Microsoft Office System SharePoint Portal Server 2003

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Microsoft Office SystemSharePoint Portal Server
2003
Search and Metadata

• Alex D. Wade
• Program Manager
• Information Worker Solutions Group
• Microsoft Corp.

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Agenda

• Internal Environmental at Microsoft
• What we have done to date
• SharePoint Products Technologies
• Windows SharePoint Services
• Lists Schemas
• SharePoint Portal Server
• Search Interface
• Property Mapping
• Query Modification

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Internal Environmental

• Heterogeneity of Content Metadata
• Volume location of content
• Definition of search objects
• Where Metadata lives
• Transitivity Temporality of Content
• Is Lifecycle information just metadata, or
• Does applied metadata have its own lifecycle
• Local vs. Global needs
• Language
• Granularity
• Controlled Vocabularies
• Search Interface is not the only Entry Point

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Internal Solutions

• What we have done internally
• Query analysis tools
• Core metadata schema
• Metadata Management System
• Core Schema management
• Associated vocabularies
• Both extensible
• Integration w/existing CMS DM environments
• Exposure via Web Services

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SharePoint Products and Technologies

• Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)
• Provides workspaces for teams to share
  information and collaborate
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server
• Provides a central hub to organize and enable
  access to information, applications, people and
  teams
• SharePoint Portal Server builds on top of Windows
  SharePoint Services
• Provides both portal sites as well as the place
  to create, organize and enhance personal and team
  sites

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SharePoint Lists

• Lists
• Links
• Tasks
• Surveys
• Events
• Image Libraries
• Document Libraries
• more

• Views
• Calendar
• Survey results graphs
• Filters
• Grouping
• Sorting
• more

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Custom Lists Views

• Create lists w/custom properties
• Data-typing
• Manage lookup lists
• Mappable
• Queryable
• Custom Views
• Group
• Web Service accessible

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Search Interface

• First-order objects for
• Lists
• People (w/ Presence information)
• Categories
• Group-by feature
• Author
• Site
• Date
• Category

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Property Mapping

• View indexed properties
• Grouped by namespace
• Remove from index
• Map to other properties
• Expose in search results
• Expose in fielded search

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Property Mapping
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Property Mapping
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Query Modification

• Keyword Best Bets
• Rank Promotion
• Synonym Support
• Query Term Replacement
• Misspellings
• Highly controlled content sets
• Query Term Expansion
• Synonym Sets for FT Search
• Intent equivalence

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More Information

• Table in the lobby
• http//www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/
• Alex D. Wade
• awade_at_microsoft.com