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The Things you need to know about

Sharepoint 2013 Search Iain Fletcher

Matt Willsmore

15th May 2013

2 Agenda

• SP2013 Introduction

• What does it look like?

• What’s missing?

• Architecture

• Migration considerations

• Licensing

• Concluding points

3 SP2013 introduction

• New ground up rewrite by FAST team

• Merge of next generation FAST engine &

SP2010 codebase

• Little shared code with FAST ESP or FS4SP

• FAST technology as mass market product

• Difficult to compare – should be seen as new

product not new version

4 So what does it look like?

5 What else does it do?

• Result sources

• Result types

• Display templates

• Document previews

• Query rules

• Analytics / recommendation engine

• Content by search SBA’s (topic pages and catalogue search)

• Metadata store and navigation

• Improved administration features

• Search crops up all over the place…

6 People oriented

7 Enterprise social features

8 Flexible display

9 Result sources

10 Query rules

11 Using the Query Builder

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Ranking takes into account:

• Metadata Context

• Authority

• Freshness

• File type

• Search clicks

What else can I do?

Ranking customized by:

• Query rules /transformations

• Managed property context

• Custom rank profiles

And helped by…

Linguistics:

• 85 languages

• Dictionaries

• Stemming

13 BUT what’s missing vs FAST?

• Document vectors

• Clustering

• Less flexible entity extraction

• Push API

• Fine tuning options for advanced uses

• XML Scope search

• Configurable pipeline – single web service

call out

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Continuous crawling

No push API

BCS – Custom dll

– SQL

– Webservice

Pre and post query security

filters

15 Logical Architecture

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Content processing

Security

Descriptors

Detect

language

Document

summary

Map to

managed

properties

Custom

Entity

Extraction

Phonetic

name

variations

Word

breaking

Security

Descriptors

Parse

Documents

Analytics Metadata

Extration

Register

crawled

properties

IFilter Web

Service Web Service

Callout

Crawler

Indexer

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Small Example (10M docs)

18 Large Example (100M docs)

19 Search migration scenarios

• SP2010 SP2013

– Search first (SP2010 using SP2013 search)

– DB migration and scripted upgrade

– Re-implement

• FS4SP 2013

– Scripted DB merge, migration and upgrade

– Re-implement

• FAST ESP SP2013

– Re-implement

• FAST ESP ???

20 Common licensing questions

What do I get on-premise that I don’t get from O365? • Web Crawl/Connectors

• Extensible content processing

• Custom entity extractors

• Custom security trimming

• Custom recommendations

• Custom query rules

• Content Search WP

• Search Driven Publishing (WCM)

What extra features does my eCAL buy me? • Content Search WP

• Custom entity extractors

• Custom query rules

• Extensible content processing

• Query rules -Advanced

• Video Vertical

• Search Driven Publishing (WCM)

21 Concluding Points

• Enterprise search excellence can be achieved

with SP 2013 in all but the most demanding

organizations

• The fundamentals of enterprise search, remain

unchanged

• Success comes from the combination of technology,

expertise and processes

• Don’t expect to achieve excellence with a plug-and-

play approach to SP 2013

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Any questions?