Many organizations supporting an on premises SharePoint implementation are looking for an interim step prior to proceeding on a full scale migration to SharePoint Online, Office 365. A hybrid architecture provides just this type of option. In an online class coming soon, exclusively on SharePoint-Videos.com, Fabian Williams, SharePoint Server MVP will present the components of […]
Microsoft Begins to Expand the Features of Enterprise Search for SharePoint Online, and for Office 365
Organizations with a SharePoint Online, Office 365 subscription may have noticed a new, amber colored query symbol on the top left of the pages served with results from a SharePoint search. This writer found this icon when he ran a search with the SharePoint Online query box. When he clicked on this new query symbol […]
Planning for a Useful Search Service for SharePoint 2013
With SharePoint 2013, Microsoft® incorporated Fast Search into the server, out of the box. In order to capitalize on this updated feature, organizations need to evaluate current hardware infrastructure and make changes, as required. In a video tutorial set titled SP13-305 SharePoint 2013: Search Video Training Course, Agnes Molnar provides some specifications useful for the […]
Managing Metadata for the Search Feature of SharePoint Server 2013
The crawler component of the search feature of SharePoint Server 2013 extracts a very large volume of “Crawled Properties”, as Agnes Molnar, a subject matter expert and published author on the topic, points out in a video tutorial titled
A Sensible Approach to Configuring the Query Component of Search for SharePoint Server 2013
As we wrote in the prior post to this blog, the feature of SharePoint Server 2013 most likely to magnetize high expectations from end users is search. Therefore, stakeholders in the success of any implementation of this computing platform must make a very serious effort to successfully architect and deliver a truly useful search feature […]
Any Successful Adoption Program for SharePoint 2013 Must Include a User Friendly Query Feature for Site Search
Managed properties for the search service of SharePoint Server 2013 do not conform to fuzzy logic. This is potentially a very serious limitation for SharePoint stakeholders determined to prod end users to adopt the computing platform. Ostensibly, the advanced search box feature of the query component of the SharePoint 2013 search service can help end […]
FAST Query Language (FQL) Operators Have Been Incorporated Into the Query Component of SharePoint Server 2013 Search
As Agnes Molnar has demonstrated throughout the video tutorials speaking to the query component of SharePoint Server 2013’s search service, the FAST Query Language (FQL) operator set has been incorporated into this feature. Proximity operators make up one group within the FQL operator set. Agnes Molnar presents two of the operators from this group, “NEAR” […]
Working with Filters for the Query Feature of the Search Service of SharePoint Server 2013
This blog post continues our commentary on a new set of video tutorials we have recently released titled SharePoint 2013: Search DVD. This set is authored by Agnes Molnar, an acknowledged subject matter expert on the topic and a published author. The set can be purchased for either individual, or enterprise (group) viewing. The set […]
Further on the Query Component of Search in SharePoint Server 2013
Scale is and should be an important consideration for SharePoint administrators grappling with how best to configure the search service for SharePoint Server 2013. In a series of video tutorials titled SharePoint 2013: Search, Agnes Molnar, subject matter expert and published author on this topic spends time presenting the query component of this search service. […]
Setting Search Query Parameters for SharePoint Server 2013
SharePoint Server 2013 includes a Search service. This service provides the basis of an important feature anyone committed to hastening SharePoint adoption within her organization should promote to end users –users queries for information reposed in SharePoint document libraries and lists. In a video tutorial titled Working with Queries (Part 1), Agnes Molnar, an acknowledged […]