SharePoint 2010 enterprise search IT pro training

This course is designed to teach students the basics of enterprise search, how search management fits within their organizations, and how to get the most out of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 search and Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

Windows PowerShell 2.0 is a powerful command-line shell and scripting language. Windows PowerShell is designed to help you perform day-to-day repetitive administrative tasks. In this course we will introduce Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Windows PowerShell cmdlets beginning with an overview of benefits and best practices. A high level overview of the SharePoint 2010 cmdlets that pertain to FAST Search for SharePoint is included. The following categories of FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint cmdlets are covered: administration, installation, security, and spelling.

This online Advanced Search course covers the search environment architecture and fault tolerance options, search environment planning steps, sizing requirements for the various search components, and the process for installing single and multi-node SharePoint search farms. The hands-on lab exercise uses the VM image provided to deploy a simple SharePoint search farm.

This course shows you the monitoring, security, and service management features in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. It takes you through the process of configuring monitoring in SharePoint Server 2010 and shows you how to view reports and logs, create custom permission levels for a site, and manage shared services.

This course is designed to teach students about the search reports and analytics available in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 from an IT pro perspective.

This online Advanced Search course covers the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 content feeding architecture and connector framework and the Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint connectors. In the hands-on lab exercise, using the VM image provided, you will configure a search center to also search content external to SharePoint. To achieve this, you will create an external content type by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, deploy it to SharePoint Server, configure search for this new component, and then perform some queries to confirm that your connector is now available for search.

This online Advanced Search course covers creating search sites and search pages, configuring search Web Parts, configuring the refinement panel, and enabling federation Web Parts.

The federation tutorial covers the basics of federated search. The topics concentrate on configuring and creating federated Web Parts. Hands-on labs are provided for the student to practice implementing the concepts.

The Advanced Search Security course covers security for both Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. Item-level security and the authorization process in FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint are discussed in detail. The course also explains how to protect the FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint installation, how to protect query traffic between SSAs, and how to implement HTTPS for query traffic. Other modules cover security planning for sites and content and SharePoint Server 2010 authentication.

This course takes you through the process of configuring people search in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, adding user profiles, configuring My Site settings, and crawling the profile store. The course examines ways to enhance user profiles to improve people search and customize the people search experience. The hands-on lab exercise uses the VM image provided to guide you through the process of enhancing user profiles to improve people search.

The Advanced Deployment and Scalability course focuses on the deployment process for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. You will learn about the topology options available to you. The course will also explain how to get the most out of cross-farm services and take you through the installation and configuration process of a multi-node SharePoint Server 2010 deployment.

This course describes the advanced search features provided by Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint and walks you through a single server deployment. The course is designed for IT pros.

This course is designed to teach deployment and scalability options of Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. Hands-on labs are provided for the student to practice implementing the concepts.

The Advanced Deployment and Scalability course focuses on Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint deployment and scalability. You will learn about the different elements that make up FAST Search 2010 for SharePoint and use the redundancy and scalability options available in FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint to determine when to use single or multiple server installation.

Linguistics is used to improve precision and recall, extract and add relevant information for use in ranking and results exploration (refinement), and support a localized search experience.

This course covers how Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint implements linguistics features: Language Identification, Word breaking/Tokenization, Character Normalization, Stemming, Keywords and Synonyms, Anti-phrasing, Spell Checking, Offensive Content Filtering and Phonetic Search. Most of these features are implemented out of the box without the need for configuration. However, Stemming, Keywords and Synonyms, Spell Checking, and Offensive Content Filtering are covered in additional detail.

A practical lab is provided to demonstrate working with content in multiple languages, managing keywords / synonyms, and enabling managed property stemming in the search interface.

This course covers how to perform common relevancy tuning tasks for Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. This course is designed for IT pros and application developers. You will learn to create and configure business-based ranking, rank profiles, and analyze the ranklog.