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2/7/2020

This blog is mainly about my personal experience around Search Technologies in general. It's all about Giving back to the community. All sample scripts are provided AS IS without warranty of any kind.

Hi Search Folks As you might have seen in my previous post , it is easy to bring more innovative...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 02/11/2018

Hi Search Folks A simple blog post to give a tip to create new Search User Experience. The default...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 02/11/2018

O365 - Questions/Answers

Hi A quick post on some common questions with regards to O365 and SharePoint Online. Workplace...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 05/05/2017

SP2013/SP2016 - Switching tenant on a Cloud SSA : Onboarding

Hi Folks Starting a series of quick posts on the Cloud SSA so you could take full advantage of...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 03/08/2017

SharePoint - Working with IIS Logs

Hi Search Folks As with ULS Logs (see my previous entry...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 01/24/2017

SharePoint Crawl log and the mysterious SearchID !

Hi Search Folks, A very quick post to clarify the mysterious SearchID GUID seen when troubleshooting...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 01/22/2017

SP2013/SP2016 - Quick Search Query Performance Data Extraction and Analysis with Excel

Hi Search Folks, I wanted to share a quick method to extract Search query performance and build your...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 12/26/2016

SharePoint - Working with ULS Logs

Hi Search Folks When dealing with SharePoint, the ULS is usually the main source of information you...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 12/20/2016

SP2013 - Boost your FileShare incremental crawls

Hi Search Enthusiasts I wanted to touch base on a particular hidden feature our SP2013 crawl is...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 12/15/2016

SP2013 - Reasons to do a full crawl

Hi Search Enthusiasts A quickie to clarify one piece of documentation around Full Crawl. I came...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 12/15/2016

SP2013 - Adding a new claim type encoding and its impact on Search

Hi Search Enthusiasts A quick heads up on some consequences on using custom claim type in SP2013....

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 07/28/2015

SP2013 - Querying a document based on its Item ID

Hi Search Enthusiasts ! For troubleshooting purpose, you might want to look at the MPs of a specific...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 07/01/2015

Hi Search Enthusiasts ! Today I would like to share a SP2013 crawl issue one of my customers faced a...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 05/14/2015

SP2013 - Enable WCF tracing on the Search Admin Web Service (SearchAdmin.svc)

Hi Search Enthusiasts ! Today I will show you how to enable a WCF tracing on the Search Admin Web...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 05/07/2015

SP2013 - Get Query Suggestions to work with your custom result source in the Search Center.

Hi Search Enthusiasts ! As a reminder about what Query Suggestions are in SP2013 Search: Query...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 03/19/2015

SP2013 - How to determine the id of your Result Source for setting the SourceId query parameter ?

Hi Search Enthusiasts ! One question I had the other day was how to determine the id of a Result...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 03/19/2015

SP2013 - Configure search to use PDF iFilter

Hi Search Enthusiasts Just a quick post on a new feature in SP2013 Search. July CU 2014 introduces...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 09/01/2014

SP2013 - Hybrid Search Topology

Hi Search Enthusiasts Hybrid Search scenario is one of the major steps in integrating your SPO and...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 08/28/2014

FAST ESP 5.x - Converting Clarity SearchStatus into CSVs.

Hi Clarity is a great tool for monitoring ESP either through the UI or requesting the supporting...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 07/23/2014

SP2013 - How to influence the Language detection at the document/item level

Hi Search Enthusiasts Today I'd like to demonstrate a small workaround for language detection issues...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 04/17/2014

SP2013 - How to better balance your Distributed File System (DFS) crawl

Hi Search Enthusiasts I came across one problematic when crawling a Distributed File System split...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 07/24/2013

FAST ESP 5.x - Indexer and Large Addresses Awareness

Hi Search Enthusiasts I wanted to share an important update that has been made in indexer for Win32...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 07/08/2013

SP2013 - Removing the "Nothing here matches your search" for good.

Hi Search Enthusiasts Today I had to customize my SP2013 Search Center to remove the beloved...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 07/03/2013

SP2013 - Changing the default group template in Search Results WP (GroupTemplateId)

Hi Search Enthusiasts I came across the need to change the default group template, for a specific...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 07/03/2013

FS4SP - Updates

Hi FAST'ers ! Just a quickie to remind everyone that there is one wiki page out there listing all...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 03/19/2013

FS4SP - Document Signature Customization

In this post I'll describe how to customize the document signature in FAST Search for SP2010. The...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 03/13/2013

FS4SP - The truth about the u2029 delimiter

Hi Having seen many entries on this I wanted to clarify one point about the delimiter \u2029 in Fast...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 03/09/2013

FS4SP - Creating a Search Vertical in your Search Center

The default Fast Search Server for SharePoint 2010 (FS4SP) comes with 2 verticals out of the box :...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 02/24/2013

FS4SP - Using the Windows Search connector

Hello World of Search Just a quickie today about a very useful feature in 2010: search your...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 02/20/2013

FAST ESP 5.x - fsearch maxmemusage clarification

Context : FAST ESP 5.x Architecture If your fsearch process fails to start with the below error:...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 02/01/2013

SharePoint Search 2013 - Changing the default search operator from AND to OR - Part 2

HiBack on that investigation on how to change the default AND operator (free text search) to OR.We...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 01/13/2013

SharePoint Search 2013 - Changing the default search operator from AND to OR - Part 1

In 2013, you may want to change the default AND search operator between search terms to an...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 01/07/2013

Hello World SharePoint 2013 !

As you have seen already Search in SharePoint 2013 Preview has been released. Check out the page :...

Author: NicolasU1 - MSFT Date: 09/26/2012