Federated Search & Social Networking

Eric HarlanPrincipal ArchitectSogeti USASession Code: OFC203

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First time in South AfricaFirst Tech EdSharePoint for 6 years, I.T. for 10

Principal Architect for Sogeti USA Twitter.com - @ericharlanhttp://www.ericharlan.com

Federated SearchSome of the finer points

Federated search allows users to query multiple environmental, internal or external sources. Then display that result set on a single search results page.Search results are displayed via federated search web partsThe source never has to be indexedThere is no “API” the api is XML

Federated SearchSharePoint Prerequisites

SharePoint SP1 (WSS first, then MOSS)Infrastructure Update for WSS 3.0 (KB951695)Applies to ALL Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (MOSS, MSS, MSSX, Project Server)Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297)Applies to: MOSS 07, MOPS 07, MSS 08, MSSX 08Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Project 2007 (KB951547) Applies to: Project 07

Federated SearchKnown Update Issues

Microsoft GroupBoard 2007More info on TechNet but basically uninstall GroupBoard, install the updates, reinstall GroupBoard.

Error: Could not find stored procedure ‘dbo.proc_GetDataBaseInformation’

Just ignore it (scary huh?)Content Deployment Jobs Disappear

It’s a user interface issues, your jobs are still there. Simply click on the one of the columns to sort the list and they will reappear. Only need to do this once.

Federated SearchKnown Update Issues (cont)

Blog ‘Email a post’Wont open a new email, there is a KB article on how to fix this

Single Server Farm, automatic updates will be applied, multi-server farm automatic updates will not be applied

Federated SearchWhere could we use Federated Search?

Ideas? Throw them out!

Federated SearchWhere could we use Federated Search?

Searching different Farms in the same company, in different geographic locationsTech searches on topics on other sites (TechNet)RSS feeds specific to a topic from news sitesSearching internal systems that are OpenSearch compliant but can’t be indexed (or shouldn’t be)Etc…

Federated SearchDo’s and Do Not’s

Federated search will do:Send a query to other search engines or applicationsFormat and render the resultsWork out of the box with minimal effort with many existing search engines and applications

Federated search will not do:Interweave results sets from other sources into a single result setRelevance rank results from other search engines or applications

Federated SearchKnow the Obstacles

Federated Search

Know the ObstaclesAdvantages Disadvantages

Provides enterprise-wide search. Search relevancy is not enterprise-wide. Relevancy is scoped to each content source.

No limitation to the number of documents or items that can be search.

Managing multiple SSPs or deployments of search server 2008 increases Admin costs.

Content is not crawled or synchronized over WAN.

Query performance for remote locations is subject to WAN.

Query performance is optimized for local content while at the same time providing results for remote content.

Because content is not synchronized across the environment, users will be downloading documents over WAN during peach hours.

Users can search different locations with out connection to each location separately. Users cannot use advanced search options.

Each Content store can be managed separately. Keeping security trimming of search difficult .

Federated SearchMake the Connection

Federated SearchMake the Connection

Building a Federated ConnectorRequired functionality for a Federated Connector

Provide a web page or web service for the search server’s query request, sent as a parameterized URL.Retrieve the search query from the request's URL parameters.Submit the query to the repository’s search engine in the appropriate format.Convert the repository’s search results into a structured XML format.Return the search results XML in the response to the search server.

Out of the box connectors (news, media, blogs, info) http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/connectors/federated.aspx

Federated SearchMake the Connection

Configurable Central Admin Federated LocationsA Federated location defines the federated search connection to the external repository, and is composed of the following

Location TypeQuery and More Results link templatesTriggersDisplay InformationRestrictionsAuthentication and credentials information

Federated SearchHit the Double Blacks

Federated SearchHit the Double Blacks

For the more challenging and refinedFederated Results Caching

Results for a query are cached for 60 secondsSynchronous/Asynchronous Rendering

Top Federated Results Web part is always SynchronousFederated Results Web Part can be either Synchronous/AsyncSlow Locations should always be async and in a Federated results Web Part (time out is 90 seconds)

Paging Federated ResultsSupport for “&StartAt=“ in Query Template URL

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Question:Name another possible use for Federated Search (First three, most creative wins)

Please attend other business productivity sessionsOffice and SharePoint track (OFC)Unified Communications (UNC)

Federated Search & Social NetworkingEric HarlanPrincipal ArchitectSogeti USA

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Federated SearchFarewell

Evaluations (5's are better)I would love to come back!

Lets Chat afterOther Tech Ed Sessions

InfoPath tips and tricksFederated SearchArchitecture Panel w/Joel Oleson, Hilton Giesenow, Zlatan Dzinic TechEd Online – Twitter's influence on the SharePoint Community

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