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A full-featured version of SharePoint Search Services available in the Enterprise edition.

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Attachments Search O365

I have a list with a bunch of attachments. A recent request came through to make these attachments searchable. Is the an attachment type that is searchable?
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How to use associate Search Center with Search Box?

I am setting up a "My Site Host" site collection, and want users to be able to add a Search Box web part which defaults to using our Enterprise Search Center site collection. First - is this possible? ...
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How do I move the Search IndexLocation sharepoint 2013?

I have a sharepoint 2013 server with search on two separate servers. I want to set the IndexLocation from c:\Program Files \Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Data\Office Server\APplications to E:\...
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Documents are being displayed with a title equivalent to first words in document in search results. How can I change this to use the file name?

My search results in my enterprise search aren't displaying the file name or title property. Instead, they're showing the first words of the actual document content as the title. For example, we ...
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SharePoint Search Service is not provisioned

After rebooting our multiserver 2013 farm, the Search Administration page shows the following error: Sharepoint 2013 search error - The search application 'Search Service Application' on server ...
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SQL database login for 'Config' on instance '' failed. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below

In our internet farm in search server I saw below errors in event viewer. How to solve these issues. SQL database login for SPL_Config' on instance 'SQL123_SQL' failed. Additional error ...
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How to hide options in drop down in sharepoint search 2013?

I want to hide EveryThing and Conversations in the drop down,can any one please help on this. Thanks in advance
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List Column as Crawled Property

Is it necessary that only a site column can be crawled and have a crawled property associated with it. Can I have a custom column in a list and expect it to be available as crawled property. Also, ...
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Search Result Webpart showing "People who've written about"

We have SharePoint 2013 and I was tasked to investigate the following issue with Search Result Webpart. If you do a people search we get the result, but above the result we see: People who've written ...
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Change default Index location of Search Service Instance on SharePoint 2013

My purpose is to move search index folder from drive C to drive D. I've already changed location of all search components to drive D as described here and here. But The Default Index location of ...
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Windows could not start the "sharePoint Search Host Controller"

SharePoint search host controller service did not start. When I tried to manually start it i got the following error:- Here are the related logs:- 2/22/2014 12:40:23.02 hostcontrollerservice.exe (...
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How to fix Multiple Documents with same Document ID

I have a SharePoint 2010 Document Center site collection with Document Id's enabled. In the properties for any item there is a link to the document ID that should open the document. Instead the link ...
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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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How to make Two machine search service application using PowerShell?

we are using SP 2016 Enterprise On-Premises Search application , in development environment - used standalone machine with all the components in the same box. But while decided to go for production, ...
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People Search error Internal server error exception: System.Threading.ThreadAbortException: Thread was being aborted

We are using SharePoint 2010 Enterprise search center and we are getting an error when we do people search, for example John D (Note: we don't get the error if we use: John Do or John Doe) Error: ...
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Making SharePoint list columns searchable

I've created a list with local columns of Currency type. I created managed properties of text type by going to site collection level 'search schema' and waited for Full crawl to run. This didn't work. ...
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DBCC CHECKDB Corruption in Search_Service_Application_CrawlStoreDB

After some recent server issues, the SharePoint full backup keep getting an error when checking for database integrity. The following error message is thrown in SQL logs: DBCC CHECKDB (...
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Does SharePoint 2013 search index partition need additional SP server?

we have SP 2013 production environment with search items approximately 6 Million. We are planning to do index partition once search items reach 10 Million items. We are having topology with two ...
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Restrict Result Source to Specific Web Application

We have two web applications (Documents/Portal), and have created two result sources, one for each web application. In the result source, I have configured the query to only return results from the ...
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Search in private Exchange 2013 mailbox with Sharepoint 2013 Search Center

Is it possible in any way or what is the best practice to search Exchange 2013 private items (contacts, tasks, mails) from Sharepoint 2013 Search Center and show the results in the Sharepoint Search ...
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How to create a search scope for content type?

As per this tutorial http://velavans.blogspot.com/2010/08/1.html, have created and configured the Metadata on the Search Service in SharePoint 2010. Note: Created a list based on the InternalMedia(...
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SharePoint 2013 foundation limitations

One of our clients asked about SharePoint foundation server 2013 capabilities, and why he cannot use it . So I have read this link regarding the main differences between SharePoint Foundation & ...
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full crawl keeps auto starts even though it is only scheduled for later

I started a full crawl during the day because I created some managed metada columns and needed to have them showing on the search results. After experiencing really slow performance, I stopped it and ...
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Search box not returning any results

I have a SharePoint 2010 solution. I've started the search service application, enabled crawling, did a full crawl, and created a Search Center Sub site. I've also set up a crawl rule. Looking at ...
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Get last search query

We have built a custom knowledge base for our client. We have search enabled and users can search for KB articles. Client wants us to pass search query which lead user to that particular article. ...
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SharePoint 2013 multi people refiner showing as a single line with semicolumns

I have a Multi user field in my site collection. SharePoint has created a crawled property named ows_MyUserField. I have created a managed property MyUserField with multiple values set to true. I have ...
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2013 On premises SharePoint Search Crawl log returns error on The crawler could not communicate with the server

We have hosted a web application that has 108687 records and when crawled the content source, 104,314 successes and there are 3788 errors from the crawl log. All these 3788 errors are due to the ...
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Search Results Web Part is not showing any results

I am working on sharepoint server 2013 , and i want to show a page which lists all our users, so i did the following steps :- Create a new site collection of type "Enterprise Search Center"....
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