First of all, I have to admit, I owe a beer to both Todd and Spence for the script, I use the very same for deploying Search in SharePoint 2013: # Get App Pool $saAppPoolName = "SharePoint Service … [Read more...] about Deploying Search Service App by PowerShell – but what about the Search DBs?
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Search Health Reports and State Service in SharePoint 2013
I've been working with a brand new SharePoint 2013 farm where Search Service has been published and working fine with some content sources. At least, it's working until I try to open either the … [Read more...] about Search Health Reports and State Service in SharePoint 2013
No Document Preview Displayed on the Hover Panel (SharePoint 2013 Search)
Recently, I met a SharePoint 2013 environment where everything was installed and configured, including Office Web Apps (WAC) but we still couldn't get displayed the document previews on the Hover … [Read more...] about No Document Preview Displayed on the Hover Panel (SharePoint 2013 Search)
SharePoint Developer Dashboard – Search Debugging and Troubleshooting
First of all, Happy New Year in 2013! This time I'm sitting in my home office, seeing snow everywhere out the window: When I'm not outside to enjoy the fun and beauty of winter, I'm mostly getting … [Read more...] about SharePoint Developer Dashboard – Search Debugging and Troubleshooting
Word Breakers in SharePoint – from version to version
Recently, I've got a question about file naming conventions versus Search: which characters can be really used as word breakers, eg. replacing spaces in file names (see Susan Hanley's great post about … [Read more...] about Word Breakers in SharePoint – from version to version
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
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.
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]
Enterprise Search: Explicit and Implicit Phrase Matching
Lately I’ve been asked what the implicit phrase matching exactly means. The answer is pretty long so cannot fit into a tweet so I decided to put it into a blog post… As you know, search functions are … [Read more...] about Enterprise Search: Explicit and Implicit Phrase Matching
How to Create a Search Scope for Documents?
It’s a very often requirement to create a Search Scope for document contents either in SharePoint 2007 or 2010. The steps are the same in both version, the only difference is the place where you found … [Read more...] about How to Create a Search Scope for Documents?
