Hybrid–SharePoint BCS Exchange

Hybrid for SharePoint Server
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj838715.aspx

Hybrid for Exchange 2019 Server
http://techgenix.com/configuring-exchange-2019-exchange-online-hybrid-mode/

SharePoint Hybrid BCS – PDF
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=35593

Handling PDF in SharePoint

SharePoint Online

Save and export as PDF by Puzzlepart
https://www.techmikael.com/2018/12/puzzlepart-presents-modern-pdf.html

https://github.com/Puzzlepart/spfx-solutions/blob/master/Pzl.Ext.PDFExport/README.md

2013

Metadata Extraction Tool
http://meta-extractor.sourceforge.net/

PDF Convertor for SharePoint (Adds Watermark)
http://www.muhimbi.com/default.aspx
http://blog.muhimbi.com/

New Viewer
http://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/download-free-pdf-viewer.html

Issues?
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/18858.sharepoint-2013-how-to-view-pdf-files-in-browsers.aspx

(Almost) Everything you need to know about editing PDF files stored in SharePoint!
http://www.hersheytech.com/Blog/SharePoint/tabid/197/entryid/42/Default.aspx

Adobe Info
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdf-version-control-sharepoint-integration.html

SharePoint 2013: Using Word Automation Services to convert a Word Document into PDF (MSDN)
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/23175.sharepoint-2013-using-word-automation-services-to-convert-a-word-document-into-pdf.aspx

Improvements in 2013
http://www.theroks.com/synchronous-document-conversion-with-word-automation/

PDF – Edit using Word Conversion
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/web-apps-help/pdfs-open-in-word-web-app-for-viewing-printing-and-editing-HA103980578.aspx

Why does my PDF look different in Word?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/why-does-my-pdf-look-different-in-word-HA103465614.aspx

Enable PDF Previews
http://www.wictorwilen.se/sharepoint-2013-enabling-pdf-previews-with-office-web-apps-2013-march-2013-update
http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2012/12/20/create-an-easy-pdf-preview-for-search-results-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx

PDF Setup Guide
http://melcher.it/2013/05/install-office-web-apps-2013-for-sharepoint-2013-with-pdf-preview/

SharePoint Search – Start Here

General

Classic vs Modern Search Experience in O365 and SharePoint
https://searchexplained.com/modern-vs-classic-search-experiences-in-office-365/

Stemming support
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219499.aspx

Stemming on nouns and adjectives http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/142899/does-sharepoint-2013-search-support-stemming

What’s the Difference Between Stemming and Lemmatization? - Ask Dr. Search
http://www.ideaeng.com/stemming-lemmatization-0601

News

Google Announces Sunset for Google Search Appliance!
http://searchexplained.com/gsa-retirement-explained-white-paper/

SharePoint Search Series

by a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) for SharePoint with focus in Enterprise Search

1. A high-level view to orchestrating the crawl     /* this post */
2. A deep dive look at starting the crawl
3. Enumeration/Discovery
   1. Concepts
   2. Illustrating through ULS               /* next in the series */
   3. Simulating with PowerShell

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sharepoint_strategery/2015/01/26/sp2013-crawling-explained-orchestration-part-1/

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sharepoint_strategery/2015/03/24/sp2013-crawling-explained-starting-the-crawl-deep-dive-part-2/

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sharepoint_strategery/2015/08/17/sp2013-crawling-explained-enumerationdiscovery-part-3a/

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sharepoint_strategery/2014/02/10/sharepoint-search-and-deadlocks-in-sql-server/

Solutions

Employee Directory
http://www.ableblue.com/blog/archive/2018/02/16/build-an-employee-directory-in-sharepoint-online-and-sharepoint/

Office 365

https://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2018/12/office-365-search.html

2016

Search on Technet

Overview of search in SharePoint Server 2016

Plan enterprise search architecture in SharePoint Server 2016

Scale enterprise search in SharePoint Server 2016

Scale search for Internet Sites in SharePoint Server 2016

Disaster recovery best practices and strategies for SharePoint 2016 search

Best practices for organizing content for search in SharePoint Server 2016

Understanding result sources for search in SharePoint Server 2016

Plan crawling and federation in SharePoint Server 2016

Overview of the search schema in SharePoint Server 2016

Plan to transform queries and order results in SharePoint 2016

Overview of search result ranking in SharePoint Server 2016

Overview of analytics processing in SharePoint Server 2016

Companies currently using Search ADP, Australia Department of Defence, Bayer, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Deloitte, Ford Motor Company, Green Mountain Coffee, Pfizer, Rio Tinto, The Procter & Gamble Company, U.S. Army, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Reference BAInsight

2013

SharePoint Search 2013 - TechNet
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/tothesharepoint/tag/sharepoint-search-2013/

