Announcement: Hands on Enterprise Search Course coming up..!

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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

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· 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!