The Search Refiners Panel for SharePoint 2010 Search Center can be Customized by Users

Joshua Noble prefaced his presentation for our webinar on SharePoint 2010: Search, by noting that ” . . . [he] wanted to take a look at . . . how we expose to the users the things we’ve done on the backend” (quoted from our webinar). It’s worth noting that these “things we’ve done on […]

Mapping Content Type to Custom Crawl Properties Won’t Work for SharePoint 2010 Search

Robert Piddocke mentions a popular managed property, “Content Type.” He notes that users who intent to use this managed property as a method of adding information to the search index will be disappointed. In fact this managed property is locked, and not configurable by the user. He demonstrates in this webinar how users can and […]

Some User Dissatisfaction with SharePoint 2010 Search can be Remedied by Adding File Types and Content Filters

This is the second post in our series on a new set of high level specialized video training content for SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2010: Search. A truly useful search service is, of course, a key component of an overall offering of SharePoint 2010 that successfully delivers high percentages of user adoption. In 2013, search is […]

Video Training on SharePoint 2010 Search Now Available on SharePoint-Videos.com

On January 24, 2013 Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP, MCT and President of Rehmani Consulting, Inc. hosted a webinar on SharePoint 2010 Search. Participating in this webinar along with Asif Rehmani were 2 co-authors of Pro SharePoint 2010 Search, Josh Noble and Robert Piddoke. The occasion prompting this webinar was the public release of a new […]

With FAST Search Largely Incorporated into SharePoint 2013 Out of the Box Search Service, Implementing Taxonomies Delivers Meaningful Benefits

As we mentioned at the start of this series on search for SharePoint 2013. FAST search, as an added feature, is no longer an option for SharePoint 2013. With the added performance now built into SharePoint 2013’s out of the box search service, we think learning to successfully implement best practices for working with terms, […]

Best Practices for Working With the Term Store for SharePoint Server 2013

Microsoft provides a set of best practices for users who will need to Plan terms and term sets in SharePoint Server 2013. The “Plan: now or later” section of this article presents an understanding that SharePoint Administrators, Developers, Architects and other power users will likely ” . . . start without any term sets and […]

How to Organize Content for Optimum Search for SharePoint 2013

In an article on TechNet, Best practices for organizing content for search in SharePoint Server 2013, Microsoft provides a set of best practices which SharePoint administrators, architects, developers and other stakeholders should follow to ensure that the enterprise search component for SharePoint 2013 produces optimum results. We wish to note that the SharePoint 2010 versions […]

Changes in SharePoint Search for SharePoint 2013 are Worth Review

The Talking-SharePoint blog is sponsored by Rehmani Consulting, Inc., the publisher and owner of SharePoint-Videos.com. Individual, Group and Multi-User unlimited subscriptions are available to all of the technical video training content published on Sharepoint-Videos.com. Sets of training content for SharePoint 2007, MOSS 2007, SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 (coming soon) are available for purchase and […]