PowerShell: Getting Link Counts per Host Domain
Let’s consider this throwback Thursday. A couple of years ago, I posted this “PowerShell to Rebalance Crawl Store DBs in SP2013“. As a side note, I mentioned the following PowerShell to leverage the...
View ArticleSharePoint Search Topology Limits Clarified for the Crawl Component
As more environments begin scaling out to the documented limits for Search, a common question tends to get asked… “Does the Crawl Component count against the 64 component limit?” The short answer is…...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Search Health Reports (SRx) for SharePoint Search Diagnostics
Brought to you by SearchEngineers@microsoft.com, the Search Health Reports (SRx) is a PowerShell-driven tool for surfacing complex diagnostics for SharePoint Search through new multifaceted reports....
View ArticleSearch Performance: A case of AV slowing down crawls
In the services world supporting Search, I commonly see the nasty impact of Anti-Virus (AV) on the performance of SharePoint Search. Before diving into this scenario, I want to first reiterate the...
View ArticleSP2013 Crawling *Explained: Enumeration/Discovery (Part 3b)
With VerboseEx logging enabled, the crawl of a single item (or interchangeably, a “document”) can generate more than 6000 ULS events, at times making troubleshooting a particular document analogous to...
View ArticleA shift from SRx back to blogging all things SP Search…
Over the last year, I’ve been putting far more focus into the Search Health Reports (SRx) and incorporating my lessons learned into this PowerShell tool-kit to empower anyone using it. As such, my time...
View ArticleSearch Health Reports (SRx) – Digging in further with PowerShell
After introducing the Search Health Reports (SRx) last year, we continued to extend the battery of PowerShell tests for analyzing and troubleshooting a SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016 on-premises...
View ArticleSearch Performance: Troubleshooting with the Crawl Load reports
Last year, I dove into a case of AV slowing down crawls and within that post, I provided guidance for leveraging the Crawl Load report to troubleshoot crawl performance. Since then, I’ve copied out...
View ArticleCrawler Performance, Hosts, and Impact [Hit] Rules
As part of the crawl processing flow, the Crawl Component starts “robot” threads that orchestrate items from gathering to feeding and finally committing their final state (see this previous post on...
View ArticleReasons to do a full crawl (*and it’s not for schema changes)
To avoid burying the lede, I'll start by "boldly" saying... *You don't need to regularly schedule a full crawl for SharePoint Search I've been at this long enough to realize that someone likely has an...
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