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The 4 Essential Concepts You Need to Know To Use Any Search Engine Efficiently
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over 2 years ago
by
Igor Veytskin - Microsoft PFE
When you go to your insert-search-application-name-here enter a query and hit the search button, what exactly are you searching on? One of the hardest things to do in IT (or in any field, really) is to sometimes take a step back and look at the basics
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SharePoint 2010: Crawl process is stuck after SQL Server runs out of disk space
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
bspender
Maybe this is cheating in terms of a blog post, but I wrote the bulk of this Support KB and wanted to share in as many ways as I could... SharePoint 2010: Crawl process is stuck after SQL Server runs out of disk space http://support.microsoft.com/kb
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SP2010 Search *Explained: Crawling
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
bspender
In broad terms, SharePoint Search is comprised of three main functional process components: Crawling (Gathering) : Collecting content to be processed Indexing : Organizing the processed content into a structured/searchable index Query Processing
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Troubleshooting the SSP Search Indexer for MOSS 2007
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over 2 years ago
by
bspender
It's time to set aside my SharePoint 2013 farm and get into the way-back machine to troubleshoot the Indexer for MOSS SharePoint 2007 Shared Services Provider (SSP)... (As I mentioned in a previous post on Search Terminology, I try avoiding the
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Deploying SharePoint 2013 SSA Across Multiple Servers Using PowerShell
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
bspender
Update: Since the release of SharePoint 2013 RTM, I've made some modifications in an effort to simplify things (e.g. removing the unnecessary command line parameters) as well as improving the functionality (e.g. ability to provision multiple index
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Want to call SharePoint 2010 web services within browser based InfoPath 2010 forms?
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Russ Maxwell
I recently ran across an interesting issue where InfoPath forms were calling OOB SharePoint 2010 web services. In particular, these forms contained one or more fields which called SharePoint OOB web service. These forms were published to web applications
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SharePoint 2013 - Initial take on changes to Search
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
bspender
It's like Christmas in July - I'm currently waiting for my download of SharePoint Server 2013 and can't wait to play for the first time! I don't have a lot to talk about yet, but a ton of official slide decks can be found at SharePoint
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SP2010 Search *Explained: Concepts and Terminology
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over 2 years ago
by
bspender
In broad terms, SharePoint Search is comprised of three main functional process components: Crawling (Gathering) : Collecting content to be processed Indexing : Organizing the processed content into a structured/searchable index Query Processing
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SharePoint PowerShell Script Series Part 7: Updating or Viewing the Quick Launch Bar
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Russ Maxwell
SharePoint Administrator’s running this script want to perform the following tasks for a specified site: 1. Add new Headings and Links to the Quick Launch Bar 2. Add new links to existing Headings on the Quick Launch Bar 3. View the Quick Launch layout
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SharePoint PowerShell Script Series Part 6 - Is Anonymous Access Enabled?
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Russ Maxwell
SharePoint Administrator's that run this script usually want to answer one of the following questions: 1. Is Anonymous Access enabled anywhere in my Site Collection. If so, where? 2. I want to confirm Anonymous
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How to get authenticated/secure results through the QRServer in FAST Search for SharePoint
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Igor Veytskin - Microsoft PFE
I received an email from an ex-student today that forced me to remember how to send an authenticated query to the QRServer in FAST Search for SharePoint. The reason for doing this is that when you issue a query through the SharePoint UI, additional
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The easiest scriptable way to check FS4SP certificates
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over 2 years ago
by
KristopherLoranger
Put this in a weekly script to make sure you never forget about certificates expiring. $cert = @(dir cert:\LocalMachine\My -recurse | ? { $_.Subject -eq 'CN=FASTSearchCert' })[0] Write-Host "Self-signed certificate expires on:"
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Behind the scenes: Opening a Document from a SharePoint 2010 Document Library
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Russ Maxwell
This is a summary to provide a glimpse of the Client to Server interaction when a user attempts to open a word document from a SharePoint 2010 Document Library. A lot of decision making goes behind each attempt when factoring in client Operating
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MSFT Documentum connector and TCS Troubleshooting
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over 2 years ago
by
KristopherLoranger
MSFT Documentum connector and Custom Security Trimming (TCS) Troubleshooting Summary: With the release of the Feb 2012 CU for FAST Search PFE has been supporting the SharePoint Documentum connector with custom security trimming in FAST Search
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Enable custom security trimming with FAST Search for Sharepoint and Documentum
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over 2 years ago
by
KristopherLoranger
Enable custom security trimming with FAST Search for Sharepoint and Documentum With the new FAST Search for Sharepoint Feb CU that came out this week(2/29/2012) is some new bits for custom security trimming. Now these bits are made specifically to
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Guide to walking a SharePoint 2010 Search Query behind the scenes
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over 2 years ago
by
Russ Maxwell
I know troubleshooting Search Query issues in SharePoint 2010 can be a difficult tasks. Usually, the problem I’m asked to tackle is why are my queries slow? I wanted to provide some additional detail and a behind the scenes look at what
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Goodbye Microsoft, Hello New Year and New Ventures
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over 2 years ago
by
Igor Veytskin - Microsoft PFE
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” ~ Anatole France This has pretty much been my feeling for the past few
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How does FAST/Sharepoint handle the language refiner?
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over 2 years ago
by
KristopherLoranger
Here is a good question that comes up quite a bit in discussion. How does FAST/Sharepoint handle the language refiner? There are three language fields in FS4SP, DetectedLanguage, language, and languages. There is a description field for each field
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SharePoint PowerShell Script Series Part 5–Exporting the crawl log to a CSV file
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Russ Maxwell
I recently had a request to provide a SharePoint Administrator the ability to export out a crawl log to a CSV file using PowerShell. Luckily, I found Vijay’s (Thanks Vijay!) post which saved me a ton of time: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/spses/archive
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SharePoint PowerShell Script Series Part 4–Gathering item count for all document libraries in a Site Collection
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Russ Maxwell
I apologize it’s been so long since I’ve published any new blog content. I recently moved into a new position in Microsoft as a Premier Field Engineer. I’m really enjoying it so far and will start pumping out new blog content soon. For
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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
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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
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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
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FS4SP Backup and Restore error
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
KristopherLoranger
Good Day, I was asked a question about backups on a customer and found the answer which is semi tricky from the error you receive. Since I don’t see this error in any internal FAST ticketing system, alias or Bing I’ll send it out and hopefully
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What is WebAnalyzer and why does multiple content SSAs break it?
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
KristopherLoranger
What is WebAnalyzer ? The WebAnalyzer analyzes data to automatically improve the relevance of search results by counting and analyzing links. Within the pipeline is a stage named WebAnalyzer that parses links from the documents at document processing
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