Crawling websites or other locations (like exchange and file shares) to build a search index. Done by the SSP in MOSS/WSS 3.0 and by the Search Service Application in SP2010.
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Missing crawled properties for custom user profile properties
I have 2 custom (RegionID and SalesID) in user profile. Both are populated with values. I reset the content index, made sure values are populated for these fields, did multiple full crawl. I made sure ...
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Tag Profile Search is not working
In Tag profile (under 'Tagged Items' tab) when I click on 'To find content related to 'I like it' in search, please click here.', it opens a search page with ...
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How to Crawl SQL database in SharePoint 2010
How does one crawl a SQL database?
I want to be able to go to my SharePoint site, type in a keyword in my search bar, and have SharePoint crawl a SQL database and return desired search results.
Are ...
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SPSS and SharePoint 2010 Crawl Index
I have a folder on my desktop that I created and SharePoint 2010 crawl that folder.
I have Excel, Word, and .sav (SPSS) files in there. After I was done crawling, I was able to search the folder fine, ...
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Only crawling a content source for files with a given extension
I want to index only the files with a specific extension "*.las". I know that there are less than 20K of these files and there are a total of over 1 million files in the containing fileshare.
I've ...
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Is it possible to update the searchindex for only one item?
Is it possible to update the searchindex for only on specific item. I'm search some tasklists through keywordsearch and showing them in a webpart. Then I have a custom action which changes the status ...
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Indexing DWG files
I have been asked to look into the possibility of indexing DWG files within a hosted SASS-like environment using 'Off the Shelf' products.
I have found a plugin for Sharepoint called DWG I-Filter ...
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Search has stopped working suddenly
I am getting following error when I search for anything:
We did not find any results for KEYWORD.
Suggestions:
Ensure words are spelled correctly.
Try using synonyms or related searches.
Try ...
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Is there an Ifilter for Nuance PDFs to be used in junction with SharePoint2010?
I know that there are ifilters for Adobe PDF files and hence make these files searchable inside Sharepoint. Have not tried them but is there an ifilter for nuance created PDF documents? Please let me ...
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Search schedule not starting indexing
I can manually kick off an incremental crawl for my content sources, however the scheduler does not initiate it on its own. I've attached an image of the crawl schedules if that helps.
I've also ...
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The eternal crawl: Index server seems to get stuck
Lately, my crawls seem to have stalled. I don't run a very big farm, and I only crawl the farm and a small Intranet portal, maybe a grand total of 180 GB of content, but the crawl will go on for a ...
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Sharepoint 2010 Search Server not crawling content due to filter daemon timeout?
We recently did a Content Database refresh in our Test environment and am now finding that Search is not working. We are using Sharepoint 2010 Search Server and all has been running fine until the ...
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Crawling custom application pages
I have a custom application page with some static text e.g. _layouts/CustomAppPage.aspx but it does not show in search results and crawl index.
I have tried all 3 approaches below (one by one) and ...
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What's the best tool to use to convert scanned PDFs so they can be indexed in SharePoint?
I have a large amount of PDFs and I need to be able to search them in MOSS 2007. I am aware of the iFilter which is required, but it will not index scanned PDFs. What is the fastest way to handle this ...
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Search not retrieving items by custom property
In an upgraded SharePoint 2013 site collection, I have a custom property - "Media Number" which is a single line of text field because the value is usually a few letters followed by a few numbers. ...
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How to configure crawling for existing documents?
Is it possible to have SharePoint index documents already existing in a local disk in order to display them in search results? That is, without having to "upload" them to the Documents repository in ...
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Automatic sending mail alert to users on certain conditions (usage of user name in posts or such)
I need so send a mail alert to the site users if their name or a relative keyword has been used anywhere in the site, such as in a comment or any other post.This should be done even without tagging ...
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After site collection restore, site cannot be crawled?
We have a SharePoint 2007 site collection that some permissions were accidentally deleted from. It was impossible to determine how it was originally setup, so we decided to do an STSADM restore from ...
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Searching file stores accross WAN link
I have a Sharepoint 2010 farm at my main office that is crawling all of our file stores. It works great to the local sites, but we have remote offices with file servers as well. One site also has a ...
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SharePoint 2007 : old items unable to search
I having a problem on SharePoint 2007 search in OS 32bit.
Where one of the subsite contains more than 600 pages, but the incremental crawl only able to crawl some of the pages (70++) only, crawl log ...
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“ContentTypeId” crawled property issue
I want to get all items with CT derived from some ParentCT using FullTextSqlQuery by ContentTypeId. And there are no results returned.
Query looks like: SELECT ContentTypeId FROM SCOPE() WHERE ...
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SharePoint Search Overriding Crawl Rules
Is there a way to override a crawl rule in SharePoint 2007 Central Admin? For example, if I have a site and I only want users to see content from http://www.mysite.com/sites/portal in search results, ...
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Crawling a content source of type BDC after updating BDC produces errors - IEntity could not be found using criteria Id=#
Here is the setup
SharePoint 2010
BDC application definition
Search Content Source of type Line of Business that crawls the BDC
Steps taken
Import BDC application definition version 1.0.0.0
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MOSS 2007 crawling documents stored in external database
Anybody knows if the BDC can crawl the content of a document that is stored in a blob field in an external SQL Server database? The purpose is to integrate a DMS into Sharepoint's search.
I know I ...
