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Blind spots in Usage file and Web Analytics Reports
In my previous post ( Troubleshooting SharePoint 2010 Web Analytics ), I referenced a problem that can occur when exceeding the daily partition size for the LoggingDB , which generates the ULS message...
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Troubleshooting the SSP Search Indexer for MOSS 2007
It's time to set aside my SharePoint 2013 farm and get into the way-back machine to troubleshoot the Indexer for MOSS SharePoint 2007 Shared Services Provider (SSP)... (As I mentioned in a previous...
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SharePoint 2010: Crawl process is stuck after SQL Server runs out of disk space
Maybe this is cheating in terms of a blog post, but I wrote the bulk of this Support KB and wanted to share in as many ways as I could... SharePoint 2010: Crawl process is stuck after SQL Server runs...
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SP2010: Troubleshooting ServerID Mismatch (Deleting Components)
In a another post , I described a scenario where removing/re-joining a SharePoint Server that hosts a Search component will lead to an inconsistency in the ServerID being referenced by the applicable...
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Alternate Access Mappings (AAMs) *Explained
Based on many of the support cases that I've seen, Alternate Access Mappings (AAM) may be one of the least understood aspects of SharePoint and can have substantial impact on Search (both Crawl and...
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SP2013: Using Get-SPIndexReports to Troubleshoot Failed Master Merge
Ever had an SP2013 Index Component report a yellow exclamation point ( ) to indicate a "degraded index component" and then wondered what that really meant? From my experience, these almost always...
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The most important Timer Job for Search you may not know exists
What comes to mind when I say “Application Server Administration Services” timer job? Based on the name alone, Search is probably the last answer – it was for me… until I learned just how important...
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Another Shameless Self-Promotion: Presenting at Microsoft Ignite 2015
Coming to Microsoft Ignite next week? Then I invite you to come see Kristopher Loranger and I present on Tuesday, May 5: Effective Search Deployment and Operations in SharePoint Server 2013 We’ll...
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PowerShell to Deploy an SSA Across Multiple Servers (v2.0)
A few years back, I published a PowerShell script to deploy a SharePoint Search Service Application across multiple servers, but it admittedly had a few quirks in regards to Index path location… until...
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MS Ignite “Effective Search Deployment” Session References (BRK3176)
Thank you everyone that came by to talk about our favorite subject… Search. We are incredibly grateful for the number of folks that added us to their schedule, and we hope you came away learning...
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The Upcoming Cloud SSA and Next Generation Hybrid Search: Initial Thoughts
At the Microsoft Ignite Conference last week, we got our first look at the upcoming SharePoint Cloud Search Service Application (Cloud SSA), which enables on premise environments to push content to a...
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SP2013: Using Get-SPIndexReports to Troubleshoot Failed Master Merge
Ever had an SP2013 Index Component report a yellow exclamation point () to indicate a “degraded index component” and then wondered what that really meant? From my experience, these almost always either...
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SP2013 Crawling *Explained: Enumeration/Discovery (Part 3a)
With VerboseEx logging enabled, the crawl of a single item (or interchangeably, a “document”) can generate more than 6000 ULS events, at times making troubleshooting a particular document analogous to...
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PowerShell: Getting Link Counts per Host Domain
Let’s consider this throwback Thursday. A couple of years ago, I posted this “PowerShell to Rebalance Crawl Store DBs in SP2013“. As a side note, I mentioned the following PowerShell to leverage the...
View ArticleSharePoint Search Topology Limits Clarified for the Crawl Component
As more environments begin scaling out to the documented limits for Search, a common question tends to get asked… “Does the Crawl Component count against the 64 component limit?” The short answer is…...
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Announcing the Search Health Reports (SRx) for SharePoint Search Diagnostics
Brought to you by SearchEngineers@microsoft.com, the Search Health Reports (SRx) is a PowerShell-driven tool for surfacing complex diagnostics for SharePoint Search through new multifaceted reports....
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Search Performance: A case of AV slowing down crawls
In the services world supporting Search, I commonly see the nasty impact of Anti-Virus (AV) on the performance of SharePoint Search. Before diving into this scenario, I want to first reiterate the...
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SP2013 Crawling *Explained: Enumeration/Discovery (Part 3b)
With VerboseEx logging enabled, the crawl of a single item (or interchangeably, a “document”) can generate more than 6000 ULS events, at times making troubleshooting a particular document analogous to...
View ArticleA shift from SRx back to blogging all things SP Search…
Over the last year, I’ve been putting far more focus into the Search Health Reports (SRx) and incorporating my lessons learned into this PowerShell tool-kit to empower anyone using it. As such, my time...
View ArticleSearch Health Reports (SRx) – Digging in further with PowerShell
After introducing the Search Health Reports (SRx) last year, we continued to extend the battery of PowerShell tests for analyzing and troubleshooting a SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016 on-premises...
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