Suggestions for Social and Search in SharePoint 2010

In its fourth generation, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 obviously offers a wide range of innovations and improvements throughout the whole platform.

One thing to notice is that behavioral information about users that work with the system is logged and processed. This data becomes available to analyze usage and to support users to connect and communicate with peers and in finding relevant information.Examples of applying this capability are the “Colleague/Keyword Suggestions” in the “User Profile Service” and the “Search Query Suggestions” in de “Search Service”. As these features are both quite complex, a quick peek under the hood is in order to determine their benefit for the new ways of working.

This article was first published in the DIWUG Magazine of May 2010.