Saturday, 07 November 2009 11:00
Search
Microsoft published Search functionality overview for the SharePoint 2010. More details there http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/sharepoint/ee518643.aspx
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SharePoint Foundation 2010
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Search Server 2010 Express
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Search Server 2010
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SharePoint Server 2010
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FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
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Basic search
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Visual Best Bets
Keyword terms and synonyms defined by an administrator to enhance search results. For FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint only, a section of relevant information is displayed in addition to search results for a keyword term (for example, an image banner or HTML).
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Scopes
Users can filter search results by using scopes.
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Search enhancements based on user context
Scopes Best Bets, visual Best Bets, and document promotions and demotions to a sub-group of employees.
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Custom properties
Manage which properties are indexed and how these are treated in search results.
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Property extraction
Extracts key information (people names, locations, company names) from unstructured text to use as additional managed properties. (Limited: title, author, and date only.)
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Query federation
Federates results from multiple search sources.
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Query suggestions
Provides help with query formulation based on what the user types.
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Similar results
Generates a new search based on the selected search result.
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Sort results on managed properties or rank profiles
Sort results based on selected managed properties or by FAST Query Language (FQL) formula.
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Relevancy tuning by document or site promotions
Promote selected documents or sites as highly relevant results for a keyword. Demote documents or sites to give lower rank. (Limited: promote documents for a given site, not query specific.)
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Shallow results refinement
Refine results using metadata associated with the top results.
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Deep results refinement
Refine results using metadata associated with all results.
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Previewers
Display inline previews of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files.
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Windows 7 federation
Enterprise search results are available in Windows desktop search.
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People search
Search users to find people by name or expertise.
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Social search
Relevancy is improved by how people interact and relate with content by factoring in social tagging and the relationship of people to content and other people.
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Taxonomy integration
Takes advantage of user generated tags. Managed taxonomy influences search rankings and experience.
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Multi-tenant hosting
Data partitioning of crawled data based on tenants.
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Rich Web indexing support
Indexing of wide variety of Web content, including Flash.
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Saturday, 24 October 2009 21:43
Search
Search Changes
- Three ranges of search– Search Server 2010 (Entry Level), OOTB Seach, (Infrastructure), and FAST Search (high-end). FAST will be licensed through our Enterprise CAL (for internal search) with an additional server
- No more 50 millions items limitation- FAST provides powerful capabilities to index hundred millions items, so no more SharePoint 2007 index limitations
- Query syntax – can use AND, OR, NOT keywords in search query
- Wildcard search - using * in search query
- Faceted search/Refinements – refinements are shown in the panel to filter the results (by tags and metadata). This funtionality is supported in the Standard edition and above
- New search Web Parts- many search-related Web Parts that enable power users to create customized search experiences that implement automatic filtering, best bets, a refinement panel, featured content or offer pre-defined queries
- Social people search - phonetic name matching (returns names that sound similar to what the user has typed as a query & all variations of common names, including nicknames); exploring results via name, title, and expertise; include real-time presence through Office Communication Server
- Social distance- SharePoint builds a model of your regular interactions based on e-mail conversations and group memberships, which it uses to organize people search results based on social distance - a direct colleague will appear before someone 3 degrees removed.
- Index Partitioning - SharePoint Search supports partitioning the index and having multiple indexers that can be aggregated together
- Query Partitioning - Each query partition can contain up to ~10 million items, and can also be “cloned” by deploying multiple instances of a given query partition across several query servers. Query throughput increases when you add query partition instances.
- FAST Search replacement - The new architecture scales up to approximately 500 million items, and search can be utilized in a multi-tenant hosting environment.
- Crawling Service - Multiple crawlers can be used simultaneously to crawl different content during each crawl cycle. This improves performance and can also provide redundancy. All crawling information is stored into “property database”.
- Cross-farm search service that allows farms to connect to multiple farms to consume cross-farm data
- Metadata index is expose via search
- [new] Search Server doesn't support people search - this functionality is available only in SharePoint 2010 OOTB Search
- [new] FAST Search integrates with Microsoft Business Data Connectivity services in 2010 means that ingesting structured data from external Line of Business applications is much easier in FAST Search for SharePoint. More details are there
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