Blog On Search
This blog is mainly about my personal experience around Search Technologies in general. It's all about Giving back to the community. All sample scripts are provided AS IS without warranty of any kind.
SharePoint Search (SPO/SP2013/SP2016) - Refiner Dropdown popup
Hi Search Folks As you might have seen in my previous post , it is easy to bring more innovative...
Date: 02/11/2018
SharePoint Search (SPO/SP2013/SP2016) - Create an Horizontal Search Refinement Panel
Hi Search Folks A simple blog post to give a tip to create new Search User Experience. The default...
Date: 02/11/2018
O365 - Questions/Answers
Hi A quick post on some common questions with regards to O365 and SharePoint Online. Workplace...
Date: 05/05/2017
SP2013/SP2016 - Switching tenant on a Cloud SSA : Onboarding
Hi Folks Starting a series of quick posts on the Cloud SSA so you could take full advantage of...
Date: 03/08/2017
SharePoint - Working with IIS Logs
Hi Search Folks As with ULS Logs (see my previous entry...
Date: 01/24/2017
SharePoint Crawl log and the mysterious SearchID !
Hi Search Folks, A very quick post to clarify the mysterious SearchID GUID seen when troubleshooting...
Date: 01/22/2017
SP2013/SP2016 - Quick Search Query Performance Data Extraction and Analysis with Excel
Hi Search Folks, I wanted to share a quick method to extract Search query performance and build your...
Date: 12/26/2016
SharePoint - Working with ULS Logs
Hi Search Folks When dealing with SharePoint, the ULS is usually the main source of information you...
Date: 12/20/2016
SP2013 - Boost your FileShare incremental crawls
Hi Search Enthusiasts I wanted to touch base on a particular hidden feature our SP2013 crawl is...
Date: 12/15/2016
SP2013 - Reasons to do a full crawl
Hi Search Enthusiasts A quickie to clarify one piece of documentation around Full Crawl. I came...
Date: 12/15/2016
SP2013 - Adding a new claim type encoding and its impact on Search
Hi Search Enthusiasts A quick heads up on some consequences on using custom claim type in SP2013....
Date: 07/28/2015
SP2013 - Querying a document based on its Item ID
Hi Search Enthusiasts ! For troubleshooting purpose, you might want to look at the MPs of a specific...
Date: 07/01/2015
SP2013 - Crawler is unable to crawl some file share directories.
Hi Search Enthusiasts ! Today I would like to share a SP2013 crawl issue one of my customers faced a...
Date: 05/14/2015
SP2013 - Enable WCF tracing on the Search Admin Web Service (SearchAdmin.svc)
Hi Search Enthusiasts ! Today I will show you how to enable a WCF tracing on the Search Admin Web...
Date: 05/07/2015
SP2013 - Get Query Suggestions to work with your custom result source in the Search Center.
Hi Search Enthusiasts ! As a reminder about what Query Suggestions are in SP2013 Search: Query...
Date: 03/19/2015
SP2013 - How to determine the id of your Result Source for setting the SourceId query parameter ?
Hi Search Enthusiasts ! One question I had the other day was how to determine the id of a Result...
Date: 03/19/2015
SP2013 - Configure search to use PDF iFilter
Hi Search Enthusiasts Just a quick post on a new feature in SP2013 Search. July CU 2014 introduces...
Date: 09/01/2014
SP2013 - Hybrid Search Topology
Hi Search Enthusiasts Hybrid Search scenario is one of the major steps in integrating your SPO and...
Date: 08/28/2014
FAST ESP 5.x - Converting Clarity SearchStatus into CSVs.
Hi Clarity is a great tool for monitoring ESP either through the UI or requesting the supporting...
Date: 07/23/2014
SP2013 - How to influence the Language detection at the document/item level
Hi Search Enthusiasts Today I'd like to demonstrate a small workaround for language detection issues...
Date: 04/17/2014
SP2013 - How to better balance your Distributed File System (DFS) crawl
Hi Search Enthusiasts I came across one problematic when crawling a Distributed File System split...
Date: 07/24/2013
FAST ESP 5.x - Indexer and Large Addresses Awareness
Hi Search Enthusiasts I wanted to share an important update that has been made in indexer for Win32...
Date: 07/08/2013
SP2013 - Removing the "Nothing here matches your search" for good.
Hi Search Enthusiasts Today I had to customize my SP2013 Search Center to remove the beloved...
Date: 07/03/2013
SP2013 - Changing the default group template in Search Results WP (GroupTemplateId)
Hi Search Enthusiasts I came across the need to change the default group template, for a specific...
Date: 07/03/2013
FS4SP - Updates
Hi FAST'ers ! Just a quickie to remind everyone that there is one wiki page out there listing all...
Date: 03/19/2013
FS4SP - Document Signature Customization
In this post I'll describe how to customize the document signature in FAST Search for SP2010. The...
Date: 03/13/2013
FS4SP - The truth about the u2029 delimiter
Hi Having seen many entries on this I wanted to clarify one point about the delimiter \u2029 in Fast...
Date: 03/09/2013
FS4SP - Creating a Search Vertical in your Search Center
The default Fast Search Server for SharePoint 2010 (FS4SP) comes with 2 verticals out of the box :...
Date: 02/24/2013
FS4SP - Using the Windows Search connector
Hello World of Search Just a quickie today about a very useful feature in 2010: search your...
Date: 02/20/2013
FAST ESP 5.x - fsearch maxmemusage clarification
Context : FAST ESP 5.x Architecture If your fsearch process fails to start with the below error:...
Date: 02/01/2013
SharePoint Search 2013 - Changing the default search operator from AND to OR - Part 2
HiBack on that investigation on how to change the default AND operator (free text search) to OR.We...
Date: 01/13/2013
SharePoint Search 2013 - Changing the default search operator from AND to OR - Part 1
In 2013, you may want to change the default AND search operator between search terms to an...
Date: 01/07/2013
Hello World SharePoint 2013 !
As you have seen already Search in SharePoint 2013 Preview has been released. Check out the page :...
Date: 09/26/2012