Enterprise Search solution Architect Workshop

This two-day instructor-led workshop provides students with the knowledge and skills to architect enterprise search solutions with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The workshop focuses on architectural issues and decisions.

Doelgroep:

This course is intended for experienced technical and solution architects who have a minimum of four years experience with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Resultaat:

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Describe enterprise search architecture.

Recognize and apply architectural patterns to search scenarios.

Performance-tune and optimize enterprise search solutions.

Plan capacity for enterprise search solutions.

Architect search solutions that include line-of-business data

Architect and develop search solutions based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Inhoud

Module 1: Enterprise Search Architecture

This module explains the Enterprise Search Architecture of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Lessons

Enterprise Search Overview

Enterprise Search Physical Architecture

Enterprise Search Architectural Processes

Information Architecture and Search

Lab 1: Enterprise Search Architecture

Exercise 1: Defining Functional Requirements for Enterprise Search Solutions

Exercise 2: Identifying Physical Requirements for Enterprise Search Solutions

Exercise 3: Designing Enterprise Search Schemas

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the business requirements and goals for enterprise search solutions, and how components in the search technology landscape can be used to achieve those goals and satisfy those requirements.

Describe the physical architecture of the enterprise search technologies provided by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Describe the logical architecture of enterprise search technologies in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 server farms.

Explain how information architecture and search architecture combine to shape search solutions.

Module 2: Architectural Patterns for Enterprise Search Solutions

This module describes a wide range of typical search scenarios and then investigates architectural patterns that meet the requirements of those scenarios.

Lessons

Departmental Search

People Search

Internet Site Search

Business Data Search

Multilingual Search

Enterprise Search

Geographically Dispersed Search

Patterns for Extending Search

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe typical search scenarios.

Identify appropriate architectural patterns to meet the requirements of typical search scenarios.

Module 3: Performance Tuning and Optimization for Enterprise Search

This module explains how to tune and optimize enterprise search solutions that are based on the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 platform.

Lessons

Enterprise Search Physical Characteristics

Architecting Enterprise Search for Non-Functional Requirements

Optimizing Enterprise Search Deployment Architectures

Optimizing Search Relevance

Lab 3: Performance Tuning and Optimization for Enterprise Search Solutions

Exercise 1: Monitoring Enterprise Search Performance

Exercise 2: Defining a Scaling Strategy for Enterprise Search

Exercise 3: Tuning Relevance

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe enterprise search physical characteristics.

Architect enterprise search for non-functional requirements.

Optimize enterprise search deployment architectures.

Optimize search relevance.

Module 4: Capacity Planning for Enterprise Search Solutions

This module explains how to plan capacity for enterprise search solutions and architectures.

Lessons

Analyzing Enterprise Corpuses

Planning for Index Catalog Files

Planning for Search Databases

Lab 4: Capacity Planning for Enterprise Search Solutions

Exercise 1: Analyzing the Enterprise Corpus

Exercise 2: Planning Capacity for Index Catalog Files

Exercise 3: Planning Capacity for the Search Databases

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Analyze enterprise corpuses.

Plan for index catalog files.

Plan for search databases.

Module 5: Indexing Enterprise Data

This module explains the architectural issues and guidelines on how to include line-of-business data in enterprise search solutions.

Lessons

Business Data Catalog Content Sources

Business Data Catalog Security

Lab 5: Indexing Enterprise Data

Exercise 1: Creating Business Data Catalog Applications for Search

Exercise 2: Indexing Business Data Catalog Application

Exercise 3: Searching Business Data Catalog Data

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the architecture of indexing line-of-business data through the Business Data Catalog.

Explain the architectural issues around Business Data Catalog security for search solutions.

Module 6: Architecting and Developing Search Solutions

This module explains the architectural issues around customizing, extending and developing search applications that use the core Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 indexing and query services.

Lessons

Customizing Search Center

Extending Search Center

Custom Search Scenarios in SharePoint Sites

Adding Enterprise Search Capabilities to Non-SharePoint Solutions

Developing Custom Security Trimmers

Lab 6: Architecting and Developing Search Solutions

Exercise 1: Implementing URL-based Queries

Exercise 2: Creating Query and Result Web Parts

Exercise 3: Developing with the Query Web Service

After completing this module, students will be able to provide architectural guidance to developers on:

Customizing Search Center.

Extending Search Center.

Creating custom search scenarios in SharePoint sites.

Adding enterprise search capabilities to non-SharePoint solutions.

Developing custom security trimmers.

Vooropleiding

Before attending this course, students must have:

At least two years working with SharePoint Products and Technologies, in any of the following roles:

Solution Architect

Technical Architect

At least two years practical experience as a lead developer (or provided architectural guidance to lead developers) in development projects for SharePoint Products and Technologies

Technical expertise in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

At least six months combined experience as a technical and solution architect for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 projects.

Led consulting engagements that are focused on the search technologies of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Experience gathering and analyzing customer experience.

Completed course M5060: Implementing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Completed course M5061: Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

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