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...

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...

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...

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...

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...