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Welcome to the Iowa SharePoint User Group

Welcome to the Iowa SharePoint User Group. April 1 st , 2008 SharePoint Search. Kirk Hofer. Agenda. Introductions Products Overview Break Installation, Configuration and Details Q & A. User Group Goal / Objectives.

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Welcome to the Iowa SharePoint User Group

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  1. Welcome to the Iowa SharePoint User Group April 1st, 2008 SharePoint Search Kirk Hofer

  2. Agenda • Introductions • Products Overview • Break • Installation, Configuration and Details • Q & A

  3. 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

  4. Introductions – IASPUG Sponsors Inetium (www.inetium.com) Technology consulting company Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Practice area focused on SharePoint Des Moines Area Community College (www.dmacc.edu) Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)

  5. www.sharepointia.com Website for user group SharePoint resource documents SharePoint resource links RSS Feeds Meeting Schedule Past User Group Presentations www.sharepointia.com

  6. Upcoming Schedule Next Meeting June 3rd DMACC Topic: TBD – Check www.sharepointia.com for updates! Ongoing Schedule 1st Tuesday of every other month 9:00 to 11:00 am

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Microsoft Search http://www.sharepointmn.com

  10. 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

  11. 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!

  12. 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

  13. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search can be extended Search API / Object Model Search Web Services Managed Properties

  14. 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

  15. 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.

  16. What is Federated Search?

  17. 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

  18. 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.

  19. Fast? What does the acquisition mean? Enterprise Search Highly Scalable It’s from Norway Q2 finalization

  20. Break

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Installation Notes • STOP the Windows SharePoint Search Service • You will have an existing database in SQL • Run Prep Tool

  24. Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Installation Notes (cont’d) • Run Installation • Run Configuration Wizard

  25. Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Installation Notes (cont’d) • Search Server Wizard • Creates special Shared Services Provider • Starts Services • Creates multiple databases

  26. Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Installation Notes (cont’d) • Search Server Wizard

  27. Search Demo

  28. Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Search Center Integration • Enable Features • Web Application • Site Collection

  29. Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Search Center Integration (cont’d) • Creation of Search Center

  30. Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Search Center Integration (cont’d) • Integration with new Search Center

  31. Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Search Center Integreation (cont’d) • Search Center • Advanced Search • Results • Best Bets • Federated Search

  32. Microsoft Search Server Express 2008 Search Administration • Admin Screen • System status • Active Crawls • Recently completed crawls • Shortcuts • I want to…

  33. Developers • Same API for all Search Models • CodePlex • Search Community Toolkit (http://www.codeplex.com/sct) • ASP.Net Server Controls (http://www.codeplex.com/sctsc)

  34. Enterprise Search Seminar • April 30th, 8:30 – 12:00 • DMACC (Oak Room) • http://msevents.microsoft.com

  35. Q & A

  36. References • Microsoft Enterprise Search • http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/ • Fasthttp://www.fastsearch.com/ • Developers • Search Community Toolkit (http://www.codeplex.com/sct) • ASP.Net Server Controls (http://www.codeplex.com/sctsc) • 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

  37. Thanks for coming!

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