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Video: Troubleshooting FAST Search and the SharePoint 2010 Crawler - An Operational Viewpoint
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over 1 year ago
by
KristopherLoranger
A video I did for the Enterprise Search Users Group in New York City Includes case studies and real world troubleshooting Troubleshooting FAST Search and the SharePoint 2010 Crawler - An Operational Viewpoint (Please visit the site to view...
SharePoint 2013 Documentum Indexing Connector - Configuration
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over 1 year ago
by
Alex Smith (PFE)
Note: This information is intended to compliment and not replace the official documentation on TechNet: Configure and use the Documentum connector in SharePoint Server 2013 This post continues a series on the SharePoint 2013 Documentum Connector...
SharePoint 2013 Search Architecture Part 1 - Intro
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Russ Maxwell
Several things have changed in SharePoint 2013 Search. As you might already be aware, we merged and built upon the core SharePoint 2010 Search product and Fast Search for SharePoint 2010 into a single product\engine simply called SharePoint 2013 search...
How can I determine what file types are supported in a FS4SP instance?
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over 1 year ago
by
KristopherLoranger
Q: How can I determine what file types are supported in a FS4SP instance? A: There are a few ways: #1: You can run the following PowerShell script on the FS4SP backend for the exact list: C:\fastsearch\bin> $fastsearch = [environment]:...
SharePoint 2013 Search - Crawl and Feed
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Russ Maxwell
Several things haven't changed in 2013 SharePoint search. Search is still uses a componentized model that is still based on a Shared Services architecture. Simply stated, you still provision a Search Service Application + Proxy. The Search...
Why Host Distribution Rules Don't Apply to SharePoint 2013
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over 1 year ago
by
bspender
After reading my post to rebalance Crawl Stores in SharePoint 2013, several people have since reached out to ask something such as the following: I wanted to consult with you about rebalancing Crawl Store databases. Basically, I have a customer looking...
SP2010: Removing/Re-joining Server to a Farm Can Break Search
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over 1 year ago
by
bspender
Removing or re-joining a SharePoint Server that hosts a Search component will typically break the Search Topology and lead to an inconsistency between the ServerID being referenced by the applicable Search component(s) and the SharePoint farm Configuration...
SP2010: Search Query Load Balancing *Explained (part 1)
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over 1 year ago
by
bspender
Seemingly “sporadic” query problems are often just straightforward failures being masked by the three levels of load balancing involved with a SharePoint 2010 Search Query. My goal here is to help unravel all the moving pieces by first illustrating...
FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Crawler Troubleshooting
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over 1 year ago
by
KristopherLoranger
Being in the field for Microsoft has taught me some valuable troubleshooting skills for multiple applications. One of the most common issues that people ask me for help on is FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 crawler troubleshooting. I have done a presentation...
AAMs *Explained : Redux (and Presentation)
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over 1 year ago
by
bspender
I recently gave a talk around AAMs and wanted to post my slides here (attached below as AAMExplained.xps). This post is intended to complement my previous post on AAMs , but these slides go a little further by starting to explore the impacts to crawls...
Guide to SharePoint 2013 Host Name Site Collections
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over 1 year ago
by
Russ Maxwell
Intro to Host Name Site Collections (HNSC) First, I know several resources are out there published and all provide value. I feel like putting my own spin on Host Name Site Collections for SharePoint 2013 and I hope this helps you. Host Name Site Collections...
SharePoint 2010 - Why lots of web applications will hurt you
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over 1 year ago
by
Russ Maxwell
Intro I know this post is probably somewhat dated but if I can save those that will be deploying SharePoint 2010 instead of SharePoint 2013, this article is extremely relevant. It also might add additional weight to why we have decreased the # of web...
SharePoint Search *Quirks: Adding Content Sources
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over 1 year ago
by
bspender
I recently encountered a scenario in which adding SharePoint Search content sources of various types demonstrated different behaviors depending on the particular order and the particular type of content source being added. Initially, the behaviors...
