoft’s Bloomington Office Topic: TBD – Check www.sharepointmn.com for updates! Ongoing Schedule 2nd Wednesday of every month 9:00 to 11:30 am Microsoft’s Bloomington Office http://www.sharepointmn.com
Other Events Minneapolis Office Developer Interest Group *New (still)Thursday, March 25th 5:30 PMMicrosoft Bloomington Office SharePoint Server 2007: ECM (Enterprise Content Management)Thursday, March 13th 8:30 AM to NoonAt New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details) SharePoint Server 2007: BrandingWednesday, March 19th 8:30 AM to NoonAt New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details) SharePoint Server 2007: BI Deep Dive (Business Intelligence)Wednesday, March 26th 8:30 AM to NoonAt New Horizons - Edina (see their site for more details) http://www.sharepointmn.com
Other Events Making your MOSS growApril 14th – 18th – Las VegasHigh Monkey Consulting – Virgil CarrollRSVP to training@highmonkey.comMore information at: http://www.highmonkey.com/moss.html Conferences • Tech Ed – Developers – June 3-6, 2008Tech Ed – IT Professionals – June 10-13, 2008http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2007/default.mspxOrlando, Fl http://www.sharepointmn.com
Other Events Twin Cities MPA Free Lunch ‘n’ LearnMarch 21st 12:00 – 2:00 PM – Microsoft Bloomington OfficePortfolio Management using Portfolio Server:Business Drivers and Portfolio CreationRSVP at http://www.tcmpa.org http://www.sharepointmn.com The Official Industry Association for Microsoft Office Project
Blog Posts / News: SharePoint Team Blog: Silverlight Blueprint for SharePointhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/03/02/announcing-the-silverlight-blueprint-for-sharepoint.aspx Microsoft Online Services and SharePoint Onlinehttp://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/03/03/more-information-about-microsoft-online-services-and-sharepoint-online.aspx “GEAR Up” for SharePointhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/03/03/announcing-gear-up-for-sharepoint.aspx Solution Accelerators for SharePointhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/03/03/roundup-of-recently-released-microsoft-solution-accelerators-for-sharepoint.aspx CKS – Enhanced Blog Edition 2.0http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/03/05/announcing-the-community-kit-for-sharepoint-enhanced-blog-edition-2-0-cks-ebe-final-release.aspx WSS w/SP1 and MOSS w/SP1 ‘Slipstream’ install bitshttp://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/03/07/moss-2007-with-sp1-slipstream-officeserverwithsp1-exe-released.aspx http://www.sharepointmn.com
Microsoft Search http://www.sharepointmn.com
Microsoft Search Landscape Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) – “No additional cost” Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) SharePoint Server for Search Search Server 2008 Express – “No additional cost” Search Server 2008 Fast http://www.sharepointmn.com
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! http://www.sharepointmn.com
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search across site collections People Search Scopes Content Sources File Shares Public Folders External Websites Enterprise - Business Data Catalog (BDC) Search Web Parts Configurable search results pages http://www.sharepointmn.com
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search can be extended Search API / Object Model Search Web Services Managed Properties (This should be a topic for MODIG) http://www.sharepointmn.com
Search Server 2008 Express Search across site collections Scopes Content Sources File Shares Public Folders External Websites Search Web Parts Configurable search results pages Federated Search Extensible No document limits http://www.sharepointmn.com
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
What is Federated Search? http://www.sharepointmn.com
What Federated Search Connectors are available? PeopleSoft Siebel SAP EMC Documentum Vignette Epicor ERP Epicor ESA Flickr Virtual Earth Symantec Enterprise Vault IBM FileNet OpenText Hummingbird Interwoven iManage Online Services:News: Live.com News, Yahoo News, Google News, Wired, The Register Information Resources: MSDN, TechNet, Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, Yahoo Media: Flickr, Yahoo Images, YouTube, PodScope Blogs: Technorati, Google Blog Search http://www.sharepointmn.com
What about MOSS? MOSS is still the ‘premium’ search solution from Microsoft today. People Search Tabbed Search Results (MOSS Enterprise) Business Data Catalog (BDC) All the new features of Search Server WILL be added to MOSS with a Feature Pack. http://www.sharepointmn.com
Fast? What does the acquisition mean? Enterprise Search Highly Scalable It’s from Norway http://www.sharepointmn.com
Break http://www.sharepointmn.com
Scenario Current Environment Single WFE WSS 3.0 Separate SQL 2005 server Multiple Site Collections Shortcomings Search just happens Cannot search other sources Global search not available Proposed Solution Add Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Integrated Search Center into current environment http://www.sharepointmn.com
Overview Installation of MSSE Search Configuration Creation of Search Center Activation of MSSE Features Integration with WSS 3.0 Search for new Search Center Scopes Keywords http://www.sharepointmn.com
Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Installation Notes • STOP the Windows SharePoint Search Service • You will have an existing database in SQL • Run Prep Tool
Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Installation Notes (cont’d) • Run Installation • Run Configuration Wizard
Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Installation Notes (cont’d) • Search Server Wizard • Creates special Shared Services Provider • Starts Services • Creates multiple databases
Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Installation Notes (cont’d) • Search Server Wizard
Search Demo http://www.sharepointmn.com
Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Search Center Integration • Enable Features • Web Application • Site Collection
Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Search Center Integration (cont’d) • Creation of Search Center
Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Search Center Integration (cont’d) • Integration with new Search Center
Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Search Center Integreation (cont’d) • Search Center • Advanced Search • Results • Best Bets • Federated Search
Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Search Administration • Admin Screen • System status • Active Crawls • Recently completed crawls • Shortcuts • I want to…
Q & A http://www.sharepointmn.com
References • Microsoft Enterprise Search • http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/ • Fasthttp://www.fastsearch.com/ • Inetium Blogshttp://blogs.inetium.com • David Overton’s Blog • http://uksbsguy.com/blogs/doverton/archive/2007/11/08/how-to-install-microsoft-search-server-2008-express-including-how-to-install-on-windows-home-server.aspx http://www.sharepointmn.com
Thanks for coming! http://www.sharepointmn.com