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Case Study: 1
Large Company
Background
You are the SharePoint administrator for a large company. You are responsible for installing and
configuring a multi-server SharePoint environment that will be used for information management
and collaboration.
The company has an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain. User-specific contact
information, including employee photos, is stored and managed in Active Directory. All employees
are located in the ActiveUsers organizational unit (OU).
The User Profile Synchronization service runs on a server named SERVER1.
Business Requirements
The SharePoint environment must meet the following business requirements:
• Ensure that users can connect to the portal by using the same URL
from any location.
• Ensure that users can access corporate information from outside the
network without using a VPN connection.
• Allow users to configure notifications for content changes.
• Allow users to follow content creators.
• Limit the number of sites and people each user can follow to 100.
• Allow content authors to upload documents, large image files, and
large video files for consumption by internal and external users.
• Allow administrators to promote search query results across the
entire company.
• Utilize My Sites to share content.
• Provide opportunities for social interaction.
Technical Requirements
You must meet the following technical requirements for the SharePoint environment:
• Do not exceed the minimum hardware specifications.
• Install the minimum supported versions of all software on the
servers.
• Control the growth of storage utilization.
• Maximize existing content database usage before creating new
content databases.
• Store large files on network attached storage (NAS).
• Ensure that all web applications, site collections, files, databases,
and components stay within the supported limits.
• Configure the User Profile Synchronization service to import user
profile data from Active Directory.
• Grant the User Profile service account the least permissions
necessary to read data.
• Ensure that current and future SharePoint environments include the
most recent software updates.
• Use predefined database naming conventions.
• Create individual user sites by using the
https://contoso.com/personal/path.
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HOTSPOT
You need to ensure that corporate search guidelines are followed.
What rule should you create? (To answer, select the appropriate option from each drop-down list in
the answer area.)

Answer:

Explanation:
Note:
* From scenario: Allow administrators to promote search query results across the entire company.
* Query rules are composed of three components:
Condition – When to apply the rule?
Action – What to do when the rule is matched?
Publishing – When should the rule be active?
* Actions
Once the condition has been configured the fun begins! The next step is to decide what to do when
the query rule applies. Essentially there are three options here:
Add Promoted Result
Add Result Block
Change ranked results by changing the query
* Add Promoted Result – A promoted result is a result that appears at the top of the search results,
this is particularly useful way to promote a particular search result. For example, you may want a
query for “human resources info” to promote a link to the human resources SharePoint Site.
How To Customize SharePoint 2013 Search Results Using Query Rules and Result Sources