introduction to fast search for sharepoint 2010
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www.realdolmen.com
Introduction to FAST Search Server 2010
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ABOUT ME
ECM Unit Manager @ RealDolmen SharePoint Server MVP Blog – http://jopx.blogspot.com Co-founder BIWUG – www.biwug.be Co-author
Real World SharePoint 2010 (November 2010, Wrox) Real World SharePoint 2007 (August 2007, Wrox) SharePoint 2007, The definitive guide (September 2007,
O’Reilly)
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AGENDA
Improvement areas 2007 vs 2010 Microsoft Enterprise Search – Products FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 (FS4SP)-
architecture FS4SP - SharePoint/FAST differentation Extending FAST Search
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IMPROVEMENT AREAS 2007 VS 2010
Social – Connect with people and expertise Address-book style name lookup with phonetic matching Improved expertise matching - mined e-mail inbox data Social behavior improves search; search improves My Sites
Refinement – Find information faster Metadata-based refiners provide drill-down Related query suggestions show popular queries
Relevance – Provide great search results New ingredients, more experience -> better OOB search Better wordbreakers in more languages Social Distance, tagging, click-through influence relevance
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IMPROVEMENT AREAS 2007 VS 2010 (CTD.)
Platform - Industrial Strength Search at High Scale Index partitioning -> sub-second latency at 100M items Full failover support Connector and BDC enhancements and tooling support
TCO – Deploy and operate with less effort Virtualization and native 64-bit simplify deployment Powershell, Admin Web Parts, SCOM provide easier admin
Extensibility - Create powerful applications based on search Web parts, query OMs are public -> easier to modify Enhanced query syntax
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DEMO
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ABOUT FAST SEARCH FOR SHAREPOINT
April 2008 Microsoft acquires Norwegian Enterprise Search Solution Fast
Search & Transfer
Overall Vision To provide a market leading enterprise search platform that
integrates with your existing infrastructure
SharePoint Vision Best-in-class search, with the simplicity and low TCO of
SharePoint Build upon a social computing platform for a more robust search
experience
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MICROSOFT ENTERPRISE SEARCH - PRODUCTIVITY
• Quick, easy, powerful search (for free with Express edition)
Search Server 2010
• OOB General Productivity Search with light customization
SharePoint Server Search
• Heavily customizable OOB General Productivity Search and easy to build High-Value Search Applications
FAST Search 2010
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• Common UI Framework• Social search features and integration• SharePoint platform integration • End user and site administrator enablement• Common Connector Framework (BDC)• Object Model, APIs and developer XP• Admin & deployment capabilities• Operations advantages (SCOM, scripting)
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• Powerful content processing with deep navigation
• Visual search experience with document previews
• Tailored relevance and visual best bets
• Best-in-class platform to build search applications
• Advanced linguistics• Extreme scale and
performanceSharePoint Enterprise CAL +
FAST Search for SharePoint server licenseSharePoint Standard CAL +
SharePoint server license
• Search-as-you-type and metadata-driven navigation
• People and expertise search with MySite profiles
• Social tagging and rating• OpenSearch federation• Business Connectivity
Services• Centralized administration
and System Center integration
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FS4SP ARCHITECTURE
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FAST SEARCH SERVER – PHYSICAL ARCHITECTURE FS4SP uses SharePoint Server 2010 for query servers
and for crawling content, but adds servers in a FAST farm. The additional servers process content, produce index partitions, and process queries.
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FAST SEARCH - LOGICAL ARCHITECTURE
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SHAREPOINT SEARCH SERVICE APPLICATIONS
FAST Search Connector (SSA) Crawls the content and feeds it into the FAST Search Server
2010 for SharePoint back-end
FAST Search Query (SSA) The Query SSA provides query results from the content that is
crawled by the Content SSA
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FAST SEARCH - SCALING
FS4SP uses rows and columns of servers to scale Adding more columns of servers increases content
processing capacity linearly. Adding more rows of servers increases the query processing ability. Fault tolerance is provided by deploying a minimum of two rows.
