1. 10 Things I Like in
SharePoint 2013 Search
Agnes Molnar
Senior Consultant – ECM & Search
SharePoint Server MVP

2. Introduction
• Senior Consultant – ECM & Search
• SharePoint Server MVP
• Speaker, Blogger, Community Lead
Blog: http://aghy.hu
Email: aghy@aghy.hu
Twitter: @molnaragnes

3. #1 – One Search Core
Content Sources
HTTP
File shares
Front-end
SharePoint Content Query
User Profiles Content
Crawl Index Query Processing
Processing
Component Component Component
Component Client Application
Exchange
Lotus Notes
Documentum Crawl
Analytics
Database Link
Processing
Component Database
Custom
Analytics
Reporting
Database
Event Store
Search Search
Administration Administration
Component Database

4. #2 – Content Capture

5. #3 – Search Administration
at Multiple Levels
• Central Administration
• Site Collection
• Site Administration
• Tenant Administration

6. #3 – Search Administration
at Multiple Levels
Task Site Site Admin
Collection
Admin
Create and/or override Query Rules, including Promoted Results
Create and/or override Result types and display templates
Create and/or override Result Sources, either for remote locations or as
a custom search “vertical”
Create managed properties
Create refiners
Start a local crawl – can even be done down to the list level

7. #4 - Continuous Crawl
• Changes in how the index is created and stored
• Crawl continuously every 15 minutes (by Default)
• Can change the default using PowerShell
(Set-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource )
• Can run at the same time as Full and Incremental Crawls

8. Content Freshness

9. Content Freshness

10. #5 – Troubleshooting Enhancements
• Crawl log
– Content Source (1,7, and 30 day duration trend)
– URL View (Remove from index)
– History (Latency/Load)
• Health reports
– Crawl Latency/Load by Repository, Handler, Crawler, CPC, SQL
– Crawl Freshness by source heat map in days
– CPU and Memory Load by component and process
– Content Processing by stage
– Query Latency/Load percentiles overlaid with crawl and analytics load
– Federation
– Query Latency by Object model, Query Processing, Core index

11. Debugging and Troubleshooting
Crawl Processes

12. Debugging and Troubleshooting
Crawl Processes

13. Debugging and Troubleshooting
Crawl Processes

14. #6 – PowerShell
• Service Application
• Topology
• Administration
• Crawling
• Query Processing
• Metadata
• etc.

15. #7 – UI enhancements

16. #8 – Result Sources
Scopes and Federated Search in SharePoint 2010
 “Result Sources” in SP2013
• Local SharePoint Index
• This farm
• Remote SharePoint
• Another farm
• oAuth Trust
• Open Search
• Upgraded support for 1.1
• Exchange
• Same Search
• Anonymous Authentication is
supported
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17. #8 – Result Sources

18. #9 – Query Rules
and Query Suggestions
Query Conditions
(does it meet a condition?)
• Contains Words
• Source
• Type
• Source
• RegEX
Query Actions
(What action to perform)
• Promoted Results
• Best Bets
• Visual Best Bets
• Result Blocks
• Additional Query
• Query Modification
• XRANK
• Query Re-Write
Query Publishing
(When to perform this action)
• Start Date
• End Date
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19. #10 - Search Query Builder
New Tool to help you build complex queries
• Used Pervasively
• Query Rules
• Result Blocks
• And More…
• Visually build complex queries
• Allows for testing queries
• Refiners
• Sorting
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20. Want to Know More About SharePoint 2013
Search?
The Essential Guide
to Enterprise Search
in SharePoint 2013
Everything You Need to Know to
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Search-based Applications
Download from
www.SharePointSearch2013.com
This book contains 20 chapters, and more than 100 pages packed full of valuable
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Architecture
Working Applications
Working ,
User with &
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Experience Queries and Developme
Content &
Results nt
Operations

21. questions?
aghy@aghy.hu
@molnaragnes