SharePoint expert Agnes Molnar will summarise the outcomes of projects, workshops and webinars that she has undertaken in 2013 to provide an assessment of the lessons learnt from organisations starting to make substantial use of the search capabilities of SharePoint 2013.

1. Lessons Learned
from Early Adopters
of SP2013
Agnes Molnar
CEO, Managing Consultant
SharePoint Server MVP

2. Join to the Conversation
Social Network dedicated to
Enterprise Search discussions
https://www.yammer.com/SearchExplained

4. Basic Search Experience

5. Search Based Applications

6. Search is Complex

7. Search is Complex
Data Source
Data Source
Data Source
Data Source
Content
Source
Content
Source
Content
Source
Result
Source
Result
Source
Remote Search index
Local Search Index
Indexing
Federation
Query RuleQuery Rule Query Rule
Result Block
Result Block
Display
Templates
Refinement
Panel
Hover Panel
metadata
Result Set
Result Type
Result Type

9. Content
Business
• Inventory of Repositories
– Content
– Volume
– Types
– Metadata
– Permissions
– Owners
Technology
• Content Sources
• Federation (Result
Sources)
• OOTB Connectors
• Business Connectivity
Services
• Custom or 3rd Party
Connectors

10. Common Consideration:
HYBRID
• SharePoint 2013 on-prem
• SharePoint Online / Office 365
• SharePoint 2010
• SharePoint 2007

11. QUALITY OF CONTENT IS
CRITICAL!

12. Processing
Business
• Classify
• “Learn” the Content
Technology
• OOTB “Entity Extraction”
– Very Limited
– Actually: Word and Word Part
Extraction
– Dictionary Based
– Configuration: scripting
• Custom (partial) Solutions
• 3rd Party Solutions

13. QUALITY OF
CONTENT AND REQUIREMENTS
ARE CRITICAL!

14. Aggregation
Business
• Information coming from
various repositories
• Filters
• Rules
Technology
• Content Search Web Part
• Custom Search Pages
• Result Blocks
• Result Sources
• Query Rules
• Managed Navigation

15. QUALITY OF
CONTENT, REQUIREMENTS AND
PLANNING
ARE CRITICAL!

16. Display
Business
• Custom Search
Experience
• Different Experience for
Various Search Use
Cases
• Dashboards
Technology
• Display Templates
• Search Pages
• Managed Navigation
• Result Types
• Query Rules
• Content Search Web Part

17. QUALITY OF
CONTENT, REQUIREMENTS, PLAN
NING AND IMPLEMENTATION
ARE CRITICAL!

18. Governance
• Easy to delegate
• Easy to customize
• Hard to track
• Hard to govern

20. • Search is a Business Story
• Identify:
– Content
– Users
– Context (Use Cases, Stories)
• Analyze
– Technology and features OOTB
– Custom needs: BUILD vs. BUY

21. Email: Agnes.Molnar@SearchExplained.com
Twitter: @SearchExplained / @MolnarAgnes
Social: https://www.yammer.com/searchexplained
THANK YOU!