Course 10805A: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Search for
Application Developers
Course Length: Three Days
About this course
In this course, students will learn how to develop enterprise
search applications for Microsoft SharePoint 2010. This course
builds on the search-related material in 10175A Microsoft
SharePoint 2010 Application Development. Topics include:
processing data content, configuring Federation, search scopes,
managed metadata, linguistics, federated object model
applications, custom search applications, extending connectors
using SharePoint Designer, and custom connectors using Business
Connectivity Services.
Objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:
•Explain the SharePoint search architecture and identify search
components.
•Crawl and configure SharePoint sites and file shares.
•Create and configure a search site with out of the box search
web parts.
•Create and configure federated locations and federated web
parts.
•Implement SharePoint search scopes and managed metadata.
•Configure and customize SharePoint linguistic features.
•Create a search web part using the Federated Object Model.
•Create a Query Web Services client to submit a query and
retrieve results.
•Create an External Content Type using SharePoint Designer.
•Create a .NET Assembly Connector using Visual Studio 2010.
Audience
This course is intended for application developers and
advanced system administrators working in the Enterprise Search
area to extend SharePoint Server 2010.
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have:
•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.
Course Outline
Module 1: Processing Data Sources
This module describes the logical and physical components of the
crawl architecture and the query architecture for the search
system in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. The new components
enable more redundancy within the server farm and each of the
crawl components and query components can be scaled out
separately based on the needs of the organization. Microsoft has
chosen PowerShell as the scripting language for its’ Enterprise
software. The SharePoint Management Shell in SharePoint Server
2010 provides an extensive set of Windows PowerShell cmdlets
that make development, deployment, and administration of
SharePoint 2010 easier and more efficient.
Understanding how to crawl content is important because, before
end-users can use the enterprise search functionality in
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, you will crawl or federate the
content that you want to make available for users to search.
Lessons
•Lesson 1: Search Architecture
•Lesson 2: SharePoint Management Shell
•Lesson 3: Crawling Content
Lab : Crawling Content
•Exercise 1: Test Drive Windows PowerShell
•Exercise 2: Crawl SharePoint Sites and File Shares
After completing this module, you will be able to
•Identify search components and explain the SharePoint Search
architecture.
•Effectively work with the SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Management
shell.
•Configure and crawl content sources.
Module 2: Configuring Search Sites
This module describes the enhanced Keyword Syntax of Microsoft
SharePoint Server 2010 for search. This enhanced syntax now
supports both Wildcards and Boolean Operators, all of which help
a user find what they are looking for in a more direct and
efficient manner.
In the second lesson of this module, you are introduced to the
components that make up a search site. Understanding how to
configure and modify this site is important for you, the
SharePoint administrator, since your users will use this site to
search across crawled and federated data.
The final lesion of this module continues and in-depth look at
the specialized web parts for a search site, in particular the
“Search Core”, “Search Statistics”, “Web Analytics”, and “Best
Bets” web parts. Additionally a close look at “Filter
Categories” used to filter the contents of a web part. All of
these pieces and processes are designed to enhance the search
site user's experience.
Lessons
•Lesson 1: Keyword Syntax
•Lesson 2: Introducing the Search Site
•Lesson 3: Search Web Parts
Lab : Configuring a Basic Search Site
•Exercise 1: Building a Basic Search Site
After completing this module, you should be able to:
•Construct queries using the SharePoint 2010 Keyword Syntax.
•Layout a search site and work with the search web parts.
•Customize search web parts.
Module 3: Configuring Federation
This module describes how to use and configure Federated search.
With Federated search you can display search results for content
that is not crawled by your search server. The query can be
performed over the local content index, or it can be forwarded
to an external content repository where it is processed by that
repository's search engine. The repository's search engine then
returns the results to the search server. The search server
formats and renders the results from the external repository
within the same search results page as the results from the
search server's own content index. The use of Federation allows
the search administrator to introduce content from selected
sites to enhance the user experience.
Lessons
•Lesson 1: Federated Search Basics
•Lesson 2: Creating New Federated Locations
•Lesson 3: Adding Metadata to a Federated Location
•Lesson 4: Security Options
Lab : Configuring Federated Web Parts
•Exercise 1: Configuring Federated Web Parts
After completing this module, you will be able to:
•Understand how Federated Search works in Microsoft SharePoint
Server 2010, and how to enable it on your site.
•Create a Federated source using RSS/Atom feeds and how to
modify the Results template to display this new source.
•Create additional meta-data to the Federated results display.
•Configure federated search security and site restrictions as
well as the configuration of federated search authentication.
Module 4: Scopes and Managed Metadata
This module will cover two common search site extensions
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Search Scopes and Managed
Metadata.
