With SharePoint 2013, Microsoft has combined the best features of SharePoint search and FAST into a single engine with better relevance, faster performance, and easier configuration. This session will introduce SharePoint 2013’s new search capabilities and provide tips for deploying an enterprise-wide search platform. We’ll walk through strategies for managing content sources, optimizing filters, and providing a clean interface with display templates.

1. SharePoint 2013 Search
Bert Johnson

2. About Bert Johnson
• SharePoint Architect with Protiviti
• Microsoft Certified Master since 2010
• bert@bertjohnson.net
• http://www.slideshare.net/bertjohnsonnet/
• Twitter: @SPBert

3. Agenda
• Planning for “Enterprise Search”
• Microsoft‟s Search Capabilities
• SharePoint Search 101
• Search Enhancements in SharePoint 2013
• End-User Experience
• Content By Search Web Part
• Application Platform

4. Planning for
“Enterprise Search”

5. All of Your Data in One Place
• SharePoint content
• Exchange content
• CRM and ERP data
• LOB databases
• File shares
• People / expertise
• Websites

6. Motivations
• More data in more places
• Find data spread across multiple systems
• Scale to support large index and query volumes
• Different types of data
• Incorporate different types of results
• Find employee expertise
• A need to act quickly
• Enable fast decisions through filtering
• Adapt based on user behavior
• Ensure results are secure and manageable
• Automatic security trimming
• Centralized analytics

7. Microsoft’s Search
Capabilities

8. Microsoft’s Search Capabilities
• Search is one of Microsoft‟s top priorities, permeating every product line
• SharePoint, FAST, and Bing are the cornerstones of a ten year R&D roadmap focused on
search innovation
• Microsoft‟s total R&D budget for 2012 was $9.6 billion, with over $2 billion towards search
• Microsoft has recently made several large search acquisitions, including:

9. FAST Search Solves the Toughest
Challenges
The #1 electronics retailer
The source for all government publications
The #1 computer retailer
The #1 fashion retailer
The #1 career site

10. Gartner Quadrant
• Consistently recognized as a leader
since the FAST acquisition
• Recently downgraded by Gartner
due to the tight coupling with
SharePoint

11. SharePoint Search 101

13. Social Search
• People Search
• Incorporates people‟s interests, expertise, and recent activity
• Outlook Social Connector automatically discovers relationships
• “Self Search”
• Returns information about the current user
• User Behavior
• Click popularity influences the ranking of search results
• Suggestions driven by past searches and taxonomy
• Ranking driven by:
• Content ratings
• Social tagging
• Query suggestions
• Popularity of click-through

14. Linguistic Capabilities
• Managed properties allow structured queries
• Wildcard searches using a partial prefix
• e.g. “Micro*” returns “Microchip”, “Microscope”, and “Microsoft”
• Correct common misspellings and recommend alternatives
• Phonetic search algorithm and nickname matching
• Search using booleans (AND, OR, NOT)
• Support for operators on managed properties
• e.g. “modified>6/14/2013”
• Many language packs supported

15. SharePoint Architecture
• 2010/2013 Improvements
• Crawling now distributed across
multiple load balanced servers
• Index can be partitioned and
distributed across servers
• New service application model can
isolate search from other services
• Scale and performance improvements
• Manageability through PowerShell

16. FAST Search 101

17. Alan Brewer, Sales
What should I know about
selling ERP consulting?
Renee Lo, Engineer
What should I know about
implementing ERP?

18. FAST Architecture
• “Content Transformation Services” Pipeline
• Sequential stages perform specific tasks on content
• Breaks down content into discrete parts
• Understands file encoding, data formats, and written languages
• Custom stages can be built to enrich content
• The Pipeline automatically tries to infer known properties
(names, addresses, dates)
• e.g. Author property of “John Doe” is automatically picked up from “By John Doe”
• “Interaction Management Services” allowed query differentiation
• FAST farms can scale to handle any needs
Format
Conversion
Language
Detection
Entity
Extraction
Lemmatization
Mapper
…

19. 1
Content
Volume
Query
Volume
Scale-out Multiple
“Dimensions”
Content Volume
Query Volume
Indexing Freshness
Redundancy Options
Search
Indexing
Performance Targets*
15M Docs/column
30 QPS/row
Search and Indexing
Crawling and Content
Processing
Query and Result
Processing

20. Search Enhancements in
SharePoint 2013
End-User Experience

22. Display Templates

23. Query Rules

24. Site Collection Settings
• 18 links of settings to manage!

25. eDiscovery and Exchange Integration
• eDiscovery is based on search
• Can now connect to Exchange via trust
• Export now supported

26. MySite Task Aggregation
• Search aggregates tasks
from SharePoint, Exchange,
and Project Server
• Example of search-based
presentation

27. Search Enhancements in
SharePoint 2013
Content By Search Web Part

28. Content By Search Web Part

29. Content Reuse

30. Search Enhancements in
SharePoint 2013
Applications

31. Developer Improvements
• Derive from Content By Search Web Part
• Supported Methods:
• Keyword Query Language
• FAST Query Language
• REST Interface
• Just use /_api/search/query?querytext=„‟
• E.g.:
https://intranet.yourcompany.com/_api/search/query?querytext='Share
Point+Conference+.ORG„

32. Analytics and Recommendations
• New analytics engine based on search
• Allows for targeted recommendation

33. Search Internals

34. Q&A

35. Resources
• TechNet SP2013 Search Guide: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/sharepoint/jj898538.aspx

36. About Bert Johnson
• SharePoint Architect with Protiviti
• Microsoft Certified Master since 2010
• bert@bertjohnson.net
• http://www.slideshare.net/bertjohnsonnet/
• Twitter: @SPBert