Whenever you do changes to the search schema, re-crawl of the content is required to fill in the search index with the proper values by the new schema. In SharePoint on-prem, the classic … [Read more...] about How to Flag Items to be Crawled in Office 365
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SharePoint crawl types: Full, Incremental, Continuous
Crawling is the process of gathering the content for search. To retrieve information, the crawl component connects to the content sources by using the proper out-of-the-box or custom connectors. After … [Read more...] about SharePoint crawl types: Full, Incremental, Continuous
Time Machines vs. Incremental Crawl
Recently I've been working with a customer where my job was to make their SQL based content management system searchable in SharePoint. Nice challenge. One of the best ones was what I call "time … [Read more...] about Time Machines vs. Incremental Crawl
Four Tips for Index Cleaning
If you’ve ever had fun with SharePoint Search, most likely you’ve seen (or even used) Index Reset there. This is very useful if you want to clear everything from your SharePoint index – but sometimes … [Read more...] about Four Tips for Index Cleaning
Event-Driven Crawl Schedule
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
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]
