Adding Content Sources to SharePoint Search

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SharePoint gives you a great amount of versatility for search that extent beyond SharePoint content. As you might expect SharePoint search does allow you to crawl and index local content, but that ability can be extended to non-SharePoint content. There will be main components that we will look at here: sources and schedules. While I will concentrate here on the overall content, I will go into greater detail for each element in later posts.

Sources

Sources is the first component for any SharePoint search content crawl and index. This describes the type of information search is to crawl and index for your query. The sources that are available to SharePoint search include:

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Troubleshooting Server Error in Application

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In SharePoint you may run across this specific error, and not know how to proceed. When an error of this type is thrown make sure to locate the specific SharePoint web front end (WFE) server you are using to generate the error. In theory all WFEs should have the same content. If you are not sure of which WFE then all SharePoint WFEs that are serving pages need to be modified.

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The Case of the Missing Blog Site Template

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(And other missing templates)

I had this request from a customer to find out why they couldn’t create a blog subsite. He was trying to create a blog sub-site with the blog template built into SharePoint. I knew it was there somewhere because when we turned the over the SharePoint build to our customer it was there. So where did it go?

As I logged into the site and tried to create a sub-site using normal Continue reading →

How to Verify SQL connectivity using SQL Profiler

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First let’s find some information about the target database. In my case I’m trying to monitor any connections to the ‘AdeventureWorks’ database. I open the ‘Microsoft SQL server Management Studio’ and hit the ‘New Query’ button.

In the query window I enter the follow SQL transaction statement

SELECT * FROM master..sysdatabases WHERE name like ‘%adventureworks%’

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Troubleshooting SharePoint Search using a Proxy

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So I had this recent problem with search. I was trying to crawl an external website and it was not returning the results I was expecting. I needed to troubleshoot SharePoint search at a deeper level by using a proxy.

The first place I looked at was the search service search administration page. As you would expect in the crawl history and it shows you general information about what was going on in the crawl. Continue reading →

SharePoint Saturday Video Presentation

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Hey everyone! First a big thanks to everyone who came to my SharePoint Saturday Austin session in Austin #SPSAusTX

I had a great time in Austin and was asked if there would be a way to get the slide deck. I decided to take it a step further and make the presentation available with the slide deck. Let me know what you think! Continue reading →

Add a SharePoint Feature Member to a Feature Pack

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Let’s take a look on how to add a newly installed feature to an established feature pack.

An example of this would be a multi-tenant farm that leverages feature packs, where we just installed a new web part.

When the web part is installed the features is part of the farm, but not part of any our site collections. This happens because the new feature is not associated with any feature packs that are used in the multi-tenant scenario.

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