Recently we observed that our crawl was continuing for a long time without any progress. On looking at the eventlog we found the below error: "Failed to connect to SERVER Failed to initialize session with document engine: Unable to resolve Contentdistributor...

We recently came across this issue, we wanted to clean up our old indexes and build our environment. We rest the index from SharePoint and FAST server and did a full crawl. We observed that after the crawl is complete there were no data being retrieved...

Here we will see a simple example of calling SharePoint 2010 search web service in javascript. This example is for FAST search for SharePoint 2010, so we will use FQL in our query packet. We will be using XMLHttpRequest object for our request and response...

My post on search driven applications can be found here .

While developing your windows 8 app, you may need default configurations. In order to make things more generic, you may choose to keep your configuration in a separate xml to be deployed along with the app. Here, we will see how we can access a file deployed...

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 is all about accessing data external to SharePoint. BCS provides read/write access to external data from line-of-business (LOB) systems, Web services, databases, and other external systems within...

You have reached to this blog post probably after hitting into the below issue on executing: Set-ExecutionPolicy "RemoteSigned" Error thrown may be as follows: Set-ExecutionPolicy : Windows PowerShell updated your execution policy successfully...

Fast Search for SharePoint 2010 indexes data fed to the system during crawl. on query these indexes are used to retrieve relevant results. However, when the indexed data is very high and " Phrase " search is used we may not get as relevant results as...

Our crawl failed for large files with crawl error : "The item may be too large or corrupt. You may also verify that you have the latest version of this IFilter". In eventviewer of the crawl component observed error: "The search service stopped the...

After doing some update\configuration changes in SharePoint Farm, I was getting this issue when trying to open "SharePoint 2010 Management Shell": Add-PSSnapin : No snap-ins have been registered for windows powershell version 2 This was resolved...

We came across an interesting issue related to crawl in SharePoint\FAST farm. In one of the farm set-up with distributed nodes for both SharePoint and FAST, crawl was running very slow. It was taking almost 5 times the actual time of completion. All services...

By default FAST search sort is based on ASCII sort order. Therefore, sorting will follow [0-9A-Za-z] as pattern i.e. Numeric values will be followed by capital letter followed by small letter words in ascending sort. In order to change the order to...

I observed this issue recently for a SharePoint\Fast Search for SharePoint 2010 farm set up. Crawl was going into a infinite state without any errors and updates. There were no indication in crawl log for any success or failures. It was all working fine...

In continuation to my last post I'll explain how to enable security trimming on search results in SharePoint 2010 for external database. We need to have a BDC model file created with suitable operations for a table that is being indexed in SharePoint...

Recently we have encountered this issue where our crawl process was going into hung state. We have a SharePoint 2010\FAST farm and we have used BCS custom connector to crawl external data with large no of documents.We have used the metadata extraction...

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 provides the capability to connect to external data and create scalable application utilizing this out-of-box feature. The core function of BDC is to provide connectivity support to the following...