SharePoint 2010 enterprise search developer training

This module provides an overview of the SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search training course.

This module introduces Windows PowerShell cmdlets beginning with an overview of benefits and best practices including FAST Search cmdlets for administration, installation, security, and spelling.

This module shows how to configure a search center to also search external content by creating an external content type using Visual Studio 2010, deploy the external content type to your site, and confirm that the connector is available for SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search.

This module covers the process for extending and developing custom content connectors for use with both SharePoint Server 2010 and FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010.

This module describes how to use the FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint web crawler to crawl complex websites. It also describes additional configuration options and how to use the command-line administration to facilitate large-scale crawls with multiple crawling servers.

This module describes how to create custom search sites and pages, configure search Web Parts, configure the refinement panel, and enable federation Web Parts in SharePoint Server 2010 for Search and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

This module shows how to perform common relevancy tuning tasks for SharePoint Server 2010 for Search and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint, such as creating and configuring business-based ranking and rank profiles, and analyzing the rank log.

This module shows how SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search implements linguistics features, including language identification, wordbreaking, tokenization, character normalization, stemming, keywords, synonyms, anti-phrasing, spelling checking, offensive content filtering, and phonetic search. Linguistic search features support localized search experiences and improve precision and recall by extracting and adding relevant information for use in ranking and results exploration and refinement.

This module shows how to create custom search sites and pages, configure search Web Parts, configure the refinement panel, and enable federation Web Parts in SharePoint Server 2010 for Search and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

This module shows how to customize queries and develop a methodology for adding queries by reviewing the SharePoint 2010 Query API, query language, and how to use FQL operators in SharePoint Server 2010 for Search and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

This module demonstrates how to implement advanced query processing in SharePoint Server 2010 for Search and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint by studying common patterns and applications of advanced query processing.

This module describes how to extend the user interface in SharePoint Server 2010 for Search and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

This module orients you to the SharePoint 2010 Federation object model and Refinement object model by reviewing examples of common extensions in SharePoint Server 2010 for Search and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

This module reviews security concepts in SharePoint Server 2010 for Search and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint, including item-level security and the FAST Search authorization process. Learn to protect your FAST Search Server 2010 installation, protect query traffic between SSAs, and implement HTTPS for query traffic. Also, view guidance on security planning for sites and content and SharePoint Server 2010 authentication.

In this module, use your knowledge of SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search to build portions of the Contoso Research Application. Assembling portions of the entire search application facilitates an understanding of how to build a complete website.