Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Vol 1 part 50. This course is intended for IT Professionals who use Microsoft SharePoint 2010 in a team-based, medium-sized to large environment. While they may have implemented a SharePoint deployment, they have limited experience in designing a SharePoint infrastructure. They likely work as a senior administrator who acts as a technical lead over a team of administrators. Members of this audience should have at least 6 months experience with SharePoint 2010. | Designing an Enterprise Search Strategy 9-49 original query but you can also configure synonyms to replace the original search term. Thesaurus files typically require server administrator permissions to update. You can create search scopes to help users search only within a specific path or content source which can further refine the search results. Search scopes narrow a query by restricting the result set. You can create search scopes based on a content source a Web address or a specific metadata property match. You can use search scopes to show only results that match the scope requirement or to exclude results that match the scope requirement. You can create search scopes at the search application level or at the site collection level. You can examine query reports that identify top queries and queries that return zero results. Results that show zero results are often mistyped queries or may be terms that the user assumes are available when no results exist. If considerable numbers of searches are being performed that use the same words and return zero results it may be useful to create a synonym for the search term to automatically include other terms for which there are results. You may also consider creating a best bet to provide a notice for users to try other terms in the search. You can specify authoritative pages in the site collection to affect the ranking of search results. The search ranking engine uses click distance from authoritative pages as a factor in deciding how to order search results. You can add specific sites as authoritative sites to help search matches in certain sites to move higher up the search results order. Authoritative pages only form a small part of the ranking engine so the use of authoritative pages is not an exact science. Other factors that also affect the ranking may still mean that certain results stay lower down the search results. In many organizations staff in the IT department are not the best people to configure these