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SEARCH – ITEM LEVEL SCALING
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FAST/SHAREPOINT DIFFERENTATION
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END USER PERSPECTIVE
Great OOB search experience Most visual and dynamic user experience
One-stop search center to find answers fast
Excellent OOB relevanceFederated resultsPC, phone, or browser access
Same capabilities, plus:Broader, better language support Broader query syntax
Refinement to explore information quickly
Metadata based refiners Related searchesView in Browser
Same capabilities, plus:Deep refiners with countsSimilarity searchSorting on any property
Social search to connect with people and expertise
Phonetic & nickname matchingRelevance and refinersIntegrated presence
Same capabilities
Search gets better with use
Click-through drives relevanceColleague & Expertise suggestionsQuery suggestions
Same capabilities
Visual cues for rapid recognition of information
Thumbnails & Scrolling PreviewsVisual Best Bets
Contextual to meet the needs of diverse groups
User context from user profileMultiple relevance profiles
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FAST SEARCH – END USER PERSPECTIVE DEMO
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VISUAL, CONVERSATIONAL SEARCH
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Thumbnails
Sorting on any property
Similarity Search
Visual Best Bets
Scrolling PowerPointPreviewsRefinement with
countson any property
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IT PRO PERSPECTIVE
Enterprise class search system integrated with SharePoint
Highly capable and easy to manage
Industrial strength scale-out and performance
Enterprise Scale-out (to 100M docs)Full Fault ToleranceNative 64 bit; Hyper-V support
Same capabilities, plus:Extreme scale-out
Easy deploymentWizard - driven installationConsolidated search dashboard
Same capabilities
Enterprise-class manageability
PowerShell supportSCOM support Full search reporting
Same capabilities
Secure, broad connectivity
Full set of connectors OOB Easy to add new sources via BDCStrong security
Same capabilities, plus:Enterprise Web Crawler
Advanced content processing OOB
Content Processing pipelineMetadata Extraction
Easy to configure high-end user experiences
Easy setup of User Context, Visual Best Bets, PromotionGive end users control over sorting, ranking, navigation
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DEVELOPER PERSPECTIVE
Open and flexible search platform
The power to build a whole new class of search applications
Customize the OOB user experience using Web Parts
Public Web PartsPublic Web Parts with high end capabilities
Extend connectivity using the BDC and Federation
New connector frameworkIntegrated with BCS
Same capabilities
Combine search with other SharePoint capabilities
Integrate search with BI, Workflow, Social, & Collab
Integrated using high-end search capabilities
Use familiar tools built for developer productivity
BDC tooling built into SPDApplication tooling in VS2010
Same capabilities
Leverage advanced content processing
Add custom property extractorsExtend content processing
Customize relevance Include external data in relevanceBuild multiple relevance profiles
Use advanced query capabilities to create powerful applications
Leverage FQL to create geosearch, user-selected influencers, and much more
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EXTENDING SEARCH
Extend OOB Web Parts – or Create New Ones Location Awareness
Geo-Search using SortFormula()
FQL (Fast Query Language)
Using Document Vectors to add extra UI elements – e.g. Word Cloud Web Part
Query Language Expressiveness Soft boost (relevance control) using Xrank operator in FQL Examples:
Boost all documents that contain a selected persons name or phrase
Use user comments, social tagging or content rating to impact rlevance
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USEFUL RESOURCES
FAST Search Server for SharePoint Deployment & Configuration Guide http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa
milyID=a65aef6f-bc99-4b29-81bb-37fce8ad6ea7&displaylang=en
FAST Search Server for SharePoint Known Issues http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa
milyID=8101DA55-1AF2-41A1-89EF-15536A8000F2&displaylang=en
FAST Search Server for SharePoint Cmdlets Overview http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?fami
lyid=0A91AE47-8C6F-447E-8084-2EF7208837AE&displaylang=en
Professional Microsoft Search: Fast Search, SharePoint Search and Search Server (Wrox, october 2010)
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