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Customizing The Refinement Panel for SharePoint 2010 Search
One of the quickest and easiest ways to begin customizing the search experience with SharePoint 2010 is to customize the refinement panel web part. If you’ve aren’t familiar with what I’m talking about...
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Creating Custom Managed Properties
I speak frequently on the topic of search at various conferences, and one of the challenging parts about this subject is that many of the demos simply take a lot of time. For example, if I wanted to...
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Paging for Federated Results in SharePoint 2010
The Federated Search capabilities in SharePoint 2010 allow you to issue a search query against other external search providers and have this shown in line with your local search results. Now this is...
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SharePoint 2010 Search Refinement Panel Options
There are a lot of misconceptions around how to use the Refinement Panel in SharePoint 2010 which is a real shame because it is extremely powerful for out of the box configuration, let alone how...
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SharePoint 2010 Search New Query Syntax: Wildcards and Boolean Operators
One of the most common complaints about SharePoint search in MOSS 2007 was the inability to use Wildcards and Boolean Operators when performing search queries. Both of these capabilities were...
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Using Tabs in the Enterprise Search Center in SharePoint Server 2010
When I give search presentations, one of the demos I always do is about showing users how to do some quick and easy customizations to the Enterprise Search Center to improve the search experience a...
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Adding Search Refiners in SharePoint 2010
The new search refinement panel in SharePoint 2010 search is pretty cool! When you fire up a search you can see the various pieces of metadata that match the search results and then drill down from...
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Relevancy is Key: Quick Tips for Improving Search in SharePoint 2010
Many organizations implement SharePoint for a number of different reasons including collaboration, content management, business intelligence, process improvement, and many others. These are areas where...
View ArticleFAST Search for SharePoint Error: Unable to resolve Contentdistributor
I’ve been working on a custom search project recently and ran into an issue that had me scratching my head. My FAST Content SSA wasn’t able to crawl successfully crawl content. When I kicked off a...
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Secure Search Can Protect Your Sensitive Information
Two guys walk into an office. The first one asks, “Do you know what’s different between searching the Internet and searching your intranet?” The second one exclaims “Just about everything!”...
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