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SharePoint Crawls encountering no-index meta-tag on directories
I notice in my Crawl Log I am seeing entries like this:
The content for this address was excluded by the crawler because this item was marked with a no-index meta-tag. To index this item, remove the ...
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How to move the Index and Query role to another server?
I want to move the Index & Query role from a server to another server in the same SharePoint 2007 Farm, how to achieve this?
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SharePoint 2010 Service Applications and Search
I am considering using a custom Service Application to meet a feature requirement of one of my clients. There is also a requirement that the data stored by the Service Application be searchable.
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Is there a way to set crawl to go through columns in a document library but not within a document?
I have a document library in which I need to crawl the columns within that library but not crawl the text within the documents themselves. The documents are OCR'd pdf's from a scanner. Is there a ...
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Search scope item count is zero when content source has items
I installed Search Server Express 2010 on a SharePoint Foundation farm. It's a pretty basic install - I let the Local SharePoint sites crawler finish and it found about 200 items. When I look at the ...
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API for getting crawl status of various content sources?
Is there an API to determine if Sharepoint/MOSS/SearchServer is currently crawling a particular content source?
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Showing search index items which contain a managed property
In sharepoint search, if you go to search server admin, then look at the managed metadata properties, then click on a managed property, it will say something like "Number of Items found with this ...
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Search results disappearing for moved site collections
In line with Microsoft's recommendation to keep content databases on SharePoint 2007 under 100Gb, we often move site collections to different content databases to balance the load. However, we have ...
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SharePoint 2010 - Targetting propertyStoreDB to a specific content source
We have two propertyStore DBs in our SharePoint 2010 environment, is it possible to configure in such a way that a specific propertyStore DB is used for the provided(specific set of) content ...
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How to limit Search Crawl only to subsite
I have a top site collection (http://myportal) and subsite (http://myportal/teamsite) in a SharePoint 2010 based intranet.
My Question:
I am trying to configure search in such a way that when a user ...
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SharePoint 2007 Search Crawling Failed
I have problem in SharePoint 2007 Search Crawling in Index Server, it display error message in the Crawl Log stated "Could not Connect to the server. Please make sure the site is accessible" and no ...
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Search Index deleted content over weekend - cannot do full crawl
I've had a SharePoint 2010 server running since March, with a crawl containing around 32,000 searchable items. The crawling was setup to perform an incremental crawl nightly and a full crawl weekly. ...
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SharePoint BDC Model NULL Structure
I crawle database at FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010. When incremental crawl is running, it is getting the following error for some records. After the first error, SharePoint takes the same ...
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Crawled Property with accountname of “Person or Group” Site Column in SharePoint 2010
I created a custom content type that includes a custom site column "Owner" of type "Person or Group". Now i need the accountname/login name (for exc. domain\usera) as a crawled property to include it ...
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SharePoint 2010 Search Issue after crawled
I've encountered Search issue after content migration from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 by Content Database approach.
actions performed before migration:
run stsadm -o preupgradecheck (no ...
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Search scopes have too few items
This question is difficult to describe, so bear with me please :)
I'm trying to work out SharePoint 2010 searching and scopes. I have a site that contains 369 sites, and 5563 total pages within those ...
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Acces denied error in crawl log when crawling https [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Access denied error in crawl log
When I crawl a https web application I get the following error:
"https://sitename.domain.nl
Access is denied. Verify that either the ...
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Sharepoint Search not crawling Emails with attachments - Failing with 401
I am attempting to search Exchange public folders via SharePoint Enterprise Search. I have a content source pointing at my exchange server, and this successfully indexes some emails.
However, any ...
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Crawling Hidden Fields with PowerShell Created Crawled Properties
I've been trying to add ows__vti_ItemHoldRecordStatus as a crawled property to allow a search of held documents. (It appears to correspond to the hold status of an SPListItem.) I can successfully add ...
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Site search (i.e. basic search) not returning any results
Help VERY much appreciated - on the ropes with this one. I started again with new VMs and used all the recipes and the environment is looking fairly clean. But this one is killing me.
Crawl account ...
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Sharepoint Search - Incremental Crawl not working [closed]
We are facing an issue on crawling the content. The Incremental Crawl on the Sharepoint site is not working.
We had changed the crawl schedule from daily Full Crawl to weekly once and added an ...
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Are hyperlinks within .PDFs added to the crawl queue when indexed with the Foxit PDF IFilter? [closed]
We have successfully installed and configured the Foxit PDF IFilter, and are successfully crawling and indexing PDF documents. The issue is that we have several PDF documents living within a custom ...
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“No-index meta-tag” error crawling MOSS 2007 from SharePoint 2010
I got the following warning after I crawled a site. Info from the Crawl Log:
The content for this address was
excluded by the crawler because this
item was marked with a no-index
meta-tag. ...
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Sharepoint Search, ignore a list column from searching
I've created a custom search, using scopes.
There is smth, that I don't want the search to index a specific column of a list.
How can I ignore this column from being searched
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SharePoint search not indexing contents of document libraries
I have a strange problem where the MS Word documents my documemt libraries are not being indexed. When i look at the crawl log i can see that the crawl is indexing the libraries themselves but not any ...
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Sharepoint - Search effect on CAML query
If you switch off the Sharepoint Search application (or remove it for a particular host name). Would the standard CAML queries still work correctly please? and Would the index fields still be indexed. ...
