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Microsoft Business Connectivity Services (BCS) enable users to easily include external data as results for the SharePoint Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 search capabilities.

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New manage property not returning to search results

I am working with sharepoint 2013 on premise. I attached new crawled properties to managed properties (existing managed properties and new one ) and couldn't get any result using it- i ticked the ...
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SharePoint 2013 Search: Combining external site search results with a site subscription

I have a host header site collection that is part of a site subscription. This trims search results to only show results from within its subscription. I am needing to crawl an external source (in ...
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Crawling data from external database

I need to crawl data from SQL Server Database. For this, I created an external list using Business Connectivity Services. However, I encountered a limit on the number of requested rows: my table ...
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crawl delete all files in content source as file share

Crawl log content source as file share like this image: No errors, no warnings, what is deletes? Files are xml, dll, sys, exe format delete Finally nothing show in results! When reset index and ...
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How to set Timestamp property for column in External Content Type?

I created External Content Type (.ect) in Visual Studio. It is based on Netweaver service. One of the columns called LastChangeDate. I added this content type to SharePoint and configured crawl on ...
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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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External website content source rollup image in search results

We currently have a search content source that is pointing at our non-SharePoint website. The crawl is working fine and we are able to see results from this website in our internal SharePoint search ...
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Secondary lookup columns for external content types not displaying data in list after refreshing from primary

I have created a SharePoint list that has a lookup column to an external list. I also have instructed SharePoint to display several secondary columns that are related to that primary external lookup ...
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open file from file server after finding it in search results

I have set a crawl on some file shares on my file server. This works perfectly and even crawls the content of the files. When I search a specific file the search return my answer perfectly. However ...
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Crawl file server to add files to search result

I'm trying to add some directories from my file server to be included in the Search Center in SharePoint 2013. I have added a new content source to be crawled and stated it is a file server. I filled ...
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How much time SharePoint 2010 take to include site column data changes in search

I am implementing search on SharePoint 2010. On the advanced search page, i have added a property restriction named Keyword. It is connected to a Site Column named Keyword. The site column is of text ...
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Does federated search works for any external website?

Does federated search option works to crawl external websites which are of non search engines. As i heard it is used for external search engines to get data in search results but can it be used for ...
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Incremental crawl - ChangedIdEnumerator not executed

I have a BCS model (SharePoint 2010) that implement incremental crawl with ChangedIdEnumerator. My model service implements three methods (ReadItem [SpecificFinder], ReadList[Finder] and ...
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External Content Type Search not returning results

I have configured my 2010 External Content Type for search by adding the RootFinder property to the ReadList method. I have also added the ShowInSearchUI property to the LOB entry. I then set up my ...
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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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Crawling wss3 site from SP2010 standard using STS3 url

I'm bringing up a SP 2010 standard instance and want to configure it to crawl the old WSS3 site collection until the migration is done. I understand that the proper method is to use the STS3 urls ...
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Crawled property is always 'Text' when crawling external static html web sites

I’m using SharePoint 2010 Search (Not FAST) to crawl static HTML pages on an external web site to SharePoint. The crawled properties of the site always seem to be of type ‘Text’ no matter what I try: ...
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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 https://site.org/...
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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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