Do you know everything you can about SharePoint 2013 Search? View this informative presentation given by Search Technologies' Iain Fletcher and Matt Willsmore at the Enterprise Search Europe 2013 conference. An overview of SharePoint 2013 Search functionality can be found at http://www.searchtechnologies.com/sharepoint-15-search-overview.html http://www.searchtechnologies.com

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The Things you need to know about
Sharepoint 2013 Search
Iain Fletcher
Matt Willsmore
15th May 2013

2. 2
Agenda
• SP2013 Introduction
• What does it look like?
• What’s missing?
• Architecture
• Migration considerations
• Licensing
• Concluding points

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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. 4So what does it look like?

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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. 6People oriented

7. 7Enterprise social features

8. 8
Flexible display

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Result sources

10. 10Query rules

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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

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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

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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)

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Large Example (100M docs)

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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  ???

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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)

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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?