Today, in the age of "modern", "personalized" and "intelligent" search applications, sometimes it's still hard to find the content what we're searching for. "I cannot find the document I am searching … [Read more...] about I cannot find the document I am searching for! – What to do?
troubleshooting
Create a Search Service Status Dashboard
Last year I was introduced to the amazing work of Brian Pendergrass, Russ Maxwell, Brent Groom and Eric Dixon in the form of the SRx Core the SharePoint Search Health Reports. This suite of reports … [Read more...] about Create a Search Service Status Dashboard
SharePoint Online Search Trimmed Duplicates [by Marc Anderson]
Marc Anderson, Co-Founder and President of Sympraxis Consulting, LLC. provides a good overview of an issue (challenge?) in Office 365 (and SharePoint) search: how to identify and manage duplicates in … [Read more...] about SharePoint Online Search Trimmed Duplicates [by Marc Anderson]
SharePoint 2013 Crawl Log Error: Index was out of range
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
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
Reduce Resources Used by noderunner.exe in SharePoint 2013
My Search Troubleshooting session is one of the most popular ones, and definitely one of my favorites. I've been working on its use cases from conference to conference, built on my experiences as well … [Read more...] about Reduce Resources Used by noderunner.exe in SharePoint 2013
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
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)
