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SharePoint auto created managed properties and document processing performance

Out of the box, SharePoint 2013 will automatically create a Managed Property when it discovers a...

Author: JonWaite_Search Date: 04/10/2017

Search Performance: A case of AV slowing down crawls

In the services world supporting Search, I commonly see the nasty impact of Anti-Virus (AV) on the...

Author: bspender Date: 04/27/2016

SharePoint Search Runbook - Move Admin Components

This post may be used as a reference to help create or update a SharePoint search runbook. Move...

Author: Brent Groom Date: 03/30/2016

SharePoint Search Runbook - CEWS Pipeline Toolkit

This post may be used as a reference to help create or update a SharePoint search runbook. CEWS...

Author: Brent Groom Date: 03/25/2016

Search Health Reports (SRx) - Summary for each 'Test'

Brought to you by SearchEngineers@microsoft.com, the Search Health Reports (SRx Core), which can be...

Author: bspender Date: 03/25/2016

Need to evaluate SharePoint Search Topology?

Intro to Get-SRxTopologyReports It has some dust and time to blow it off.  My name is Russ...

Author: Russ Maxwell Date: 03/11/2016

Announcing the Search Health Reports (SRx) for SharePoint Search Diagnostics

Brought to you by SearchEngineers@microsoft.com , the Search Health Reports (SRx) is a...

Author: bspender Date: 02/01/2016

Using site columns to create searchable metadata in SharePoint Online (Office 365)

A SharePoint site column[1] is a field definition that defines data or metadata that can be...

Author: Dan Harrington (AMS) Date: 12/11/2015

SharePoint Search Topology Limits Clarified for the Crawl Component

As more environments begin scaling out to the documented limits for Search, a common question tends...

Author: bspender Date: 11/30/2015

If you've upgraded from SharePoint 2010 to 2013 and previously made use of the Popular Searches...

Author: NathanBrackett Date: 11/11/2015

Viewing crawl logs in SharePoint Online (Office 365)

Cross-posting for Dan Harrington and his Office 365 Term-of-the-Day blog. The low-level details of...

Author: Christopher T Stone Date: 11/03/2015

SharePoint 2013 Search: Even Better Best Bets with Exact Matching

First, full credit goes to Mikael Svenson and Petter Skodvin-Hvammen for the original solution. This...

Author: Eric Dixon - MSFT - Search PFE Date: 10/23/2015

Azure Search schemas do not explicitly support multi-level taxonomy categories, but such a feature...

Author: Christopher T Stone Date: 09/09/2015

Modeling structured database content into an efficient search index is rarely a straightforward...

Author: Christopher T Stone Date: 09/08/2015

Important SharePoint 2013 Patching Script Changes

  Intro and Issue I want to get a quick update out to my subscribers that currently use the...

Author: Russ Maxwell Date: 09/07/2015

Let's consider this throwback Thursday. A couple of years ago, I posted this " PowerShell...

Author: bspender Date: 09/03/2015

SharePoint 2013 Search: How clicks change relevancy and rank scoring

If you've ever looked at rank log or the ExplainRank.aspx page, you may have noticed that term...

Author: Eric Dixon - MSFT - Search PFE Date: 09/03/2015

SP2013 Crawling *Explained: Enumeration/Discovery (Part 3a)

With VerboseEx logging enabled, the crawl of a single item (or interchangeably, a...

Author: bspender Date: 08/17/2015

SharePoint 2013 Search: Full-Text Index and Context Weight Groups - What is wrong with my rank model?

In a previous blog, I talked about the important relationship between relevancy, rank models,...

Author: Eric Dixon - MSFT - Search PFE Date: 08/10/2015

SP2013: Using Get-SPIndexReports to Troubleshoot Failed Master Merge

Ever had an SP2013 Index Component report a yellow exclamation point ( ) to indicate a...

Author: bspender Date: 07/08/2015

Monitoring SharePoint 2013 Search Top Level Errors

Intro A common request for SharePoint Administrators and SharePoint Search Administrators is some...

Author: Russ Maxwell Date: 07/02/2015

Client Automation: SharePoint Crawl Log Validation leveraging CSOM!

Intro Glad to be back blogging and yes it has been awhile. Part of belonging to the Search Premier...

Author: Russ Maxwell Date: 06/22/2015

SharePoint 2013 Search: People Search – “Why are my results so bad?” Understanding Relevancy, the Rank Model, Full-Text Index, and Fuzzy Matching

I’ve heard this question come up enough now that I think it warrants deeper examination....

Author: Eric Dixon - MSFT - Search PFE Date: 06/03/2015

SharePoint 2013 Search: People Search – “Why are my results so bad?” Understanding Relevancy, the Rank Model, Full-Text Index, Fuzzy Matching, and Social Distance

I’ve heard this question come up enough now that I think it warrants deeper examination....

Author: Eric Dixon - MSFT - Search PFE Date: 06/03/2015

The Upcoming Cloud SSA and Next Generation Hybrid Search: Initial Thoughts

At the Microsoft Ignite Conference last week, we got our first look at the upcoming Cloud Search...

