PROFESSIONAL MICROSOFT® SEARCH -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS ENTERPRISE SEARCH? -- Why Enterprise Search? -- How Enterprise Search Differs from Web Search -- The Enterprise Is Not Just a Small Internet -- Technical Differences in Search Requirements and Technologies -- Every Intranet Search Project Is Unique -- Enterprise Search Technology Overview -- Search Components Outline -- Vendor Vocabulary -- Scalability -- Federated Search -- Microsoft's 2010 Search Technology Road Map -- Microsoft's Explanation -- Categorizing Your Organization's Use of Search - Examples -- The Gray Area: Where Search Might Be Misranked -- A Local Sales Offi ce -- A Contract Manufacturer -- A Midsized to Large Energy Producer -- The ROI of Search -- The Business Intelligence Benefits of Search -- The Search Center of Excellence -- Before SCOE -- The Birth of SCOE -- Centralized SCOE -- Distributed SCOE -- Examples of SCOE Tasks -- SCOE Staffi ng and Skills -- Questions That Everybody Asks -- Why Not Just Use an Open-Source Engine Like Lucene? -- I Have Search Inside SharePoint -- Do I Need Anything Else? -- Why Is Search so Hard? -- We've Upgraded Search, and Users Are Unhappy. -- Do I Need a Taxonomy? -- Do I Need Facets or Entity Extraction? -- What Is Clustering? -- Can't I Just Have Users Tag Everything? -- Can We Do It in Phases? -- How Much Is This Going to Cost? -- What Type of Staffi ng Do I Need for Search? -- Isn't Enterprise Search Dead? -- How Important Is the Gartner Magic Quadrant? -- Summary -- CHAPTER 2: DEVELOPING A STRATEGY - THE BUSINESS PROCESS OF SEARCH -- Developing the Search Project Plan -- eCommerce Search -- Intranet and Extranet Search -- File Share Search -- Public Site Search -- Organizing for Success: the Search Center of Excellence -- Centers of Excellence -- Building a Virtual SCOE.

The Process of Acquiring a Search Platform -- Building a Business Case -- Hard ROI -- The Soft ROI -- Defining Your Requirements -- An Overall Approach -- High-Level Questions -- Stakeholders -- The Role of Analysts -- Priorities -- Pre-Enterprise Search -- Plan for a Staged Implementation -- Creating the RFI or RFP -- Collecting Your Content -- Identify Your Content and Repositories -- Understanding Your Users and Their Needs -- The Acquisition Process -- Meeting with Suppliers -- The Proof of Concept -- Negotiating the Purchase -- Gathering Information: Training and References -- Planning Your Deployment -- Optimizing the Roll-Out -- Tuning Relevance -- After the Roll-Out -- Search Sucks! -- Theory and Practice -- Summary -- CHAPTER 3: OVERVIEW OF MICROSOFT ENTERPRISE SEARCH PRODUCTS -- Understanding the 2010 Enterprise Search Product Line -- SharePoint Foundation 2010 -- Search Server 2010 Express -- Search Server 2010 -- SharePoint Server 2010 -- FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint -- FAST Search Server for Internet Sites -- Summary of Enterprise Search Options -- SharePoint Server Search versus FAST Search for SharePoint -- Summary of Feature Differences Between SP and FS4SP -- Capabilities Found Only in SharePoint Server 2010 Search -- Typical Search Scenarios -- Intranet Search -- People Search -- Site Search -- Research Portals -- Customer Management -- Parts Search -- Intelligence and Investigation -- Intellectual Property Protection -- Compliance -- E-Commerce -- Windows Desktop Search -- The Role of the Desktop in Enterprise Search -- Windows Desktop Search 4: XP and Vista -- Windows 7 Desktop Search -- Search in Exchange and SQL -- SQL Server 2008 -- Exchange 2010 -- Bing -- The Bing Exploration Approach -- Sections of Bing -- Voice Search: Bing and Tellme -- Federation across Products -- Federation and OpenSearch.

