SharePoint® 2010 Business Intelligence 24-Hour Trainer

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Setting Up SharePoint Search to Catalog Analytics and Reports

This lesson covers the basics of search in SharePoint 2010. Search is important in the context of Business Intelligence because once you create all those great reports and store them in SharePoint, you need a great way to quickly find what you're looking for without manually clicking your way through different team sites, document libraries, and attached file servers.

This lesson goes through the basics of search, the different types of search offered in SharePoint, and how to configure basic search in SharePoint to begin seeing value in quickly accessing your Business Intelligence reports.

WHY DO YOU NEED SEARCH?

With the advent of improved search functionality in every aspect of our lives, we've come to expect this functionality from every piece of technology. Our computers have Windows search, our phones have search for both the phone's files and the Internet, and the rise in tablet computers is only driving this further.

Internet search is optimized for following a large number of links throughout the Web, and cataloging the “map” of websites, the sites they link to, and the content in those sites. Internet search has a fatal flaw, though, because it can't reach into the confines of your corporate network and index your files. It certainly can't handle complex situations like Lotus Notes, Domino, or UNIX filesystems.

Many firms have tried the new “all in one” Internet search appliances that are “plug and play” ...