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Customizing & Governing the
SharePoint Search System by Jean Graef
Coming late spring/early summer 2010
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This electronic book is a unique combination of high-level strategic concepts and detailed step-by-step instructions. The focus is on SharePoint as a search system (an integrated set of functions) rather than a search engine (a full text search program). The book is intended for cross-functional knowledge management teams consisting of business analysts, information architects, content and document managers, search administrators, and IT staff. The emphasis is on features that can be customized without programming. Most of the how-to information applies to SharePoint 2007, but new features in the 2010 release are noted and described.
Administrative interfaces, basic setup tasks, setting up the search system (content sources, crawl rules and crawling content, planning, creating and exposing search scopes)
Chapter 6: Customizing SharePoint search
Search page components, metadata property mappings, relevancy ranking, keywords and Best Bets, how to create new search pages
Chapter 7: Customizing search results
How to change the metadata in the search item description, how to use SharePoint Designer to change the results page look and feel, how to add a custom Web part
Chapter 8: People search
People search vs. content search, sources of people data, how to customize people search
Chapter 9: Document properties
How to create and use custom columns, content types, and document templates, how to change document metadata
Chapter 10: Navigation
The role of navigation in the search system, navigation components, how to customize navigation
Chapter 11: Metadata management
Metadata management options, how to link to an external metadata repository, a custom Best Bets Web part, third-party products for metadata integration, morphological processing
Chapter 12: Special topics
"Zero term" search with the content query Web part, audience targeting, searching images, integration with desktop applications, multi-lingual search
Chapter 13: Improving the search system
Usage reports and surveys, observation and analysis, collaboration profiling.
Handouts (separate electronic files available to book licensees)
Cost
Enterprise license $3,500 (one-time fee). Periodic updates available by subscription.
