SharePoint Strategery

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

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