Several things haven’t changed in 2013 SharePoint search. Search is still uses a componentized model that is still based on a Shared Services architecture. Simply stated, you still provision a Search Service Application + Proxy. The Search Admin UI is exposed by clicking on the Search Service Application via Central Administrator\Application Management\Manage Service Applications. As […]
Several things have changed in SharePoint 2013 Search. As you might already be aware, we merged and built upon the core SharePoint 2010 Search product and Fast Search for SharePoint 2010 into a single product\engine simply called SharePoint 2013 search. This is the first of a series of Search 2013 Architecture blogs. So much has […]
I recently went through the process of applying the latest SharePoint 2013 Cumulative Update on my multi server SharePoint 2013 Farm. To my surprise, I found the total time to apply the patch (install the bits) took over 5 hours per SharePoint Server. This time doesn’t include running PSConfig which is considered phase 2. My […]
This is my first of many SharePoint 2013 blogs and I’m starting with Search. I like the new Search UI for users and the look is so much cleaner with the hover panel, search blocks, etc.. I’m really curious how customizing the Search refinement panel works in SharePoint 2013. I was surprised to see that […]
I ran into an interesting problem where accessing the 2010 Search Service Application administration page returns a 503 Server unavailable for the Crawl Status. Usually, a 503 indicates that the application pool is stopped that is hosting a site. In this case, it’s the SharePoint Web Services Virtual directory hosting the Search Admin web […]
I’m baaaaackkkkkkk, lol. I apologize for taking about a 6 month break but I’m back and will have some new fresh blog content starting now. I recently ran into an interesting scenario with a request to change the Host Header URL of a web application in SharePoint 2010. I was surprised that I didn’t find […]
I recently ran across an interesting issue where InfoPath forms were calling OOB SharePoint 2010 web services. In particular, these forms contained one or more fields which called SharePoint OOB web service. These forms were published to web applications configured with Claims Authentication. Opening this form works fine as long as you open the form […]
SharePoint Administrator’s running this script want to perform the following tasks for a specified site: 1. Add new Headings and Links to the Quick Launch Bar 2. Add new links to existing Headings on the Quick Launch Bar 3. View the Quick Launch layout for a given Site Question: What is the quick launch bar? […]
SharePoint Administrator’s that run this script usually want to answer one of the following questions: 1. Is Anonymous Access enabled anywhere in my Site Collection. If so, where? 2. I want to confirm Anonymous Access is enabled in a specific location 3. I want to collect a record of how Anonymous Access […]
This is a summary to provide a glimpse of the Client to Server interaction when a user attempts to open a word document from a SharePoint 2010 Document Library. A lot of decision making goes behind each attempt when factoring in client Operating System level and Office version. In this blog, we will cover what […]
