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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PDF's in SharePoint 2010
With SharePoint 2010, how can you make sure that PDF's are indexed and that they do not have a generic icon?
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Search Crawl - Access Denied
Search crawl log Error:
"Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository. If the repository being ...
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Why do crawls work, but scope contains 0 items?
We have got an interesting situation:
http://intradev
http://mysites
Our Intranet is based on SharePoint 2010 server small farm with 2 servers. AD is Windows 2003. The Search crawls both sites just ...
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Skip part of page during crawl
Is there any way to mark parts of a page not to be indexed by Microsoft Search Server Express 2010?
For example all pages have footer, and I wan't be able to do something like
<div ...
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How does SharePoint Search handle pending (unapproved) items?
How does SharePoint Search handle the indexing of pending (unapproved) items/documents? As far as I can see there are no pending documents in the index. These seems a little odd to me, since it would ...
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Access denied error in crawl log
When crawling my content I get the following error:
"45 https://something.com/sites/dcio Access is denied. Verify
that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this
...
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For what reasons would a site be excluded from a full crawl?
This is what I've checked so far:
The default page of the site is published
In site admin it is set to 'allow this site to appear in search results'
In site admin of the root site, it will search ...
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Blocking SQL queries when crawling
I am facing a problem where my content database has grown very large, and whenever I initiate a crawl, the the crawler executes a very complex SQL query on the content database, and this query blocks ...
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Indexing does not include PDF content
I am trying to get search (indexing) to include the content of PDF files. I have followed the guide from here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927675. I have also double-checked that the GUID (CLSID) ...
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Why can't I crawl bog-standard HTML internet sites?
This comes up in the crawl logs:
Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository. If the repository ...
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SharePoint indexing videos in search
I have created some videos and uploaded them as the video type in the asset library. When I do a search of the content the video type does not appear in the Result type as a video but instead a web ...
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What options for indexing Exchange mailboxes with SharePoint?
What options are recommended for indexing Exchange mailboxes with SharePoint?
So far I have found the following:
I found one article, which mentions that you can add http://fqdn/exchange and/or ...
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What is the use of the search database and do we really need it?
The index will be kept on the Index Server, so why do we need a Search database and what is the point of it in SharePoint 2007? I would like to understand the basic concept of SharePoint Search.
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I cant crawl pdf in wss 3.0. Please Help!
I have wss 3.0 installed in windows server 2008 r2( 64 bit). I have installed ifilter60 in my server and made registry change in \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office ...
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What is the best practice to implement search to index XML files?
In our SharePoint solution we need a service which can search and index XML files.
At this moment we are using FAST, but are there other tools / applications / solutions which are free and easy to ...
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Crawl log error: Access is Denied
i am getting the issue as below when i check the sharepoint log files,
The start address https://.**.co.im cannot be crawled. Context:
Application 'Search_Service_Application', Catalog ...
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1answer
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Mssearch.exe crashes when performing full crawl on FAST Search Server
We are having some issues getting a full crawl to complete in our FAST Search evironment. We are attempting to crawl ~24 million records from SQL Server 2008 R2. The crawl process (mssearch.exe) ...
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1answer
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How can I get draft documents in a document library to be crawled by search?
Background for My Issue:
I'm working on a document library, with major and minor versioning enabled. For the draft items, the client requires that only users who have permission to edit items in the ...
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1answer
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Sharepoint Incremental Crawl and BCS
I have a BCS connector (partial BDC Model posted below) and I'm noticing some issues with Sharepoint crawls. My full crawl seems to work perfectly, but incremental is pulling back the same number of ...
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1answer
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Is “noindex” applied to child content?
When you add the noindex class to a div, is all content below it excluded from search crawls? For example, if I had the code below:
<div class="noindex">
Some Data
<div> will this ...
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Errors crawling content sources with SharePoint 2010
We currently have a SharePoint 2010 Single server farm. The patch level is SP1 with June CU. The issue is with incremental or full crawls of content sources. The error is as follows:
The system ...
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3answers
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Why do I get “The underlying connection was closed.” when I try to enter form credentials for a crawl rule?
When I'm setting up a crawl rule, I check 'Specify form credentials', wait a minute and then get an error message:
An unexpected error was encountered while trying to connect to ...
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1answer
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How to create indices in large lists in SharePoint 2010?
My organization is in the process of migrating to SharePoint 2010, and some of our larger lists (15,000+ records) are now being throttled.
I've read up on this and understand that I need to limit my ...
