This session will provide an overview of the enterprise search product line in SharePoint 2010. We've brought together the best of SharePoint Search and FAST ESP, resulting in the most complete enterprise search product line in the industry. In this session we'll talk about our overall strategy for enterprise search and delineate each of the key search products in SharePoint 2010.
Hands-On Labs
Extending SharePoint Search Lab
SharePoint 2010 offers several new ways to customize and extend enterprise search capabilities. In this lab, you will create a search application for finding and managing tasks.
Videos
Introducing SharePoint Search Applications
This session will provide an overview of the enterprise search product line in SharePoint 2010. We've brought together the best of SharePoint Search and FAST ESP, resulting in the most complete enterprise search product line in the industry. In this session we'll talk about our overall strategy for enterprise search and delineate each of the key search products in SharePoint 2010.
The Connector Framework
In this video you will see how to extend search using the search connector framework. Connectors are the new way for you to surface custom data stores into search.
Enhancing the Search User Interface
SharePoint has opened the search UI and you are now able to extend the out of the box search web parts. Using the new SharedQueryManager you can easily manipulate the search results. Search now provides many places for you to create custom code to create a rich search experience for your users.
Creating Custom Ranking Models
In SharePoint search you can tune the weighting that search uses for the results. You can create custom ranking models to return the results the user is expecting. For example maybe you want to weight specification documents higher that video files. In this video you will learn about some of the ways to customize search.