A search scope defines a subset of information in the search
index. Users can select a search scope to restrict search
results to the subset of information. Typically, search scopes
encompass specific topics or content sources that are important
and common to users in the organization. For example, you can
create a search scope for all items related to a specific
project or for all items related to a specific group in the
organization, such as finance or marketing. You can also create
a search scope that encompasses several other scopes.
Managed metadata is a hierarchical collection of centrally
managed terms that you can define, and then use as attributes
for items in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (for example,
Search Scopes).
Lessons
•Lesson 1: SharePoint Search Scopes
•Lesson 2: Managed Metadata
Lab : Scopes and Managed Metadata
•Exercise 1: SharePoint Scopes
•Exercise 2: Managed Metadata
After completing this module, you will be able to:
•Implement and configure SharePoint search scopes.
•Implement and configure Managed Metadata using the Taxonomy
API.
Module 5: SharePoint Linguistics
The linguistics features of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 can
greatly improve the effectiveness of your search application, by
increasing the recall of documents matching the query, the
precision of the documents returned by the query and the
relevancy of the documents returned by the query. This module
examines how to configure the various linguistics features that
are available in SharePoint Server 2010.
Lessons
•Lesson 1: Noise Words, Thesaurus, and Custom Dictionaries
•Lesson 2: Query Suggestions, Nicknames, and Stemming
Lab : SharePoint Linguistics
•Exercise 1: Work with content in multiple languages
•Exercise 2: Noise Words
•Exercise 3: Configure a Thesaurus
•Exercise 4: Custom Dictionary
•Exercise 5: Add a query suggestion
After completing this module, you should be able to:
•Describe and configure noise words, thesaurus, and a custom
word breaker dictionary.
•Describe and configure query suggestions, nicknames, and
stemming.
Module 6: Federated Object Model
This module examines the Federated and Query Object Models. All
web parts are now built on the Federated Object Model.
A federated search is the simultaneous querying of multiple
online databases (locations) for the purpose of generating a
single search results page for end users.
When you add a federated location to Microsoft SharePoint Server
2010, end users can search for and retrieve content that has not
been crawled by your server. Federated locations allow queries
to be sent to remote search engines and feeds, after which
SharePoint Server 2010 formats and renders the results to your
end users as part of your crawled content.
In the lab you will create a search web part associated with a
Federated Location.
Lessons
•Lesson 1: Overview
•Lesson 2: Scenario Walk Through
Lab : Federated Search
•Exercise 1: Federated Object Model
After completing this module, you will be able to:
•Explain the difference between the Federated Object Model and
the Query Object Model and identify things to consider when
using the Federated Object Model.
•Create a web part that uses the Federated Object Model and that
mixes results from different locations.
Module 7: Creating Custom Search Applications
The Query Web service exposes the SharePoint Enterprise Search
capabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 to client
applications. This enables you to access search results from
client and Web applications outside of the context of a
SharePoint site. The topics in this module can help you get
started using the Query Web service.
Lessons
•Lesson 1: Query Setup
•Lesson 2: Query Submission
Lab : Create a Search Client
•Exercise 1: Creating a Query Web Services Application
After completing this module, you will be able to:
•Explain how the Query Web Service works and create a Query Web
Services client with a seach.asmx service reference.
•Select and implement a security model for your Query Web
Services client, including how to:
•Structure a query packet.
•Implement the Query XML schema
•Submit a search using QueryService.QueryEx.
•Identify and process different types of query results.
Module 8: Extending Connectors
In some scenarios, you may need to customize the standard
connectors provided with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 to
handle more complex data types and crawling behavior. This
module introduces several key features to accomplish these
tasks.
Lessons
•Lesson 1: Creating External Content Types
•Lesson 2: Configuring Associations
•Lesson 3: Configuring Incremental Crawls
•Lesson 4: Exporting and Importing
Lab : Creating an External Content Type
•Exercise 1: Creating an External Content Type
After completing this module, you should be able to:
•Create External Content Types with customized data members and
operations.
•Configure Associations between ECTs.
•Set up incremental crawls to improve crawl performance.
•Export and import ECTs to handle manual edits to the data
model.
Module 9: Creating Custom Connectors
When the level of desired customization of connectors exceeds
what can be accomplished with external content types and
Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010, it is time to consider
creating through code an entirely new connector. This module
introduces several key tools to accomplish this task.
Lessons
•Lesson 1: Key Concepts
•Lesson 2: Creating a .NET Assembly Connector
Lab : .NET Connectors
•Exercise 1: Create a .NET Connector
After completing this module, you will be able to:
•Describe connector authoring methods available within Business
Connectivity Services.
•Create, deploy, and test a Microsoft .NET Assembly Connector.
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