A customer of mine has installed SharePoint Server 2013 integrated with Project Server 2013. Moreover, they use lots of Search-driven web parts (mini Search Based Apps) to aggregate content across … [Read more...] about SharePoint 2013 Crawl Log Error: Index was out of range
Enterprise Search
Social, Big Data, Analytics and Enterprise Search – Enterprise Search Europe 2014
Enterprise Search Europe 2014 is fast approaching! It will be held on April 29 & 30 at the Park Plaza Victoria London; with workshops to be held on April 28. Decision sourcing expert, Dale … [Read more...] about Social, Big Data, Analytics and Enterprise Search – Enterprise Search Europe 2014
Creating Search Based Applications
A couple of months ago, I wrote a post on the "Big Picture" of Search. This post describes how the logical concept of SharePoint 2013 looks like, how the components interact with each other and what … [Read more...] about Creating Search Based Applications
Key Success Factors for Enterprise Content Management
A couple of weeks ago, right before Christmas, I had the honor do a webinar about Key Success Factors for Enterprise Content Management. Information Overload First, I was talking about Information … [Read more...] about Key Success Factors for Enterprise Content Management
What’s on – Roundtable Discussion on Enterprise Search Strategy
The search engines modified the old method of search a couple of years ago: the principal theme of "ten blue lines" has been removed and changed. Earlier, the goal of every online business was to be … [Read more...] about What’s on – Roundtable Discussion on Enterprise Search Strategy
The “Big Picture” of Search in SharePoint 2013
In SharePoint 2013 Search, we have Content Sources and Result Sources. We have Result Sources, Result Types, Result Blocks and Result Sets. Not to mention Query Rules and Query Builder that one can … [Read more...] about The “Big Picture” of Search in SharePoint 2013
How to Organize Content Sources – Best Practices
Working with search for years has given me a lot of experience with Content Sources as well as a lot of questions about them, like "should I create one huge content source or would be better to split … [Read more...] about How to Organize Content Sources – Best Practices
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
Information-Seeking Patterns
I always use this in my conference sessions, as 1) makes the understanding of Search much easier, 2) takes the attendees attention, 3) describes the Search use cases very well. So here is, how I see … [Read more...] about Information-Seeking Patterns
More about Search DBs – Inconsistency due to an Error while Creating the SSA
After my blog post (Deploying Search Service App by PowerShell – but what about the Search DBs?) a couple of days ago, I've got an interesting question: what to do with a Search Service App that … [Read more...] about More about Search DBs – Inconsistency due to an Error while Creating the SSA