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1answer
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MOSS 2007 BDC crawling documents content via Web Service
Imagine there is an external system that contains data that should be indexed by MOSS 2007 and incorporated into the search. That system exposes the data via Web Services.
It's possible to crawl that ...
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1answer
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Arrange content source by content database
As per this question when we move site collections around, they drop from the search results. Our last full crawl took over 8 days and while that's happening we don't get incremental results which ...
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1answer
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Crawling fails with 404 error message, but the IIS log tell a different story
In our clean SP2010 install, crawling stops immediately, just logging a single error message:
The object was not found. ( Error from SharePoint site: HttpStatusCode NotFound The request failed with ...
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BDC Entity with TypeDescriptor System.String[] gives errors when crawling
Is it possible to crawl a BDC content source with an entity that has a property of type string array (System.String[])?
At one point I had this working successfully in my dev environment but it ...
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Index Server Recovery
Our staging environment (1xSQL, 2X WFE 1x indexer / application running MOSS 2007 SP1 with some hotfixes) went bad (vmware mayhem) and we lost our search indexer. No form of recovery is possible.
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Crawl the content of external documents in SharePoint 2007?
Does anybody know if it's possible to crawl the content of documents that are not in a document library?
Imagine a situation where a different document management tool is used to manage documents ...
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2answers
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Web application zone configuration - problem with search
We are having problems with search application in our environment. The problem is that search works as expected if it's performed from the search center site collection for all sites. But it doesn't ...
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Separate indexer for huge document libraries
Need some help/advice for SP search setup. A single-server MOSS 2007 farm hosts sites for 5 departments in the company. A document library corresponding to one of the department sites is growing at a ...
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1answer
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How to stop Search Engines from indexing SharePoint Site
I have SharePoint 2010 Enterprise for Internet Sites. Some search results in Google & Bing are pointing to my intranet site URL which is intranet.mysite.com
I want to cloak my site totally from ...
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Search for unpublished documents
We are using SharePoint 2010 Standard. We have a site collection that is setup with publishing features turned on. I need search to index and serve minor (unpublished) versions as well as published ...
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Settings up a SharePoint 2010 search index server
I'm currently working on an implementation of SharePoint 2010 server farm for my company, so far I have two SharePoint 2010 servers and a third server running our database. As part of this process I'm ...
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Disabling LoopBackRequest in registry to resolve search crawl error
Can anybody explain why we need to disable the LoopBackRequest in registry to resolve the Search Crawl error.
This article explains about it but I want to know more about it. What is the reason ...
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1answer
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Search Server Crawler and Excluded URLs
I am currently configuring the search crawler to access our existing non-SharePoint document management system in order to include these documents in Enterprise Search. The document management system ...
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“Object not found” error in search service crawl Logs
I have a search service application that won't crawl correctly.
The crawl account has all the right access to the farm and databases. THe AAM are as follows:
- http://machinename - default
- ...
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1answer
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Relationship between size of index and file size
What are the factors that affect the size of index partitions in Sharepoint 2010? Is size of documents a factor? Any explanation would be appreciated.
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Reset the content index (SharePoint Server 2010)
according to that technet article it is possible to reset manually the content index.
I was wondering if that task could be plan to run once a week for instance, automatically?
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1answer
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Admin considerations for searching on WSS 3.0
I am using Network Solutions hosted SharePoint services (WSS 3.0) and the search function is not working.
When I contacted their support desk they said that this feature has been turned off because ...
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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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1answer
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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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2answers
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Should we have thousands of sleeping database connections from the Crawler server?
Our IT Manager has brought up a situation where it looks like we have about 5000+ sleeping connections from the Crawl Server to our SQL Server. This seems like quite a bit and it's been slowly ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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Is Fast Search able to extract file metadata?
I was not able to find if Fast Search is able to extract meta data from files. I'm not talking about meta data in the SharePoint document library, but meta data specific to file formats.
Especially :
...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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Custom BCS indexing connector and changelog inremental crawl: ChangedIdEnumerator method is not working
I am writing a custom indexing connector using changelog incremental crawl approach.
The full crawl is working perfectly. All atems are indexed and queryable.
The problem is that incremental crawl ...
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Search result items goes to display form intead of opening the file
PDF and other office filetypes are installed through Search Services. Never had this issue before. All of sudden, when I or user click on the search result it goes to display item form. but used to be ...
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SPListitem.SystemUpdate() and incremental crawl in FAST
Does FAST search incremental crawls ignore items that are updated via SPListItem.SystemUpdate()?
I am observing conflicting behaviours in multiple environments, so I am not sure what the exact ...
