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
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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?
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
Troubleshooting: FAST Admin DB
The environment: A farm with three servers: SharePoint 2010 (all rules), FAST Admin, FAST non-admin. SQL is on the SharePoint box too. The story: Recently, I had to reinstall the box with … [Read more...] about Troubleshooting: FAST Admin DB
PowerShell script for exporting Crawled Properties (FS4SP)
Recently, I was working with FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (FS4SP) and had to provide a list of all crawled properties in the category MyCategory. Here is my pretty simple script that … [Read more...] about PowerShell script for exporting Crawled Properties (FS4SP)
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]
How to Test your FAST Search Deployment?
Recently I’ve made a farm setup where SharePoint 2010 (SP2010) and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (F4SP) had to be installed to separated boxes. After a successfully installation there’s … [Read more...] about How to Test your FAST Search Deployment?
