SharePoint 2013 Search for Power Users

Enhance your ability to effectively find and manage enterprise content with SharePoint 2013's advanced search features - ideal for power users and administrators looking to maximize efficiency.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Understand core and advanced SharePoint 2013 search features.

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Implement effective search strategies using Managed Properties and Boolean operators.

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Optimize multi-lingual and metadata-based search to enhance content discoverability.

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Develop proficiency in using SharePoint Search Web Parts for tailored results.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 1 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • SharePoint end users
  • SharePoint Site Owners
  • SharePoint Site Collection Administrators
  • SharePoint Governance Auditors

Description

This one day instructor-led course written by Mike Smith, Sr. Technical Instructor for MAX, is designed for information workers or power users who use SharePoint to store and find enterprise content. Students should take this course if they need to know core search features along with the advanced search features, tips and tricks. This class is an excellent prerequisite for IT Professionals who work as SharePoint Server Administrators attending 20331: Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. This class can be delivered using SharePoint content on an in-house server, virtual machines or Office 365. The courseware is sufficiently detailed with reference content and samples to serve as both an after class search reference and as search “cheat sheet”

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Course Outline

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Module 1: SharePoint Search

  1. Who is this class for?

  2. Prerequisites

  3. SharePoint versions and search feature differences

Module 2: How Search Works!

  1. Before you can run… you must Crawl!

  2. The Search Flow

  3. Crawl Sources

  4. What is Indexed

  5. What is not Indexed

  6. Content Processing

  7. Search is Security Trimmed

  8. Alternates to Search

  9. Search Limitations

Module 3: Core Search Techniques

  1. Search Basics

  • Where can you search?

  • Search Navigation

  • Shoot first and see what you hit…

  1. Refining Your Search

  2. Aim then shoot…

  3. Include or Exclude

  4. Wildcards

  5. Boolean Operators

  6. Files in Libraries vs. Files as Attachments

  7. Search Verticals

  8. Searching for People

  9. The Advanced Search Page

  10. Creating Search Alerts

  11. Search Preferences

  12. The List and Library Search Box

  13. The OneDrive Pro Query Box

Module 4: Advanced Search Techniques

  1. Property Searches

  • Out of the Box Managed Properties

  • Data Types

  • Comparison Operators

  • ContentClass

  • Content Types

  • When is a Title not the Title?

  • Examples of Property Searches

  1. Working with Multi-Lingual Content

  2. What you can do to improve search results

Module 5: The Search Web Part

  1. Which Search Web Part

  • Content Query Web Part

  • Search Results Web Part

  • Content Search Web Part

  1. An example of using the Search Results Web Part

Appendix: Codes and Lists

  1. Content Class Codes

  2. SharePoint Search File Types

  3. Search Features by Edition

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