1. virtual techdays INDIA │ 18-20 august 2010 FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Allirajan Ramachandran │ Technology Specialist, Microsoft Corp arajan@microsoft.com

2. Cut Costs with a Unified Infrastructure Rapidly Respond to Business Needs Deliver the Best Productivity Experience Microsoft SharePoint 2010 The Business Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise and the Internet Communities Search Sites Composites ContentInsights

3. User Interface is visual and actionable Visual and conversational interaction with precise control Built on SharePoint Search Center Leverages all of innovations in SharePoint Open Web Parts, Federation, query suggestions, related queries, Did you mean? Visual results connects users with content Thumbnails for Word and PowerPoint Visual Best Bets highlight premium content Preview in browser without leaving the results Deep Refinement Thumbnails Previews Sort on any field Similar Results

4. Visual Best Bets Visual cues to highlight essential content Built on SharePoint Keywords Matches keywords and synonyms that are contextually relevant to users. Include banners, videos, external websites. Easy and quick to setup Point and click setup for site admins. Set and forget with content expiration dates. Web Parts allow for easy page customization Visual Notification Web Part Flexibility

5. Deep Refinement Enables precise control of results Contains exact counts Leads to discovering non- obvious relationships, key data trends, and deep analysis of your content Enables conversational experience You will never miss any content; enabling better findability and exploration across the entire result set Exact Counts Sorted by frequency Provides a sorted view Each refiner is sorted by frequency, from highest to lowest, indicating the importance of each term

6. Customize search to meet your business needs Key ingredients to a great customized search experience Search in the language of your business Deliver results that are contextually relevant Tune relevancy to meet diverse needs Process content with advanced linguistics Customize the user experience to build engaging applications Search in the language of your business Deliver results that are contextually relevant Tune relevancy to meet diverse needs Process content with advanced linguistics Customize the user experience to build engaging applications

7. TypeDoc IDTitleAuthorDateSizeKeywordsCompaniesExpertiseIndustry...Body Text 123Sales Forec…John Doe2010-04-15386 KBsales; pipe…Contoso; Tail..Strategic Con..Financial Ser……IT Market Gr… 456………………………… 963………………………… Map metadata to Managed Properties Automatic association of metadata to content Expertise Strategic Consulting Market Analysis IT Implementation … Industry Financial Services Manufacturing Technology... Crawled Properties Managed PropertiesIndex Schema: Companies Contoso Tailspin Toys Woodgrove Bank … Mapped in Central Admin Or PowerShell Mapped in Central Admin Or PowerShell Crawled Properties Standard document metadata discovered by the crawler or extracted from the full text by the FAST Content Processing Pipeline Managed Properties Map one or more Crawled Properties to a single field. Enables sorting, refinement, relevance tuning and fielded searching Any data can be found and mapped Any data can be found and mapped

8. What can I do with a Managed Property? Metadata quality is critical to a good search experience Precise hit counts in deep refiners are computed across the whole result set. And many more… Concepts Products Companies File Formats, Metadata is also used for relevancy tuning, multi- level sorting and advanced search Enables deep refinement Makes search conversational, guiding users to navigate and refine, while summarizing the results that are found Enables precision relevancy Managed properties are also used for relevancy tuning & ranking, multi-level sorting, advanced (or fielded) search

9. How does it work? Built on a SharePoint List or custom extractor Edit the Search Center Results Page Modify the shared web part by adding tags to the refinement panel XML Create your own labels Save and Publish Custom Collections Add refiners to user interface

10. Context matters Users need to access multiple types of content HR Legal Finance Depends on role, location, responsibility and task. This can change day to day, or hour to hour. MarketingSalesR&DCustomer Support Professional Services Manufacturing Operations... Enterprise Content

11. Deliver results that are contextually relevant with search that can understands your business and role ”What should I know about selling ERP?” - Alan Brewer, Sales Lead ”What should I know about implementing ERP?” - Renee Lo, Consultant Role-specific relevance Role-specific relevance Business driven refinement Business driven refinement Targeted Best Bets / Visual Best Bets Targeted Best Bets / Visual Best Bets

12. Tune relevancy to meet diverse needs A flexible solution for your organizations, groups and individuals Optimize Relevancy for broad intranet use Query results with the default relevancy Query results with the default relevancy ”I want to know about my customer Woodgrove Bank and customers in Financial Services" - Alan Brewer, Sales Lead New Default Sorting Promotes relevant Results Promotes relevant Results Quickly tailor relevancy models Deliver the right results to the right people by creating new Rank Profiles ”I want to get right to the technical documents" - Renee Lo, Consultant Documentation, RFPs and SOWs are now promoted Documentation, RFPs and SOWs are now promoted Same Results different order Users can select rank profiles in the sort by box or create their own default views by modifying the web part

13. Rank Profiles Tune relevancy without impacting the default algorithm Out of the box relevancy Tuned for great general productivity experience, relevancy improves with click-throughs and link text analysis. Extend the default algorithms Create new default relevancy models. Blend static and dynamic ranking parameters to instantly improve search results.

14. How to create a Rank Profile IT Pros are empowered to create new profiles quickly Rank Profiles created in PowerShell by extending the default relevancy algorithm… … and are exposed in the user interface by modifying the sorting web part.

15. Breaks down content to the smallest addressable chunks to build meaning Understands file encoding, data formats, and written languages Supports 400+ file formats, 80+ languages Process content with advanced linguistics Automatic and detailed analysis creates a great search experience FAST Content Processing Pipeline

16. FQL provides a robust and expressive query language Wildcard support - *, ? Numeric Data types (Integer, Float, Decimal, Datetime) Operators Direct field access (e.g., title:othello, author:shakespeare) Numeric (COUNT, RANGE,, >=) Boolean (AND, OR, ANY, NOT) Rank (RANK, XRANK) Proximity (NEAR, ONEAR) String (operator support for strings) Boundary (starts-with, ends-with, equals) Filter Robust query language Use FAST Query Language (FQL) for precise query development

17. FAST Search Server Architecture Common platform scales with your business need User Experience SharePoint Search FAST Search for SharePoint Information

18. FAST Search Server 2010 Summary of architectural components FAST Server(s) SharePoint Server(s) Other Server(s) Content

19. Secure, unified access to information Index or federate with content, applications, and services OpenSearch Federation Indexing Connectors Enterprise Content Business Applications Information Services User Experience Search Index

20. Connect to all of your enterprise content Extend your reach with Business Connectivity Services Build custom connectors Use SharePoint Designer to configure data model and connect to SharePoint. Connect to WCF services, or create your own.NET assembly connector with Visual Studio. Quickly connect to content Use a consistent framework to quickly connect both inside and outside of SharePoint including content management systems, web services, databases, and line of business systems

21. Simplified, powerful administration A high-end enterprise search solution that’s easy to deploy and manage

22. FAST Search for SharePoint Scaleout Content Volume Query Volume Scale-out multiple “dimensions” Query Volume Content Volume Indexing freshness Redundancy options Search Indexing Performance targets* 30M Docs/node 50 QPS/node 35 docs/sec *Depends on content and hardware specifics Search and Indexing Crawling and Content Processing Query and Result Processing Back-end with extreme and flexible scale out options No theoretical upper bounds!

23. virtual techdays INDIA │ 18-20 august 2010 RESOURCES  www.sharepoint.microsoft.com  www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch  Channel9.msdn.com/posts/matthijs/fast-search-for-sharepoint-2010- capabilities-deep-dive

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