2. Eric Harlan Principal Architect Sogeti USA Session Code: OFC203

3. SharePoint List Mash Up’s About Eric Harlan Lets have FUN! Conversations not Lectures First time in South Africa First Tech Ed SharePoint for 6 years, I.T. for 10 Principal Architect for Sogeti USA Twitter.com - @ericharlan http://www.ericharlan.com

4. Federated Search Some of the finer points Federated search allows users to query multiple environmental, internal or external sources. Then display that result set on a single search results page. Search results are displayed via federated search web parts The source never has to be indexed There is no “API” the api is XML

5. Federated Search SharePoint Prerequisites SharePoint SP1 (WSS first, then MOSS) Infrastructure Update for WSS 3.0 (KB951695) Applies to ALL Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (MOSS, MSS, MSSX, Project Server) Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) Applies to: MOSS 07, MOPS 07, MSS 08, MSSX 08 Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Project 2007 (KB951547) Applies to: Project 07

6. Federated Search Known Update Issues Microsoft GroupBoard 2007 More info on TechNet but basically uninstall GroupBoard, install the updates, reinstall GroupBoard. Error: Could not find stored procedure ‘dbo.proc_GetDataBaseInformation’ Just ignore it (scary huh?) Content Deployment Jobs Disappear It’s a user interface issues, your jobs are still there. Simply click on the one of the columns to sort the list and they will reappear. Only need to do this once.

7. Federated Search Known Update Issues (cont) Blog ‘Email a post’ Wont open a new email, there is a KB article on how to fix this Single Server Farm, automatic updates will be applied, multi-server farm automatic updates will not be applied

8. Federated Search Where could we use Federated Search? Ideas? Throw them out!

9. Federated Search Where could we use Federated Search? Searching different Farms in the same company, in different geographic locations Tech searches on topics on other sites (TechNet) RSS feeds specific to a topic from news sites Searching internal systems that are OpenSearch compliant but can’t be indexed (or shouldn’t be) Etc…

10. Federated Search Do’s and Do Not’s Federated search will do: Send a query to other search engines or applications Format and render the results Work out of the box with minimal effort with many existing search engines and applications Federated search will not do: Interweave results sets from other sources into a single result set Relevance rank results from other search engines or applications

11. Federated Search Know the Obstacles

12. Federated Search Know the Obstacles AdvantagesDisadvantages Provides enterprise-wide search. Search relevancy is not enterprise-wide. Relevancy is scoped to each content source. No limitation to the number of documents or items that can be search. Managing multiple SSPs or deployments of search server 2008 increases Admin costs. Content is not crawled or synchronized over WAN. Query performance for remote locations is subject to WAN. Query performance is optimized for local content while at the same time providing results for remote content. Because content is not synchronized across the environment, users will be downloading documents over WAN during peach hours. Users can search different locations with out connection to each location separately. Users cannot use advanced search options. Each Content store can be managed separately. Keeping security trimming of search difficult.

13. Federated Search Make the Connection

14. Building a Federated Connector Required functionality for a Federated Connector Provide a web page or web service for the search server’s query request, sent as a parameterized URL. Retrieve the search query from the request's URL parameters. Submit the query to the repository’s search engine in the appropriate format. Convert the repository’s search results into a structured XML format. Return the search results XML in the response to the search server. Out of the box connectors (news, media, blogs, info) http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/connectors/federated.aspx

15. Federated Search Make the Connection Configurable Central Admin Federated Locations A Federated location defines the federated search connection to the external repository, and is composed of the following Location Type Query and More Results link templates Triggers Display Information Restrictions Authentication and credentials information

16. Federated Search Hit the Double Blacks

17. For the more challenging and refined Federated Results Caching Results for a query are cached for 60 seconds Synchronous/Asynchronous Rendering Top Federated Results Web part is always Synchronous Federated Results Web Part can be either Synchronous/Async Slow Locations should always be async and in a Federated results Web Part (time out is 90 seconds) Paging Federated Results Support for “&StartAt=“ in Query Template URL

18. Win! LifeCam Show Ultra-Thin Mobile Design World-Class High Definition Optics Question: Name another possible use for Federated Search (First three, most creative wins) Please attend other business productivity sessions Office and SharePoint track (OFC) Unified Communications (UNC)

19. Federated Search & Social Networking Eric Harlan Principal Architect Sogeti USA

20. Hidden Speaker Notes Show Old search Settings (show that its the same old thing for comfort) Show Search Administration (unified dashboard) Note Active Crawls (which crawls are active) Recently Completed Crawls (duration, errors etc) Go to Federated Locations Show two methods (new locations, import) Go to "Online Gallery" on federated locations page Download Wikipedia FLD (right click download) Go to Import location and browse to the wikipedia.fld file Click Done Go to search center page Run a query to get to results page Edit the page (site actions, edit page) Add a web part (top federated search results) Edit the web part and select the "Wikipedia" from the drop down) Apply and publish Mention top result from Wikipedia now present CUSTOM LOCATION (mention it needs open search source I.e. XML, RSS, etc) Go to federated Locations Click new location Add Title, Name, Description etc Leave Author and version blank Select "Prefix" with the term “Microsoft" Choose OpenSearch 1.0/1.1 for the location type Go to Technet do a search, get RSS feed for that result, copy URL Enter in the RSS url take out the variable passed and replace it with {searchTerms} Do the same for the "More Link" but link it to the full results set page Leave rest blank but talk to security and searching against secure areas. Go back to search results page, edit top federated results web part add TechNet as first and Wikipedia as second, change results shown to 3

21. Federated Search Farewell Evaluations (5's are better) I would love to come back! Lets Chat after Other Tech Ed Sessions InfoPath tips and tricks Federated Search Architecture Panel w/Joel Oleson, Hilton Giesenow, Zlatan Dzinic TechEd Online – Twitter's influence on the SharePoint Community Twitter.com - @ericharlan http://www.ericharlan.com

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27. SharePoint List Mash Up’s