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Category Archives: FS4SP
“About X results”: Sharepoint 2013 Search result counts keep changing
A question that’s asked fairly often is regarding the fact that Sharepoint Search seems to show inconsistent result counts from what is initially shown on the very first page and as you move along. Here is an example below: Interestingly … Continue reading
Posted in FS4SP, SP2010, SP2013, Uncategorized
Tagged collapse, duplicate, result set, result sets, search engines, Sharepoint, Sharepoint 2013, TrimDuplicates
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Interpreting “Crawl Queue” report with Sharepoint search
We’ve noticed something interesting a few weeks ago while working on a FAST Sharepoint 2010 system. One of the advanced Search Administration Reports called Crawl Queue report was suddenly showing a consistent spike in “Links to Process” counter. This report … Continue reading
Posted in FS4SP, SP2010, SP2013
Tagged crawl, crawl queue, FAST, LInks to Process, Sharepoint
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The 4 Essential Concepts You Need to Know To Use Any Search Engine Efficiently
When you go to your insert-search-application-name-here enter a query and hit the search button, what exactly are you searching on? One of the hardest things to do in IT (or in any field, really) is to sometimes take a step … Continue reading
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How to get authenticated/secure results through the QRServer in FAST Search for SharePoint
I received an email from an ex-student today that forced me to remember how to send an authenticated query to the QRServer in FAST Search for SharePoint. The reason for doing this is that when you issue a query through … Continue reading
How “Remove Duplicate Results” works in FAST Search for SharePoint
This is a question that I have received quite a few times, and this time I thought I would get some screenshots and detail the process a little bit in here so that other folks can take advantage of this … Continue reading
How to force an item to be removed from the index immediately with FAST Search for SharePoint
Very important reminder: the tip below will explain how to remove an item from the index, yet this does not prevent it from being picked up during the next crawl (full/incremental). In order to prevent the item from being crawled … Continue reading
Understanding Crawled Properties, Managed Properties and Full-text Index – Part 1
A while ago I received an email from a previous student asking my thoughts about an issue in his environment. He was crawling some content that had a metadata he wanted to use as the title for the items indexed, … Continue reading
Working with FAST Search for SharePoint and Multivalued Properties
Imagine the following scenario. You have some content in a database (or file share, or SharePoint site), and this content has some metadata that is comprised of multiple values for one specific field, such as a list of authors in … Continue reading
SharePoint Search and FAST Search for SharePoint Architecture Diagrams – Fault Tolerance and Performance
Update: For those interested in watching a presentation of this content below you can download (right-click and select “Save target as..”) and watch this video here (200+ MB) that was recorded during a webcast on 2011-07-27. My presentation starts at … Continue reading
Posted in FS4SP, SP2010
Tagged architecture, fault tolerance, FS4SP, performance, SP2010
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Learning roadmap for Search in SharePoint 2010 (including FAST Search for SharePoint) – Part 2: Planning, Scale, Installation and Deployment, and Crawling
Did you enjoy your break since our last post in the series, when we finished up with some architecture diagrams for both SharePoint Search and FAST Search for SharePoint? Now let’s have a deeper look into some of those components, … Continue reading
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