Kristopher Loranger

Internet mechanic and enterprise search ninja teachings

Finding the threshold for SharePoint 2013 crawler “Transaction Waiting”

During my presentation at Ignite 2015 I described monitoring for the SharePoint Crawler data point...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 05/04/2015

Shameless Self-Promotion: Presenting at Microsoft Ignite 2015

If you are coming to Ignite this year and want to know more about Search in SharePoint 2013, come...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 04/27/2015

SharePoint 2013 Search enable Partial Results – or a good reason to install Nov 2014 CU #2

SharePoint 2013 Nov 2014 CU has some great new Search features that I have been working with, last...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 01/16/2015

SharePoint 2013 Search enable embedded documents indexing – or a good reason to install Nov 2014 CU #1

Are your users asking; Where is my embedded content when I search for it in SP2013? By default,...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 12/10/2014

SharePoint 2013 On-Prem AntiVirus exceptions and IP Offloading

Support has been seeing a spike in strange issues that have no direct ULS logs associated with the...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 09/26/2014

SharePoint 2013 On-Prem reset index stuck resolution

Recently I have had a few customers with index out of sync errors, the customers have tried...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 09/26/2014

SharePoint 2013 noderunner.exe process information

At just about every customer I speak with I always get asked this same question, also after my...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 03/24/2014

Good Day, This is mostly information aggregator type blog but I wanted to let the SP 2013 search...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 02/27/2014

SharePoint 2013 Search IO critical component locations

While working with a customer I found an undocumented (on TechNet anyways) bit of information on...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 02/07/2014

FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Crawler Troubleshooting

Being in the field for Microsoft has taught me some valuable troubleshooting skills for multiple...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 09/03/2013

How can I determine what file types are supported in a FS4SP instance?

Q: How can I determine what file types are supported in a FS4SP instance? A: There are a few ways:...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 06/13/2013

Video: Troubleshooting FAST Search and the SharePoint 2010 Crawler - An Operational Viewpoint

A video I did for the Enterprise Search Users Group in New York City Includes case studies and real...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 06/04/2013

Securing Content feeding to FAST ESP

Part of my job is to support some clients that still use FAST ESP and an interesting question came...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 05/30/2013

SharePoint 2013 Crawler Troubleshooting Concepts

SharePoint 2013 Crawler Troubleshooting Concepts Hello, in my years of IT and tech work I have come...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 05/30/2013

The easiest scriptable way to check FS4SP certificates

Put this in a weekly script to make sure you never forget about certificates expiring. $cert = @(dir...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 04/11/2012

MSFT Documentum connector and TCS Troubleshooting

MSFT Documentum connector and Custom Security Trimming (TCS) Troubleshooting Summary: With the...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 03/05/2012

Enable custom security trimming with FAST Search for Sharepoint and Documentum

Enable custom security trimming with FAST Search for Sharepoint and Documentum With the new FAST...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 03/02/2012

How does FAST/Sharepoint handle the language refiner?

Here is a good question that comes up quite a bit in discussion. How does FAST/Sharepoint handle the...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 01/30/2012

FS4SP Backup and Restore error

Good Day, I was asked a question about backups on a customer and found the answer which is semi...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 08/04/2011

What is WebAnalyzer and why does multiple content SSAs break it?

What is WebAnalyzer ? The WebAnalyzer analyzes data to automatically improve the relevance of search...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 07/26/2011

FS4SP SCOM management pack Best Practices

Administrators wanting to monitor and receive alerts to FS4SP with SCOM can add the FAST Search...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 07/11/2011

FS4SP Enterprise Search Blog

This is my 1st blog post to dump some information on working with FS4SP for the last 9 months. I am...

Author: KristopherLoranger Date: 07/11/2011