Recently I’ve been working for a customer where I’ve found some interesting requirements: they had several content sources and wanted to crawl them one by one after each other. Scheduling the … [Read more...] about Event-Driven Crawl Schedule
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Why are some Refiner values hidden?
Refiners are cool either if you use SharePoint Search or FAST, it’s not a question. I very like them, they give so much options and power to the end users. But there’s a very common question around … [Read more...] about Why are some Refiner values hidden?
Q&As of my Recent Webinar – Part 1.
Recently, I’ve made a webinar with Dave Coleman and MetaVis. Thanks to the great people attending, I’ve got lot more question I was able to answer then, so as an ultimate solution I promised to answer … [Read more...] about Q&As of my Recent Webinar – Part 1.
How to check the Crawl Status of a Content Source
As you know I’m playing working with SharePoint/FAST Search a lot. I have a lot of tasks when I have to sit on the button F5 while crawling and check the status: is it started? is it still crawling? … [Read more...] about How to check the Crawl Status of a Content Source
How to Schedule Crawl Start/Pause in SharePoint 2010 Search by PowerShell
In case of having not strong enough hardware there’s a pretty common request for start the crawl in the evening and pause in the next morning, before the work day starts. Scheduling the start of … [Read more...] about How to Schedule Crawl Start/Pause in SharePoint 2010 Search by PowerShell
Troubleshooting: FAST Admin DB
The environment: A farm with three servers: SharePoint 2010 (all rules), FAST Admin, FAST non-admin. SQL is on the SharePoint box too. The story: Recently, I had to reinstall the box with … [Read more...] about Troubleshooting: FAST Admin DB
PowerShell script for exporting Crawled Properties (FS4SP)
Recently, I was working with FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (FS4SP) and had to provide a list of all crawled properties in the category MyCategory. Here is my pretty simple script that … [Read more...] about PowerShell script for exporting Crawled Properties (FS4SP)
FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Installation [Updated]
Last week, I’ve been honored as a speaker of Best Practices Conference 2010 in Washington DC, and got a lot of questions about the installation of FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010. So that, I’ve … [Read more...] about FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Installation [Updated]
HUNSUG Meeting – Michael Noel and Toni Frankola – Online info
Tomorrow is the day of our next HUNSUG (Hungarian SharePoint User Group) meeting. This time, we’ll have two guest presenters: Michael Noel and Toni Frankola, with the following topics: Michael Noel: … [Read more...] about HUNSUG Meeting – Michael Noel and Toni Frankola – Online info
How to Test your FAST Search Deployment?
Recently I’ve made a farm setup where SharePoint 2010 (SP2010) and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (F4SP) had to be installed to separated boxes. After a successfully installation there’s … [Read more...] about How to Test your FAST Search Deployment?
