Sharepoint 2010 - Gilham Consulting Microsoft Notepad

9/1/2010

SharePoint 2010 Search Features (Including FAST)

Here are some of my top capabilities offered with FAST for SharePoint 2010:
1. Preview of PowerPoint slides and Word document thumbnail. When search results are returned for PowerPoint presentations, you have the ability to flip through the slides using a previewer built in Silverlight. For Word documents, you are able to view a thumbnail of the first page in the document.

2. Deep refiners and counts. These are very powerful. Rather than having to do advanced searches and use Boolean search operators, both of which SharePoint and FAST search supports, the refiners allow you to easily view and drill into your search results. For example, refiners can be used to filter the search results to see just PowerPoint presentations or documents modified within the past month. The experience is very similar to what consumers are used to on Bing. FAST for SharePoint 2010 also includes counts in the refiners so you know before you drill deeper that there are 5 documents that were modified in the past month in the example below.

3. Entity extraction is a capability that FAST provides to enable you to automatically build search refiners for content even if that content has not been explicitly tagged with metadata properties. This becomes important in many cases especially when you are indexing older content (e.g. on a file share) and don’t have the time/resources/money to tag all of the documents to have nice refiners to improve the search experience. A good example of this feature in action is the Financial Times web site.
4. Tremendous scale: both SharePoint standard and FAST for SharePoint 2010 have been improved for high availability and scalability. SharePoint 2010 standard search is able to scale up to approximately 100 million items. FAST for SharePoint 2010 is designed to handle over 500 million items.
5. Pipeline customization and search relevancy and tuning: There are many options for tweaking and refining the search engine in terms of the content sources and types it can crawl; how relevancy is handled (e.g. promote/demote certain content sources or documents); have search audience targeting; and to use key words and best bets (e.g. similar to how Bing allows advertisers to show sponsored links or to have selected content always show at the top of the search results page).
Want to go deeper on SharePoint 2010 search? Check out these resources:

SharePoint enterprise search overview: Learn more about SharePoint enterprise search. Includes some end user demos and whitepapers.
SharePoint Server 2010 Search Evaluation Guide: Detailed feature comparison for end user, administration and development.
Product Comparison: Compare the functional differences between the different search offerings from Microsoft.
SharePoint Search Datasheet: Good summary overview of the SharePoint search solutions.
Enterprise Search resource center: Your starting point on TechNet for all technical things related to SharePoint enterprise search solutions from Microsoft. This includes links to virtual labs, technical whitepapers, reference architectures and blogs.
MSDN resources: The Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) provides a number of training videos and code samples for developing and extending custom search solutions based on SharePoint.

Keep an eye out for more technical training and resources on FAST for SharePoint 2010.

SharePoint 2010 Search - Chris Bortlik's Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

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6/30/2010

SharePoint Server 2010 Product Licensing Details

You can use SharePoint 2010 to set up intranet, extranet, and Internet sites. Intranet sites are licensed using a Server/CAL (Client Access License) model. SharePoint Server 2010 is required for each running instance of the software, and CALs are required for each person or device accessing a SharePoint Server. Extranet and Internet sites are licensed using a Server-only model—no CALs are required. For more information on licensing models, see Licensing Details.
SharePoint Server 2010: Intranet Scenarios
Client Access License
The Standard CAL delivers the core capabilities of SharePoint 2010:

Sites: A Single Infrastructure for All Your Business Web Sites

Communities: An Integrated Collaboration Platform

Content: ECM for the Masses

Search: Relevance, Refinement, and People (excludes FAST Search)

Composites: Do-It-Yourself Business Solutions (excludes Access Services and InfoPath Services)

Enterprise Client Access License
The Enterprise CAL delivers the full capabilities of SharePoint 2010:

Sites: A Single Infrastructure for All Your Business Web Sites

Communities: An Integrated Collaboration Platform

Content: ECM for the Masses

Search: Relevance, Refinement, and People includes FAST Search)

