In a previous 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 Search component(s) and the SharePoint farm Configuration...

Removing or re-joining a SharePoint Server that hosts a Search component will lead to an inconsistency in the ServerID being referenced by the applicable Search component(s) and the SharePoint farm Configuration object for the applicable server. Translation...

After playing for a while with SharePoint 2013 Search, I thought we were out of the woods regarding crawls of the non-Default Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) zone for a SharePoint Web Application. This caused all sorts of problems in earlier versions of...

I was recently setting up federated search for SharePoint 2013 using Result Sources to a Remote SharePoint farm. That has already been extremely well documented by Steve Peschka , but did want to dive into the following error with the App Management service...

In SharePoint 2013, simply adding a new Crawl Store DB doesn't cause the SSA to rebalance links among stores, and admins are unable to manually trigger a rebalancing process until the standard deviation of links in all existing Crawl Stores exceeds the...

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 out of disk space http://support.microsoft.com/kb...

In broad terms, SharePoint Search is comprised of three main functional process components: Crawling (Gathering) : Collecting content to be processed Indexing : Organizing the processed content into a structured/searchable index Query Processing...

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 post on Search Terminology, I try avoiding the term...

Update: Since the release of SharePoint 2013 RTM, I've made some modifications in an effort to simplify things (e.g. removing the unnecessary command line parameters) as well as improving the functionality (e.g. ability to provision multiple index partitions...

It's like Christmas in July - I'm currently waiting for my download of SharePoint Server 2013 and can't wait to play for the first time! I don't have a lot to talk about yet, but a ton of official slide decks can be found at SharePoint 2013: Presentation...

In broad terms, SharePoint Search is comprised of three main functional process components: Crawling (Gathering) : Collecting content to be processed Indexing : Organizing the processed content into a structured/searchable index Query Processing...

The week is over and the fire hose is now off. I haven't been able to post as much as I hoped over the last few days with time constraints coming from both work and life. There were also a few internal topics I can't share here and many more that I just...

So, today I started day one of my week-long FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 training. Over the next couple of days, I wanted to share some tidbits that I found interesting (and hoping it may help someone else along the way). In no particular order (and...

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 “ [Partition] has exceeded the max bytes ”...

Web Analytics reports are pre -built reports in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 that use usage data to analyze various aspects of sites and site collections. But when things break down, it’s not always obvious how to troubleshoot the various moving...

It's time to preview what the next version of SharePoint has in store with the SharePoint 15 Technical Preview Managed Object Model Software Development Kit ( http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28768& ) now available for download...

Hi All*, Thanks for checking out my blog. My name is Brian Pendergrass, and I’m at Microsoft (in Dallas) as a Senior Support Escalation Engineer on the SharePoint Search Team. As the name implies, we provide 3rd tier escalation support for SharePoint...