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Background In our project, we use the SharePoint 2010 wiki to document our solutions. We needed to export this in PDF format when releasing the solution to production, so that we could pass over a formal documentation set to the operations team, and...

When FAST Search for SharePoint indexes documents, it uses an internal format known as Fixml (Fast Internal XML). This represents the exact data which get indexed. Being able to inspect this can be useful for troubleshooting such as lemmatised forms...

The pipeline extensibility stage that comes with FAST Search for SharePoint is a powerful tool, but it can be a little awkward to work with. The official MSDN documentation, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff795801.aspx#pipeline-ext-ifilter ,...

On TechNet , there is documentation on how to tune ranking using a custom rank profile. This procedure is somewhat cumbersome, and does not allow the full flexibility provided by the FQL xrank operator . Fortunately, there is an easier way, which also...

I was at a presentation during the SharePoint Conference 2011 where one of the presenters said that she would like to have the option of turning off the phonetic search option when showing federated people results. She said she hoped this would be added...

I had the challenge that the standard search refiners were not wide enough to accomodate the values we had coming back. In the "Refinement" web part, you can increase the number of characters that are displayed. So I started with that. Here is a similar...

  Background In our project, we are exposing the same SharePoint farms both outside and inside the company firewalls. For this, we are using Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) with a setup like this: Zone Url Purpose Default http://team.example.com Internal...

After upgrading to Outlook 2013, me and my colleagues were annoyed by the search results in Outlook 2013. Typically, if you search for a common term, you get at most a page-full of results, with the most recent hits. Something like this: There is link...

  For the last seven years, since I joined Fast Search & Transfer in 2005, search technology has been my core interest and expertise. It has been a fun journey, bringing me from Melbourne to San Francisco, via Amman and Paris. But just as rewarding...