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Enterprise Search - Building and Implementing Enterprise Search Solutions
Three-day—Instructor-led
Course DescriptionEnterprise Search from Microsoft empowers people to find information and expertise anywhere in the organization. It enables IT professionals to manage, secure, scale, and extend search as an integrated part of a broader information management infrastructure. This training is your opportunity to learn how to build, implement, and manage an Enterprise Search Solution using SharePoint® products and technologies.
This three-day training provides an in-depth look at and hands-on experience of key enterprise search capabilities in Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007. It provides 400 level training on how to synthesize SharePoint products and technologies, in order to build, implement and manage Enterprise Search solutions for customers. This training focused on Enterprise Search is the deeper follow-up SharePoint training to the SharePoint Server boot camps.
The course uses labs facilitated by an instructor, which are more free-form instead of step-by-step. This gives the students greater flexibility but also requires active participation. Hence, the attendees should not expect a completely scripted, step-by-step workshop.
Audience
This course is intended for SharePoint farm and site collection administrators, developers, search professionals, and consultants who need to know how to build and implement enterprise search solutions.
Prerequisites
Students should have deep understanding of Windows SharePoint Services V3 and Microsoft office SharePoint Server 2007 along with experience implementing the latest version of SharePoint products and technologies. It is recommended that attendees should have attended a SharePoint Server Boot Camp or acquired equivalent 300-level expertise on Office SharePoint Server 2007 before coming to the training. The courses which serve as pre-requisites for this class are 5060 (Implementing WSS 3.0) and 5061 (Implementing MOSS 2007)
Course Outline
Day 1:
Module 1: Introduction to Enterprise Search
This module defines Enterprise Search and gives the background you need to understand the technology and the business solutions it provides our customers.
· Key new features of MOSS 2007
· Describe the Partner business opportunity in Enterprise Search
· Describe the challenges in providing effective Enterprise Search
· Lab 1: Prelab Exercise - 15 Minutes
Module 2: MOSS 2007 – Enterprise Search Overview
This module introduces the key search capabilities in the family of Office SharePoint Server 2007 products and gives a comparison of search features and versions available as well as a comparison of the great improvements they have over the older SharePoint Portal Server 2003.
· Describe the challenges of Enterprise Search
· Describe the goals of Microsoft Enterprise Search
· Describe the basic concepts of Microsoft Enterprise Search
· Describe the technologies that support Microsoft Enterprise Search
· Highlight Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search Features
· Lab 2: Configure the End User MOSS Experience – 60 Minutes
Module 3: MOSS 2007 Walkthrough
This module presents the improvements in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 for:
· Highlight Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search Features
· Describe the tools used to configure search in Office SharePoint Server 2007
· Describe the basics of configuring Microsoft Enterprise Search
· Administration
· Performance
Module 4: Architecture and Deployment Scenarios
Describes the logical architecture of search in Office SharePoint Server 2007, in addition to the physical architecture of servers and server farms.
· Describe the technologies that support Microsoft Enterprise Search
· Describe possible MOSS 2007 logical architectures
· Lab 4: MOSS 2007 Logical Design Planning Lab 4 - 30 Minutes
Module 5: Crawl and Query Processes
Describes the MOSS 2007 crawl process and how it can be configured and managed
· Understanding the crawl process
· Creating content sources
· Configuring crawl rules
· Scheduling crawls
· Lab 5A: Crawl and Query Process – 15 Minutes
· Lab 5B: Managing the Search Schema - 30 Minutes
· Lab 5C: Adding Content Sources and Search Scopes - 30 Minutes
Module 6: Relevance
· Describes why relevance and ranking is important in the search process and how it is accomplished.
· Define the concept of search relevance
· Calculation relevance factors
· Understanding and managing for relevance
· Lab 6: Tuning Relevancy - 30 Minutes
Day 2
Module 7: The Search End-User Experience
Provides examples of how the user experience is enhanced by the search capabilities. Explore the end user interface and how to customize this interface.
· Creating a positive end-user search experience
· Describe how to configure end-user applications to use MOSS 2007 search
· Lab 7A: Customize the Search Results Page - 30 Minutes
· Lab 7B: Creating a New Search Center- 45 Minutes
Module 8: The MOSS 2007 Search Object Model
Describes the programming object model that MOSS 2007 search is built upon and describes how it can be exposed to other applications and Web services.
· Describe the MOSS 2007 object model
· Describe how the MOSS 2007 object model can be used to extend the application
· Lab 8: Accessing the MOSS Search Web Service- 60 Minutes
Module 9: Business Data Catalog Search
Defines structured and unstructured data, and describes how the search features let users search for data from different sources.
· Define the Business Data Catalog (BDC)
· Explain why the BDC is important to Officer SharePoint Server 2007 Search
· Describe the use of Business Data Web parts
· Describe building custom applications using the BDC
· Lab 9A - Search Using the Business Data Catalog - 45 Minutes
· Lab 9B - Search a Web Service using the BDC- 30 Minutes
Module 10: Extensibility and Integration
Describes how search can be extended to let administrators and developers easily build custom applications and targeted solutions.
· Describe how to customize search in Office SharePoint Server 2007
· Define a Protocol Handler and describe what it provides
· Define iFilters and describe how they are specified in Office SharePoint Server 2007
· Lab 10 - Extending Search with IFilters- 45 Minutes
Day 3
Module 11: Administration
Describes how search is administered and how IT professionals manage the search processes.
· Describe built-in management tools available for MOSS 2007
· Describe the administrative architecture of MOSS 2007
· Explore the MOSS 2007 management tools
· Lab 11 - Search Schema Administration- 30 Minutes
Module 12: Security
This module describes the security capabilities built in to MOSS 2007 and explains the complexity of enterprise search compared to Internet search.
· Describe the MOSS 2007 security architecture
· Describe how MOSS 2007 security works with windows security
· Describe MOSS 2007 search security
· Lab 12A - Custom Security Trimmers- 30 Minutes
· Lab 12b: Using a BDC Security Trimmer- 30 Minutes
Module 13: Performance, Scalability, and Capacity Planning
MOSS 2007 is built with the ability to scale from a single server to the largest corporate multi-server search solution. This module provides the details behind scalability capability and how it is accomplished.
· Describe key performance factors for MOSS 2007
· Describe hardware and software requirements for MOSS 2007
· Explain how to scale MOSS 2007 up and out
· Lab 13: MOSS 2007 Capacity Planning- 60 Minutes
Module 14: Search Operations
In this module, you will examine the following Search related operations and maintenance tasks: Resources for Search Operations, Search Settings and Configurations, MOM 2005 Management Pack, Backup, Restore and Disaster Recovery, Search Logs .
· Describe the MOM 2005 management features
· Introduce the MOM management pack for MOSS 2007
· Lab 14: Install and Configure MOSS 2007 MOM Management Pack- 60 Minutes
