Announcement: Hands on Enterprise Search Course coming up..!
Righty ho – (not yo, ho, ho quite yet..) check out this great Enterprise Search course coming up. The course consists of 8 hours of hands on how do you do it stuff! We will be running 5 of these courses from December and running 1 per month – have a good look and watch out for the link to register for the training coming up soon J For those of you not lucky enough to live in the UK I have asked for these courses to be videoed and we will post these up on Partner TV in mid December as a slightly early Christmas present J
Course Outline
Module 1: Overview of the Business Needs and Challenges
§ Identify the market and business drivers for search technology
§ Identify search challenges
§ Explore a customer business problem
Module 2: Foundation Technical Concepts for Search on Desktop Computers
§ Explain the basic concepts of Search and other component technologies
§ Review the flow of information (with current technology) as it pertains to each of these technologies
· Lab: Installing WDS
Course Outline (continued)
· Examining WDS GPO options
· Indexing the Desktop
· Lab: Installing Windows Live Search Center
Module 3: Bringing Microsoft’s Search Together on the Server
§ Explain the basic concepts of Search on the server and other component technologies
§ Explore what is needed to add Search to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS)
§ Review the flow of information (with current technology) as it pertains to each of these technologies
§ Lab: Configuring Search in SharePoint
· SharePoint Admin Console
· Enabling New Search Features
· Crawling Internal and External Web Sites
§ Lab: Configuring BDC
§ Lab: Configuring KN (People Finder)
Module 4: Searching Microsoft Dynamics CRM
§ Features and functionality of Microsoft CRM
· Lab: Configuring Search to add Microsoft CRM
· Lab: Creating In-context Searches
· Lab: Search the Enterprise
Module 5: Integrating Search into the Enterprise
§ Looking at business problems
§ Who is a good candidate customer?
§ Additional income
Module 6: Next Steps for Partners in Quick Start Search Specialization
§ Overview of the Quick Start Search program
§ Next steps
Here's the cool bit: if you would like to have other topics covered in this course then mail me or post a comment and we will throw it in if it makes sense :-)
Enjoy!
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January 01, 2003
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