Recently, I had the honor to speak at the SharePoint and Project Conference Adriatics in Zagreb, Croatia. This week, I'll demonstrate one of my topics in a 5-part series: Connecting Project Server … [Read more...] about Project Server and Search – Part 2 Direct Crawl
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Project Server and Search – Part 1
Recently, I had the honor to speak at the SharePoint and Project Conference Adriatics in Zagreb, Croatia. This week, I'll demonstrate one of my topics in a 5-part series: Connecting Project Server … [Read more...] about Project Server and Search – Part 1
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
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
Deploying Search Service App by PowerShell – but what about the Search DBs?
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?
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
Missing Blank Site Template in SharePoint 2013
When setting up site collections, I mostly use the Blank Site Template. But in SharePoint 2013, there's a big "surprise": no Blank Site Template. Neither for Site Collections nor for … [Read more...] about Missing Blank Site Template 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)
