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Why Host Distribution Rules Don't Apply to SharePoint 2013
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over 1 year ago
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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
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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
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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]:
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SharePoint 2013 Search Architecture Part 1 - Intro
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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
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SharePoint 2013 Documentum Indexing Connector - Configuration
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over 1 year ago
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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
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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
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The Myths and Perils in the Pursuit of Advanced Search Options
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over 1 year ago
by
Igor Veytskin - Microsoft PFE
One question that I’ve heard a lot over the years working in the search space is: “How can I provide advanced search options for users, such as exposing boolean operators?” My answer: don’t waste your time with it (and especially
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Securing Content feeding to FAST ESP
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over 1 year ago
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KristopherLoranger
Part of my job is to support some clients that still use FAST ESP and an interesting question came up: What is the best way to secure the Content feeding to FAST ESP so malicious users or Devs don't accidently delete an index? While investigating
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SharePoint 2013 Crawler Troubleshooting Concepts
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over 1 year ago
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KristopherLoranger
SharePoint 2013 Crawler Troubleshooting Concepts Hello, in my years of IT and tech work I have come across many smart people in the field, some amazing system gurus and some coding ninjas, the best of which had a good one basic foundation, a solid
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Alternate Access Mappings (AAMs) *Explained
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over 1 year ago
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bspender
Based on many of the support cases that I've seen, Alternate Access Mappings (AAM) may be one of the least understood aspects of SharePoint and can have substantial impact on Search (both Crawl and Query). In this post, I'll document some of my
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SharePoint 2013 Documentum Indexing Connector - Installation
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over 1 year ago
by
Alex Smith (PFE)
This information is intended to compliment and not replace the official documentation on TechNet: Configure and use the Documentum connector in SharePoint Server 2013 So you have downloaded the SharePoint 2013 Documentum Connector, and you can't
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SP2010: Troubleshooting ServerID Mismatch (Deleting Components)
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over 1 year ago
by
bspender
In a another post , I described a scenario where removing/re-joining a SharePoint Server that hosts a Search component will lead to an inconsistency in the ServerID being referenced by the applicable Search component(s) and the SharePoint farm Configuration
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SharePoint 2013 Documentum Indexing Connector
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over 1 year ago
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Alex Smith (PFE)
One important but less well known feature of SharePoint 2013 Search is the ability to index content from EMC Documentum content repositories. This feature requires a separate indexing connector that is downloaded, installed and configured separately from
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A Short Introduction
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over 1 year ago
by
Alex Smith (PFE)
My name is Alex Smith and this is my blog on TechNet. I am part of Microsoft's Global Business Support (GBS) delivery organization, where I am a Senior Premier Field Engineer on a team dedicated to Enterprise Search support. This means I support enterprise
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SharePoint 2013 Monitor and Tune Content Feed
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over 1 year ago
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Peter Dempsey
I have not seen too much in the way of guidance for monitoring and tuning content feeding for SharePoint 2013. This post will cover isolating the bottleneck in your feeding chain. In a future post, I will cover how to address these bottlenecks. But, in
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SharePoint 2013 Unable to change topology when Generation controller is not active
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over 1 year ago
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Peter Dempsey
When making a change to the search topology, you need to have at least one index component in the active state with no warnings for each partition. This makes sense if you are adding additional partitions which would cause the indexed documents to be
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Why SharePoint 2013 Cumulative Update takes 5 hours to install?
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over 1 year ago
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Russ Maxwell
I recently went through the process of applying the latest SharePoint 2013 Cumulative Update on my multi server SharePoint 2013 Farm. To my surprise, I found the total time to apply the patch (install the bits) took over 5 hours per SharePoint
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SharePoint 2013 Non-Rectangular Search Topology
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over 1 year ago
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Peter Dempsey
The SharePoint 2013 search topology is the next evolution of the Fast search engine from ESP and Fast Search for SharePoint. In previous releases you were forced to equal number of "rows" and "columns" in your search deployment. This
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SharePoint 2013 Search Event Log Messages
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over 1 year ago
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Peter Dempsey
While working on some diagnostic tools for SharePoint 2013, I came across this gem. All of the event log messages that SharePoint 2013 Search will throw are contained in a .man file that is included as a part of the SharePoint install. "searchfoundationmanifest
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SharePoint 2013 Search – Updating the Refinement Panel
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over 1 year ago
by
Russ Maxwell
This is my first of many SharePoint 2013 blogs and I’m starting with Search. I like the new Search UI for users and the look is so much cleaner with the hover panel, search blocks, etc.. I’m really curious how customizing the Search refinement
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SharePoint Search 2010: Crawl status returns 503 Server Unavailable
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over 1 year ago
by
Russ Maxwell
I ran into an interesting problem where accessing the 2010 Search Service Application administration page returns a 503 Server unavailable for the Crawl Status. Usually, a 503 indicates that the application pool is stopped that is hosting a site
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How to properly change the Host Header URL of a web application in SharePoint 2010
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over 1 year ago
by
Russ Maxwell
I’m baaaaackkkkkkk, lol. I apologize for taking about a 6 month break but I’m back and will have some new fresh blog content starting now. I recently ran into an interesting scenario with a request to change the Host Header
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Beware crawling the non-Default zone for a SharePoint 2013 Web Application
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
bspender
Update: I've now published another post " Problems Crawling the non-Default zone *Explained " that goes on to explain the underlying behaviors that I warned about and described in this post... ---------------------------------------
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Troubleshooting App Management WCF Endpoint Failures
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over 1 year ago
by
bspender
I was recently setting up federated search for SharePoint 2013 using Result Sources to a Remote SharePoint farm. That has already been extremely well documented by Steve Peschka , but did want to dive into the following error with the App Management service
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PowerShell to Rebalance Crawl Store DBs in SP2013
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over 1 year ago
by
bspender
In SharePoint 2013, simply adding a new Crawl Store DB doesn't cause the SSA to rebalance links among stores, and admins are unable to manually trigger a rebalancing process until the standard deviation of links in all existing Crawl Stores exceeds
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