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
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SharePoint Search is alive and well – by Jeff Fried, BA Insight
See the first part of this series here: Is SharePoint Search Dead? Despite all these signals, there has continued to be a quite healthy investment from Microsoft in search, and SharePoint search is a … [Read more...] about SharePoint Search is alive and well – by Jeff Fried, BA Insight
Is SharePoint Search Dead? “- by Jeff Fried, CTO of BA Insight
I’m asked regularly whether Microsoft has abandoned the Enterprise Search market. This was a frequent question in 2015, and less frequent in 2016, but there’s been a recent uptick, and I got this … [Read more...] about Is SharePoint Search Dead? “- by Jeff Fried, CTO of BA Insight
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
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
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
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
