As I was preparing to install the SharePoint 2013 December ‘14 Cumulative Update, I decided to take a full SharePoint farm backup, using PowerShell- of course. The Problem In a somewhat boneheaded move I was trying to use a local directory ...read more

Coming to SharePoint Conference 2014? Then I invite you to come see Jon Waite and I present on Wednesday, March 5: How to manage and troubleshoot Search: A practical guide In this, we plan to be light on slides and heavy on live demos to troubleshoot ...read more

While working with a customer I found an undocumented (on TechNet anyways) bit of information on where SharePoint 2013 keeps Indexing files, Analytic report and link databases and crawler / gatherer temp files. This blog will help you understand where ...read more

Picking up from part 2 , we continue looking at the Content Processing Component. There were some comments about the counters to look at and I wanted to provided a more simplified view that will be easier to understand. Instead of looking at all the flows ...read more

Deadlocks reported in the Search databases, particularly the Crawl Store database (which manages the state of each crawled item and by is very I/O intensive), are not abnormal and can occur based on the concurrent and asynchronous nature of the Crawl ...read more