Author: bspender Date: 05/12/2015

MS Ignite “Effective Search Deployment” Session References (BRK3176)

Thank you everyone that came by to talk about our favorite subject... Search. We are incredibly...

Author: bspender Date: 05/05/2015

Finding the threshold for SharePoint 2013 crawler “Transaction Waiting”

During my presentation at Ignite 2015 I described monitoring for the SharePoint Crawler data point...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 05/04/2015

PowerShell to Deploy an SSA Across Multiple Servers (v2.0)

A few years back, I published a PowerShell script to deploy a SharePoint Search Service Application...

Author: bspender Date: 05/04/2015

Another Shameless Self-Promotion: Presenting at Microsoft Ignite 2015

Coming to Microsoft Ignite next week? Then I invite you to come see Kristopher Loranger and I...

Author: bspender Date: 04/28/2015

Shameless Self-Promotion: Presenting at Microsoft Ignite 2015

If you are coming to Ignite this year and want to know more about Search in SharePoint 2013, come...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 04/27/2015

The most important Timer Job for Search you may not know exists

What comes to mind when I say "Application Server Administration Services" timer job?...

Author: bspender Date: 04/22/2015

SP2013 Search Index health reports for monitoring and troubleshooting

Ever had an SP2013 Index Component report a yellow exclamation point ( ) to indicate a...

Author: bspender Date: 04/15/2015

SharePoint 2013 Search: Ranked Result Blocks – The Definitive Answer

I’ve been stumped for a long time on how Ranked Result Blocks really work. When creating a...

Author: Eric Dixon - MSFT - Search PFE Date: 04/02/2015

SP2013 Crawling *Explained: Starting the Crawl Deep Dive (Part 2)

In this deep dive, we continue this series to explain SharePoint crawls by using ULS to provide a...

Author: bspender Date: 03/24/2015

OneNote Class Notebook Creator in multiple languages in Office 365

As mentioned in the previous post about OneNote Class Notebook Creator, a group of educators in the...

Author: Dan Harrington (AMS) Date: 03/23/2015

SharePoint 2013 Search: Managing Query Rules with PowerShell

One thing I've noticed about Query Rules, Search Admins are really good at creating Query...

Author: Eric Dixon - MSFT - Search PFE Date: 03/19/2015

SharePoint 2013 Search: Data Normalization using Query Rules and Variables

SharePoint 2013 Search administrators have asked me several times, "How can I match the data...

Author: Eric Dixon - MSFT - Search PFE Date: 03/09/2015

eDiscovery in-Place Hold Processing – Behind the Scenes

Intro I’m excited to announce that I recently transferred internally to a Senior Search...

Author: Russ Maxwell Date: 03/04/2015

OneNote Class Notebook Creator customization

Microsoft announced a new version of the OneNote Class Notebook Creator in December 2014 with...

Author: Dan Harrington (AMS) Date: 02/13/2015

Developing SharePoint 2013 apps with GulpJS

The SharePoint 2013 app model is a great way to bridge the functionality of SharePoint with the...

Author: Christopher T Stone Date: 02/09/2015

SP2013 Crawling *Explained: Orchestration (Part 1)

With VerboseEx logging enabled, the crawl of a single item (or interchangeably, a...

Author: bspender Date: 01/26/2015

SharePoint 2013 and CEWS: Searchable Extended File System Properties

For more information about CEWS or the CEWS toolkit,visit this resource:...

Author: NathanBrackett Date: 01/21/2015

SharePoint 2013 Search enable Partial Results – or a good reason to install Nov 2014 CU #2

SharePoint 2013 Nov 2014 CU has some great new Search features that I have been working with, last...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 01/16/2015

Unraveling SharePoint BI Access to External Data Sources - Part 1

Intro I’ve been meaning to write this blog for some time now so I finally got around to doing...

Author: Russ Maxwell Date: 01/09/2015

The CredSSP Files: Part 1 Access Denied for Local Administrator

PowerShell remoting is an extremely useful administration tool. To take full advantage of running...

Author: Peter Dempsey Date: 12/13/2014

SharePoint 2013 Search enable embedded documents indexing – or a good reason to install Nov 2014 CU #1

Are your users asking; Where is my embedded content when I search for it in SP2013? By default,...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 12/10/2014

SP2013: Understanding storage locations for files gathered by the Crawl Component

When gathering files from a content source, the SharePoint 2013 Crawl Component can be very I/O...

Author: bspender Date: 12/04/2014

Windows Azure Pack Configuration

This is the fifth article in a series of blog posts that will guide you through a simple...

Author: nmeader Date: 12/04/2014

Certain types of Icons are not being displayed in search results with Sharepoint 2013

It looks like Sharepoint 2013 Search results are not showing little icons that display the file type...

Author: Igor Veytskin - Microsoft PFE Date: 11/05/2014

Bypassing Multiple-Authentication Providers in SharePoint 2013

Intro I haven't researched to see if this topic has been heavily documented but feel like...

Author: Russ Maxwell Date: 10/31/2014

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