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About this Course
Elements of this syllabus are
subject to change.
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.
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Audience Profile
This course is intended for
experienced technical and solution architects who have a minimum of four
years experience with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
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At Course Completion
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.
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Prerequisites
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 5060A: Implementing Windows SharePoint Services
3.0
- Completed course 5061A: Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint
Server 2007
Course Outline
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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:
- 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.
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