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Best used when strategy breaks down... (blog by Brian Pendergrass, Microsoft SharePoint - Premier Field Engineer)
To avoid burying the lede, I'll start by "boldly" saying... *You don't need to regularly schedule a...
Date: 12/06/2017
As part of the crawl processing flow, the Crawl Component starts "robot" threads that orchestrate...
Date: 06/12/2017
Last year, I dove into a case of AV slowing down crawls and within that post, I provided guidance...
Date: 04/21/2017
After introducing the Search Health Reports (SRx) last year, we continued to extend the battery of...
Date: 03/06/2017
Over the last year, I've been putting far more focus into the Search Health Reports (SRx) and...
Date: 02/24/2017
With VerboseEx logging enabled, the crawl of a single item (or interchangeably, a “document”) can...
Date: 08/11/2016
In the services world supporting Search, I commonly see the nasty impact of Anti-Virus (AV) on the...
Date: 04/27/2016
Brought to you by SearchEngineers@microsoft.com, the Search Health Reports (SRx) is a...
Date: 02/01/2016
As more environments begin scaling out to the documented limits for Search, a common question tends...
Date: 11/30/2015
Let's consider this throwback Thursday. A couple of years ago, I posted this "PowerShell to...
Date: 09/03/2015
Ever had an SP2013 Index Component report a yellow exclamation point () to indicate a "degraded...
Date: 07/08/2015
At the Microsoft Ignite Conference last week, we got our first look at the upcoming SharePoint Cloud...
Date: 05/12/2015
Thank you everyone that came by to talk about our favorite subject... Search. We are incredibly...
Date: 05/05/2015
A few years back, I published a PowerShell script to deploy a SharePoint Search Service Application...
Date: 05/04/2015
Coming to Microsoft Ignite next week? Then I invite you to come see Kristopher Loranger and I...
Date: 04/28/2015
What comes to mind when I say "Application Server Administration Services" timer job? Based on the...
Date: 04/22/2015
Update: The newest version of the Search Index Health Reports script can now be found with our...
Date: 04/15/2015
With VerboseEx logging enabled, the crawl of a single item (or interchangeably, a "document") can...
Date: 03/24/2015
With VerboseEx logging enabled, the crawl of a single item (or interchangeably, a "document") can...
Date: 01/26/2015
When gathering files from a content source, the SharePoint 2013 Crawl Component can be very I/O...
Date: 12/04/2014
Ever heard the one about not being able to crawl more than a million or two rows from a single...
Date: 08/28/2014
In several forums, emails, and discussions, I keep seeing this recurring question, "How can I limit...
Date: 07/31/2014
In a nutshell, there is an undocumented assumption baked into SharePoint Search that the Default...
Date: 07/08/2014
I've seen several scenarios where a single document gets crawled twice and leads to duplicate...
Date: 07/02/2014
Ever had a Crawl seeming stuck Starting, Stopping, Pausing, or even Crawling and thought... hmm, now...
Date: 03/06/2014
Wow! I wanted to send a huge thank you to the >500 folks that attended our session today and for...
Date: 03/05/2014
Deadlocks reported in the Search databases, particularly the Crawl Store database (which manages the...
Date: 02/10/2014
In part 1, I described the load balancing that occurs among Query Components (e.g. SSA load...
Date: 12/09/2013
I recently encountered a scenario in which adding SharePoint Search content sources of various types...
Date: 11/18/2013
I recently gave a talk around AAMs and wanted to post my slides here (attached below as...
Date: 10/01/2013
Seemingly “sporadic” query problems are often just straightforward failures being masked...
Date: 07/15/2013
After reading my post to rebalance Crawl Stores in SharePoint 2013, several people have since...
Date: 06/30/2013
Based on many of the support cases that I've seen, Alternate Access Mappings (AAM) may be one of the...
Date: 05/27/2013
Update: I've now published another post "Problems Crawling the non-Default zone *Explained" that...
Date: 02/20/2013
I was recently setting up federated search for SharePoint 2013 using Result Sources to a Remote...
Date: 01/29/2013
In SharePoint 2013, simply adding a new Crawl Store DB doesn't cause the SSA to rebalance links...
Date: 01/28/2013
Maybe this is cheating in terms of a blog post, but I wrote the bulk of this Support KB and wanted...
Date: 11/02/2012
Update: I've started a new series for explaining crawls in the context of SharePoint 2013. For the...
Date: 10/30/2012
Update (5-May-2015) I posted a new version of this script at this link below: new script here...
Date: 08/24/2012
It's like Christmas in July - I'm currently waiting for my download of SharePoint Server 2013 and...
Date: 07/16/2012
In broad terms, SharePoint Search is comprised of three main functional process components: Crawling...
Date: 06/29/2012
The week is over and the fire hose is now off. I haven't been able to post as much as I hoped over...
Date: 05/04/2012
So, today I started day one of my week-long FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 training. Over the next...
Date: 04/30/2012
In my previous post (Troubleshooting SharePoint 2010 Web Analytics), I referenced a problem that can...
Date: 04/16/2012
Web Analytics reports are pre-built reports in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 that use usage data...
Date: 03/16/2012