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Search Scope is the crawlers context given in Central Administration. The crawler indexes content based on Search Scope.

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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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Sharepoint 2010- Restricting search to specific subsite and Site Pages folder only

I am trying to configure the sharepoint search in a way that it would display the results only for the pages within the SitePages library of a particular SubSite in a collection. Initially I had the ...
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SharePoint 2010 add a new search scope programmatically

You can add a new search scope via powershell: New-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryScope -SearchApplication "Search Service Application" -Name NewSearchScope -Description "New Search Test Scope" ...
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How are you crawling content in SharePoint 2010?

I'm working with SharePoint 2010 Enterprise and we are using Search Server 2010 with the publishing workflow and a Forms Based Authentication on our main Web App, our Web Application is extended to a ...
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Search not respecting noindex

I've got a content query web part embedded on a page layout in a publishing site. This content query web part rolls up the 10 most recent posts of a content type. In the page layout, I've wrapped ...
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SharePoint 2010 search does not crawl a specific site in the site collection

I have a SharePoint 2010 site collection based on a custom Publishing site definition. I'm trying to figure out why sub-sites and pages underneath a certain site (/Foo) are never included in my ...
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Programmatically change “Scope Display Group” order

I'm working with some custom search scopes, and adding them to a Scope Display Group. I'm wondering if it's possible to programmatically change the order within a display group, depending which site ...
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Can you use wildcards in search scope rules?

I have a list on the root web of every site collection that I would like to create a scope for. I tried the following rule and got 0 results: folder = http:// servername /*/Lists/Listname If I ...
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Missing search scopes drop down

I have restored a SharePoint site from one domain to another by content database backup and restore method.Site is working fine but it is missing search scopes. i did the same search configuration on ...
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Renaming the OOTB contextual search scope (i.e. “This site: Site Name”)

I want to remove the "This site: " prefix from the OOTB contextual search scope. I realise I could hack this with JavaScript, however does anyone know of a supported way to achieve this?
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Define Search Scope as Managed Property

I have a managed property defined called "LoanCategory" and I am trying to set up a search scope for this managed property. I was able to set up the scope to use the content type of "Loan Category" ...
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How to set up search scope for a subsite in sharepoint 2010

I have a site collection with multiple subsites. I am not using the root level site at all, only the subsites. I would like each subsite to have their search results only within the subsite. What are ...
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People search box results URL doesn't work

We are using SharePoint 2010. We are having a problem with the web part “People Search Box”. We created a custom page from a page layout and added the web part. We have edited the web part and ...
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SharePoint 2010 Search not working

I have installed and configured SharePoint 2010 to run on the same box as the SQL Server its running from in Windows Server 2008 R2. Everything is working fine except the search. I have uploaded ...
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Maxiumum number of search scopes

Is there a maxiumum number of search scopes that can be configured in SharePoint 2007? We could potentially have 720 search scopes. Will SharePoint be able to scale to this level? The reason we have ...
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Restrict search to one field in a content type?

Simple question really how can I restrict the SharePoint search to only search against one field for a content type. I can create a scope for the content type but how do I go about restricting the ...
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Updating search scopes without waiting

When setting up a search scope, the UI says: Ready after next update (starts in XY minutes) Is there any way to make SharePoint 2007 process the search scope at my command?
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Can I Exclude Sites from a Search Scope Based on Permissions

I would like to create a rule in a search scope that will exclude any sites that a specific AD group has permissions to. We have some sites that broad AD groups (ie: authenticated users) have access ...
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Excluding FBA users from people search

I've got a mixed environment with both AD users as well as FBA users. The FBA users are stored in a seperate ASP.NET membership database. Now when I use search, both AD and FBA users show up. I'd ...
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How to create a search scope for content type in a sub site?

I have parent site i.e sharepoint.microsoft.com & a sub site sharepoint.microsoft.com/child/ Now a content type named "Problem" in created in sub site. I would like to add this content type in ...
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Unexpected ListItem in Scope

I've defined a new scope for a search service application. The scope's got one simple rule - content type = particular content type. I'm finding that when I query this scope (FullTextSQLQuery) it's ...
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Possible to use “greater than” / “less than” in Scope Rules?

At first glance it appears that they force you to use "equals" as the operator. Does anyone know of a way to setup a rule that allows you to use "less than" and "greater than"? If not, would it be ...
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“Specified Cast is Not Valid” in PowerShell When Getting a Display Group for Search

When run, this code returns an error on the last line "Error Calling GetDisplayGroup with 2 arguments, Specified cast is not valid". $site=get-spsite http://xxx/sites/xxx ...
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How to configure search to search by information inside of PDF documents

I want to setup my search in a way that when I search for information or documents in my search site, it allows me to search using information inside the document. What do I need to configure? Many ...
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Retrieving search scopes from current site collection

I've did some research on Internet and found some code examples how to retrieve search scopes, but when I try to execute it fails, what do I do wrong? Here is the code: SPServiceContext ...
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Setting up the “Search this Site” functionality in Mysites?

