Search Guys

Everything search, including product commentary and guidance, search strategies and general technical guidance

We’re getting back to our search roots with this blog post! Recently, as part of a customer...

Author: pjsummersjr Date: 12/16/2015

On-Going Management of Your Master Pages in SharePoint Online

Updated (12/4/2015): Correction around how default master pages are handled in the service. Thank...

Author: pjsummersjr Date: 12/01/2015

Updating your SharePoint Master Page in SharePoint Online

In this post, I am going to describe how I took a heavily customized SharePoint Online (SPO) master...

Author: pjsummersjr Date: 05/28/2015

SharePoint Search Architecture @ Ignite 2015

For those of you here at Microsoft Ignite, welcome! It's really exciting to be part of this...

Author: pjsummersjr Date: 05/04/2015

Building Custom Display Templates for OpenSearch Content

One of the less-used features of SharePoint Search (2013 or SPO) is the ability to federate to...

Author: pjsummersjr Date: 08/21/2014

Quick Hits: What to know when building search-driven SharePoint apps in SharePoint Online

Building search-driven apps in SharePoint Online can be a bit finicky. Actually, there’s a lot you...

Author: pjsummersjr Date: 08/20/2014

Building a Search-Driven SharePoint App (I)–Setting a Foundation

At SharePoint Conference 2014 a few months ago, a good friend and colleague of mine did a...

Author: pjsummersjr Date: 04/08/2014

How to find all managed properties of a document

When working with SharePoint search it is often helpful to figure out all of the managed properties...

Author: Matt King - Search Date: 12/10/2013

Multi-select refiners and taxonomy managed properties

In SharePoint 2013 you can use the “Multi-value Refinement Item” display template to allow users to...

Author: Matt King - Search Date: 11/13/2013

Not wanting to have to hand edit my custom navigation links between lab, test, and production I...

Author: Matt King - Search Date: 08/09/2013

Updating SP2013 refiners using PowerShell

In SharePoint 2010, changes to the refiners were made using the the FilterCategoriesDefinition...

Author: Matt King - Search Date: 07/29/2013

Step by Step: Search Development in Microsoft SharePoint 2013

I recently presented at TechEd in New Orleans and the presentation is up on Channel 9... Step by...

Author: Matt King - Search Date: 07/16/2013

Creating Result Sources using PowerShell

This post describes how to create a search result source using PowerShell. The GUI is easy enough...

Author: pjsummersjr Date: 06/14/2013

Super Simple BCS WCF Service Implementation

This post will describe how to create a very simple BCS WCF implementation that can serve as a good...

Author: Matt King - Search Date: 05/29/2013

Query Troubleshooting - Post 1

In this post, I plan to provide some top-level query debugging tips for SharePoint 2013 Search. I...

Author: pjsummersjr Date: 05/24/2013

How to throttle a BCS crawl

Throttling a BCS crawl is done the same way as other SharePoint crawls, using crawler impact rules....

Author: Matt King - Search Date: 04/19/2013

SP2013: Getting at the Search Results web part Search Criteria via PowerShell

Back in the SharePoint 2010 days to change the source of the Core Results Web Part you would simply...

Author: Matt King - Search Date: 04/04/2013

Mucking with search summaries in SP2013

For a project I’m working on I needed to add some redaction to the hit highlighting summaries of the...

Author: Matt King - Search Date: 04/03/2013

SharePoint 2013 and Search Service PerformanceLevel

Just a quick note… Set-SPEnterpriseSearchService still has the PerformanceLevel option in...

Author: Matt King - Search Date: 02/24/2013

Content Processing Performance Scaling

SharePoint 2013 has added the Content Processing Service to handle preparing documents to be indexed...

Author: Matt King - Search Date: 02/19/2013

FS4SP Branding Project

In this post I’ll describe a technique for branding a FAST Search for SharePoint Search...

Author: Matt King - Search Date: 01/20/2013

Getting the current user’s alias

For a project I’m working on, I needed to know what the logged in user’s account alias...

Author: Matt King - Search Date: 12/03/2012

Managing the SP Gatherer's temp files

While the SharePoint Gatherer is processing files (Office documents, PDFs, etc), it will store them...

Author: Matt King - Search Date: 09/18/2012

Anti-Virus settings and Pipeline Extensibility

If you’re using Pipeline Extensibility in Fast Search for SharePoint, you may know that files are...

Author: Paul Branson Date: 08/21/2012

If you’ve taken a look at search in 2013 at all, you might have noticed the beloved counts are now...

Author: Paul Branson Date: 08/16/2012

Quick Hits: Mapping a crawled property that contains TextChunks

This is quite an edge case, but someone may run into it again. Inside the FAST pipeline, there are...

Author: Matt King - Search Date: 06/29/2012

Quick Hits: Using a custom property with hit highlighting

So you have a managed property with SummaryType set to Dynamic and you want to use that in the FAST...

Author: Matt King - Search Date: 06/11/2012

Quick Hits: Dealing with managed properties in the search center XSLT

Even though you've named your managed property using mixed capitalization, doesn't mean you can...

Author: Matt King - Search Date: 06/07/2012

Smoke testing a FAST for SharePoint install

One of the things I like to do after first installing and configuring FAST, and before trying to...

Author: Matt King - Search Date: 06/04/2012

BCS and FAST: Introduction and first steps

Introduction SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services (BCS) is, generally speaking, a way to...

Author: Matt King - Search Date: 06/01/2012

FAST Search Content SSA Architecture Demystified

I was recently working with a large enterprise customer trying to understand how they should design...

Author: pjsummersjr Date: 04/04/2012