Extending Microsoft Search Server

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DevTeach Toronto 2010

By: Bob Brown and James Schwartz,

Imason Inc.

Extending Microsoft Search Server



Who are these two goofy guys anyway?





We¶re Architects!



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W

hat will I learn today? Overview of the Microsoft

Search Stack

Getting the most out of

Microsoft Search Server

Express you can do more

than you think!

Enhancing the searchexperience



Let¶s start with the Microsoft Search stack...



Perhaps you enjoy fishing?



Microsoft Search Server Express (MSSx)

Free and easy!

No redundancy or scaling out

capabilities

Scales to approximately

300,000 items with SQL Server

Express (also free) or approx

10 million items with SQL

Server

...BUT still lots of opportunity

we¶ll get to this!



Microsoft Search Server (MSS)

Same features as MSSx

Can scale out for redundancy

or to increase performance

Scales to from 10 million

items to 100 million

depending on the topology

Increased performance andcapacity

Not free!



Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

You¶ve already made the

investment in SharePoint, take

advantage of its search capabilities!

Includes all the search features

available in MSS

Includes Additional search

capabilities over MSS

Integration with social

networking features like PeopleSearch and My Sites

Managed taxonomy ± eg. User

generated tags



FAST Search for SharePoint 2010

Large upfront investment

Enterprise CAL required

Includes all search

features in SharePointSearch 2010

Sophisticated content

processing and property

extraction

Richer search experience



FAST Search for SharePoint 2010

Consider using FAST Search if you:

Require great scalability and performance.

Require an enriched enterprise search experience with the ability tocustomize and tune relevancy and navigation.

Have to crawl different types of internal and external content sources,

including large-scale Web content.

Want to use sophisticated content processing such as propertyextraction



Top 10 Reasons to use FAST Search

1. Content Processing Pipeline

2. Meta-data Extraction

3. Structured Data Search,

4. ³Deep´ Refinement (with precise counts)

5. Visual Search6. Advanced Linguistics

7. Visual Best Bets

8. Extensive Development Platform

9. Context Based Search (custom based search experience based on

user or profile)

10. Extensive Scaling

11. Performance capabilities



Why would I

suggest MSSx to

my boss?



Maybe your boss ispoor...



... or just frugal



Sure it has itslimitations...



...but it can do more than you think



What if we already have MOSS 2007?



MSSx Technical Capabilities



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Query Server Query Server

Index Server Index Server

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File

Share

Web

Site

Content

Sources

Search Center

SharePoint

Web request

(GET)

Exchange

Public

Folder



Search Center Results



Demo 1: Searching Customers & Productswith MSSx





SQLMicrosoft Search Server ExpressMicrosoft Search Server Express



Search Platform

DataSources

FileShare

WebSite

Content

Sources

Search Center

ShareP

oint

Web request

(GET)

ExchangePublic

Folder

Custom

Data

Source

XML




XML Crawling Proxy

ASP.NETWeb Application

Details ASPX page Crawler Index

Query

Adventure-

Works

Database

XML Output

Database

Records crawls

Listing ASPX page

Search Results Page

Search

Applications

queries

How we did it...

Customers

Products

Employees

XML iFilter



Out of the box XML iFilter will

identify one-level deep nodes as

crawled properties

new crawled propertySharePoint:customer/address(Text)

The XML iFilter: the key ingredient



nodes two levels deep and lower are searchable, but cannot be

defined as crawled properties

name and locationnodes will not be able

to be mapped to

managed properties

unless moved to childof root



Demo 2: Setting up Employees fromscratch




XML Crawling Proxy

ASP.NETWeb Application

Details ASPX page Crawler Index

Query

Adventure-

Works

Database

XML Output

Database

Records crawls

Listing ASPX page

Search Results Page

Search

Applications

queries

Recapping...

Customers

Products

Employees

XML iFilter



SQLMi r ft r r r r Mi r ft r r r r



r Pl tf rmSearch Center

Search as a service

Web Services

XML Crawling Proxy

Any Data

Source

file share or web site

Custom application



Gotchas

XML iFilter and Windows 2008 SP2 and R2

Workaround: replace the iFilter

16 MB limit on crawled pages Workaround: split up the pages

Property node value limits, 255 character limit

Workaround: use XM

Lattribute values



Questions? Comments? Insults?



Helpful Links

Microsoft Search Server Express Download: 2008: http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/en/us/search-server-

express.aspx

2010 Beta 2:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=dfd0cfac-f52c-4c02-a972-0e4f1c4e7977&displaylang=en

Codeplex Search Community Toolkit http://sct.codeplex.com (look for Search Service Tool, Relevancy Tool,

ASP.Net Server Controls)



Thanks for Attending!

[email protected]@imason.com

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