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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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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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Changing the default "Allow items from this list to appear in search results?" to No when a list is provisioned

How can I change the default setting on "Allow items from this list to appear in search results?" in SharePoint 2007 to be "No" when a list is created? No every list created needs crawled so I'd like ...
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Sharepoint Search: immediately remove search results in case of revoked access

We have a special need for removing documents from SharePoint search results instantly when access is revoked for certain user/group. The kicked out user/group should have the impression the document ...
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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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Good book or resource that talks about custom connectors and SharePoint search Integration?

Do you know any good books or resources that explains how to write your own custom connector for search crawling? I have been reading Professional Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 ...
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Issue with setting up Content Source

Does anyone know if it's possible to set up a content source to index a site that uses browser based login? I have tryed a few things and can't seem to get it to work, including having the username / ...
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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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How to crawl/search multiple tables from external SQL database in SP 2010?

I was able to crawl a table (from an external SQL database) via SP 2010 and it works great. However, I wanted to have SP crawl multiple tables from that same database and it's not happening. For some ...
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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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SharePoint 2016 unable to crawl new version PDF files

I am setting up a SP2016 on-premise farm. Some pdf files with newer version cannot be crawled. Here is my findings: Those pdf files are v1.7 (Acrobat 8.x, Acrobat 9.x) Search only return those pdf by ...
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Modified items are multiple times in SP search index

I have a problem with sharepoint 2013 search engine. When I change some item, then in search result old record still display, even after re-indexing items. Not all items behave in this way (mostly ...
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Timeout error during full crawling in sharepoint 2013

In SharePoint 2013 Production, I am trying to do full crawl. However, crawling is too slow and crawl only few items in 1 hour. Log gives below error:- CManagedSqlSession::InitBulkInsert ...
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How would I take a full inventory (architecture + content) of our entire SharePoint Intranet?

We have a SharePoint 2010 on Premise environment that I will be replacing soon - but first I want to just capture an inventory of everything we've currently got inside it. Both the structure of our ...
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Sharepoint 2010 - index crawl of uploaded documents

Short version of question - Does the index crawl through the content of uploaded documents, and if so, can that be turned off? Longer version - I have a site consisting entirely of uploaded PDFs of ...
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Custom BCS indexing connector with changelog inremental crawl is not working properly

Custom BCS indexing connector with changelog inremental crawl is not working properly I am writing a custom indexing connector using changelog incremental crawl approach. I'm using sample from http://...
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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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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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Crawl files with no file extension

Here is an interesting problem I cannot seem to find an answer to. I have a client that has several files from email message exports that do not have a file extension (e.g. PDF, DOC). These files, ...
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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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"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. To ...
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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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SP2010 Search - Crawling websites, how to manipulate results ranking?

When SharePoint Search is used to crawl external websites, how does ranking work? Is there a way to manipulate the search results to promote and demote certain results without any coding (I'm not a ...
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SharePoint Search Result after updated Metadata

In SharePoint Online I have a document library with a column "HFMetadataStatus". This column is just a "single line of text" property and has a default value of "unset". I copied 1000 files in the ...
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Set target crawl server for SharePoint

I am trying to change the target server for the search crawl from my WFEs to one of my app servers. I enabled Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application and set the DisableLoopbackCheck on the ...
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Stop entire site collection from showing in global search results

I have just found out that pages and items (docx. ppt.) are showing in our global sharepoint environment, when using the search box and selecting "everything". This is showing results across multiple ...
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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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SharePoint 5000 item limit threshold in sharepoint 2016

I know the issue is quite old and solved too many times, but for my case the solution should be faster and sophisticate as much as I can. The case is, my sites are migrated from SharePoint 2013 to ...
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Advance Seach webpart, can i force the "Contain" to search for substrings

I added an advance search web part inside my team site inside sharepoint enterprise server 2013, as follow:- but i am unable to understand how the contain actually works. for example i have these 3 ...
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I have setup sharepoint search server for my website and the site crawling was ok. I did a full crawl recently and its not getting crawled properly. I have nearly 3000 pages on my website, only half ...
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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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Exception from HRESULT: 0x80072EF3 when crawling 2008 R2 static HTML site

All I want to do is index a static HTML site. Am I the first person to ever do this with SharePoint? I was having the problem described here: Why can't I crawl bog-standard HTML internet sites? ...
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Cant remove 404 object not found items from SharePoint 2010 crawl log

We have a new SP2010 environment that had gone through 3-4 rounds of testing before going live. Prior to going live, the various test sites were deleted, but we've noticed that 404 Object Not Found ...
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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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Searching a 365 Sharepoint List where I don't have access to site settings

We are a large organisation using Office 365 with our own tenant. I've created a List online by importing an Excel workbook. The problem is I can't get search working on the List. I've added two ...
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The item was aborted because the pipeline did not respond within the appropriate time. This item will be retried in the next crawl

We are facing two issues related to SharePoint search Issue 1: The item was aborted because the pipeline did not respond within the appropriate time. This item will be retried in the next crawl. ...
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Full crawl in SharePoint 2013 server is not completing

In our SharePoint 2013 farm, search service full crawl never completes and shows link running always. If I am forcefully stopping and scheduling the incremental crawl, then instead of starting ...
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Why the incremental crawl is not running on schedule

I am working on a sharepoint farm 2013 on-premises. and i am facing a problem that my incremental crawl is not running on the schdule. I have a single search service:- and i define the search to run ...
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How to check if items are missing from search index

In SharePoint 2013 farm we have a Search Service Application running. Due to a very long time required to run a full crawl, decision has been made few months ago to not to run full crawl regularly and ...
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Indexing File Share get properties of files

I've successfully configured a content source to index a file share with SharePoint. So on this share are Office files, pictures, ... stored. These files contain several properties like on the ...
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create separate search service applications for big content sources and best practise for crawling settings?

In our SharePoint farm it has 4 big Content Source Web Applications around 3 TB of documents and daily users upload documents around 5 - 10,000 documents, and i need to run incremental crawling every ...
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Is Reset index will create again the searchable items value it has before

In SharePoint 2010 search service application 8 content sources created for SharePoint Web Application. and searchable items - 11,991,383 In 8 content sources there is 4 web applications has huge ...
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Large number of crawl retries

A couple weeks ago, we installed the March 2015 CU to our SharePoint farm. Since then, we've been getting a large number of crawl retries when the crawl engine attempts to crawl our other intranet ...
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Full crawl on 1 site collection stuck after 137 success items and 2 errors

I am using SharePoint 2010 and FAST search. I have created a new content source with 1 site collection. This site collection is new and I created only 2 items inside a list. I started a full crawl for ...
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Managed Metadata allow mulitple values cannot be crawled

I am using SP2013 on-premise. On a site collection's Pages library there is a Managed metadata column "Wiki Category" and allowed mulitple values. At the same time I have enabled multiple values for a ...
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Web server requirements for being crawled

I'm trying to index a web site that is hosted on a separate server in the domain but every time the crawler runs it returns a ball of warnings and errors the first time, and then the server becomes ...
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Search results not includes custom fields

I have content type on my site with 3 custom columns defined: "Corporate sponsored" - Single line of text column "Country" - Yes/No column "Customer Name" - Managed metadata column This content type ...
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