This two-day course provides students with the knowledge and skills to architect enterprise search solutions with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The course focuses on architectural issues and decisions.

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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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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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