Composites: Do-It-Yourself Business Solutions (includes Access Services and InfoPath Services)

Insights: BI for Everyone (includes PerformancePoint Services, Excel Services, and Visio Services)

Note that the Enterprise CAL is additive: To access the Enterprise edition features, a person/device must have both the Standard CAL and Enterprise CAL. Below is a detailed comparison of specific features available in SharePoint Foundation, Standard & Enterprise CAL.
Foundation:
Accessibility
Audience Targeting
Blogs
Browser-based Customizations
Business Connectivity Services
Business Data Connectivity Service
Claims-Based Authentication
Client Object Model (OM)
Configuration Wizards
Connections to Microsoft Office Clients
Connections to Office Communication Server and Exchange
Cross-Browser Support
Developer Dashboard
Discussions
Event Receivers
External Data Column
External Lists
High-Availability Architecture
Improved Backup and Restore
Improved Setup and Configuration
Language Integrated Query (LINQ) for SharePoint
Large List Scalability and Management
Managed Accounts
Mobile Connectivity
Multilingual User Interface
Multi-Tenancy
Out-of-the-Box Web Parts
Patch Management
Permissions Management
Photos and Presence
Quota Templates
Read-Only Database Support
Remote Blob Storage (SQL Feature)
REST and ATOM Data Feeds
Ribbon and Dialog Framework
Sandboxed Solutions
SharePoint Designer
SharePoint Health Analyzer
SharePoint Lists
SharePoint Ribbon
SharePoint Service Architecture
SharePoint Timer Jobs
SharePoint Workspace
Silverlight Web Part
Site Search
Solution Packages
Streamlined Central Administration
Support for Office Web Apps
Unattached Content Database Recovery
Usage Reporting and Logging
Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools
Visual Upgrade
Web Parts
Wikis
Windows 7 Support
Windows PowerShell Support
Workflow
Workflow Models
Standard:
Ask Me About
Basic Sorting
Best Bets
Business Connectivity Services Profile Page
Click Through Relevancy
Colleague Suggestions
Colleagues Network
Compliance Everywhere
Content Organizer
Document Sets
Duplicate Detection
Enterprise Scale Search
Enterprise Wikis
Federated Search
Improved Governance
Keyword Suggestions
Managed Metadata Service
Memberships
Metadata-driven Navigation
Metadata-driven Refinement
Mobile Search Experience
Multistage Disposition
My Content
My Newsfeed
My Profile
Note Board
Organization Browser
People and Expertise Search
Phonetic and Nickname Search
Query Suggestions, "Did You Mean?", and Related Queries
Ratings
Recent Activities
Recently Authored Content
Relevancy Tuning
Rich Media Management
Search Scopes
Secure Store Service
Shared Content Types
SharePoint 2010 Search Connector Framework
Status Updates
Tag Clouds
Tag Profiles
Tags
Tags and Notes Tool
Unique Document IDs
Web Analytics
Windows 7 Search
Word Automation Services
Workflow Templates
Enterprise:
Access Services
Advanced Content Processing
Advanced Sorting
Business Data Integration with the Office Client
Business Data Web Parts
Business Intelligence Center
Business Intelligence Indexing Connector
Calculated KPIs
Chart Web Parts
Contextual Search
Dashboards
Data Connection Library
Decomposition Tree
Deep Refinement
Excel Services
Excel Services and PowerPivot for SharePoint
Extensible Search Platform
Extreme Scale Search
InfoPath Forms Services
PerformancePoint Services
Rich Web Indexing
Similar Results
Thumbnails and Previews
Tunable Relevance with Multiple Rank Profiles
Visio Services
Visual Best Bets

SharePoint Server 2010 Product Line-up - Gurmeet Singh's SharePoint 2010 Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

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5/21/2010

SharePoint 2010 Reference .Net Software Development Kit (SDK)

The Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Software Development Kit (SDK) includes documentation and code samples for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, which builds upon the SharePoint Foundation 2010 infrastructure. The documentation includes detailed descriptions of the technologies that SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 provide for developers, reference documentation for the server and client object models, and step-by-step procedures for using these technologies and object models and programming with them. This SDK also includes best practices and setup guidance to help you get started with your own custom applications that build and extend upon the SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 platforms.
For additional information, you can visit the SharePoint Developer Center on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN): http://msdn.microsoft.com/sharepoint. Visit frequently to learn about recently published content; to view essential getting-started content; to view rich media content such as videos and screencasts; to get connected to instructor-led training and other learning resources; to learn more about product features and scenarios in our MSDN Resource Centers; and to find community resources such as MSDN forums, newsgroups, MVP blogs, and much more.
The SDK also includes many code samples that address common customization scenarios and solution building blocks. Future (quarterly) releases will contain additional samples, and you can also check MSDN Code Gallery for SharePoint solutions and code samples.

Download details: SharePoint 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit

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3/14/2010

SharePoint Overwhelms Business Intelligence - Gartner

SharePoint overwhelms business intelligence as a top search term on Gartner.com, that is. On Google, the SharePoint yield back in May, 2008 was 19,600,000. Today, the number is 15,100,000 (I wonder if Google’s competitive instincts have infected its algorithm). What caused something to finally overtake BI among Gartner’s clients? A number of factors, not the least of which is relentless marketing and promotion by Microsoft. Added to the hype perhaps is client confusion on what SharePoint actually is. Further factors might include the broader prospective user population – as a portal, a collaboration tool, library services, ECM, BCS, and so on, SharePoint is relevant to many levels of technology and business interests. But the single most likely driver for the rise in popularity of SharePoint as a search subject stems from partner (and competitor) compulsion to consciously (or unconsciously) promote it to an unusual extent.
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Read the rest @> SharePoint Overwhelms Business Intelligence (repost from May 2008)

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3/1/2010

Microsoft Perspective on SharePoint 2010 Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Expanding on my original SharePoint 2007 SEO article, here is a great follow up by Jean-Paul at Microsoft.

SEO involves configuring site structure, navigation, page content, metadata and labels to improve search engine relevance and ranking and aims at making it easier for customers and partners to find you through search engines, notably via Bing and Google.
Out-Of-The-Box, SharePoint 2010 is far more SEO-friendly: far more semantic HTML (which helps with WCAG 2.0 AA compliance), powerful metadata management and capture, SEO feature on publishing pages, are only a few of those enhancements. In addition, Microsoft released the new IIS 7.0 SEO Toolkit, which helps Web developers, hosting providers, and Web server administrators to improve their Web site’s relevance in search results by recommending how to make the site content more search engine-friendly. The Toolkit includes the Site Analysis module, the Robots Exclusion module, and the Sitemaps and Site Indexes module, which let you perform detailed analysis and offer recommendations and editing tools for managing your Robots and Sitemaps files. Let’s take a closer look at the benefits of this toolkit:
Improve the volume and quality of traffic to your Web site from search engines

The Site Analysis module allows users to analyze local and external Web sites with the purpose of optimizing the site's content, structure, and URLs for search engine crawlers. In addition, the Site Analysis module can be used to discover common problems in the site content that negatively affects the site visitor experience. The Site Analysis tool includes a large set of pre-built reports to analyze the sites compliance with SEO recommendations and to discover problems on the site, such as broken links, duplicate resources, or performance issues. The Site Analysis module also supports building custom queries against the data gathered during crawling.
Control how search engines access and display Web content

The Robots Exclusion module enables Web site owners to manage the robots.txt file from within the IIS Manager interface. This file is used to control the indexing of specified URLs, by disallowing search engine crawlers from accessing them. Users have the choice to view their sites using a physical or a logical hierarchal view; and from within that view, they can choose to disallow specific files or folders of the Web application. In addition, users can manually enter a path or modify a selected path, including wildcards. By using a graphical interface, users benefit from having a clear understanding of what sections of the Web site are disallowed and from avoiding any typing mistakes.
Inform search engines about locations that are available for indexing

