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Office SP1 and SharePoint 2013 Search

Posted 10 months ago

by KristopherLoranger
Good Day, This is mostly information aggregator type blog but I wanted to let the SP 2013 search community know of the Office / SharePoint 2013 SP1 details. Mostly bug fixes, a good fix for FQL/KQL highlighting and one interesting bit "Search...
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...
SP2010: Troubleshooting ServerID Mismatch (Deleting Components)

Posted 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...
SharePoint 2013 Documentum Indexing Connector - Installation

Posted 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...
Alternate Access Mappings (AAMs) *Explained

Posted over 1 year ago

by 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...
Bypassing Multiple-Authentication Providers in SharePoint 2013

Posted 1 month ago

by Russ Maxwell
Intro I haven't researched to see if this topic has been heavily documented but feel like putting my 2 cents of input so hope this helps you. One of Microsoft's big pushes for SharePoint 2013 for On Premise is to consolidate multiple web applications...
“About X results”: Sharepoint 2013 Search result counts keep changing

Posted 2 months ago

by Igor Veytskin - Microsoft PFE
A question that’s asked fairly often is regarding the fact that Sharepoint Search seems to show inconsistent result counts from what is initially shown on the very first page and as you move along. Here is an example below: Interestingly enough...
Search Reporting and SharePoint 2013: Introduction

Posted 5 months ago

by NathanBrackett
Reference Script: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43394 This is the first post in a series of posts all about analyzing search usage in a SharePoint 2013 environment. Lots of the concepts here can apply to any search platform...
Problems Crawling the non-Default zone *Explained

Posted 5 months ago

by bspender
There is an undocumented assumption baked into SharePoint Search that the Default Public URL of a Web Application will be crawled . If you want everything to work auto-magically, crawl the Web Application's Public URL for the Default zone. Otherwise...
Do you want SharePoint 2013 in-flight workflows to complete after a Full Farm Fail Over?

Posted 5 months ago

by Russ Maxwell
Intro I’ve been spending a lot of time lately testing SharePoint + SQL Always On scenarios and found some really interesting and important things regarding SharePoint 2013 Workflows. Before diving into the issue and solution, let me quickly recap...
Building a self-service private cloud using Windows Azure Pack

Posted 4 months ago

by nmeader
This is the first article in a series of blog posts that will guide you through a simple implementation of a self-service private cloud interface using Windows Azure Pack. There are many layers of the application, and the underlying infrastructure, when...
SharePoint Search *Quirks: Query Variables

Posted 4 months ago

by bspender
In several forums, emails, and discussions, I keep seeing this recurring question, " How can I limit results to a specific library [in this site collection]? " Turns out, this was more difficult than I originally thought …until I found...
A Short Introduction

Posted 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...
SharePoint 2013 Documentum Indexing Connector

Posted over 1 year ago

by 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...
SharePoint 2013 Documentum Indexing Connector - Configuration

Posted 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...
The Myths and Perils in the Pursuit of Advanced Search Options

Posted 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...
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

Posted 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...
Part 1: Intro to Provider Hosted Apps – Setup the Infrastructure

Posted 6 months ago

by Russ Maxwell
Intro This is blog is broken up into a 2 part series covering the following areas: Part 1: Setting up the infrastructure for Provider Hosted Apps + Development (review this first) Part 2: Create a basic Provider Hosted App in Visual Studio 2013...
Part 2: Intro to Provider Hosted Apps – Develop, Package, and Deploy

Posted 6 months ago

by Russ Maxwell
The purpose of this blog series is to consolidate and provide a simple flow on how to setup Provider Hosted App Infrastructure and understand the basics around Packaging and Deploying provider hosted apps. I assume you have setup the infrastructure for...
SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Script Series Part 2–Exporting Sites and Lists from Snapshots

Posted over 3 years ago

by Russ Maxwell
Snapshots and SharePoint 2010 are a great thing in that they provide an additional level of fault tolerance for any SharePoint 2010 farm. A SharePoint Administrator can quickly restore Sites, Lists, or items from a snapshot. This out...
SharePoint PowerShell Script Series Part 3–Leveraging PowerShell to collect SharePoint Performance Monitor Data

Posted over 3 years ago

by Russ Maxwell
Troubleshooting SharePoint Performance issues are probably the most challenging issues for a SharePoint Administrator to troubleshoot. Collecting Performance Monitor output can take time because not only must you understand the options available in the...
2011 in review – Annual Report by WordPress

Posted over 2 years ago

by Igor Veytskin - Microsoft PFE
It’s very interesting to look at the 2011 annual report for my blog that was put together by WordPress . Not surprisingly, the most read posts were the learning roadmaps . It seems like with so much information spread all over the place about SharePoint...