SharePoint Search Deployment Guidance

Recently I have been working with a few clients to come up with solutions to a range of Search scenarios. As a result of this I learnt quite a bit about MOSS Search capabilities and overcame a few issues. In this series of posts I will highlight guidance for deploying enterprise Search with MOSS and some ideas that worked well in some situations.

First up let’s look at some guidelines for implementing SharePoint Search from an end users perspective. Typical end user requirements that I come across for Search is.. wait for it.. make it “google like”. OK fair enough i’ll just put on my everything google do we must follow hat and continue on..

Jokes aside I am going to highlight what MOSS Search is capable of and also actually that you can configure and implement Search to provide equal or better contextual results sets that meets your organisational business requirements compared to what your users perceptions of broken search.

My guidelines for implementing Search are as follows

As you see you have to be thinking about a few things when you talk about Search. In my next post I’ll highlight my first point and show some practical samples.

Here are some links to sites that provide SharePoint Enterprise search guidance