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Quick Tip: Use % to return all items in the search index

Ever wanted to see what exactly is in your SharePoint search index with a simple query? Sure, you can take a look at the crawl log, but you can’t see that in SharePoint Online. With SharePoint 2010, you can use queries using the ContentSource...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2012 12:55 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint 2010, Office 365, FAST Search, Enterprise Search, Office 365 Grid

Quick Tip: Use % to return all items in the search index (FAST Search for SharePoint and SharePoint Online)

Ever wanted to see what exactly is in your SharePoint search index with a simple query? Sure, you can take a look at the crawl log, but you can’t see that in SharePoint Online. With SharePoint 2010, you can use queries using the ContentSource...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2012 12:55 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint 2010, Office 365, FAST Search, Enterprise Search, Office 365 Grid

How to: Query People Search in SharePoint Online (and other SharePoint platforms too!)

At my Search talk at SPC11, I demoed how to build a Silverlight application that could query search in SharePoint Online . I also built a separate application that could query people search, but I haven’t posted on it yet until today. To query...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2012 10:38 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Office 365, FAST Search, Enterprise Search, Office 365 Grid, SPC11, Silverlight

How to: Use Refiners with the Search Web Service (FAST Search for SharePoint)

Yesterday, I talked about how we can use FQL with the Search Web Service . As promised, I am continuing the series about the search web service to talk about how we can take advantage of refiners. As you may know, FAST Search for SharePoint...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2011 12:50 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, FAST Search, Enterprise Search, Silverlight

How to: Query FAST Search for SharePoint with FQL and the Search Web Service

I’ve written many posts on how to query search ( Keyword in 2010 , Keyword in 2007 , QueryManager , Web Service , FQL using Keyword ) and I wanted to keep up the tradition and talk about how easy it is to get started using FQL with the Search Web Service...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2011 8:04 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, FAST Search, Enterprise Search, Silverlight

Searching by Document Id in SharePoint 2010

I have to admit, the Document Id Service is really only exciting to a small handful of us. I show it to customers and people in my ECM talks and the response I get is, “meh”. However, the hardcore ECM people I know really like it and they...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2011 1:38 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, FAST Search, Enterprise Search

FAST Search for SharePoint PowerShell Error: Failed to communicate with the WCF service

One day when I wasn’t thinking, I encountered the following error when trying to execute a FAST Search for SharePoint PowerShell command such as Get-FASTSearchContentCollection. Get-FASTSearchContentCollection : Failed to communicate with the WCF service...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2011 3:22 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, Error, PowerShell, SharePoint 2010, FAST Search

FAST Search for SharePoint Configuration Wizard: Configuration Failed for Non-admin servers

When deploying a multiple server FAST Search for SharePoint farm, sometimes you can run into a Configuration Failed error. The SDK has some guidance on this but I wanted to walk you through the troubleshooting steps I used to determine what the...

Published Tue, May 05 2011 3:33 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, Error, SharePoint 2010, FAST Search

Error: Could not install certificate. Script can be rerun to only set access rights when reason for error is detected. Access is denied.

In the FAST Search for SharePoint configuration process, getting your certificates configured correctly is probably the most important part of the process. Without the certificates configured correctly, FAST simply will not work. When running...

Published Mon, May 05 2011 10:00 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, Error, SharePoint 2010, FAST Search

Dude! Where’s my FAST Search Center (February 2011 CU)?

To date, I’ve written a few posts on issues that may occur when you are looking to create a search center. Sometimes the site template isn’t present or you receive an error . I recently encountered another issue with the FAST Search Center...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2011 8:59 AM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, FAST Search, Enterprise Search

An unexpected error has occurred when creating an Enterprise Search Center site

It’s generally pretty easy to create a Search Center or FAST Search Center site. However, on a new installation, there are a few features you need to activate (especially if you are using blank site) that are easy to forget. I’ve talked about...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2011 3:00 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, FAST Search, Enterprise Search

How to: Exclude part of a page from being indexed by SharePoint Search

This is something that I have been trying to figure out for quite some time. I’ve seen numerous people ask in the forums and no one seemed to have a conclusive answer (at least the last time I checked). The issue is simple. You want...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2011 12:07 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, FAST Search, Enterprise Search

Free up some resources on your FAST Search Development Environment

If you have ever installed FAST Search, you know memory is a commodity. When you are looking at an environment with Active Directory, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, and FAST installed on top of it, your virtual server is consuming a lot of memory...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2011 2:15 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, FAST Search, Enterprise Search

Slides from my SharePoint Search talk at Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group

In spite of the weather, I still had some people show up to my updated SharePoint Search talk, Getting the most out of SharePoint Search . This talk relates closely to my recent blog post Are you getting the most out of SharePoint Search . ...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2011 2:44 PM by Dot Net Mafia

Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, FAST Search, Enterprise Search, Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group

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Quick Tip: Use % to return all items in the search index

Quick Tip: Use % to return all items in the search index (FAST Search for SharePoint and SharePoint Online)

How to: Query People Search in SharePoint Online (and other SharePoint platforms too!)

How to: Use Refiners with the Search Web Service (FAST Search for SharePoint)

How to: Query FAST Search for SharePoint with FQL and the Search Web Service

Searching by Document Id in SharePoint 2010

FAST Search for SharePoint PowerShell Error: Failed to communicate with the WCF service

FAST Search for SharePoint Configuration Wizard: Configuration Failed for Non-admin servers

Error: Could not install certificate. Script can be rerun to only set access rights when reason for error is detected. Access is denied.

Dude! Where’s my FAST Search Center (February 2011 CU)?

An unexpected error has occurred when creating an Enterprise Search Center site

How to: Exclude part of a page from being indexed by SharePoint Search

Free up some resources on your FAST Search Development Environment

Slides from my SharePoint Search talk at Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group