In this course, you will develop enterprise search applications for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 by processing data content, configuring Federation, searching scopes, and managing metadata. You will gain a better understanding of linguistics, federated object model applications, custom search applications, extending connectors using SharePoint Designer, and custom connectors using Business Connectivity Services (BCS).

This course incorporates material from the Official Microsoft Learning Product 10805: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Search for Application Developers.

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Continue developing your skills after class with 24/7 access to our live remote labs for six months, providing you with valuable extra time for hands-on practice.

What You'll Learn

• SharePoint search architecture and search components
• Crawl and configure SharePoint sites and file shares
• Create and configure search sites with out-of-the-box search web parts
• Create and configure federated locations and federated web parts
• Implement SharePoint search scopes and managed metadata
• Configure and customize SharePoint linguistic features
• Federated object model
• Create a Query Web Services client, ECTs using SharePoint Designer, and a .NET Assembly Connector using Visual Studio 2010

Who Needs to Attend

Application developers and advanced system administrators working in the enterprise search area to extend SharePoint Server 2010

Prerequisites

• At least two years of experience as a developer for SharePoint Server 2007 and/or 2010 with an understanding of Server 2008 and supporting technologies such as IIS
• Experience deploying and configuring Server 2008 and SQL Server technologies, creating projects, and .NET programming in Visual Studio 2010
• Familiarity with Windows PowerShell 2.0

• Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development (M10175)

Follow-On Courses

• Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint for Application Developers (M10806)

Course Outline

1. Processing Data Sources

• Search Architecture
• SharePoint Management Shell
• Crawling Content

2. Configuring Search Sites

• Keyword Syntax
• Search Site
• Search Web Parts

3. Configuring Federation

• Federated Search Basics
• Creating New Federated Locations
• Adding Metadata to a Federated Location
• Security Options

4. Scopes and Managed Metadata

• SharePoint Search Scopes
• Managed Metadata

5. SharePoint Linguistics

• Noise Words, Thesaurus, and Custom Dictionaries
• Query Suggestions, Nicknames, and Stemming

6. Federated Object Model

• Scenario Walk Through

7. Creating Custom Search Applications

• Query Set Up and Submission

8. Extending Connectors

• Creating External Content Types
• Configuring Associations
• Configuring Incremental Crawls
• Exporting and Importing

9. Creating Custom Connectors

• Key Concepts
• Creating a .NET Assembly Connectors

Labs

Lab 1: Crawling Content

Lab 2: Configure a Basic Search Site

Lab 3: Configure Federated Web Parts

Lab 4: Scopes and Managed Metadata

Lab 5: SharePoint Linguistics

Lab 6: Federated Search

Lab 7: Create a Search Client

Lab 8: Create an External Content Type

Lab 9: .NET Connectors