Problems Crawling the non-Default zone *Explained
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sharepoint_strategery/2014/07/08/problems-crawling-the-non-default-zone-explained/

Search Unleashed Series (Fast Search – SharePoint 2013)
Search Architecture with SharePoint 2013
Crawling content with Sharepoint 2013 Search 
Notes on securing data with Sharepoint 2013 Search 
How to tell that a Continuous Crawl is actually working 
Certain types of Icons are not being displayed in search results with Sharepoint 2013

Compare Content Query Web Part vs. Content Search Web Part
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/When-to-use-the-Content-Query-Web-Part-or-the-Content-Search-Web-Part-in-SharePoint-346a0f48-38de-409b-8a58-3bdca1768929

Note that the number of threads in 2013 changes with the number of cores http://blogs.technet.com/b/searchguys/archive/2013/02/19/content-processing-performance-scaling.aspx

Also here is good diagram of overlap in continuous crawls
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

Lowest value is one minute for continuous crawl
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219802.aspx

Rock your Search Performance on SharePoint Dev Environments
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/24596.rock-your-search-performance-on-sharepoint-development-environments-in-10-steps.aspx

Running SharePoint 2013 search within a limited RAM footprint
http://reality-tech.com/2014/02/03/running-sharepoint-2013-search-within-a-limited-ram-footprint/

Performance Issues
http://platinumdogs.me/2014/01/07/controlling-search-noderunner-memory-usage-in-sharepoint-2013/

Custom entity extraction in SharePoint 2013
http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2013/01/08/no-metadata-no-problem-custom-entity-extraction-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx

Troubleshooting Tool
https://sp2013searchtool.codeplex.com/

Foundation
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sharepoint-online-search-service-description.aspx
https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/itpro/pages/search-in-sharepoint-2013-foundation-versus-full-blown-server.aspx

Reset Index from Microsoft

Solution

To solve the issue follow these steps:

1. Stop the Timer Service
2. Clear the configuration cache
   1. Find in \ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config the folder where the file cache.ini exists
   2. Delete every file from this folder EXCEPT cache.ini
   3. Open cache.ini, delete the content and put ’1′ (without the quotes) in it and save the file
3. Restart the Timer Service
4. Index reset
5. Full crawl

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jamesway/2011/05/23/sharepoint-2010-clearing-the-configuration-cache/

Reset Index Additional Reference http://www.itidea.nl/index.php/search-has-encountered-a-problem-that-prevents-results-from-being-returned/

Export/Import Managed Properties via Powershell
http://blog.riccardocelesti.it/exportimport-managed-properties-via-powershell/

Check these TechNet articles:

Good article on intro to ….
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax/archive/2013/06/06/search-2013-search-architecture-part-1-intro.aspx

Test Lab Guide: Configure a highly available SharePoint Server 2013 Search topology
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn271768.aspx

Changes from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607742(v=office.15)#section4

FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint deprecated features
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607742(v=office.15)

Search technical reference for SharePoint Server 2013
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219574(v=office.15).aspx

Administer search in SharePoint Server 2013
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee792877(v=office.15).aspx

Architectures - Download
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30383
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30464

Scale Search Performance
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219628.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16002.sharepoint-2013-capacity-planning-sizing-and-high-availability-for-search-in-spc172.aspx

More Articles from the web:

Great articles from BAInsight.
http://www.bainsight.com/pages/sharepoint-search-2013.aspx

SharePoint 2013 Search – FAST Integration
http://www.matdesmarais.com/2012/07/sharepoint-2013-search-fast-integration/

What happens with FAST in SharePoint 2013
http://nbsharepointtalk.blogspot.se/2012/07/whats-new-within-sharepoint-2013-search_24.html

Check out more cool new features in SharePoint 2013
http://www.surfray.com/blog/2012/07/16/new-features-in-sharepoint-2013/

Document Preview
http://www.surfray.com/blog/2012/07/16/document-preview-in-sharepoint-2013/

SEO is built in 2013
 http://blog.mastykarz.nl/search-engine-optimization-sharepoint-2013/

Office 365 Search

General Search – Start Here
https://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2012/07/sharepoint-2013-search.html

Create an Enterprise Search Web Part for Modern Pages
http://www.carlosmontilla.com/single-post/2017/12/05/Create-an-Enterprise-Search-Web-Part-for-Modern-Pages

Title or Not to Title–That is the question

Strange search results in Office 365

The first line in the file was my title … not the name of the file … but what is title in your organization?  Is title the filename or a special title column.  No problem since search was engineered to solve this issue.

By design … you can change in your search scheme by modifying the title managed property

Just move your “title” up.

Do you have the same issue with author?  No problem since author handled like title, so you can just move it on up.

