SharePoint 2013 and Office Web Apps is a great fit together. Users really like the document previews both in the document libraries and on the hover panels of search results. But the *very* first … [Read more...] about Enable PDF Previews in SharePoint 2013
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Key Success Factors for Enterprise Content Management
A couple of weeks ago, right before Christmas, I had the honor do a webinar about Key Success Factors for Enterprise Content Management. Information Overload First, I was talking about Information … [Read more...] about Key Success Factors for Enterprise Content Management
The “Big Picture” of Search in SharePoint 2013
In SharePoint 2013 Search, we have Content Sources and Result Sources. We have Result Sources, Result Types, Result Blocks and Result Sets. Not to mention Query Rules and Query Builder that one can … [Read more...] about The “Big Picture” of Search in SharePoint 2013
How to Organize Content Sources – Best Practices
Working with search for years has given me a lot of experience with Content Sources as well as a lot of questions about them, like "should I create one huge content source or would be better to split … [Read more...] about How to Organize Content Sources – Best Practices
Time Machines vs. Incremental Crawl
Recently I've been working with a customer where my job was to make their SQL based content management system searchable in SharePoint. Nice challenge. One of the best ones was what I call "time … [Read more...] about Time Machines vs. Incremental Crawl
Information-Seeking Patterns
I always use this in my conference sessions, as 1) makes the understanding of Search much easier, 2) takes the attendees attention, 3) describes the Search use cases very well. So here is, how I see … [Read more...] about Information-Seeking Patterns
Reduce Resources Used by noderunner.exe in SharePoint 2013
My Search Troubleshooting session is one of the most popular ones, and definitely one of my favorites. I've been working on its use cases from conference to conference, built on my experiences as well … [Read more...] about Reduce Resources Used by noderunner.exe in SharePoint 2013
More about Search DBs – Inconsistency due to an Error while Creating the SSA
After my blog post (Deploying Search Service App by PowerShell – but what about the Search DBs?) a couple of days ago, I've got an interesting question: what to do with a Search Service App that … [Read more...] about More about Search DBs – Inconsistency due to an Error while Creating the SSA
Deploying Search Service App by PowerShell – but what about the Search DBs?
First of all, I have to admit, I owe a beer to both Todd and Spence for the script, I use the very same for deploying Search in SharePoint 2013: # Get App Pool $saAppPoolName = "SharePoint Service … [Read more...] about Deploying Search Service App by PowerShell – but what about the Search DBs?
Refiners in SharePoint 2013 Search
The concept of search refiners is not new, it's been in SharePoint since the version 2010. But there was a big difference between SharePoint 2010's refiners and FAST Search for SharePoint's refiners: … [Read more...] about Refiners in SharePoint 2013 Search
