Using PowerShell to Find Crawled Properties

 

2010

Mapping Crawled Properties to Managed Properties can get real tough!

So using PowerShell …

Note after running the above script notice that the xml contains the crawled properties!

For example ows_created_x0020_By =’CONTOSO\brianc’

So when mapping your crawled properties to the managed properties we can now get a true example.

Managed and Crawl Properties

2013
Automatically created managed properties in SharePoint Server 2013
 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj613136(v=office.15).aspx

2010
Good Post on Management Properties for User Profile
http://www.sharepointsteve.com/2010/10/making-custom-user-profile-properties-searchable-in-sharepoint-2010/

Understanding Crawled Properties, Managed Properties and Full-text Index
http://searchunleashed.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/understanding-crawled-properties-managed-properties-and-full-text-index-part-1/
Powershell
http://consultingblogs.emc.com/mattlally/archive/2011/12/20/create-sharepoint-2010-search-crawl-and-managed-properties-using-powershell.aspx

Older
 Anne Stenberg
Great Series of 7 posts on Crawled Properties http://blogs.technet.com/b/anneste/archive/2008/11/20/mystery-solved-crawled-properties-in-sharepoint-part-1.aspx
 http://blogs.technet.com/b/anneste/archive/2008/11/25/mystery-solved-crawled-properties-in-sharepoint-part-2.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/anneste/archive/2008/11/25/mystery-solved-crawled-properties-in-sharepoint-part-3.aspx
 http://blogs.technet.com/b/anneste/archive/2008/11/25/mystery-solved-crawled-properties-in-sharepoint-part-4.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/anneste/archive/2008/11/25/crawled-properties-in-sharepoint-part-part-5-mystery-solved.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/anneste/archive/2008/11/25/mystery-solved-crawled-properties-in-sharepoint-part-5.aspx
 http://blogs.technet.com/b/anneste/archive/2008/11/25/mystery-solved-crawled-properties-in-sharepoint-part-7.aspx