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Everything search, including product commentary and guidance, search strategies and general technical guidance
Bring Office 365 Video to Sites with Search
We’re getting back to our search roots with this blog post! Recently, as part of a customer...
Date: 12/16/2015
On-Going Management of Your Master Pages in SharePoint Online
Updated (12/4/2015): Correction around how default master pages are handled in the service. Thank...
Date: 12/01/2015
Updating your SharePoint Master Page in SharePoint Online
In this post, I am going to describe how I took a heavily customized SharePoint Online (SPO) master...
Date: 05/28/2015
SharePoint Search Architecture @ Ignite 2015
For those of you here at Microsoft Ignite, welcome! It's really exciting to be part of this...
Date: 05/04/2015
Building Custom Display Templates for OpenSearch Content
One of the less-used features of SharePoint Search (2013 or SPO) is the ability to federate to...
Date: 08/21/2014
Quick Hits: What to know when building search-driven SharePoint apps in SharePoint Online
Building search-driven apps in SharePoint Online can be a bit finicky. Actually, there’s a lot you...
Date: 08/20/2014
Building a Search-Driven SharePoint App (I)–Setting a Foundation
At SharePoint Conference 2014 a few months ago, a good friend and colleague of mine did a...
Date: 04/08/2014
How to find all managed properties of a document
When working with SharePoint search it is often helpful to figure out all of the managed properties...
Date: 12/10/2013
Multi-select refiners and taxonomy managed properties
In SharePoint 2013 you can use the “Multi-value Refinement Item” display template to allow users to...
Date: 11/13/2013
Scripted update of SP2013 Search Center navigation links
Not wanting to have to hand edit my custom navigation links between lab, test, and production I...
Date: 08/09/2013
Updating SP2013 refiners using PowerShell
In SharePoint 2010, changes to the refiners were made using the the FilterCategoriesDefinition...
Date: 07/29/2013
Step by Step: Search Development in Microsoft SharePoint 2013
I recently presented at TechEd in New Orleans and the presentation is up on Channel 9... Step by...
Date: 07/16/2013
Creating Result Sources using PowerShell
This post describes how to create a search result source using PowerShell. The GUI is easy enough...
Date: 06/14/2013
Super Simple BCS WCF Service Implementation
This post will describe how to create a very simple BCS WCF implementation that can serve as a good...
Date: 05/29/2013
Query Troubleshooting - Post 1
In this post, I plan to provide some top-level query debugging tips for SharePoint 2013 Search. I...
Date: 05/24/2013
How to throttle a BCS crawl
Throttling a BCS crawl is done the same way as other SharePoint crawls, using crawler impact rules....
Date: 04/19/2013
SP2013: Getting at the Search Results web part Search Criteria via PowerShell
Back in the SharePoint 2010 days to change the source of the Core Results Web Part you would simply...
Date: 04/04/2013
Mucking with search summaries in SP2013
For a project I’m working on I needed to add some redaction to the hit highlighting summaries of the...
Date: 04/03/2013
SharePoint 2013 and Search Service PerformanceLevel
Just a quick note… Set-SPEnterpriseSearchService still has the PerformanceLevel option in...
Date: 02/24/2013
Content Processing Performance Scaling
SharePoint 2013 has added the Content Processing Service to handle preparing documents to be indexed...
Date: 02/19/2013
FS4SP Branding Project
In this post I’ll describe a technique for branding a FAST Search for SharePoint Search...
Date: 01/20/2013
Getting the current user’s alias
For a project I’m working on, I needed to know what the logged in user’s account alias...
Date: 12/03/2012
Managing the SP Gatherer's temp files
While the SharePoint Gatherer is processing files (Office documents, PDFs, etc), it will store them...
Date: 09/18/2012
Anti-Virus settings and Pipeline Extensibility
If you’re using Pipeline Extensibility in Fast Search for SharePoint, you may know that files are...
Date: 08/21/2012
Getting Refiner Counts Back in SharePoint 2013 Search
If you’ve taken a look at search in 2013 at all, you might have noticed the beloved counts are now...
Date: 08/16/2012
Quick Hits: Mapping a crawled property that contains TextChunks
This is quite an edge case, but someone may run into it again. Inside the FAST pipeline, there are...
Date: 06/29/2012
Quick Hits: Using a custom property with hit highlighting
So you have a managed property with SummaryType set to Dynamic and you want to use that in the FAST...
Date: 06/11/2012
Quick Hits: Dealing with managed properties in the search center XSLT
Even though you've named your managed property using mixed capitalization, doesn't mean you can...
Date: 06/07/2012
Smoke testing a FAST for SharePoint install
One of the things I like to do after first installing and configuring FAST, and before trying to...
Date: 06/04/2012
BCS and FAST: Introduction and first steps
Introduction SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services (BCS) is, generally speaking, a way to...
Date: 06/01/2012
FAST Search Content SSA Architecture Demystified
I was recently working with a large enterprise customer trying to understand how they should design...
Date: 04/04/2012