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I bet we all have seen this error from time to time. This usually happens when you create new managed properties and try to expose them on the search center, but it can also happen is cases when  always. There is a check list: 1. Make sure that the managed property has been added to the managed properties and mapped to crawled properties 2. After adding managed properties start the crawl After ensuring that the managed property has been created and populated with values, ensure that your web... Read Full Story

Happy New Year! We are excited to announce our next meeting, a Round Table Discussion. Sign up now SUBJECT The Past, Present and Future of Search: A Round Table Discussion Last month, The NY Enterprise Search User Group celebrated its Two Year Anniversary. This month we would like to take a look back at past talks, hear how user group members are currently using Search, as well as the group's vision of the future of Search. Carlos Valcarcel Technical Solutions Professional at Microsoft... Read Full Story

On one of the projects I was seeing recurring behavior where “D:\FAST Search\data\ftStorage\sequences” folder quickly fills up with files like storage_6a.data , storage_cd.meta thus causing the drive to run out of space. That location is used to store index (“fixml”) information used for fault tolerance (ft) in a backup indexing row. We have deleted these files at some point since there was an environment health issue as well, hoping that fixing the environment issue was to blame for causing... Read Full Story

Just recently I had to go through troubleshooting of content being indexed by FAST and/or SharePoint Search and wanted to share experience and some collected wisdom. Here is the case, very common: the client has branded master page that includes menu navigation items, these items were being indexed. Where in case of searching for “Vacation form” would bring every page that is using this master page with menu items, simply because link to vacation form was included into the navigation menu on... Read Full Story

Many times I get a question as to how granular can you make the administration of the FAST, what administrative options each level provides and what does it look like. In the previous post I shared screenshots of administrative interfaces that are available to site collection admins . In this post I wanted to share the screenshots of Administration UI for FAST from the Central administration. Search Administrators have the ability to control the following settings: Here are some screenshots... Read Full Story

Many times I get a question as to how granular can you make the administration of the FAST, what administrative options each level provides and what does it look like. In this post I wanted to share the screenshots of Administration UI for FAST from the site collection admin level as well as Central administration. Site collection administrators have ability to provide administration for: Best Bets Visual Best Best Content promotion and demotion User context You do not need to make your... Read Full Story

I’m speaking at the SPC in Anaheim, California in October. SPC had be always to me THE SharePoint Conference to attend. If you still did not register you might be missing the most important SharePoint event of the year. If you are there, check out my session that I’ll be doing along side with Mark Stone (Microsoft) and Harry Jones ( Arcovis ) and learn one upgrade strategy for 2010 that no one told you about. Here is the session abstract. Most of us have heard about the enhancements and power... Read Full Story

I recently wrote an article on social networking on SharePoint platform and wanted to share it with you. The SharePoint 2010 platform offers a wide variety of core features including document management, records management, BI, search, workflow and social networking to name a few. Microsoft and its partners have done a great job of showcasing the value of these features and have shared strategies to help organizations take advantage of them. However, of these core features, it is my... Read Full Story

Social Sites for SharePoint 2010 presented by: Rich Blank from News Gator By integrating Social Sites directly into your SharePoint 2010 collaboration deployment, you can focus on delivering value to your users and unifying your technology infrastructure while fully leveraging your SharePoint social network - instead of building custom applications or learning and supporting additional technologies. Increase adoption among stakeholders, streamline communication, improve employee recruiting... Read Full Story

I’ve ran into a lot of installation errors in my experience, but this one definitely deserves a separate blog post. During the installation I’ve got the following error 06/13/2011 11:25:23 AM Warning Utility.Execute - "D:\FASTSearch\bin\ResourceStoreInstaller.exe" StdError - resourcestoreinstaller.exe - C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe SET config "ResourceStore" /section:requestFiltering /verbs.allowUnlisted:false /commit:apphost - ERROR ( message:Unknown attribute "verbs.allowUnlisted... Read Full Story