Windows 7 and Federation -- Choosing a Product for Your Application -- Summary -- PART II: IMPLEMENTING SEARCH -- CHAPTER 4: SEARCH WITHIN SHAREPOINT 2010 -- Searching with SharePoint 2010 -- SharePoint 2010 Overview -- Search Server 2010 -- SharePoint Search 2010 -- Fast Search for SharePoint 2010 -- SharePoint 2010 Search Architecture Overview -- Key Components -- Administration -- Crawler -- Query and Index -- Deployment Planning -- Capacity Planning -- Distribution Considerations (Location, Location, Location . . .) -- Information Architecture -- Crawled Properties and Managed Properties -- Content Types -- Installation and Configuration -- Single Node -- Multiple Nodes -- Scaling a Search Application in a Farm -- Configuration -- People Search -- Reporting -- Implementing Security -- Capacity and Limitations -- Search Server 2010 -- SharePoint Search 2010 -- Topologies -- Federation -- Search User Experience -- People Search -- Operations -- Relevance Tuning -- Summary -- CHAPTER 5: FAST SEARCH WITHIN SHAREPOINT 2010 -- Search with FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 -- FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Product Overview -- Key Search Engine Components -- Administration -- Content Gathering -- Content-Processing Pipeline -- Index -- FAST Search Authorization -- Query Component -- Web Analyzer -- Installation and Configuration -- Prerequisites -- Installation -- Configuration -- Multinode -- Capacity and Limitations -- Topologies and Federation -- Search Cluster Columns and Rows -- Topology Design Considerations -- Federation -- Content Processing -- Tokenization, Normalization, and Lemmatization -- Entity Extraction -- Query Component -- FAST Query Language -- Relevance Tuning -- Managed Properties -- Rank Profile -- Search Center -- Search Administration -- Monitoring -- PowerShell -- Search Center -- End User Search Experience -- Summary.

CHAPTER 6: CUSTOMIZING SEARCH WITH SHAREPOINT 2010 -- Search Architecture and Topologies -- SharePoint Search Key Components -- FAST Architecture and Topology -- How Architecture Meets Applications -- Developing with Enterprise Search -- Range of Customization -- Top Customization Scenarios -- Search-Driven Applications -- Search-Driven Application Example -- Customizing the Search User Experience -- Web Parts with FAST -- Inter-Web-Part Communication -- Example: Tag Cloud Web Part -- Search Connectors and Searching LOB Systems -- New Connector Framework Features -- Crawling Associated Content -- Creating Indexing Connectors -- Model Files -- Tooling in SPD and VS2010 -- Writing Custom Connectors -- A Few More Tips -- Deploying Connectors -- FAST-Specific Indexing Connectors -- Customizing Connectivity -- Working with Federation -- Custom Federation to FAST ESP -- Additional Considerations in Federation -- Working with the Query OM -- Content Enhancement -- Advanced Content Processing with FAST -- Content Pipeline Configuration -- Content Pipeline Extensibility -- Multilingual Search -- Query-Side APIs and OMs -- The Federation Object Model -- The Query Web Service -- The Query RSS Feed -- The Query Object Model -- Query Syntax -- FAST Query Language -- Using RANK and XRANK -- Using SortFormula -- Extending Search Using the Administrative OM -- Authentication and Security -- Search Reports -- Summary -- PART III: IMPLEMENTING SEARCH WITH ESP -- CHAPTER 7: INTRODUCTION TO FAST ESP -- ESP Product Overview -- System Architecture and Administration -- ESP Architecture and Key Components -- The ESP Administrative Interface -- Installation and Setup -- Hardware -- Operating System and Software -- Preparing to Install ESP -- Doing the Install -- Surprises During Installation -- Install Checklist -- Quick Start: Build and Search -- Creating a Collection.

Searching the Collection -- Managing ESP -- FAST Home -- Search Business Center -- ESP Admin GUI -- Other ESP Goodies -- Documentation by Role -- Technical Assistance -- CTS and IMS -- Introducing CTS and IMS -- Content Transformation Services -- Interaction Management Services -- Summary of the CTS and IMS -- Summary -- CHAPTER 8: CUSTOMIZATION AND DEPLOYMENT OF FAST ESP 5.X -- The Big Picture: Why It's Built This Way -- The Core Nodes -- Getting Data into and out of the Core -- Inbound Documents -- Searches and Outbound Search Results -- QR Server Versus RTS Search -- Scaling in General -- Scaling Core RTS Search Nodes for Content -- Scaling Non-Core Nodes for Content -- Scaling Cores for Search Traffi c -- Scaling in Both Directions -- Overview: How a Multinode Installation Works -- Multinode Installation Prep Work -- High-Level Checklist -- TCP/IP Configuration Should Not Be Changed After Installation -- Check Your Firewall against ESP Ports -- Symmetric DNS -- Unix-Specific Considerations -- Input Mode for Various Admin Tasks -- You Probably Need X-Windows -- Minimum X-Windows Resolution -- Unix Multinode Non-GUI Installs -- The Two Normal Scenarios -- Other GUI Choices for Unix Installations -- Can You Tunnel? -- Network Settings -- Other Choices for Bootstrapping InstallProfile.xml -- Using a Temporary Virtual Linux Box -- Using a Temporary Windows Microsoft Machine! -- Custom Install Profiles -- Specific Unix SSH Requirements -- Summary of SSH Setup Procedure -- Replace Passwords with SSH Credentials and Keys -- Removing SSH Host Authorization Prompts -- Distributing the SSH Credentials -- Reviewing a Three-Node Linux Installation -- Allocation of Processes -- Installation Profile -- Starting the Installation -- Defining Nodes -- System Tests -- Assigning Processes -- Copying Node Files -- Installing -- Backing Up Quiescent States.

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