2. About the Speaker... Ágnes Molnár (Ághy) SharePoint Consultant SharePoint Server MVP, MCITP, MCTS, MCT Books contributed: Real World SharePoint 2010 SharePoint Unleashed 2010 Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Six-in-One
3. About the Speaker... Contact info: http://aghy.dotneteers.net E-mail: aghy@aghy.hu Twitter: @molnaragnes Hashtag: #TEC2010
4. Why Search is so Important? Information Overload Search, Find, Discover Gartner: 8 hours / week / information worker IDC: 9.5 hours / week / information worker Improve Search Improve Work
6. SharePoint 2010 Search Products Quick, easy, powerful search (for free!) Complete intranet search High-end search delivered through SharePoint Basic search Intranet-wide search People and expertise search Visual, highly customizable and advanced content processing
7. SP2010 Search Improvements Architecture: Service Applications Enterprise Scale-out (up to 100M docs) Connectors for LOB Systems PowerShell support Query: Boolean Qery Syntax Prefix Matching Suggestion while Typing
8. SP2010 Search Improvements Results: New, rich User Interface Refinement Panel Improved People Search Enhanced relevance
14. SP2010 Search Federation Features: Using remote index for SharePoint queries Prefix match For example: „weather” Pattern match For example: email query (^([-]+)@([-]+)+([a-zA-Z]{2,4})$) Location Type: SharePoint Search Index FAST Index OpenSearch 1.0/1.1
16. SP2010 Search Federation YES NO remote site’s robots.txt blocks SharePoint’s crawler you need results only with specific keywords and/or keyword patterns in the query content changes very often, immediately crawling needed queries under different security context infrequently queried contents >500 content sources You don’t have enough bandwith content changes very often, but immediately crawling NOT needed content that is not indexed by the remote server remote server does not return with RSS or Atom (OpenSearch 1.0/1.1)
17. Deploying SharePoint 2010 Search Search Service Application Content Sources Scopes Federated Locations Managed Properties ... Enable Features SP2010 Enterprise Features SP2010 Publishing Features Create Search site
18. Custom Scopes Deploying Custom Scopes: Create Scope (for example ‚Documents’) Assign Rules (for example, IsDocument=true) Refresh scopes Create custom Search + Result Pages Add Tabs to Search Center Assign Custom Result Page to the Scope
22. FAST Search Server for SP2010 Additional Capabilities Thumbnails + Previews Visual Best Bets Deep Refiners with counts User context from User Profile Sorting on any property Similar search Extreme scale-out (up to >500M docs) Content processing pipeline Entity extraction Easy configuration (user context, visual best bets, promotion/demotion, sorting, refinement)
23. FAST Search Server for SP2010 Install Steps: Install Configure FAST Content Service Application FAST Query Service Application
24. FAST Search Server for SP2010 install_info.txt /etc/contentdistributor.cfg
25. FAST Search Server for SP2010Troubleshooting Tips Error during FAST Configuration Wizard Steps to Check: Check Error log file Check permissions (DOMAINastuser) System Administrator DBCreator Try to re-run the Configuration Wizard as Administrator (Run as Administrator)
26. FAST Search Server for SP2010Troubleshooting Tips „The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service” Reason: FAST Search Connector issue Steps to check: Check the services (nctrl status) Check URL and port numbers (install_info.txt & /etc/contentdistributor.cfg) Check Service Application Associations Check the credentials and Certificates
27. FAST Search Server for SP2010Troubleshooting Tips „Unable to display this Web part” Reason: Configuration error Steps to check: Check the services (nctrl status) Check URL and port numbers (install_info.txt & /etc/contentdistributor.cfg) Check FAST Query SSA / Managed Properties
28. FAST Search Server for SP2010Troubleshooting Tips Document Thumbnails & Previews don’t work Reason: Office Web Apps issue Steps to check: Try to open a Document on its location (View/Edit in Browser) Check if Service Applications running Check the Service Application Associations
29. FAST Search Server for SP2010Troubleshooting Tips Document Thumbnails & Previews don’t work (cont.) On Domain Controller extra steps needed! Enable Office Web Apps: #Enable Word Web App: $e = Get-SPServiceApplication | where {$_.TypeName.Equals("Word Viewing Service Application")} $e.WordServerIsSandboxed = $false $e.WordServerIsSandboxed #Enable PowerPoint Web App - you need to answer "Y" for each command: Get-SPPowerPointServiceApplication | Set-SPPowerPointServiceApplication -EnableSandboxedViewing $false Get-SPPowerPointServiceApplication | Set-SPPowerPointServiceApplication -EnableSandboxedEditing $false Insert to the c:indowsystem32netsrvonfigpplicationHost.config this dynamicType section: <add mimeType="application/zip" enabled="false" /> IISRESET /noforce [SharePoint 2010 Config Wizard] [Full Crawling]
30. FAST Search Server for SP2010Troubleshooting Tips Search Results from and old FAST Index Reset Index Clear-FASTSearchContentCollection –Name <ContentCollectionName> IISRESET Full Crawling