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 ...read more

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 ...read more

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 ...read more

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 ...read more