What’s New inSharePoint 2013 Search

Agnes MolnarSenior Search Solutions Consultant,

SharePoint Server MVP

Introduction

• Senior Search Solutions Consultant• SharePoint Server MVP

• Speaker, Blogger, Community Lead

http://aghy.hu

http://www.DoMoreWithSearch.com

Agnes.Molnar@BAInsight.com

@molnaragnes

There are major changes in Search!

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Search is used pervasively throughout the platform

Combination of FAST and SharePoint Search

Result Sources

Used pervasively throughout the platform

High Scalability

Continuous Crawling

Content by Search WCM

CSOMResult Blocks

Query Suggestions Query Rules

Search Refinements

DemoNew Search User Interface

Search RefinementSearch Refinement• Customizable• Now more graphical

Faceted Navigation• Hierarchical• Managed from with the Term Store• Customizable

Query Processing

DemoSearch Refinement

One Engine – Combination of FAST and SharePoint Search

• Keeps many of the best capabilities from FAST

• Completely new search core• Highly Scalable• Single Query Language

Architecture

Delegated Search Administration

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Task Site Collection

Admin

Site Admin

Create and/or override Query Rules, including Promoted Results

Create and/or override Result types and display templates

Create and/or override Result Sources, either for remote locations or as a custom search “vertical”

Create managed properties

Create refiners

Start a local crawl – can even be done down to the list level

Architecture

Built for the Cloud• Multi-Tenant

DemoDelegated Search Administration

Search is Pervasive in SharePoint 2013

• Content By Search Web Part• My Tasks• My Site View• “What’s new” feed• E-Discovery Console• Topic Pages• Recommendations• Customer Engagement Portal• Image Library search• Exchange 15 search• Web Content Management

Pervasive

DemoContent Search Web Part

Result Sources

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• Local SharePoint Index• This farm

• Remote SharePoint• Another farm• oAuth Trust

• Open Search• Upgraded support for 1.1

• Exchange• Same Search

• Anonymous Authentication is finally supported

Scopes and Federated Search in SharePoint 2010 are now known as “Result Sources” in SharePoint 2013

Crawl & Content Processing

Gotcha! - You can’t interleave results from sources

Continuous Crawling• Because of changes in how the

index is created and stored, a document can appear in the index within seconds of going through content processing

• Crawl continuously every 15 minutes (by Default)

• Can change the default using PowerShell(Set-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource )

• Can run at the same time as Full and Incremental Crawls

• Ignore Errors and just logs them!

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Gotcha! - Only works on SharePoint Content

Content Freshness

Content Freshness

Query Actions(What action to perform)

• Promoted Results• Best Bets• Visual Best Bets

• Result Blocks• Additional Query

• Query Modification• XRANK• Query Re-Write

Query Rules

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Query Conditions (does it meet a condition?)• Contains Words• Source• Type• Source• RegEX

Query Publishing(When to perform this action)

• Start Date• End Date

Query Processing

Search Query Builder

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New Tool to help you build complex queries

• Used Pervasively• Query Rules• Result Blocks• And More…

• Visually build complex queries• Allows for testing queries• Refiners• Sorting

Query Processing

DemoQuery Builder

Result Blocks

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Promoted Result(Visual Best Bet)

Office 365 Results Block

Promoted Result(Best Bet)

Search Core Results

Query Processing

Query Suggestions

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Pre-Query Suggestions

Post-Query Suggestions

A list of items that others are typing for their queries

A list of items you have clicked on before from your personal query log

Based upon the results that you have clicked on at least twice

Query Processing

Web Content Management

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Metadata navigation Topic Pages Clean URLs Content by Search Refinements Recommendations

(item-to-item, popularity)

Events Analytics Engine

Mined Recommendations

Search Engine

Simplified Navigation

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AudioCamerasComputersHome appliancesPhonesTV and video

TERM STORE NAVIGATION TAXONOMY

Friendly URLhttp://contoso.com/computers

Use pagemaincategory.aspx

CONTENT SEARCH WEB PART

WCM

Content by Search Web Part

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• New presentation template model for easy content presentation fine tuning

• Content rendered in client side

• Provides full control on rendering capabilities using html templates

• Easy editors as web part editors for defining planned query

WCM

Key Takeaways

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• One new Search Core• Search is Pervasive is SharePoint 2013• SharePoint 2013 provides more control over search• Built with the Cloud in mind

• multi-tenant scenarios• SharePoint is now a viable WCM platform

outside the firewall

• SharePoint Search Development is getting easier

• XSLT

• HTML & JavaScript

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User Experience

Working with Queries and

Results

Working with Content

Architecture, Deployment & Operations

Applications &

Development

This book contains 20 chapters, and more than 100 pages packed full of valuable insights. Also includes helpful call outs and screenshots.

Questions?

Email: Agnes.Molnar@BAInsight.com

Twitter: @molnaragnes

Blog: http://aghy.hu

http://DoMoreWithSearch.com