SharePoint 2010 Search Architecture The Connector Framework Enhancing the Search User Interface Creating Custom Ranking Models

Product High End Infrastructure Entry Level Key Themes Capabilities of SharePoint Search 2010 PLUS: Conversational user experience Enhanced content processing capabilities Deep platform flexibility and scale Complete search experience Unique social search features Industrial strength capabilities SharePoint platform integration Basic search experience Simple to set up and deploy Great price! FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 SharePoint Search 2010 Search Server Express 2010

WFEs Query servers Remote File Shares SharePoint Sites Custom Repositories Web Sites Metadata Database Crawl Database SSA Database Index Servers Send Query Propagate index + metadata to query server & DB Query Processor Send Query to full text index Get Results Get Results from full text index Get metadata info from SQL Index Repositories

Content Interface WFEs Query servers Remote File Shares SharePoint Sites Custom Repositories Web Sites` Metadata Database Crawl Database Query & Results Server Query Processor Search Engine Index Processin g servers SSA Database Index Servers Index Repositories using SharePoint gatherer Index Repositories using FAST system Propagate index to search engine Query request to FAST location Send Query to FAST backend Modified Query Search Results Results Processing Query Processing Final search results Show results in SharePoint Send content to FAST for indexing......

CapabilitiesSharePoint SearchFAST Search for SharePoint Indexing Protocol Handlers (Shared SharePoint Connector ) Index Database/Web Service using BDC Connectors (Shared SharePoint Connector ) Index custom repositories using custom BDC connectors (Shared SharePoint Connector ) Content API can be used for Push based content indexing  JDBC Based Indexing  Pipeline Plug-ins  Querying Federation

CapabilitiesSharePoint SearchFAST Search for SharePoint Define document metadata & scopes Customize OOB Relevance Model  Custom Relevance Model (Enhanced) Entity Extraction  Best Bets Visual Best Bets  Thesaurus PowerShell support

CapabilitiesSharePoint SearchFAST Search for SharePoint Extend OOB Web Parts Interact with existing Web Parts Page Level Query hooks Page Level Result hooks Shallow Refinement Deep Refinement  Result Previews  Sort by custom managed properties  User Contextual Search 

CapabilitiesSharePoint SearchFAST Search for SharePoint Query Object Model (Advanced FAST properties) Federation Object Model (Advanced FAST properties) Query Web Service (Advanced FAST properties) Enhanced Keyword Query Language Advanced FAST Query Language  Enhanced RSS Mobile Search Search from Windows User contextual search 

MOSS 2007 Indexing Protocol Handlers Business Data Catalog IDEnumerators SharePoint 2010 Connectors Exchange Notes Documentum File Net Open Text Custom.NET Connector

App Server LOB App App Server MD Service MetaData SSO Service SQL SSO External Data Source BDC Protocol Handler DB Server BDC Runtime MD Cache Search Engine BDC Profile Page

Support for attachments Item-level security Crawl across entity associations Control the resulting display URL

Extend OOTB Web Parts Extend any Web Part to change the default behavior Add new Web Part that interacts with existing Web Parts on the search page All Web Parts communicate through public interface (SharedQueryManager object)

Ability to modify query before it leaves the end user page Override the GetXPathNavigator() method of Core Results Web Part Ability to modify the search results before the results are displayed to the users Override AggregateResults() method of LocationList class

Admins use XML files to describe new Ranking Models Custom ranking models rank using a weighted-average of the features in the XML descriptor BM25F (Query Dependent Feature) Static features Click Features (static) Manage Ranking Models using PowerShell Use Custom Ranking Model in End user using Web Part Property Multiple OOB Ranking Models Different for Core Results and People Cannot be modified

SharePoint 2010 Search Architecture The Connector Framework Enhancing the Search User Interface Creating Custom Ranking Models