SharePoint 2010 Search and FAST Search Server 2010 Training

Delivery Options

• Customized Onsite Training (5 days): Request a Proposal

Class Description

Class Overview

Class Goals

• Learn the SharePoint search architecture and identify search components.
• Learn to crawl and configure SharePoint sites and file shares.
• Learn to create and configure a search site with out of the box search web parts.
• Learn to create and configure federated locations and federated web parts.
• Learn to implement SharePoint search scopes and managed metadata.
• Learn to configure and customize SharePoint linguistic features.
• Learn to create a search web part using the Federated Object Model.
• Learn to create a Query Web Services client to submit a query and retrieve results.
• Learn to create an External Content Type using SharePoint Designer.
• Learn to create a .NET Assembly Connector using Visual Studio 2010.
• Learn the product features, benefits, and usage.
• Learn to identity the search architectural components of the product.
• Learn to configure the FAST Web Crawler and describe FAST Search connector capabilities.
• Learn to construct FAST Query Language queries.
• Learn to configure numeric refiners and FAST search scopes.
• Learn to configure linguistics features like keywords, synonyms, stemming, spell checking, and offensive content filtering.
• Learn to implement advanced content processing.
• Learn to implement ranking profiles and optimize search results relevancy.

Class Outline

1. Processing Data Sources
   1. Lesson 1: Search Architecture
   2. Lesson 2: SharePoint Management Shell
   3. Lesson 3: Crawling Content
   4. Lab: Crawling Content
      1. Exercise 1: Test Drive Windows PowerShell
      2. Exercise 2: Crawl SharePoint Sites and File Shares
2. Configuring Search Sites
   1. Lesson 1: Keyword Syntax
   2. Lesson 2: Introducing the Search Site
   3. Lesson 3: Search Web Parts
   4. Lab: Configuring a Basic Search Site
      1. Exercise 1: Building a Basic Search Site
3. Configuring Federation
   1. Lesson 1: Federated Search Basics
   2. Lesson 2: Creating New Federated Locations
   3. Lesson 3: Adding Metadata to a Federated Location
   4. Lesson 4: Security Options
   5. Lab: Configuring Federated Web Parts
      1. Exercise 1: Configuring Federated Web Parts
4. Scopes and Managed Metadata
   1. Lesson 1: SharePoint Search Scopes
   2. Lesson 2: Managed Metadata
   3. Lab: Scopes and Managed Metadata
      1. Exercise 1: SharePoint Scopes
      2. Exercise 2: Managed Metadata
5. SharePoint Linguistics
   1. Lesson 1: Noise Words, Thesaurus, and Custom Dictionaries
   2. Lesson 2: Query Suggestions, Nicknames, and Stemming
   3. Lab: SharePoint Linguistics
      1. Exercise 1: Work with content in multiple languages
      2. Exercise 2: Noise Words
      3. Exercise 3: Configure a Thesaurus
      4. Exercise 4: Custom Dictionary
      5. Exercise 5: Add a query suggestion
6. Federated Object Model
   1. Lesson 1: Overview
   2. Lesson 2: Scenario Walk Through
   3. Lab: Federated Search
      1. Exercise 1: Federated Object Model
7. Creating Custom Search Applications
   1. Lesson 1: Query Setup
   2. Lesson 2: Query Submission
   3. Lab: Create a Search Client
      1. Exercise 1: Creating a Query Web Services Application
8. Extending Connectors
   1. Lesson 1: Creating External Content Types
   2. Lesson 2: Configuring Associations
   3. Lesson 3: Configuring Incremental Crawls
   4. Lesson 4: Exporting and Importing
   5. Lab: Creating an External Content Type
      1. Exercise 1: Creating an External Content Type
9. Creating Custom Connectors
   1. Lesson 1: Key Concepts
   2. Lesson 2: Creating a .NET Assembly Connector
   3. Lab: .NET Connectors
      1. Exercise 1: Create a .NET Connector
10. Module 1: FAST Search Architecture
    1. Lesson 1: Product Differentiators
    2. Lesson 2: Search Architecture
    3. Lab: Architecture Walk Through
       1. Exercise 1: Architecture Walk Through
11. Module 2: FAST Specific Connectors
    1. Lesson 1: Capabilities and Usage
    2. Lesson 2: FAST Specific Connectors
    3. Lab: FAST Search Web Crawler
       1. Exercise 1: FAST Web Crawler
12. Module 3: FAST Query Language
    1. Lesson 1: Query Languages Overview
    2. Lesson 2: FQL Operators and Usage
    3. Lab: FAST Query Language
    4. Exercise: FAST Query Language
       1. After completing this module, you will be able to:
13. Module 4: Refiners and Scopes
    1. Lesson 1: Extending Refiners
    2. Lesson 2: FAST Search Scopes
    3. Lab: Refiners and Scopes
       1. Exercise 1: Refiners
       2. Exercise 2: Scopes
14. Module 5: FAST Search Linguistics
    1. Lesson 1: Keywords, Synonyms, and Stemming
    2. Lesson 2: Spell Checking and Offensive Content Filtering
    3. Lab: Working with Linguistics
       1. Exercise 1: Manage Keywords
       2. Exercise 2: Stemming
15. Module 6: Processing Data Content
    1. Lesson 1: Content Processing
    2. Lesson 2: Property Extraction
    3. Lesson 3: Extend the Pipeline
    4. Lab: Content Processing
       1. Exercise 1: Create and Use a Managed Property
       2. Exercise 2A: Configure Property Extraction
       3. Exercise 2B: Create a Product Extractor
       4. Exercise 3: Extend the Pipeline to perform Sentiment Analysis
16. Module 7: Relevancy and Ranking
    1. Lesson 1: Business Based Ranking
    2. Lesson 2: Working with Rank Profiles
    3. Lab: Relevancy and Ranking
       1. Exercise 1: Business Based Ranking
       2. Exercise 2: Rank Profiles

Class Materials

Each student in our Live Online and our Onsite classes receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following areas is required:

• At least two years of experience as a developer for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and/or SharePoint Server 2010.
• Understanding of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and supporting technologies, such as Internet Information Services.
• Experience deploying and configuring Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server Technologies.
• Familiarity with creating projects in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.
• Familiarity with Microsoft .NET programming in Visual Studio 2010.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Windows PowerShell 2.0.

Experience in the following areas would be beneficial:

• C# - the code examples use C#; however, VB.NET programmers with a good grasp of the .NET framework will have little problem understanding the C# code.

Technical Requirements

Our computer technical requirements and setup process is easy, with support just a click away.

• Onsite course technical requirements and setup instructions.