• SharePoint 2013 Content Enrichment: Regular Expression Data Extraction

    There are a number of posts on getting started writing a Content Enrichment Web Service. I found http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj163982.aspx a great starting point. I recently needed to write a CEWS application to extract regex patterns ...read more
  • Sharepoint 2013 Search Ranking and Relevancy Part 1: Let’s compare to FS14

    I’m very happy to do some “guest” blogging for my good friend Leo and continue diving into various search-related topics.  In this and upcoming posts, I’d like to jump right into something that interests me very much, and that is taking a look at what ...read more
  • SP2010: Search Query Load Balancing *Explained (part 2)

    As I began in part 1, seemingly “sporadic” query problems are often just straightforward failures being masked by the three levels of load balancing involved with a SharePoint 2010 Search Query and my goal here has been to help unravel all ...read more
  • SharePoint 2010 PowerShell incompatibility with .NET 4.X

    There is a known compatibility issue with SharePoint 2010 and Windows Management Framework 4.0 (WMF), which also includes PowerShell 3.0. If you install these components on a server that also runs SharePoint 2010, you may encounter errors when running ...read more
  • Search Architecture with SharePoint 2013

    I’d like to revisit the topics that Leo have so well described in his 2 previous posts titled  ”Search 101″ and “Search Architecture in SharePoint 2010″, but discuss those in the context of SharePoint 2013 Search.  This post will address general architecture ...read more