SharePoint 2013: SharePoint and Enterprise Search Survival Guide
Introduction
This is a list of SharePoint 2013 resources related to Enterprise Search that you can add too, and feel free to re-arrange.
Quickly find SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Search Resources!!
- Bing SP2013ES http://www.bing.com/search?q=sp2013es
Main TechNet and MSDN Resources
- Small, medium, and large-size farm architectures for enterprise search. It contains search and farm topology examples, scaling guidance, and hardware requirements (TechNet) Link to Technical Diagrams page. Direct link to Search PDF.
- Search in SharePoint Server 2013 Resource Center (TechNet)
- What's new in Search in SharePoint 2013 (TechNet)
- Search architectural diagrams (posters) (TechNet)
- Administer search in SharePoint Server 2013 (TechNet)
- Index of all PS cmdlets for SharePoint 2013 (TechNet)
- Index of all PS Search cmdlets for SharePoint 2013 (TechNet)
- Survival Guide: FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
- CodePlex - Projects related to SharePoint Search 2013
Migration
- Moving from Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
- [[Moving from Fast Search Server 2010 for SharePoint]] (TechNet wiki)
- Moving from ESP 5.3/FSIS
- Moving from Google Search Appliance
Operations
- Procedure to apply OS updates, hotfixes, CU, PU, SP, etc (TechNet Blog)
- [[Managing data spills]] (TechNet wiki)
- [[Monitoring an SSA's index]] (TechNet wiki)
- Joe Rodgers maintains a list of the patch, CU, PU, Service Pack, and Security update information for SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2010, and MOSS 2007 - SharePoint Patch Reference (MSDN Blog)
Hybrid Search with SharePoint 2013
- Configure a one-way hybrid environment with SharePoint Server 2013 and Office 365 (white paper)
- Configure a two-way hybrid search environment with SharePoint Server 2013 and Office 365 (white paper)
SPC2012 sessions - Cliff Notes
- Search Architecture in SharePoint 2013: SPC202 (Rune Zakariassen and Thomas Molbach)
- What's new for Search in SharePoint 2013: SPC259 (Glen Anderson and Cem Aykan)
- Capacity Planning, Sizing and High Availability for Search in SharePoint 2013: SPC172 (Barry Waldbaum and Olaf Birkeland)
- Effective Search Deployment and Operations in SharePoint 2013: SPC 095 (Knut Brandrud and Darrin Allred)
- Search Content Enrichment and Extensibility: SPC 203 (K.Hammervold, Runar Olsen and Niels Petter Rasch Olsen)
- Install and Configure SharePoint 2013
- Auto SP Installer
PowerShell scripts on TechNet Gallery
- Import-QueryRules
- Maintain-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataProperties
- Migrate SharePoint 2010 Search Thesaurus to SharePoint 2013
- SearchBenchmarkWithSQLIO
Topology and Diagnostics
- Determine search service status
- Manage Search Topology in SharePoint 2013 (TechNet)
- Creating the Search SSA in PowerShell
- Deploying SharePoint 2013 SSA Across Multiple Servers Using PowerShell (MSDN Blog)
- Recommended server architecture for small, medium, and large-size farms (Microsoft Download Center)
- [[SP2013 Search DB Size Requirements|What are the sizing recommendations for the search databases?]] (wiki)
- [[SharePoint 2013 IO Recommendations]]
- [[SP2013 Search HA| What is the high availability (HA) story for SharePoint 2013 and search?]] (wiki)
Content Integration, Connectors, and Processing
- XML Mapper
- Customize the SharePoint 2013 search experience with a Content Enrichment web service (MSDN Blog)
- Brilliant Blog outlining Asynchronous Content Enrichment (MSDN Blog)
- [[IIS Web Sites and User ACLs]] (TechNet wiki)
- [[CEWS Pipeline Toolkit]] (TechNet wiki)
- [[Supported file types]] (TechNet Wiki)
- SharePoint 2013 - Configure Content Source and Search Result Source using Powershell
Query Integration
- [[SharePoint 2013 Document Preview]]
- Adaptive experiences (MSDN Blog)
- [[Query Suggestions]] (TechNet wiki)
- Blog entry for CodePlex SharePoint 2013 Search Query Tool (CodePlex)
Security
Blogs
- [[Enterprise Search - Authoring Schedule]]
- Alex Smith: Enterprise Search Blog (MSDN Blog) Some great entries on Documentum!
- Anders Fagerhaug: Adaptive Experiences in SharePoint 2013 (MSDN Blog)
- Anders Fagerhaug and Armen Kirakosyan : XML Connector for SharePoint 2013 (MSDN Blog)
- Balamurugan Kailasam's Blog SharePoint-community.net
- Beyond Search Stephen Arnold (Blog)
- Brian Jackett: The Frog Pond of Technology (Blog)
- Brian Pendergrass: SharePoint Strategery (MSDN Blog)
- Brandon Atkinson's Blog
- Dan G. Lunde Blog (TN Blog)
- Do More With Search (Blog)
- Enterprise Search (Blog)
- Kris Loranger: Enterprise Search Blog (MSDN Blog)
- Nadeem Ishqair: Search Space (MSDN Blog) Connectors, REST API, Search Query Tool on CodePlex
- Mark Sullivan: Enterprise Search Blog (TechNet Blog)
- Max Melcher: SharePoint, Search and other stuff (Blog)
- Mikael Svensen's Blog (blogspot)
- Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog (MSDN Blog)
- Peter Dempsey: Enterprise Search Blog (MSDN Blog)
- Ragnar Heil: SharePoint Nuggets (MSDN Blog)
- Richard DiZerega: SharePoint Blog (MSDN Blog)
- Sezai Komur: SharePoint Blog
- Share-n-dipity Steve Peschka (TechNet Blog)
- SharePoint Brew Russ Maxwell (MSDN Blog)
- SharePoint Dev Blog (MSDN Blog)
- SharePoint for Squirrels Natalya Voskresenskaya (BlogSpot)
- SharePoint IT Pro Blog: ToTheSharePoint (MSDN Blog)
- Sveinar Rasmussen: Security Trimming in SharePoint 2013 (MSDN Blog)
- The Search Guys - Paul Branson, Paul Summers, Matt King (TechNet Blog)
FBA
Configure Search in Multi Tenant environment
http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2013mt.aspx