The Sitemaps and Site Indexes module enables Web site owners to manage the sitemap files and sitemap indexes on the site, application, and folder level to help keep search engines up to date. The Sitemaps and Site Indexes module allows the most important URLs to be listed and ranked in the sitemap.xml file. In addition, the Sitemaps and Site Indexes module helps to ensure the Sitemap.xml file does not contain any broken links.
Site Analysis Features

Fully featured crawler engine

Configurable number of concurrent requests to allow users to crawl their Web site without incurring additional processing. This can be configured from 1 to 16 concurrent requests.

Support for Robots.txt, allowing you to customize the locations where the crawler should analyze and which locations should be ignored.

Support for Sitemap files allowing you to specify additional locations to be analyzed.

Support for overriding ‘noindex’ and ‘nofollow’ metatags to allow you to analyze pages to help improve customer experience even when search engines will not process them.

Configurable limits for analysis, maximum number of URLs to download, and maximum number of kilobytes to download per URL.

Configurable options for including content from only your directories or the entire site and sub domains.

View detailed summary of Web site analysis results through a rich dashboard

Feature rich Query Builder interface that allows you to build custom reports

Quick access to common tasks

Display of detailed information for each URL

View detailed route analysis showing unique routes to better understand the way search engines reach your content

Robots Exclusion Features

Display of robots content in a friendly user interface

Support for filtering, grouping, and sorting

Ability to add ‘disallow’ and ‘allow’ paths using a logical view of your Web site from the result of site analysis processing

Ability to add sitemap locations

Sitemap and Sitemap Index Features

Display of sitemaps and sitemap index files in a simple user interface

Support for grouping and sorting

Ability to add/edit/remove sitemap and sitemap index files

Ability to add new URL’s to sitemap and sitemap index files using a physical or logical view of your Web site

Ability to register a sitemap or sitemap index into the robots exclusion file

Read the original article @> SharePoint Experts Blog : A note on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

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1/7/2010

Microsoft Announces New SharePoint 2010 Certifications

Ian posts the latest SharePoint certification news on his blog.

The following certifications (According to the MS Partner web site https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40121316) should be available in June.
IT Pro

70-667 TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring
Microsoft Official Curriculum: Will cover configuration of SharePoint 2010 including deployment, upgrade, management, and operation on a server farm.
70-668 PRO: SharePoint 2010, Administrator
Microsoft Official Curriculum: Will cover advanced SharePoint 2010 topics including capacity planning, topology designing, and performance tuning.

Developer

70-573 TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development
Microsoft Official Curriculum: Five-day instructor-led course designed for developers with six months or more of .NET development experience. Course covers what you need to know to be an effective member of a SharePoint development team using Visual Studio 2010.
70-576 PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications
Microsoft Official Curriculum: Five-day instructor-led training course designed for development team leads who have already passed the Developing on SharePoint 2010 technical specialist exam. The course covers choosing technologies for and scoping a SharePoint project, best practices for SharePoint development, configuring a SharePoint development environment, advanced use of SharePoint developer features, and debugging of code in a SharePoint project.

Read the source @> SharePoint 2010 Certifications - Ian's SharePoint Blog

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12/6/2009

Getting started with BI in SharePoint Server 2010

Getting started with business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010

Download details: Getting started with BI in SharePoint Server 2010

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11/23/2009

Unattended SharePoint 2010 Install with PowerShell

Eric Kraus points out this great nugget of how to create a unattended install of SharePoint 2010