SharePoint 2013 Content Enrichment: Regular Expression Data Extraction
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over 1 year ago
by
Peter Dempsey
There are a number of posts on getting started writing a Content Enrichment Web Service. I found http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj163982.aspx a great starting point. I recently needed to write a CEWS application to extract regex patterns...
Sharepoint 2013 Search Ranking and Relevancy Part 1: Let’s compare to FS14
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over 1 year ago
by
Igor Veytskin - Microsoft PFE
I’m very happy to do some “guest” blogging for my good friend Leo and continue diving into various search-related topics. In this and upcoming posts, I’d like to jump right into something that interests me very much, and that is taking a look at what...
SP2010: Search Query Load Balancing *Explained (part 2)
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
bspender
As I began in part 1, seemingly “sporadic” query problems are often just straightforward failures being masked by the three levels of load balancing involved with a SharePoint 2010 Search Query and my goal here has been to help unravel all...
SharePoint 2010 PowerShell incompatibility with .NET 4.X
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over 1 year ago
by
Alex Smith (PFE)
There is a known compatibility issue with SharePoint 2010 and Windows Management Framework 4.0 (WMF), which also includes PowerShell 3.0. If you install these components on a server that also runs SharePoint 2010, you may encounter errors when running...
Search Architecture with SharePoint 2013
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over 1 year ago
by
Igor Veytskin - Microsoft PFE
I’d like to revisit the topics that Leo have so well described in his 2 previous posts titled ”Search 101″ and “Search Architecture in SharePoint 2010″, but discuss those in the context of SharePoint 2013 Search. This post will address general architecture...
Crawling content with Sharepoint 2013 Search
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over 1 year ago
by
Igor Veytskin - Microsoft PFE
Before we get anywhere further with search, let’s discuss in more detail how content is gathered, and that’s via crawling. Crawling is simply a process of gathering documents from various sources/repositories, making sure they obey by various...
Notes on securing data with Sharepoint 2013 Search
Posted
11 months ago
by
Igor Veytskin - Microsoft PFE
A few days ago a question came up regarding looking at Sharepoint 2013 Search from a security perspective, specifically looking at any file-storage paths where ingested content may be stored, temporarily or permanently. An example is a document that contains...
SharePoint 2013 Crawl Tuning Part 1: Baseline
Posted
10 months ago
by
Peter Dempsey
I wrote a basic overview of some of the counters needed to monitor and tune content feeding here . But, I thought it would be helpful to walk through a real world tuning example. This will show how the counters are really used in practice and show the...
SharePoint 2013 Crawl Tuning Part 2: Content Processing Component
Posted
10 months ago
by
Peter Dempsey
In part 1 , we took a crawl performance baseline and came to the conclusion that our feeding bottleneck was the content processing component. So, we have expanded our SharePoint farm to two servers and we have added an additional Contend Processing Component...
Reminder: Use a UNC path as the destination for the Backup-SPFarm cmdlet
Posted
10 months ago
by
Alex Smith (PFE)
As I was preparing to install the SharePoint 2013 December ‘14 Cumulative Update, I decided to take a full SharePoint farm backup, using PowerShell- of course. The Problem In a somewhat boneheaded move I was trying to use a local directory...
Shameless Self-Promotion: Presenting at SPC14
Posted
10 months ago
by
bspender
Coming to SharePoint Conference 2014? Then I invite you to come see Jon Waite and I present on Wednesday, March 5: How to manage and troubleshoot Search: A practical guide In this, we plan to be light on slides and heavy on live demos to troubleshoot...
SharePoint 2013 Search IO critical component locations
Posted
10 months ago
by
KristopherLoranger
While working with a customer I found an undocumented (on TechNet anyways) bit of information on where SharePoint 2013 keeps Indexing files, Analytic report and link databases and crawler / gatherer temp files. This blog will help you understand where...
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