WEBINARS

SharePoint & FAST Search 2010 Technical Deep Dive

Wed, 05 May 2010 07:06:39 GMT

Join two of the foremost Microsoft Enterprise Search experts, Thomas Molbach (Architect, FAST Global Services) and Lars Fastrup (Freelance Consultant and Author) as they address SharePoint and FAST scale-out architectures, capacity planning and harware sizing, query and index performance considerations, farm topology, and other deployment recommendations in this 60-minute webinar.

FAST for SharePoint 2010... What You Need to Know

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:40:23 GMT

This FREE one-hour On Demand webcast offers a deep dive into the exciting new features and architecture of FAST for SharePoint 2010, with many live demos throughout the presentation.

Join Jeff Fried, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft for an in-depth look at the capabilities of Microsoft high-end search technology. Jeff will present how FAST enables rich "conversational" user experience, and will breakdown the features targeted to end-users, IT Professionals, and Developers. Topics covered will include:

• Customizable content processing
• Automatic entity extraction
• Configurable relevance ranking
• User context
• Architecture and administration
• And more!

SharePoint Search 2010... What's Next

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:35:27 GMT

This FREE one-hour webcast offers a deep dive into the exciting new features and architecture of SharePoint Search 2010, with many live demos throughout the presentation.

Join two of the foremost Microsoft Enterprise Search experts, Tony Malandain (Product Manager, BA-Insight) and Lars Fastrup (President, SharePoint Products, and Author of “Inside the Index and Search Engines : Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007”) as they address the following topics in-depth:

• Enhanced search UI and functionality

• New customization options for Developers

• Upgraded flexible scale-out architecture

• Enhanced search administration UI and health monitoring dashboard

• How to automate search administration tasks using PowerShell scripting

• How to connect to, and index external content sources using the new Business Connectivity Services

• FAST Search 2010 for SharePoint sneak peak and upcoming full-hour webcast

• Free detailed white paper download about SharePoint Search 2010…What’s Next

SharePoint Search Relevancy Optimization

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:34:57 GMT

Please join Guy Mounier (CTO, BA-Insight) as he addresses the following topic areas:

• The importance of good search in the Enterprise and key findings from world-renowned IDC Analyst Sue Feldman

• Beyond “noisy” click-through usage monitoring. Learn from e-commerce site best practices on how to derive user intent from end-user clicks.

• Define the best search effectiveness KPI’s for your environment based on your performance measurement requirements.

• Tips and tricks on how to tune SharePoint Search and Search Server relevancy. Free admin tool plug-in with rich user interface for property weight adjustments and relevancy tuning.

• Usage monitoring. What’s available out-of-the-box and what can be done with advanced search analytics tools such as BA-Insight.

Connecting FAST / SharePoint Search to Enterprise Systems

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:34:25 GMT

This free webcast will focus on the benefits and challenges of connecting FAST or SharePoint Search to enterprise systems such as ERP, CRM, or custom applications.

In this webcast, Christopher Even, the world's leading expert in search connectors will discuss:

--Why relevance is a connectivity issue
--The pros and cons of Microsoft's BDC
--Security consideration when indexing Enterprise Systems
--and more!

SharePoint Deployment Best Practices in Distributed Enterprises

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:33:41 GMT

As more and more companies get largely distributed around the globe, IT needs to rethink how to deploy SharePoint in such an environment in order to ensure a consistent user experience, regardless of where the user is connected from. This complimentary online webcast will go into the details of how to optimize your SharePoint architecture in distributed environments. It will discuss ways to address latency issues, bandwidth requirements, consistent information access experience across the network, and how to measure the effectiveness of the deployed infrastructure.