1. Create an XML file that looks like this. This will do a Full Farm Install (quietly). For other config files, check out e:\Files\SetupFarmSilent\config.xml (e: is the drive with SharePoint on it)
sharepointInstall_config.xml
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<Configuration>
    <Package Id="sts">
        <Setting Id="LAUNCHEDFROMSETUPSTS" Value="Yes"/>
    </Package>
    <Package Id="spswfe">
        <Setting Id="SETUPCALLED" Value="1"/>
        <Setting Id="OFFICESERVERPREMIUM" Value="1" />
    </Package>
    <Logging Type="verbose" Path="%temp%" Template="SharePoint Server Setup(*).log"/>
    <PIDKEY Value="USE_YOUR_KEY_HERE" />
    <Setting Id="SERVERROLE" Value="APPLICATION"/>
    <Setting Id="USINGUIINSTALLMODE" Value="1"/>
    <Setting Id="SETUP_REBOOT" Value="Never" />
    <Setting Id="SETUPTYPE" Value="CLEAN_INSTALL"/>
        <INSTALLLOCATION Value="c:\Program Files\Microsoft SharePoint" />
        <Display Level="Basic" CompletionNotice="Yes" AcceptEULA="Yes" />
</Configuration>
2. Next create a PowerShell script, that looks like this (save it to the same folder as the XML file above):

Install-SharePoint.ps1
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$config = "sharepointInstall_config.xml"
$bits = "e:\"
cls
Write-Progress -Activity "Installing SharePoint Quietly" -Status "Copying config file locally"
Copy-Item $config -Destination $bits
Write-Progress -Activity "Installing SharePoint Quietly" -Status "Installing SharePoint"
cmd.exe /C "$bits\setup.exe /config $config"
3. Now run your script from PowerShell, with the the working directory set to the location of your script files:
PS C:> cd sharepointScript
PS C:\sharepointScript> .\Install-SharePoint.ps1
4. Wait a few minutes and the install will complete quietly.
5. Proceed to provisioning the farm with PowerShell, here
Note: Don’t forget to set your execution policy in PowerShell to allow the script to run. Easiest (but least secure): Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

Read the complete article @> Eric Kraus' SharePoint/.NET Blog : Automated SharePoint 2010 Install with PowerShell

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11/22/2009

Video: Developing SharePoint Microsoft Online Sandbox Solutions

Many companies are looking to hosted solutions to offset IT management costs, and this means a shift in the way developers build and deploy apps. SharePoint 2010 provides you with a great way to quickly build and deploy solutions that can run on SharePoint Online, the hosted alternative to your on-premises SharePoint. Come learn how you can use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 to build scalable solutions and deploy them into the cloud.

View the video @> SharePoint Is Not Just On-Premise: Developing and Deploying Solutions to Microsoft SharePoint Online :: Sessions :: Microsoft PDC09

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11/21/2009

SharePoint 2010 Beta Install Error: Failed to create sample data

Update – Jie Li has posted a great beta install article that includes the fix to this error.

http://blogs.msdn.com/opal/archive/2009/11/16/installation-notice-for-sharepoint-2010-public-beta.aspx

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Got the following errors while installing SharePoint 2010 on a new Windows 2008 R2 test domain last night.

Luckily everything still works fine…just no sample data to play with :(

SharePoint 2010 Configuration Error

One or more configuration settings failed.
Failed to create sample data
An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException was thrown. Additional exception information :User cannot be found.

Event Log Details

Error 11/19/2009 8:44:17 PM SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard 104 None

Failed to create sample data.
An exception of type Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileException was thrown. Additional exception information: Unrecognized attribute 'allowInsecureTransport'. Note that attribute names are case-sensitive. (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\WebClients\Profile\client.config line 56)
Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileException: Unrecognized attribute 'allowInsecureTransport'. Note that attribute names are case-sensitive. (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\WebClients\Profile\client.config line 56) --->

Event Log Details:

11/19/2009 20:44:17 14 ERR Task evalprovision has failed with an unknown exception
11/19/2009 20:44:17 14 ERR Exception: Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileException: Unrecognized attribute 'allowInsecureTransport'. Note that attribute names are case-sensitive. (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\WebClients\Profile\client.config line 56) ---> System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Unrecognized attribute 'allowInsecureTransport'. Note that attribute names are case-sensitive. (C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\WebClients\Profile\client.config line 56)

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