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SPCAdriatics - Search Administration and Troubleshooting in SharePoint 2013
Agnes Molnar, a senior search solutions consultant, gave a presentation on managing and troubleshooting search in SharePoint. She discussed major changes in search brought by FAST and SharePoint search. She outlined challenges in search administration like limited delegation support. She also covered troubleshooting challenges like complex architecture and scenarios when search is unavailable or crawls are "hung". Molnar proposed enhancements to troubleshooting tools like crawl logs and health reports. She demonstrated debugging crawl processes and ensuring freshness of search results through incremental and continuous crawls. The presentation concluded with answering questions and providing resources to learn more about enterprise search in SharePoint 2013.
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- 1. Name of thesession FIRST LASTNAME, COMPANY SHAREPOINT AND PROJECT CONFERENCE ADRIATICS ZAGREB, 11/28/2012
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- 3. How to Manage AndTroubleshoot Search AGNES MOLNAR SENIOR SEARCH SOLUTIONS CONSULTANT SHAREPOINT AND PROJECT CONFERENCE ADRIATICS ZAGREB, 11/28/2012
- 4. Introduction • Senior SearchSolutions Consultant • SharePoint Server MVP • Speaker, Blogger, Community Lead http://aghy.hu http://www.DoMoreWithSearch.com Agnes.Molnar@BAInsight.com @molnaragnes
- 5. There are majorchanges in Search! Combination Used of FAST and pervasively SharePoint Content by throughout Continuous Search Search WCM the platform Result Sources Crawling High Query Search Scalability CSOM Result Blocks Suggestions Query Rules Refinements Search is used pervasively throughout the platform 5
- 6. Search Administration Challenges • Hasn't supported an iterative development process that I'm used to. • Adding capacity is complicated • Requires access to console • Limited support for delegation
- 7. Search Administration Challenges • Heterogeneous Data Models • Every system is different • Mapping to common metadata is essential for findability • Heterogeneous Security • Bandwidth and Performance • LOTS of content • Cross-site bandwidth can be expensive/limited • Source Systems can be the limiting factor
- 8. Search Troubleshooting Challenges • Complex architecture • Complex configuration • Query and crawl reporting • Scenarios • Search service is unavailable • “Hung” crawl
- 9. Troubleshooting Enhancements • Crawl log • Content Source (1,7, and 30 day duration trend) • URL View (Remove from index) • History (Latency/Load) • Health reports • Crawl Latency/Load by Repository, Handler, Crawler, CPC, SQL • Crawl Freshness by source heat map in days • CPU and Memory Load by component and process • Content Processing by stage • Query Latency/Load percentiles overlaid with crawl and analytics load • Federation • Query Latency by Object model, Query Processing, Core index
- 10. Debugging and Troubleshooting CrawlProcesses
- 11. Debugging and Troubleshooting CrawlProcesses
- 12. Debugging and Troubleshooting CrawlProcesses
- 13. Debugging and Troubleshooting CrawlProcesses
- 14. How Fresh myContent is? – Search Results Freshness • Depends on: • Size of repository • Change rate • Request response time • Crawl schedule • Type of changes • Etc.
- 15. Search Results Freshness– Incremental Crawl
- 16. Search Results Freshness– Continuous Crawl
- 17. Query Debugging – DeveloperDashboard
- 18. Want to KnowMore About SharePoint 2013 Search? The Essential Guide to Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2013 Everything You Need to Know to Get the Most Out of Search and Search-based Applications Download from www.SharePointSearch2013.com This book contains 20 chapters, and more than 100 pages packed full of valuable insights. Also includes helpful call outs and screenshots. Architecture Applications Working , User Working & with Queries Deployment Experience with Content Developme and Results & nt Operations
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- 20. thank you. SHAREPOINT ANDPROJECT CONFERENCE ADRIATICS ZAGREB, 11/28/2012
Editor's Notes
- #10 http://blogs.technet.com/b/tothesharepoint/archive/2012/09/14/how-can-i-achieve-the-best-freshness-of-search-results-introducing-continuous-crawls-for-sharepoint.aspx