SP2013 Crawling *Explained: Starting the Crawl Deep Dive (Part 2)
In this deep dive, we continue this series to explain SharePoint crawls by using ULS to provide a detailed step-by-step of events that occur when starting a crawl. If you've ever had a crawl get stuck in starting or needed to troubleshoot the start of a crawl, then this should help explain where to look next. In this and upcoming posts, I'll again show the same overall flow, but this time using key ULS events to illustrate a deep dive through an expected path when crawling an item.
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