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In SharePoint 2013 the best of two Search Engines “SharePoint Search” and “FAST Search Server for SharePoint” was combined to make one Search Engine that would provide greater redundancy and for better scalability. Microsoft did lots of change in search center as compare with new search center. New search center home page the wide text box without any search tabs i.e.  “All site”, “People”  no more exist. Now the tabs are the part of result page in SharePoint 2013. “ Search tabs ” name changes to “search Vertical”. There are 4 Search verticals default available in search center. Everything: Everything vertical comes all results that includes peoples, content, conversations and videos. The search result depends upon the search term example.  Simple term: Display the result; show the preview in hover cards. There is a option to open document view and edit the item directly. Hover card also display the result directly. People name: If a search term cont...

Search center Error message Sorry, Something went wrong.  correlation id 6661419c-0095-80c5-aec6-75e1cfadfb3f  ULS Log Error Details SharePoint Foundation         DistributedCache               ah24w Unexpected Unexpected Exception in SPDistributedCachePointerWrapper::InitializeDataCacheFactory for usage 'DistributedLogonTokenCache' - Exception 'Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.DataCacheException: ErrorCode<ERRCA0017>:SubStatus<ES0006>:There is a temporary failure. Please retry later. (One or more specified cache servers are unavailable, which could be caused by busy network or servers. For on-premises cache clusters, also verify the following conditions. Ensure that security permission has been granted for this client account, and check that the AppFabric Caching Service is allowed through the firewall on all cache hosts. Also the MaxBufferSize on the server must be greater than or equal to th...

Key Points  Search has been available in SharePoint since SharePoint 2001 and all versions till now. SharePoint 2003 Search with some out of box features   MOSS 2007 Search introduce the my sites and people search FAST is both a company and a set of products focused on enterprise information retrieval. FAST and its products were purchased by Microsoft in 2008, but the company was kept essentially intact. FAST continues to develop and support the FAST product line and is working to further integrate it into the Microsoft product set—specifically, into SharePoint SharePoint 2010 two search option available in this product SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search FS4SP (Fast Search Server for SharePoint 2010) In SharePoint 2013 the best of two Search Engines “SharePoint Search” and “FAST Search Server for SharePoint” was combined to make one Search Engine that would provide greater redundancy and for better scalability.

Analytic Processing component: Analytic processing component now the part of search component. ACP Sends the result to the content processing component to be included in the search result. How many times item have been viewed (by default it store last two week items).Search the item based on what is hot, search by most view count. Historical Information like how many times items has been in all time. Example What is hot Number of times content is viewed Popularity Hot topics in distance thread My previous search Popular result Analyzes the items how users interact with search result events like number of times user search and click the items. Following are the list of event events. Search Analyses Link and anchor text analysis: Analysis the link and anchor from the document processing & improve recall position of on the search result. Click Distance: it calculates the actual distance and click from the authrative site from a specific item, that helps the ...

SharePoint 2013 comes with new features and new components . SharePoint Search 2001 to 2013 Components Analytic Processing component Search Center Everything  People Conversation Videos  Search with in document libraries  Search Vertical New terms   Result Source Result Types Result Template (No Xslt) Query Rules <->Promoted Results Query Suggestion  Thumbnail Previews Hover Cards New Type of Authentication - anonymous   Configure the search for anonymous user Content Search  web part Recommendation Engine Federation result taking care of Result server. Custom Extensible stage (Fast) replaced with Content enrichment web service My Task : All users to search   for their task and pull them together in a central location. Coming soon more on Search

Basic Search Troubleshoot steps Crawled account having full read access to your content data base.  Include and exclude rule must be in a correct order. Exclude rule fist then include rule.  Make sure you have added your Crawl URL into your proxy.  Make sure you have added entry (IP Address and URL) to host file. All the SharePoint crawl components.  Check reboot.txt file restricts access to your site by search engine robots that crawl the web.  Crawl content as HTTP pages basics SharePoint sites are crawled by using a special protocol. Select this option if you want SharePoint sites to be crawled as HTTP pages. Item permissions are not stored. Some of the common Error Object Not found Access denied

Preparation Guide for Certification Exam 70-331 Microsoft certification exam 70-331: Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013  covers SharePoint 2013 topics for both SharePoint on-premises and SharePoint Online in Office 365. The exam tests the skills of IT professionals who need to plan, implement, and maintain multi-server deployments of SharePoint 2013. This exam provides credit toward Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE). The following outline should be used to prepare for this exam. Design a SharePoint Topology (20-25%) Design information architecture ·          Design an inter-site navigational taxonomy, design site columns and content types, design keywords, synonyms, best bets, and managed properties, plan information management policies, plan managed site structures, plan term sets. Design a logical architecture ·          Plan application pools, plan web ap...