I have been able to configure "find people" on the top of the mysites page by setting it to people search results of the enterprise search center in "Setup MySites" settings from CA. However I cant ...
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Create a search scope for a document library

I'm having issues trying to create a search scope for a single document library. Do I just simply go to the scope settings in the search service application, create a new shared scope and add a new ...
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Scope in your query does not exist

I'm developing a web part (in VS 2010 for SharePoint 2010) to seach all content in a Publishing Site Collection. I have the following code (just testing before I change the scope and the select ...
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Extensibility of Sharepoint 2010 search functionality

My company is currently in the process of building a CMS on top of Sharepoint 2010. Part of the functionality of the CMS will require being able to have a searchbox that searches the contents of a ...
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Malformed search query

I'm trying to perform search on a single list using FullTextSqlQuery. I found example here, but given this query: "SELECT Title,ContentType,Path FROM portal..scope() WHERE freetext('" + query + "') ...
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Site collection search scope - exclude rule for dispform/allitems.aspx

I have created a site collection search scope and I am trying to exclude dispform.aspx and allitems.aspx from the search results. The crawl rule at the site collection scope doesn't seem to work with ...
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How can i enable sharepoint custom search scope in code?

I want to enable custom scopes in sharepoint in code. Any ideas how to do this?
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Setting up Search for a specific site collection

Say I have a site collection "Legal". Paralegals from outside (with temp AD account, via citrix) will be accessing the Legal site collection (http://portal.someISD.edu/Legal). I have about 40 ...
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Overriding search control, contextual scope as default

I have a strange problem regarding the overriding of search delegate control in SharePoint 2007. The purpose of why i override it is to set drop down mode to show contextual scopes as default aka ...
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Keyword query string in SharePoint Search

I need to create custom search web part with 3 filters. First filter will have all list names in a dropdown box. Second filter will have particular list column values(only 2 values like active and ...
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how to make a search scope as default item displayed in searchbox dropdown

How to make a search scope as default item displayed in searchbox dropdownsplayed in searchbox dropdown? I have dropdown box placed next to Logo and this currently shows scope to search people . ...
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SP 2010: Scopes not updated for Web Applications using Claims BAsed Authentication

I have configured a web application with Claims Based Authentication because it needs to use FBA. I've created a search scope in the central admin to query all documents in my web app: contentclass = ...
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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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How do you set search so it always restricts to relevant area?

I've added a search box to my task list but it retrieves results from the entire site. How do I set it up so that it will always just get results from the tasks lists. I'm using the Advanced Search ...
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Publishing sites, search and the missing contentclass:STS_Site & STS_Web

This is an old issue I thought this was a bug in an specific environment after reading a couple of blogs it has made me think again... The issue is that SharePoint site collections and sites are not ...
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ALL-keyword on Advanced search - reduces hits - workaround?

we have a customer reacting about the "all these words" feature in advanced search. If you search for a word in "simple search" you get for instance 34 hits. If you search for the same word in ...
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Is it possible to create a search scope that is based on other scopes?

On TechNet, it clearly says "You can also create a search scope that includes several other scopes." However, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to do it. What I have is four scopes. What I ...
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How to exclude Admin Acounts from People Search Result

I would like to remove all the Admin accounts from People Search results. I have seen several ways to do it. I didn't want to add a new field in the AD to indicate whether the account is an admin ...
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SharePoint 2010 Foundation disable search in files

Is it possible in SharePoint 2010 Foundation to disable search in files content? Only the file attributes/metadata must be shown in search results.
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Scope in your query does not exist when searching from Advanced Search

Advanced Search: gives "Scope in your query does not exist" error on the result page. But on the result page when i click on the binocular I get the search result and no more "Scope in your query does ...
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SharePoint 2010 :Search a document using its URL in Crawl Log in Central admin: Displays More than one successful result

In a document library When we try to open some documents using their document ID link, then instead of opening the document several copies of that document are displayed.In an ideal situation only one ...
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How to limit the related search in people search results page

The built-in People core results web part includes a link in the section for each person to show more results by the same person. We want to designate the scope of the 'also by' query so we can ...
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Search document from document library usin CAML query

I have document library which have folder and sub folder. the folder and sub folder level is more than 5. like as follow : Document Library |-> Folder-1 | -> Folder-1-1 | ...
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Same name field with different type in two different subsite list not included in search crawld

I have same name field 'Amount' with types 'Number' and 'Currency' in different sub site list. I run full crawl but when i search for amount with currency in first sub site , it display result. ...
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Any way to configure Federated Search so it only fires when certain scope(s) are used in search?

What I'd like to do is set up search federation with Bing, only when the scope "External Search" is selected, but can't seem to figure out if this is possible. Is this?

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