People Search in SharePoint
March 24, 2010
A happy quack to the reader who alerted me to phonetic search in SharePoint. I must have overlooked this function which I think of as a variant of fuzzy functions or what I once heard described as “soundex” functions.
“A Quick Look at Phonetic People Search in SharePoint 2010” provides a run down of this feature. The author is Corey Roth, and he is moved to tears of gratitude with some of the new Microsoft SharePoint search features. We are pleased, but geese do not weep.
For me, the most interesting comment in the write up was:
To work with People Search, you must first have successfully configured user profile synchronization, set up a connection, and then done a full crawl on your Local SharePoint Sites content source. If your user profile synchronization service isn’t working, do yourself a favor and just reinstall because you will never get it to work. The content source still uses the sps3 protocol to crawl user profiles. If no people are returned when you search make sure you have a content source setup using that protocol handler. I’ll probably write another post on how to set this up pretty soon.
Consultants love SharePoint. Some vendors’ systems deliver this feature, no coding required. Microsoft’s approach is to allow others to create “glue” code. My view is that this approach creates more opportunities for slips twixt cup and lip. Just my opinion.
Stephen E Arnold, March 24, 2010
Free, free, free. I will report this writing for free to the National Archives. I think that access to most documents is free as well. Might be wrong about this in the present economic climate, however. Reporting done anyway.
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