• SharePoint 2013 Crawl Tuning Part 2: Content Processing Component

    In part 1 , we took a crawl performance baseline and came to the conclusion that our feeding bottleneck was the content processing component. So, we have expanded our SharePoint farm to two servers and we have added an additional Contend Processing Component...
  • SharePoint 2013 Crawl Tuning Part 1: Baseline

    I wrote a basic overview of some of the counters needed to monitor and tune content feeding here . But, I thought it would be helpful to walk through a real world tuning example. This will show how the counters are really used in practice and show the...
  • Notes on securing data with Sharepoint 2013 Search

    A few days ago a question came up regarding looking at Sharepoint 2013 Search from a security perspective, specifically looking at any file-storage paths where ingested content may be stored, temporarily or permanently. An example is a document that contains...