I am using Microsoft Search Server 2010 Express to spider a web site and provide search facilities to the site users. In the html of the site, we have various elements that are hidden by means of a css class. For example: <p class=”hidden”>Go to <a href=”#mainNav” title=”main menu”>main menu</a></p> Such text is intended to … Read more
I’m getting the following error when I try to go into the “Content Sources” section of the Search Administrator in the SSP. The search service is currently offline. Visit the Services on Server page in SharePoint Central Administration to verify whether the service is enabled. This might also be because an indexer move is in … Read more
I’ve been looking around for setup guides of solrCloud with tomcat. All the available documentation for solrCloud explains how to set it up with Jetty. I’m not sure moving to jetty from tomcat would be a great idea for production. We already have a 1 TB solr indexed data with very frequent update commits. It … Read more
On Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials, the built in shared folder named “Shared Folders”(located in “C:\\DFSRoot\Shared Folders”) that contains a virtual folder(Not sure what the proper name is as it is not a shortcut) folders to the actual shared folders. This works fine with one exception, when the search server feature is installed and the … Read more
we’re setting up Federated Search on our intranet, and this blog: http://blogs.blackmarble.co.uk/blogs/adawson/archive/2008/08/01/sharepoint-federated-search.aspx indicates that there is an on-line gallery for searching other external sources, eg Yahoo The link for the gallery is: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=95798, which initally led to: http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/en/us/search-connectors.aspx but which now gets redirected to: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/Pages/Editions-Comparison.aspx?Capability=Search which isn’t what I was looking for at all … … Read more
By default, standalone installation mode of Search Server 2010 Express automatically installs SQL Server 2008 Express. Is it possible to use standalone mode with full SQL Server 2008, not Express? Or I should install Search Server in Server Farm mode? Answer In order to use a SQL Server other than the pre-installed SQL Server 2008 … Read more
The Install Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint) TechNet article states: Do not install SharePoint Server 2010 and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint on the same server. But it doesn’t say why? Why should the two not be on the same machine? Answer Enterprise Search … Read more
Since 32-bit applications run mostly fine on 64-bit Windows are there any scenarious where I will have 32-bit Microsoft Search IFilter consumers on a 64-bit machine? Can I just install the 64-bit version or do I need both? Answer I would say that you only need the 64bit version on the 64bit platform. Looking at … Read more
I have created an ASP.NET web application that is calling the search.asmx service on a Search Server 2008 Express instance. When i connect using a domain account that is a local admin on the search box everything works great, however this isn’t a long term solution… What permissions to i need to give to the … Read more
i’m obviously far too stupid, but maybe someone has mercy 😉 System: Windows Server 2019 Standard DC Tested Users: administrator Problem: Windows search Server index only includes one useless location: Internet Explorer History. As a result there are 0 indexed files Screenshot. And i can’t add any other location in indexing oprions -> more, because … Read more
