Getting the best out of a SharePoint deployment requires meticulous planning, as well as a series of milestones and guidelines against which the success of the SharePoint project can be measured.  Sadalit Van Buren's SharePoint Maturity Model version 2.0 ( https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/eusp/Pages/The-SharePoint-Maturity-Model,-Version-2-0.aspx )is a good place to look for some answers.

In this model Van Buren defines Search Competancy as follows:

"(Search is the)... ability to query indexed content and return results that are ranked in order of relevance to the search query. Areas of focus include scopes, display of results, optimization, integration and connectors, and performance."

The model then splits this into five levels of increasing maturity. For the purposes of this article, let us focus on the requirements for achieving what the model defines as the second highest level of SharePoint Maturity:

"Content types and custom properties are leveraged in Advanced Search. Results customized to specific needs, may be actionable."

In the following section, we will break this competency level down into three key areas and examine how to achieve them using the functionality available in standard SharePoint 2010.  To view the full blog by Surfray click here:

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