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Deleting Content Sources and effects
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Thanks Calvin for the heads up. I am sure many of us have wondered why they were still there for so long, and the painful response times.
http://calvin998.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/findings-on-sharepoint-search-bdc/
After a content source is deleted, the index items of the content source will NOT be deleted immediately. Instead, the SharePoint “Gather” will delete them one by one at the background, and a warning message will be generated for each deleted items! It seems no full crawl can be done before this process is finished (at least no BDC crawling). It will take more than a day to remove 1.5 M records - aboutn 600 records a minute. Slooooooow! If one just want to erase all indexed content, one can click on “Reset all crawled content” link on search setting page. That is very fast.
It seems no way to purge the humongous crawl log. MS site says it will deleted after 5 days - to be confirmed.
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Aren't patches suppose to fix things?
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Did a quick search and I am not the only one suffering from the latest MS security patch to MOSS. It contained a rollup of prior patches including some search related ones. It seems that now MSSearch.exe has a slow leak when crawling and searching. I can confirm that it wasn't happening last week at client site and then I installed the patch and now I have to either roll back, bug MS Support or kill it periodically when it gets to big.
Can anybody else confirm this bug?
UPDATE: Problem seems to be directly related to crawl speeds. I was able to reduct the impact by throttling back the crawler using Central Administration > Application Management > Search Service > Crawler Impact Rules .
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Federated Search comes to SharePoint with SS 2008
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Microsoft Just announced the next release of SharePoint Search at the Enterprise Search Summit, which I am at:
http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch/archive/2007/11/06/announcing-microsoft-search-server-2008-express.aspx
There are many partners already onboard creating Open Search definition files that will allow integration with the newest release of SharePoint Search.
http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/connectors/federated.aspx#fscp
What this means is that existing Search providers, those with their own query engines and indexes can now integrated a lot easier without having to develop their own custom search interface in SharePoint.
Here is a great overview. Somewhat technical http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb931080.aspx
We will have more updates on SHAREPOINTSearch.com soon.
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Get your search product reviewed for SHAREPOINTSearch.com
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It has been on my agenda for quite awhile to do formal product reviews and ratings of all the search products listed on the SHAREPOINTSearch.com site. Unfortunately I haven't had much time available. We did receive a great demo from the CEO of Interse on their iBox Product. THANKS.That review will be coming soon.
I am hoping to be able to schedule time with some of the vendors at the Enterprise Search Summit on either Monday or Tuesday to start the process.
If you are a vendor and will have a representitive there that can demo your product(s) to me and would like a formal review done on it please contact me through this blog and I will reply with my contact information.
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