Works for new document … but old documents are not effected until full crawl.  Note that the crawl schedule will effect your results
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/meamcs/2013/02/18/sharepoint-20102013-search-incremental-crawl-vs-full-crawl/

More on Titles and author

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/spses/2013/10/30/show-more-relevant-titles-in-search-results-in-sharepoint-2013-plus-some-other-improvements/

Web Parts

Office 365

OneNote – Page View Web Part

Add notebook page using the page viewer web part
Right click section in OneNote … then add that url to your page viewer web part.

 

 

Quick Link Web Part
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-the-quick-links-web-part-e1df7561-209d-4362-96d4-469f85ab2a82

Using web parts on SharePoint pages
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/using-web-parts-on-sharepoint-pages-336e8e92-3e2d-4298-ae01-d404bbe751e0#bkmk_availableparts

New Modern Web Parts Full List
https://wonderlaura.com/2016/10/17/new-modern-web-parts-full-list/

Web Part Basics

SharePoint Web Part 2010
https://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2012/09/web-part-basics.html

Great Source from Laura
https://wonderlaura.com/?s=web+part

SharePoint

SharePoint 2013 – OOTB Web Parts
https://wonderlaura.com/2014/02/12/sharepoint-2013-out-of-box-web-parts/

Content Editor Web Part
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Content-Editor-Web-Part-C1350FF6-934C-4C2E-8E53-1EC3B548A0DC

Connected Web Parts
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Connect-data-in-Web-Parts-c9a84132-44be-4abb-94d1-d69cfdc052db

Change Connected Web Part Icon (Custom Code)
https://sharepointlibrarian.com/2016/10/12/replace-double-arrow-icon/

More from the Cloud Engineer

CSS for Admins
http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2016/01/css-for-sharepoint-admins.html

Office 365 - Hidden or Secret URLs

Office 365 (11.16.2018)

Office 365 User Portal

http://portal.office.com/

Office 365 or Microsoft 365

Admin Center Links

Admin Portal Home
https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home#/homepage
Usage
https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home#/reportsUsage
Users
https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home#/users
Groups – Office 365 Groups
https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home#/groups
Service Health
https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home#/servicehealth

Delve

https://delve.office.com/

OneDrive Admin Center

https://admin.onedrive.com/

Teams

https://teams.microsoft.com

SharePoint Admin Portal

Office 365 - SharePoint - Hidden or Secret URLs

Microsoft hides many URLs that can be valuable to any SharePoint or M365 administrator.  However note as always that you should test all the following links in your test or dev environment.  So here is a list of very informative URLs "hidden" in SharePoint.  Just substitute your site collection URL for http://intranet.contoso.com, http://siteurl, or http://yourservername/sites/yoursite/

New Portal
https://yourcompany.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/online/AdminHome.aspx

SharePoint

SharePoint Home

https://yourcompany.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx

SharePoint Admin Center

https://yourcompany.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/online/SiteCollections.aspx

Classic

New – Preview

Top Level Site

https://company.sharepoint.com/SitePages/Home.aspx

Content Type Hub

https://company.sharepoint.com//sites/contentTypeHub/_layouts/15/mngctype.aspx

Create List and Library

https://company.sharepoint.com/_layouts/create.aspx

People and Groups Set Up

https://company.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/permsetup.aspx

Office 365 Group - Site Collection Permissions

https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com/sites/<group>/_layouts/15/people.aspx

https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com/sites/<group>/_layouts/15/user.aspx

Search – Classic

https://company.sharepoint.com/search

Site Content and Structure

https://company.sharepoint.com/_layouts/sitemanager.aspx

Site Settings

https://company.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/settings.aspx

Slide Library (Manual link required) * broken

https://company.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/slnew.aspx?FeatureId={0be49fe9-9bc9-409d-abf9-702753bd878d}&ListTemplate=2100

Note requires older browser add-on

User Information List

https://company.sharepoint.com/_catalogs/users/simple.aspx
https://company.sharepoint.com/_catalogs/users/detail.aspx
https://company.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=0

Web Analytics Report – Summary

https://company.sharepoint.com/_layouts/usage.aspx

Web Part Maintenance Page

Classic
https://company.sharepoint.com?contents=1
Just add ? contents=1 after any page.

Modern
append ?maintenancemode=true to the end of the URL for the page. For example:
https://contoso.sharepoint.com/teams/SitePages/Home.aspx?maintenancemode=true

Modern Site Web Part Maintenancemode Reference
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/open-and-use-the-web-part-maintenance-page-eff9ce22-d04a-44dd-ae83-ac29a5e396c2

Appendix – Careful

Permissions

https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com/sites/<group>/_layouts/15/people.aspx

https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com/sites/<group>/_layouts/15/user.aspx